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Item Ships From: California
Blue Meadow, Landscape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Landscape oil Painting, Impressionism, flowers, oil on canvas
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
S...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Cascade - Original Earth Tone Abstract Impasto Nature Landscape Painting
By Dana Cowie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Using an impasto, painterly technique Dana Cowie creates cubist-inspired farm and rural landscapes. Working within controlled color schemes, her artworks appear abstract up close and...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
South Bay 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: 2025
Style: Impressionism,
Title: South Bay
Size: 30" x 44" x 0.8'' ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Seaweed Harvestor II
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Seaweed Harvester II', 2021 is a gorgeous painting of two men gathering seaweed on the beach. The multiple blues of the sky and sea are reflective of the ephemeral time and moment t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Snow in the Valley - Winter Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Snow in the Valley - Winter Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Serene winter landscape by A. V. Gagliardi (20th Century). A valley is covered with snow, with a small house and river in thew...
Category
1970s American Modern California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,300 Sale Price
29% Off
Been There - Large Vibrant Sunset Ocean Landscape Skyscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Miller captivates with her atmospheric landscapes, inspired by the vast skies of her prairie upbringing and her global travels in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Influenced by the...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
After Storm, 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: 2023
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: After Storm,
Size: 29" x 44.5" ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
A solitary hiker on a trail with Northern California's Mt. Shasta in the distance by Joseph John Engl...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Echoes of Fall Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Eduard Matevosyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism,
Title: Echoes of Fall,
Size: 30" x 24"...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballator, Portland Ore.” provenance includes: J.C. Penney Company, represented by Russell Tether Fine Arts Assoc.; presented in a newer wood frame
About the Painting
Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like a Mediaeval alter, this mural study is filled with icons, but the images of saints and martyrs are replaced with symbols of America's gospel of prosperity through capitalism. Industry and Commerce has a strong narrative quality with vignettes filling the entire surface. Extraction, logistics, design, power generation, and manufacturing for printing, chemicals, automobiles and metal products are all represented. To eliminate any doubt about the mural's themes, Ballator letters a description into the bottom of the study. Ballator also presents an idealized version of industrial cooperation, as his workers, lab-coated technicians and tie-wearing managers work harmoniously toward a common goal in the tidy and neatly designed environments. Although far from the reality of most industrial spaces, Ballator's study reflects the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression.
About the Artist
John R Ballator achieved success as a muralist, lithographer, and teacher during the Great Depression. Born in Oregon, he studied at the Portland Museum Art School, the University of Oregon and at Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. In 1936, Ballator was commissioned to paint a mural panel for the new Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, an important project that spanned five years with several dozen artists contributing a total of sixty-eight designs. Ballator completed murals for the St. Johns Post Office and Franklin High School, both in Portland, Oregon. He also contributed to the 1938 murals at Nathan Hale School in New Haven, Connecticut. During the late 1930s, Ballator taught art for several years at Washburn College in Topeka, Kanas, where he completed a mural for the Menninger Arts & Craft Shop before accepting a professorship at Hollins College...
Category
1930s American Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Distance Between 2 - Elegant Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Distant Sky - Soft Blue-Green Atmospheric Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Departure - Large Framed Original Blue and White Abstract Landscape Painting
By Greet Helsen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Belgian artist Greet Helsen masterfully layers acrylic paint with the effervescent transparency of watercolors in her large mixed-media abstract paintings. Reminiscent of abstract ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Pacific Plates No. 11
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meadow Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
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: 2017
Subject: Meadow,
SIZE: 28.5" x 55" x 1.5''inch
Unframed, Stretched ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sandy Beach Big Sur- Impressionist California Landscape
By Kathleen Murray
Located in Soquel, CA
Sandy Beach Big Sur- Impressionist California Landscape
A Sandy Beach - Impasto California Big Sur Landscape with Water Inlet by California artist Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958....
