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Item Ships From: Continental US
"Le Port de Marseille" Eugène Galien Laloue (French, 1854-1941)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Le Port de Marseille" Eugène Galien Laloue (French, 1854-1941) Gouache and watercolor on paper, original carved and gilded frame. 12 3/8 x 7 3/4 (14 1/2 x 9 5/8 frame) inches Signe...
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1910s Art Nouveau Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

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''...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Large Paris Oil Painting Winter Street Scene Framed Signed Impressionist 53"x29"
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Step into the charm of historic Paris with this impressive large-format oil painting depicting a snowy street scene near the Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The romantic Parisian setting featur...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large original oil painting on canvas, Venice, Italy, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original large oil painting on canvas, depicting Venice, Italy. Signed in the lower-left corner probably Tom. Presented in a nice wood frame. Condition: The pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Landscape, Oil on Masonite by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
By Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract Landscape Miriam Bromberg Date: circa 1960 Oil on Masonite Size: 7.5 x 9.25 in. (19.05 x 23.5 cm) Frame Size: 13 x 15 inches
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1960s Abstract Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Marlin Catch, Guy Harvey
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Guy Harvey (1955-) Title: Marlin Catch Year: Circa 2010 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 40 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed by t...
Category

2010s Abstract Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Fog Bank
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Fog Bank - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Waits River Church, Vermont, Oil Painting
By Doug Cosbie
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Waits River is a small village on Highway 25 southeast of Stowe, Vermont. "The church, buildings and barns presented an iconic view of New England...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

In the Courtyard, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alex Kalenyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 2013 Style: Impressionism Title: In the Courtyard, Size: 23.5" x 31...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Cityscape”
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas of a contemporary cityscape.. Signed Lee Reynolds lower right. Vanguard Studio label verso. Circa 1975. Condition is excellent. The pain...
Category

1970s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Nature's Quietude, Abstract Oil Painting
By Ronda Waiksnis
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting offers a moody, atmospheric view where land and sky seem to blur into one. Quick, expressive brushstrokes suggest movement across the scene, as ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Paris Streets with Moulin Rouge 2, Folk Art Acrylic Painting by Charles Cobelle
By Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) - Paris Streets with Moulin Rouge 2. Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r., Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm), Frame Size: 24 x 28 inches
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Patchwork Abstracted Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). The landscape is made up of patches of color, reminiscent of viewing agricultural land f...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor, Newsprint, Tissue Paper

Mixed Water Lilies Spotted Sunlight, Oil Painting
By Onelio Marrero
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero spends much of his summers happily gardening and caring for his pond. There are also several others within walking distance from his hom...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Warm Sand and Beautiful Clouds, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Joanie Ford depicts a few beachgoers enjoying a relaxing day out by the shore. Clouds provide a cool shadow from the sun's summer heat as a gentle bree...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Purple Grove Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Purple Grove Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 30" x30" x 1" inch (76 x 76 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapped ...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Five Red Tulips - Pink Original Floral Artwork on Canvas
By Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carlos Gamez de Francisco’s "The House at the End of the Road" is a striking blend of hyperrealism, figurative surrealism, and imaginative narrative art. This 12-inch round acrylic p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Windy Afternoon at Leo Carrillo Beach
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 16" x 20" FRAMED: 25.5" x 29.5" x 1.75" Exhibited A Journey Along the California Coast, at the California Art Club Galle...
Category

2010s Realist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

'Olive Groves, Mallorca', San Jorge School, Barcelona, Catalonia, Majorca
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ventosa' for Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897-1982) and painted circa 1950. A very substantial oil showing a luminous view of the isle of Mallorca with ancient olive groves and mountain cliffs bathed in warm evening light beneath clouded blue skies. A large and rare Mallorcan landscape by this notable Catalan painter. Born in Barcelona, José Ventosa Doménech first attended the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in 1911. He then undertook an extended trip to Brussels where he studied Vanguard painting before returning to Barcelona where he continued his studies with the Realist, Martí Alsina. In 1922, Ventosa worked alongside Eliseu Meifren and Domingo Soler in Ripoll. From 1924, Ventosa exhibited in Barcelona as a member of the "Nou Ambient", the Catalan art...
Category

