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
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
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
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
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 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
$2,000
H 12 in W 15.8 in D 0.5 in
19th Century European Romantic Moonlit River Landscape Oil Canvas Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting night landscape in oil on canvas was painted by an Unidentified, presumably German, master "P. JHNEN" or "P. IHNEN", in the late 19th century, and is imbued with a ro...
Canvas, Wood, Oil
$2,950
H 16 in W 16 in D 2 in
Fortune Favors the Bold by Ginny Williams Still Life Oil Paintig, Black
By Ginny Williams
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fortune Favors the Bold by Ginny Williams is an intimate contemporary still life painted in oil on panel, measuring 16 x 16 inches. This original artwork pairs vibrant florals with g...
Oil, Panel
Metsälampi (Forest Pond), 1942
Located in Stockholm, SE
Metsälampi (Forest Pond) is a 1942 oil painting on panel by the Finnish artist Ragnar Ungern, depicting a forest pond with overhanging trees reflected in its still waters. Created in...
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,067Sale Price|20% Off
H 31.5 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
Reflected Female Surfer, Deep Blue Underwater Figurative SportPainting, Original
By Raúl Álvarez
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This deep blue hyperrealist painting depicts a surfer extending beneath the ocean surface, her body doubled and radically distorted by the moving water above. Created by Spanish pai...
Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$800
H 21.5 in W 27.5 in D 0.8 in
Autumn Alley Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Peter Tovpev
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Autumn Alley Size: 21.5" x 27.5" x 0....
Canvas, Oil
Montmartre, Paris
By Andre Franchet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Franchet French, 1896-1961 Montmartre, Paris Oil on canvas 9 ½ by 13 in, w/ frame 14 by 17 ⅝ in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01806
Canvas, Oil
$800
H 27.5 in W 31.5 in D 0.8 in
Autumn Forest, Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Peter Tovpev
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Autumn Forest Size: 27.5" x 31.5" x 0...
Canvas, Oil
$2,672
H 31.5 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in
«Summer symphony» Original floral painting . Field of flowers. Large .
By Nadezda Stupina
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork is a vivid celebration of nature's abundance, featuring an intricate arrangement of wildflowers bursting with color. The piece masterfully captures diverse flora with a ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,261
H 19.3 in W 15.36 in D 3.94 in
'The Hunting Dog' by Carl Friedrich Deiker (Wetzlar 1836 – 1892 Dusseldorf)
By Carl Friedrich Deiker
Located in Knokke, BE
Carl Friedrich Deiker Wetzlar 1836 – 1892 Dusseldorf German Painter 'The Hunting Dog' Signature: signed lower right 'C.F. Deiker' Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: image size 29 x 2...
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunset in the Scottish Highlands, Moody Landscape
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
British, 19th Century Signed: L. Clipston (Lower, Right) " Sunset in the Scottish Highlands ", circa 1880s Oil on Canvas Laid on Board 10 1/2" x 22 1/2" Housed in a 3" Period O...
Canvas, Oil
$5,000
H 22.5 in W 18.5 in D 1 in
Copy of "Wall Street - The Noon Hour" by Felicie Waldo Howell created in 1925
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful copy by an unknown artist, of the original painting "Wall Street - The Noon Hour" originally created in 1925 by the great American artist Felicie Waldo Howell (1897-1968)...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,450
H 26.8 in W 35.4 in D 0.5 in
Plow Field at Dawn in Mountain Landscape 18th Century Antique Large Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting captures a serene moment on the foothill plateau, just as the day is beginning to wake up. The mountains are still wrapped in a soft blanket of morning fog, giving the s...
Canvas, Wood, Oil