American Landscape artist Richard Humphrey was born in Berkeley, California on December 21, 1951. The following year, he and his family moved to Los Angeles and then to Palos Verdes Estates in 1959, where he spent his childhood exploring the rural coastline of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. This early experience in nature helped form Humphrey’s passion for landscape painting and open space preservation.
Richard Humphrey attended Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and upon graduation he began working in the Graphic and Design Department of The Aerospace Corporation where he eventually rose to the department’s top staff artist and designer. In 1985, through the influence of high school friend and fellow artist, Daniel W. Pinkham, Humphrey began the practice of plein air painting. He gleaned inspiration from the works of Russian Impressionist Issac Levitan and numerous American Impressionists, including Childe Hassam, Emil Carlsen, Guy Rose, and Edgar Payne. Additionally, Humphrey’s landscape paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and its teachings of the relationship between the land and its beauty as a direct expression of a divine source and creative order. Humphrey is known for his rendered impressionist style, which is unique from the traditional loose plein air painting approach.
In 1997, Richard Humphrey organized the first of several exhibitions featuring work of the newly formed Portuguese Bend Artist Colony. Fellow members included local artists Stephen Mirich, Daniel W. Pinkham, Vicki Pinkham, Kevin Prince, Amy Sidrane, and Tom Redfield. The annual exhibitions spanned from 1997 to 2009 and raised significant funds and public awareness for the recently formed Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. The efforts resulted in a successful community support to preserve more than 1,700 acres of open space.
Humphrey’s work has been exhibited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Bowers Museum of Santa Ana, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Carnegie Art Museum, the State Capital Building of Sacramento, Autry Museum of the American West, The Irvine Museum, Hilbert Museum of California Art, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, and Bennington Art Museum in Vermont. In 2007 he received the California Art Club’s Gold Medal for the Edgar Payne Award for Best Landscape at the 96th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition held at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Rick Humphrey’s paintings are in collections throughout the United States and Europe.
A New Season
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the artist Signed "R Humphrey" on lower left Artist Statement "A red bougainvillea marks a small memorial near the top of the trail. A warm spring breeze moves through the newly flowered grass." — Richard Humphrey...
Canvas, Oil
Bend in the River, Yellowstone
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "R. Humphrey" on lower left Artist Statement "The glassy surface of the river almost seems calm. Below the gentle ripples though, is a swift and powerful current that moves anything in its way. A mile or so farther down the river, the elevation drops and the river turns into a wild, tumultuous force as it moves toward the falls." —Richard Humphrey...
Canvas, Oil
A Quiet Morning; Upper Twin Lake, Mammoth California
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist FRAMED: 24" x 30" x 1.5" UNFRAMED: 18" x 24" Signed: Lower Left Artist Statement "In the early morning light, a lone fisherman sl...
Canvas, Oil
Point Vicente
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 20" x 30" FRAMED: 27" x 37" x 1.75" Signed "R Humphrey" on lower left
Canvas, Oil
A Breezy Day on Chandler Preserve
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed 'R. Humphrey" on lower left Artist Statement "A cool, breezy day on the preserve. The first few wild flowers signal the coming of spring." —Richard Humphrey...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Morning Light on the Lower Falls, Yellowstone
By Richard Humphrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "R. Humphrey" on lower left Artist Statement "The glassy surface of the river almost seems calm. Below the gentle ripples though, is a swift and powerful current that moves anything in its way. A mile or so farther down the river, the elevation drops and the river turns into a wild, tumultuous force as it moves toward the falls." — Richard Humphrey...
Linen, Oil
Towards Pikes Peak
By Michael Magrin
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Michael Magrin. Framed.
Linen, Oil
Glass
By Edward Minoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edward Minoff graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Throughout his high school and college years he studied painting and sculpture at the Art Students League of ...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Williamsburg VA in Spring
By Guy Carleton Wiggins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine spring scene in historic Williamsburg, Virginia with the Governor’s Palace in the background by American artist Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962). Wiggins was born in Brooklyn,...
Canvas, Oil
$13,000
H 35 in W 43 in
"Over the Pond, Evening Light" contemporary impressionist seascape through trees
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a seascape at sunset by Contemporary Russian Impressionist Viktor Butko. Tall, skinny, birch trees stretch across the foreground and up towards the sky. Behind the...
Linen, 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
$1,800
H 8 in W 10 in
"Momentary Reflections" Original Rural Western Winter Landscape, Oil Painting
By Dan Young
Located in Denver, CO
"Momentary Reflections" by Dan Young is an original oil painting depicting a rural snow scene. This painting is framed at 13 inches by 15 inches, and is ready to hang. Dan Young wa...
Linen, Oil
$25,000
H 35 in W 43 in
"Stony Cove and Headland, " Henry Ward Ranger, Coastal Landscape, Seascape
By Henry Ward Ranger
Located in New York, NY
Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1915) Stony Cove and Headland, 1910 Oil on canvas 28 x 36 inches Signed lower right Provenance: McDonough Gallery, New York William Macbeth Galleries, New York American Art Association, The Completed Pictures Left by the Late Henry Ward Ranger, 1917, Lot 72 A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree. He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting...
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
H 35 in W 43 in D 1 in
"Mother and Child on the Beach" - 20th Century Colorful American Impressionist
By Don Hatfield
Located in Carmel, CA
Don Hatfield (American, born 1947) "Mother and Child on the Beach" Unknown Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars Signed on the bottom right of the painting. Don Hatfield’s 'Mother and C...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,600
H 7 in W 12 in
"Autumn Orange Leaves" (2024) By David Grossmann, Original Oil Painting
By David Grossmann
Located in Denver, CO
David Grossman's (US based) "Autumn Orange Leaves" is an oil on linen panel created in 2024 depicting an abstracted birch forest in autumn. About the artist: David Grossmann’s evoc...
Linen, Oil, Panel
"Evening View to the South West" , Oil Painting
By David Grossmann
Located in Denver, CO
David Grossman's (US based) "Evening View to the South West" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a wide open plain of the West with fields of...
Linen, Oil, 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
$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