1950s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

Massachusetts Coastal Painting by Wayne Morrell, Signed
By Wayne Beam Morrell
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Beam Morrell (American, 1923-2013) Untitled (Coastal Scene, Massachusetts), 20th century Oil on board 15 1/2 x 20 in. Framed: 24 x 27 1/3 in. Signed lower right Wayne Morrell ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Sands of Celia" (2022) by Leigh Ann Van Fossan, Original Acrylic Painting
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Sands of Celia" is an original acrylic painting featuring peaceful blue waters lapping a sandy beach. Van Fossan was born in Vail, Colorado, and began oil p...
Category

2010s Expressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Snow on 5th Avenue" Impressionist Oil Painting Style of Guy Wiggins Snow Scene
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow on 5th Avenue New York City with figures walking and taxis in the distance. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, white...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Hudson River School Seascape at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous Hudson River School landscape of sunset over water with red buoy in foreground and sailing ships in background in the style of Alfred Thompson Briche...
Category

1880s Hudson River School Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" (2016) By David Shingler, Oil Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler’s "Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" (2016) is an original oil painting on wood panel, measuring 16 x 20 inches (40.64 x 50.80 cm). Known for his dynamic landscapes r...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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 Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard

Graham Nickson, Orvieto "Black Sun" original watercolor painting, Signed, Framed
By Graham Nickson
Located in New York, NY
Graham Nickson Orvieto "Black Sun", 2000 Watercolor painting on Lanaquarelle paper Hand signed, titled and dated by Graham Nickson on the back This exquisite watercolor painting dep...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Cocoa Beach Florida Summer Impressionist Beach Seascape Antique Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed. Measuring 11 by 14 inches overall and 9 by 12 painting alone.
Category

1940s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Pool Days” Contemporary Blue and Green Toned Tropical Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary naturalistic painting by Texas-based artist Jennifer Lively. The work features a clear, blue pool next to a palm tree. A small white boat can be seen sailing in the back...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Important Polish Beach Scene Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique elegant Polish beach scene oil painting by Paul Merwart (1855 - 1902). Finely detailed with great color. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L by 16.25H
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1890s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist New England Coastal Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Feels like a Maine scene with a bustling dock! Nicely framed. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Image size,...
Category

1920s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Crashing Surf, Capri”
By Guido Odierna
Located in Southampton, NY
Large, impressive seascape of rolling surf pounding the rocky shore of Capri. Signed lower left by the Italian artist Guido Odierna. Circa 1975. Conditi...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Meadow, Landscape 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: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Meadow, Size: 28" x 39" x 1'' i...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boulevard de la Madeleine
By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in Greenville, DE
Excellent example of Cortès Paris scene. Provenance: Galerie Haussmann, Paris.Herbert Arnot, Inc., New York, New York (May 29, 1964).Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas (February 2...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Can't Stand Still" Contemporary Pink, Blue, Green, & Orange Hard-Edge Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract geometric painting by Houston-based artist Holland Geibel. The work features layered abstract shapes in bright pink, blue, green, and orange tones. Signed, titl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Nicely Framed Detailed American School Antique Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Great colors and very well painted. Excellent ready to hang condition.
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Early 1900s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fall Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahram Meliqsetyan Title: Fall Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 23.5" x 16.5" x 0.8" inch (60 x 42 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wra...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

French Quarter, New Orleans
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Courtyard, French Quarter, New Orleans, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 12 x 16.5 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition. Signed lower right. Unframed. Born...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Golden Days
By Donald Jurney
Located in Wenham, MA
This is a beautiful original oil on linen painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. Reminiscent of Dutch Golden Age works, the landscape shimmers with light. This painting is not cu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Young Famer with Draft Horses and Favorite Dog” Paul Junghanns (1876-1958)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“Young Famer with Draft Horses and Favorite Dog” Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958) Oil on Canvas Signed verso 41 1/2 x 33 1/2 Depicted here is one of Junghanns favorite subjects de...
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Passing Through", Expressionist, Landscape, Pink, Blue, Oil Painting
By Catherine Picard-Gibbs
Located in Franklin, MA
"Passing Through" by Catherine Picard-Gibbs is an emotive, textural oil painting on canvas measuring 24 x 24 x 1.5 inches. Desolate trees form a natural passageway, revealing a lumin...
Category

