Contemporary American artist Michael Godfrey is a representational landscape artist whose work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Born in Germany in l958 and raised in North Carolina, he earned a BFA in Fine Arts and began his painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours field sketching and photographing, preparing for a well-thought-out painting. Typically, he starts a major work using small oil studies done on location. These field studies provide color accuracy and photographs provide special details. Godfrey composes his paintings from on-site sketches in the field and photographic references. In studio, work progresses in successive layers of paint and light is orchestrated to create a painting that appeals to his internal sense of order.
A landscape artist has to have knowledge of many disciplines (geology, chemistry, physics, architecture), to understand the world in which they are trying to create. An artist must observe with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled. For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included in a work as what is eventually laid down.
“I ask myself, ‘what is the dominant truth – is it color, shape of land forms, or time of day.’ I try to understand what I am seeing, so that the final work will capture the visual emotion.” - Michael Godfrey
Pacific Glory
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery Directly from the artist. Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower left. UNFRAMED: 12" x 24" FRAMED: 18.125" x 30" x 1.25" Exhibited 20th Anniversary E...
Oil, Panel
Morning Surf, Garrapata
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 14.25" x 14.25" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 8" x 8" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 2022...
Oil, Panel
Morning at Rocky Point
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 12.25" x 15.375" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 6" x 9" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 202...
Oil, Panel
Pacific Power and Light
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 24" x 48" FRAMED: 32.25" x 56" x 1.75" Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower right Exhibited California Art Club...
Canvas, Oil
Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower left FRAMED: 30.75" x 42.75" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 24" ...
Canvas, Oil
"Local Residents, " Oil painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Local Residents," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green grassy pasture where a herd of black cows graze. About the Artist: Judd Mercer is a watercolor painter based in Denver, Colorado. After attending art school for industrial design, Judd pursued a career in digital design and user experience and is co-owner of Elevated Third, a Denver-based digital agency. After committing to writing and illustrating a full-length fantasy novel in his spare time, Judd began watercolor painting around 2014, studying with teachers such as Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic and Herman Pekel...
Canvas, Oil
$8,050
H 44 in W 56.5 in D 1 in
Coastal, Seascape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022, Style: Impressionism, Subject: Coastal, Size: 44" x 56.5" x 1...
Canvas, Oil
$800
H 14 in W 30 in D 0.8 in
Canyon Rock, Landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Canyon Rock, Size: 14" x 30" x ...
Canvas, Oil
Slack Tide, Polperro, Cornwall, England, Summer, 1904
By Harry Neyland
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Harry A. Neyland (American, 1877–1958) Slack Tide, Polperro, Cornwall, England, Summer, 1904 Oil on canvas, 20 x 18 inches FRAMED: 26 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (approx.) Signed at upper ...
Canvas, Oil
British Schooner Anchored at Naples
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
A classic scene of a large mid-Nineteenth Century schooner at rest in the Mediterranean port painted by the Italian countryman Tomaso De Simone. The complete narrative scene around the schooner's broadside is complemented with a British merchant steam/sail ship, local boats and the colorful sky and headland architecture of the ancient city. The vast serenity and unspoiled life of cruising the Mediterranean Ocean...
Canvas, Oil
Aftermath of a Tyne River Storm
By Robert Salmon
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Painted with unsurpassed detail, Robert Salmon's works are desirable to collectors the world over, due to the impressive amount of historic subject matter presented through artistic compositions of the highest order. As an artist Salmon was one of the most important to come out of England and immigrate to America in this period, influencing the art of Fitz Henry Lane...
Oil, Panel
Macy's In Winter
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Greenville, DE
23 1/4" x 27 1/2" in frame. Signed lower right.
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
H 17.25 in W 23.25 in D 1 in
Edward Glafke 'Bird Rock' Pebble Beach Impressionist Seascape Painting
By Edward Glafke
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
Moonlight and Mist
By Eliot Clark
Located in Greenville, DE
New York City artist Eliot Candee Clark was well known for his impressionist landscapes. He was the son of painter Walter Clark. Many of his paintin...
Canvas, Oil
New Castle Street Scene
Located in Greenville, DE
An excellent example of Doragh's best work. The scene is believed to be New Castle, Delaware circa 1920. The painting has been professionally restored. The ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
H 12.25 in W 10.5 in
A small oil painting of Deer in a Forest, late 19th century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Alice G. Gropper (late nineteenth century) Deer in the Forest Oil on canvas, 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches FRAMED: 14 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (approx.) Inscribed on stretcher: (in ink) "Alice ...
Canvas, Oil
$660
H 6 in W 6 in
"Hindsight" - Original Still-Life and Landscape, Oil Painting on Panel
By Emma Kalff
Located in Denver, CO
"This painting was made based off of a photo I took from a bus window in Mexico, near Puerto Vallarta. The image stuck with me as the idea of an idyllic hillside. It felt to me like ...
Oil, Panel
A house in the country, probably near Morristown NJ
By Frank Waller
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Frank Waller (American, 1842-1923) House in the Country Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches FRAMED: 16 x 26 inches (approx.) Signed and dated at lower left: "Frank Waller Study 19...
Canvas, Oil
$2,750
H 15.75 in W 39.37 in
Home Sweet Home" - Oil on Canvas Winter Cabin Landscape Painting
By Mark Harrison
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison’s “Home Sweet Home” (2024) is a masterful oil on canvas capturing a winter forest scene steeped in quietude and solitude. Measuring 15.75 x 39.37 inches (40 x 100 cm) a...
Canvas, Oil
Nineteenth Century Landscape of a River Bank by an Unknown Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unknown (American, nineteenth century) River Bank Oil on canvas, 9 x 13 1/2 inches Unsigned Framed: 13 1/2 x 18 inches (approx.)
Canvas, Oil