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
$385 Sale Price
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Monet's Pond at Giverny, Oil Painting
By Onelio Marrero
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Reflections on the water in Monet's pond at Giverny. Onelio spent some time there taking in the splendor of the setting. "Each view of the place was a paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seascape Coastal Original Oil Painting on Linen, Ready to Hang
By Karen Darbinyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism
Title: Seascape
Size: 17.5" x 23.5" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Through The Redwoods - California Impressionism Circa 1930s
Located in Soquel, CA
Through The Redwoods - American Impressionist
American Impressionist oil painting depicting a forest of California redwood trees. A giant red...
Category
1930s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Evening Diptych 1 & 2 (in two parts)
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking diptych oil on canvas paintings (two paintings) by Willard Dixon. Evening Diptych 1 & 2. Painted in 2022, Each of the above paintings is 40 x 41 inches. Sold as a set of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastel Sunrise - Colorful Pink Mixed Media Landscape Nature Inspired Artwork
By Lee Herring
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lee Herring is a contemporary painter specializing in vibrant, textured, and abstract landscapes that convey fleeting moments. Herring's energetic artworks are inspired by everyday m...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Possibilities
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
'Rivière de Mon Paix', Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Rivière de Mon Paix', Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay, Luxembourg Museum.
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Raoul André Ulmann (French, 1867-1941)
Each signed, 'R.A. Ulmann' and offered as ...
Category
1910s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Statue of Liberty - Large New York City Artwork Landscape Contemporary Original
By Pete Kasprzak
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Over The Beach - Landscape Ocean Original Painting
By Kathleen Keifer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Broadway
By Jean Dominique van Caulaert
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Broadway (?), 1952, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left, 15 x 18 inches, inscription verso may say "Broadway", presented in its original frame
Jean Dominique van Caulaert w...
Category
1950s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Hudson River School Bucolic Landscape
By John Frederick Kensett
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful example of the Hudson River School romantic bucolic New York autumn landscape with cows foraging. Illegible artist signature on stretcher bar (See enhanced images). Condition: very good; professionally cleaned and minor restoration upper right hand corner where paint was missing.
Unframed.
Image size: 14"H x 24"W x .75"D
Hudson River School was an informal association was America's first so-called school of painting and the dominant landscape style until the Civil War. The name derives from a group of 19th-century landscape painters working in New York state. With realistic composition, they depicted romantic views of unsettled areas of the Hudson River Valley especially lakes, rocky gorges, and forests in the Catskill Mountains. About a fourth of these artists utilized luminism or effects with special lighting techniques to convey lofty emotions through contrasts of light and dark. Included in this Hudson River luminist category were Washington Allston, Albert Bierstadt, William Hart, and Frederic Edwin Church...
Category
1870s Hudson River School California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
House in Sainte Cecile, Belgium
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Titled "House in Sainte Cecile, Belgium" 1952, is an oil painting on canvas by Belgian artist Paul van Hoye, 1887-1952. It is signed at the lower right corner by the ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"San Jacinto Peak" Large oil painting on canvas.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "San Jacinto Peak" c.1970, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Palm Spring artist Darwin Taylor, 1921-1975. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Terminus no. 2
By Brooks Anderson
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking impressionistic ocean scene with large cumulus cloud rising where the mountains meet the ocean. Tranquil blue water with filtered early evening light captured on the canvas where time stands still. Ready to hang unframed with its edge painted in a reddish brown patina for which the artist is known. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent / as new.
Brooks Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Big Sky: Utah
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Big Sky: Utah - The painting was created in 2007 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art - The Dream & the Dreamers
By Marguerite Blasingame
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Unique painting with dream-like quality with three blonde figures looking at a garden folly...