2010s Expressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paris Art on a Spring Morning
Located in Soquel, CA
Paris street scene by a French street artist signed lower right. Label on verso "Angelo Ponza" Art Gallery Naples, Italy. Image, 16"H x 20"W Frame, 20"H x 24"W
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1970s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Original Oil Plein Air Landscape of Western Nevada
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Antique Western Nevada Desert Oil Landscape by Phoebe K. Higgins A mid-century desert oil landscape of Western Nevada by Phoebe K. Higgins (American, 1895 - c 1960), circa ...
Category

1950s American Realist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Board

Cotopaxi II (Modern Landscape Oil Painting of Sunset Over Volcano in Andes)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
49 x 79 inches framed, thin black painted wood frame 48.5 x 77.5 inches unframed oil on canvas $9,000 Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of a large volcano, Cotopaxi, in...
Category

1980s Modern Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Bass Rocks" Josephine Reichmann, Impressionist Surf, Luminous Waves, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Josephine Reichmann Bass Rocks Signed lower right Oil on canvasboard 14 x 16 inches Reichmann was born in 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky. After studying at the School of the Art Inst...
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1920s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Large Scale Persian Hunt Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W Arti...
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1920s Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Boats in a Harbor
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè on the lower right. In 1959, French art critic Michel Concil-Lacoste, in the newspaper Le Monde, expressed his views on Barnabè: "Barnab...
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20th Century Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rocky Outcropping and Bathers at the Swimming Hole - Landscape
By Tyler Micoleau
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly textured landscape, with thick impasto illustrating a glorious scene of figures swimming in calm waters near large rocks and swaying trees, by Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001). Signed and dated "Tyler Micoleau 1968" in the lower left corner. Presented in a gold colored wood frame. Image size: 12"H x 16"W Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001) was born in Rhode Island but spent most of his life in Nevada County, California. He was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an instructor at Brown University. Micoleau moved to Nevada City...
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1960s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Mid Century San Francisco Bay Seascape Landscape
By Hartzell Harrison Ray
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century San Francisco Bay seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Signed "H. Ray" lower right and on verso. Texture added...
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1960s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ninth Avenue El (New York City), Mid 20th Century Cityscape Oil painting
By John Opper
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Opper (American, 1908-1994) Ninth Avenue El (New York City), c. 1935 Oil on canvas Signed lower left and verso 30.125 x 24 inches The Ninth Avenue El was the first elevated rai...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

untitled impressionist lanscape Paris
Located in Belgrade, MT
This oil painting framed is part of my private collection. Lucien Durand was a French painter. I have several of his pieces. HI art work has been offered at auction multiple times.
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Shaded Path
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel was inspired by gardens throughout his painting career. Before moving to Dallas, as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1930's, Vogel's studio was a block away from Chicago's Lincoln Park...
Category

1980s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Rain on the water - Dreamy light blue abstract water landscape
By Jennifer L. Baker
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"Rain on water" is an ethereal and dreamy atmospheric abstract landscape depicting water and the sea. It has a beautiful textured surface and layers and layers of soft color, with mo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
Category

1950s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Hudson River School Luminous Coastal Sunset Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed and dated K. W. Newhall 1881, this luminous seascape by American painter Kate White Newhall (1840–1917) captures a dramatic coastal scene at sunset with refined academic techn...
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1880s Hudson River School Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Parisian Spring Park Scene with Figures" Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
By Luigi Cagliani
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a park scene in Paris during spring by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist, most of Cagliani's works were produced in the first half...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Calla Mayor, Venice Canal
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Isabelle Graham Allison (Reese) (1927-2005). Calla Mayor, Venice ca. 1950s. Oil on canvas measuring 12 x 28 inches; 13 x 29 inches framed. Signed lower right. The artist lived and ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Yohaku No Bi (The Beauty of Empty Space)
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Vintage Art Deco Formula Two Grand Prix Car Racing Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very rare and well painted Formula Two racing painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Nicely framed.
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1950s Modern Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Southern California Desert Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Who Was Who
By George Sanders Bickerstaff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Bickerstaff' for George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893-1954) and painted circa 1950. This California landscape painter was born in Arizona and studied at t...
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1950s Realist Continental US - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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