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
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
$3,050
H 30 in W 45 in D 0.8 in
Emerald Meadow, Landscape Art Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Landscape Art Original Oil Painting Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original oil Painting, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2016 Subject: Meadow-Summer Time SIZE: 30" x 45" x 3/...
Canvas, Oil
"Quinacridone Glow" Landscape Oil Painting
By Molly Doe Wensberg
Located in Westport, CT
This traditional landscape painting by Molly Doe Wensberg features a warm palette, capturing a scene of lush yellow rolling hills and deep green patches of t...
Canvas, Oil
$2,000
H 24.5 in W 30.5 in D 0.8 in
Lilacs, Flowers, 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: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Lilacs, Size: 24.5" x 30.5" x 0...
Canvas, Oil
$2,341Sale Price|20% Off
H 51.19 in W 33.86 in
Vedutist Venetian painter - 19/20th century Venice view painting - St. George
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 - Venice 1793) - Venice, view of St. Mark's Basin with the Island of San Giorgio. 71 x 115 cm (without frame) - 86 x 130 cm (with frame). ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,345
H 13.4 in W 19.5 in D 0.5 in
After Eugene Verboeckhoven Antique Belgian Pastoral Oil Painting Passing Brook
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exceptional mid-19th century pastoral oil painting, after Eugene Verboeckhoven's celebrated composition "Passing the Brook," depicts a serene rural scene where cows and sheep cr...
Canvas, Wood, 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
$3,550
H 28.5 in W 56.5 in D 1 in
Summer Season, Landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang, Impressionism
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: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Title: Summer Season, Size: 28.5" x 56.5...
Canvas, Linen, Oil
$2,513
H 10.24 in W 10.24 in D 1.97 in
Le Bistro, Passage Verdeau - 21st Century Hyper Realistic oil painting of a City
By Roos van der Meijden
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Roos van der Meijden Le Bistro, Passage Verdeau 26 x 26 cm ( framed 32 x 32 cm, frame is included in price ) Oil paint on panel Dutch artist Roos van der Meijden is famous because o...
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
$6,322
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
$3,355Sale Price|44% Off
H 44.25 in W 32.875 in D 0.875 in
Robert K. White "Return of the King" Large Oil on Canvas, Art Deco Cinema Facade
By Robert Kenneth White
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE (b. 1950) – "RETURN OF THE KING" ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right; Titled on Verso ⚜ Frameless Display A CINEMATIC MOMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY, AND ...
Canvas, Oil
Rescue Ladder: Gapstow Bridge
By Nicholas Berger
Located in Greenwich, CT
Winter scene of the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park Unframed Dimensions: 22 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches Framed Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches American, b. 1...
Oil, Panel