Category
1940s Futurist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Bella Vista 2 - Modern Acrylic Striped Resin Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon Lake with Birds Migrating
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon
Landscape scene depicting three snowcapped mountains, also known as "The Three Sisters," surrounded by evergreen trees by John Englehart...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,995 Sale Price
21% Off
My Inner Child Garden - Large Soft Abstract Floral Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drawing inspiration from an immersive and impressionistic interpretation of nature, Canadian artist Vé Boisvert paints textural original artworks that capture the fleeting effects of...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sunny Beach Days - Large Textural Three-Dimensional Ocean Landscape Painting
By Elizabeth Langreiter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Langreiter’s "Sunny Beach Days" is a vibrant aerial beach scene that captures the joy and energy of a perfect summer day. This textured ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Graphica I - Modern Original Colorful Abstract Geometric Painting
By Jodi Fuchs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Fuchs' mid-century modern inspired artworks showcase distinct fields of vibrant colors, often taking on organic and soft shapes. Her pieces emanate a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$340 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Seascape of Capri, Amalfi Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous early 20th Century seascape of Capri on Amalfi Coast by Albert Wenk (German, 1863-1934), 1913. Signed and dated lower left corner. Cond...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Evening Time New York Hudson River School Scene Oil on Canvas Ornate Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Evening Time Hudson River School Style Scene Oil on Canvas
European style painting of the Hudson river Valley School by B. Czerniawski (Polish/Ame...
Category
1860s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Back Country
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Back Country - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited at Medearis' solo show at Kende Galleries, New York, in 1949 (Medearis’ record book, a copy of which is held by Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, indicates this is painting “No. 23” and that is was completed in 1947 and sold via Kende Galleries (at Gimbel Brothers...
Category
1940s American Modern California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Southern California Grapevine Valley, Large-Scale 1930's Landscape
By Jene Jackman
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous large-scale pastel colored landscape of a Southern California grapevine valley by Eugene (Jene) Jackman (American, 1910-1970), 1937. Rolling hills sprawl across this vast la...
Category
1930s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Cherry Blossom Flowers Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Title: Cherry Blossom
Medium: Oil on Linen
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism
Dimensions: 44.5" x 30" x 1" inch (113 x 76 x 2cm)
Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wr...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Whispers In Color - Original Modern Impressionist Contemporary Floral Painting
By Peter Kuttner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and unique uses of media. Through a combination of collage ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Sailing in the Bahamas - Original Luminous Blue-Tone Textural Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drawing inspiration from an immersive and impressionistic interpretation of nature, Canadian artist Vé Boisvert paints textural original artworks that capture the fleeting effects of...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Hill, 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: 2023,
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Summer Hill...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lavender Field - Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
By Ilana Ingber
Located in Soquel, CA
Lavender Field - Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Vibrant landscape by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). A bold purple field stretches out towards the horizon, where dark t...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Fall, 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: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Fall
Size: 11" x 15" x 0.8'' inch,...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Hill Looking Over the Water, Early 20th Century Landscape by Paul Kujal
By Paul Kujal
Located in Soquel, CA
Hill Looking Over the Water, Early 20th Century Landscape by Paul Kujal
Serene depiction of a hill looking out over the water by Paul Kujal (Austrian, 1888...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trees on the Coast, Mid Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic California coastal scene by an unknown artist. The orientation of brushstrokes in this piece create a sense of movement in the trees and the grass, hinting at the way the win...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Pacific Grove - Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Pacific Grove - Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Serene coastal seascape by an unknown California artist (20th Century). This impressionistic coastal landscape captures the rugged ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$893 Sale Price
35% Off
Hollywood Freeway Sunset Aerial - Abstract Colorful Landscape Painting on Canvas
By Pete Kasprzak
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen
By Robert Watson
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen 1956
Solitary figure on wharf by California artist Robert Watson, painted 1956 (1923 - 2004)The following, is from To...
Category
1950s American Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Clouds In The Luberon" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Clouds In The Luberon" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertrán, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Spring in the South o...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride, Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
By Walter Thomas Sacks
Located in Soquel, CA
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride - Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
A bright, crisp morning and a sleigh ride through new snow in Stowe, Vermont...
Category
1940s Post-War California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Night Out (Triptych) - Figurative Blue Textured Impasto Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ekaterina Ermilkina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ekaterina Ermilkina’s original, abstract fine art paintings are created using a skillful combination of applying and removing oil paint with a palette knife on canvas. Her inspiratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary', Ventura Art Museum, Large Oil, UCSB, MFA, PAMF
By Richard Schloss
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'R. S.' for Richard Schloss (American, born 1953) and dated 1982; additionally signed and dated, verso.
A substantial and luminous landscape by this well-lis...
