Joan Parker is a plein air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were discovered early, and she received multiple scholarships and awards at a young age. Parker’s keen eye for design first took her to Paris to study hair and fashion and allowed her to own a highly successful, upscale salon and fashion consulting business in California. When the world of fine art beckoned her, she added work as a freelance artist to her already busy schedule as a business owner. With her interest piqued in a career as a painter, Joan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. During Parker’s work as a freelance artist, she had the opportunity to use her skills in the motion picture industry. This included creating conceptual designs and freehand illustrations for computerized puppets and “angels wings,” in the movie “Michael,” with John Travolta, and producing five classic 18th Century style paintings in varying degrees of completeness, for the movie “Sara.” Parker moved to the Kansas City area in 1996, when Hallmark Cards recruited her to create original greeting card artwork. Six years later, she left Hallmark to pursue painting, specifically Plein Air full time. Parker has been instrumental in establishing Plein Air painting events in both Missouri and Kansas. “Because the prairie is very stark, paintings of it tend to convey an abstracted feel of color and light,” said Parker concerning her work. “They’re a middle ground between landscape and contemporary abstraction.” Parker is represented in galleries from St. Louis to California. She has participated in twenty-six group exhibitions, national juried shows, and several one-woman shows. Joan holds seasonal Plein Air painting workshops throughout the Midwest. She has a passion for the immediacy of painting outdoors and enjoys sharing her love of Plein Air with others; bringing this post-Impressionist movement, known for its beautiful outdoors (or Plein Air) scenery, to the public.
$2,500
Straw Fields
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Straw Fields" Oil on Canvas Canvas Size: 10 x 20 inches Framed Size: 21 x 31 inches Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California....
Canvas, Oil
$2,300
Homestead
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Homestead" Oil on Canvas 11 x 14 inches 13 x 16 framed Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were...
Canvas, Oil
Sunflower State of Mind
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Sunflower State of Mind" Oil on Canvas 10 x 20 Framed Size: 21 x 31 inches Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her arti...
Canvas, Oil
Snowy Landscape w Cardinal
By Manuel Garza
Located in Austin, TX
"Snowy Landscape w Cardinal" by Manuel Garza Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 inches Framed size 24 x 28" A serene, naturalistic rendition of a forested Texas l...
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
H 17.25 in W 23.25 in D 1 in
Edward Glafke 'Bird Rock' Pebble Beach Impressionist Seascape Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Edward Glafke (American 1925- 1997) Bird Rock, 1990 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 'Ed Glafke' Signed, titled and dated on the verso 15in H x 21in L In a giltwood vintage frame: 17...
Canvas, Oil
$1,400
H 13.38 in W 16.38 in
Mount Helix, California, Mountain, Town, Western Landscape
By Guy Gaylor Clark
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1882, artist Guy Gaylor Clark was trained as a painter under Francis Luis Mora, George Bellows, William Merritt Chase, Frank Vincent DuMond and Robert H...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,800
H 12 in W 16 in
"Peeking Light" Dennis Sheehan, Impressionist, Sunset Reflections in Stream
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Peeking Light, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,750
H 20 in W 24 in
"Windy Day" Dennis Sheehan, Atmospheric, Tonalist Forest Stream, Green Sky
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Windy Day, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with fait...
Oil, Canvas
$1,150
H 25.5 in W 29.25 in D 1 in
Mid Century Palm Springs Desert Landscape with Smoke Tree
By Vina McPheeters
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous desert landscape with a smoke tree and other desert plants by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in a gilt-toned gold and black frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy McPheeters. By 1930 she had settled in southern California into a home in Montebello (Los Angeles County). She died in Glendale, CA on April 23, 1964. She exhibited in her home town of Van Nuys California, studied with Hanson Puthuff, Jack Wilkinson Smith and Bennett Bradbury...
Canvas, Oil
House in Center Bridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Kenneth Nunamaker (1890-1957) House in Center Bridge Oil on canvas on board, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Signed lower left: K. Nunamaker Inscribed on verso: K. Nunamaker / New Hop...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$2,350
H 15.75 in W 20 in D 2 in
Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape "Island Inn, Monhegan Island"
By Richmond Irwin Kelsey
Located in Soquel, CA
The Island Inn on Monhegan Island Maine, a beautiful landscape by Richmond Irwin Kelsey (American, 1905 - 1987), 1977. Titled "Island Inn - Monhegan", signed and dated "Kelsey '77" ...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Overhanging Trees"
By Julian Alden Weir
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: J Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) Born in West Point, New York Julian Alden Weir received his first art training from his father, Robert W. Weir, who was a professor of drawing at the United States Military Academy. The younger Weir continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he worked under the important academic teacher Jean-Léon Gérôme beginning in 1873. Traveling to Holland and Spain during his student years, Weir was inspired by the work of Hals and Velasquez. However, the major influence on his early career was the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, who was well known for his realistic depictions of Breton peasants in the outdoor landscape. On his return to New York in the fall of 1877, Weir supported himself by teaching at the Cooper Union Women's Art School and at the Art Students League. He was also active in avant-garde artist organizations that began in the late 1870s, helping to found the Society of American Artists and participating in Tile Club...
Canvas, Oil
Winter Light
By Walter Launt Palmer
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Winter Light Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm) Framed dimensions: 34 1 /2 x 39 1/2 inches Signed lower left: W L Palmer Provenance Ronald Mintz, Pennsylvania; Avery Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Low Tide
By William Edward Norton
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance The artist; Florence Norton, the artist's daughter; By descent in the family Born in 1843 to a family of Bostonian shipbuilders, William Edward Norton's early childhood i...
Canvas, Oil
T-Wharf in Winter
By Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance Bonhams Skinner - Malborough, March 8, 1991, lot 226; Private collection, Pennsylvania, until 2022 A painter especially known for street and waterfront scenes of Boston, ...
Oil, Canvas
Quaker Church
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Quaker Church" Oil on Canvas Canvas: 30 x 40 Framed: approx 31 x 41 Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic ab...
Canvas, Oil