Category
1980s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Plein Air Study for Homesteader Colorado Mountain Painting
By Frank Tenney Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Robert Azensky Fine Art is pleased to offer original 1909 sketch study of oil painting "Homesteader Colorado Mountain" painting by Frank Tenney Johnson.
It's always special to see the evolution of a painting through the plein air sketches ("studies") by the artist prior to its painting. Frank Tenney Johnson traveled throughout the Colorado Rockies sketching and painting western landscapes and native American and cowboy figurative art.
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Signature: Lower left corner
Date: "1909" below signature
Condition: Tonal aging and minor edge wear consistent with age and use. See images.
Presented in black painted wood frame
Mat size: 14"H x 11"W
Paper size: 9"H x 6"W
Image size (visible with mat): 8"H x 5.25"W
Frank Tenney Johnson was born in Coucil Bluffs, Iowa, in 1874 not far from the Overland Trail. During his childhood, he saw the steady stream of people heading west in all forms of horse-drawn conveyance. This early exposure to the American West was critical in leading Johnson towards the Western landscape as an inspiration for his work. The resulting body of work is a moody and romantic depiction of a long-gone America, rendered in a style that has become practically a genre all its own.
At the age of ten, Johnson moved from Iowa to Milwaukee, WI. There, he took an apprenticeship with F.W. Heinie, a prominent panoramic painter. After a year with Heinie, Johnson apprenticed for Richard Lorenz, a painter and former Texas Ranger who specialized in depictions of horses and western scenes. It was probably during his time with Lorenz that Johnson decided to focus on western subjects himself. He also started illustrating for regional papers and publications, in order to save money for further training.
Further training, as with many of the artists who populated New Mexico in the early twentieth century, took place at the Art Students League in New York, where Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, John Twachtman, Kenneth Hayes Miller and F. Louis Mora were in the process of teaching perhaps the last great batch of pre-modernists. Though highly stimulated by the training, Johnson was only able to stay for five months, after which he returned to Milwaukee to work and save money in an effort to return to New York. He was able to do so after a time and, upon returning, established an important professional relationship with Emerson Hough, the editor of "Field & Stream" magazine.
At Hough's urging (and on Hough's dime), Johnson traveled to Hayden, Colorado, where he tagged along with a group of cowpunchers in order to sketch their way of life. Though primarily an artist, Johnson also wrote accounts of his time in Colorado for "Field & Stream." After Colorado came Cheyenne, Wyoming, where Johnson attended a "Frontier Days" celebration; after Wyoming, Johnson traveled to New Mexico, where he observed the Navajos and their threatened way of life. This trip changed Johnson from an academic artist with an appreciation for the west to a truly western artist.
Of particular interest to him, in stark contrast to other western artists of the time like Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell, were the more quotidian scenes of the West. Specifically, Johnson focused upon scenes featuring horses, especially at night. Johnson painted a great number of pieces that featured horses tied up outside of saloons, inns or trading posts for the night, the moonlit night punctuated by the warm glow from the lamps inside. In this, he can be considered a pioneer, as his night pieces still serve as the archetype for such work in western art.
Johnson became quite successful through his work for "Field & Stream." He was chosen to illustrate books by the prominent writer Zane Grey, and his gallery shows sold briskly. In fact, one particular show, at the Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, sold out opening night. In fact, one man had bought out the entire show: Amon Carter. Having achieved financial security and comfort, Johnson followed his good friend Clyde Forsythe to Alhambra, CA, where the two established residency and shared a studio.
California treated Johnson well. He and Forsythe founded the gallery at the Los Angeles Biltmore...
Category
Early 1900s Hudson River School California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Laid Paper
Mid Century Springtime Joshua Tree Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century Joshua Tree desert landscape with desert flowers in bloom by an unknown California artist Briggs (American, 20th Century). Signed "Briggs" along stretcher bar (...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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'Abstract in Jade', Bay Area Abstraction, Woman artist, SFMOMA, Oakland Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right in pencil, 'B.R.' for Barbara Rainforth (American, 20th century) and dated 1989. Additionally signed in pencil, verso, 'Barbara...
Category
1980s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper, Graphite
