Impressionist Photography
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph was taken in 1970, yet it looks surprisingly contemporary. The giveaway is how underdeveloped the Manhattan skyline looks. Both towers of the World Trade Center are ...
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1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bus Window 4
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kiss from a Rose
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This romantic photograph of mine of a red, red rose has often been mistaken for a reproduction of a painting by the great artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Words that des...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
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Photographic Paper
Manarola
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
From Italy's Cinque Terre this semi-abstract, semi-cubist photo of terraces upon terrazios!
Words that describe this piece: abstract, cubist, Italy
Artist Biogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bus Window 2
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Curled Epiphany
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Apparently curling off a wall, this two-sided, modernist floral work is held on by virtual "thumb tacks."
Words that describe this piece: Flowers, wall, vista, d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cactus, Original Photographic Print, 2014
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This image was taken in the desert in Arizona near Scottsdale in the spring
Keywords: purple, cactus, desert, southwest, flower, juxtaposition, opposites, arizon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital
Klamath Bar
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Along the wild and rugged coast of Northern California, the Klamath Bar stands out at the terminus of the Lost Coast.
Words that descri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bus Window 1
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Down in the Valley
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Down in the valley the serene layers of distance divide the landscape spiritually.
Words that describe this piece: Layers, distance,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tuscan Landscape
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Memories of Tuscany at dawn with the fields and vineyards laid out below one!
Words that describe this piece: Dawn, cloudy, moody, Tuscany
Artist Biography:
Ha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ice Art, Winter Scene Nature Photography Print, 2015
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This image was taken in Michigan on a frozen lake. I like how the texture of the ice plays against the black lines of the tree branches
Keywords: water, winter, o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital
Save the Last Dance for Me
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
An intimate and close-up view of Papavers and Mallows positioned on a light box.
Words that describe this piece: Poppies, Mallows, Flowers
Artist Biography:
Ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hecata Head
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The Hecata Head provided safety for Cape Perpetua in the remote and rugged years!
Words that describe this piece: Lighthouse, surf, serene
Artist Biography:
Ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rollback
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Rollback is a piece that expresses positivist in nature, along with the possibility that there are two ways to look at any picture.
Words that describe this piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Godafoss
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is a "midnight sun" image of the powerful and magical Godafoss waterfall in Iceland!
Words that describe this piece: falls, landscape, sunset, iceland
Arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Blue Distance 2
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Looking towards the central crest of the Sierra Nevada of California, the blue haze creates a romatic effect,
Words that describe this piece: Photography
Artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bus Window 3
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Melody with Dahlia
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is a composition of dahlias and fuschias that is intended as a rhythmic and musical composition!
Words that describe this piece: Dahlia, floral, rhythm
Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Double Double
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A double rainbow in the wilderness... how cool is that?
Words that describe this piece: Rainbow desert spring colors renewal
Artist Biography:
Harold Davis is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Red, Pink, and Blue
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Red, pink, and blue flowers decorate the world!
Words that describe this piece: Red, pink, poppy
Artist Biography:
Harold Davis is an artist and bestselling au...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Statue of Liberty on a Truck, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Most cities have a chaotic visual schema. However, through the lens of veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, anarchy becomes order. In the present work, "Statue of Liberty on a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Lower East Side
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Lower East Side.
Beyond a 19th-century vermilion brick facade and standing proud and tall in a hazy New York City sky, we see The Ch...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square, neon series
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Neon Light, Photographic Paper
Times Square, neon series
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Neon Light, Photographic Paper
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
This image of Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park was shot at magic hour. That's when the light is late in the day and skims over the surfaces of the grass and build...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Central Park Dog Walkers
Located in Miami, FL
Magical late afternoon golden light pours into the scene illuminating heads and Silhouetting figures. The intriguing arrangement of visual elements creates an unorthodox mysterious w...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: The High Line
Located in Miami, FL
"Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: The High Line" - It may take a moment, but its presence always seems to be in the picture. At least, that was the case in the past. ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Raining with Sunshine: Three Horses in Autumn Rain and Golden Light in New York
Located in Miami, FL
For 55 years, Mithcell Funk has been capturing the emotive power of color and light. In the present image, "Raining with Sunshine," Funk captures three horses lined up in a row and ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building Chats with Chrysler Building
Located in Miami, FL
This highly dramatic photograph shows a dialog between the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building as they appeared in 1998.
Photographer Mitchell Funk captures mid-town New...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Tree Lost in Thought: Green and Purple
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Tree Lost in Thought in Green and Purple was shot in Hi-res that brings out selective foliage detail.
Trees are Art made by God.
Signed, dating and numbered 2/15 recto, unframed...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, ABS, Archival Pigment
Glowing Chrysler Building and 42nd Street at Manhattanhenge
Located in Miami, FL
42nd Street glows, but not from Broadway marquees' bright lights. It's from Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, who captures the setting sun of Manhattanhenge, which, along with stree...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Twin Towers
Located in Miami, FL
On an assignment from the Port Authority of New York in 1975, Photographer Mitchell Funk was given access to the roof of Tower II of the World Trade Center. From that high vantage p...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattanhenge with Chrysler Building at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
The sun sets at Manhattanhenge with the Chrysler Building's crown illuminated, creating a dual lighting source. Enter Mitchell Funks light-filled world in which his photographic ima...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Night with New York Skyline Vista
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building rises like a rocket ship in a glittering sky, conveying a sense of boundlessness. An aura of soft light caresses the scene, giving it a touch of mystical signif...
Category
1980s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York is Smoking Photograph
Located in Miami, FL
New York is Smoking
Documentary Travel Photographers / Color Photography / Abstract Photography
Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, printed latinerOther ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Snow Storm, By Mitchell Funk, Landscape Photography, Impressionism
Located in Miami, FL
Snow comes to Manhattans' Central Park and veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures it. Besides the understated muted beauty of the image, it's a document of emptiness in ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. . The work is unframed ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds
Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Las Vegas, Fremont Street Neon Signs, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This is the greatest and most iconic picture and vintage Las Vegas even done. This classic view of downtown neon signs of Las Vegas before the wrecking ball demolished one of Americ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York Skyline from Central Park in Deep Gold and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Color Photographer Mitchell Funk once again sets the standard for originality and inventiveness. His use of hyper-lighting and composition produces a retina-numbing imag...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Leafless Tree Monochromatic Winter Snow Scene in Central Park in Warm Greys
Located in Miami, FL
A monochromatic winter snow scene in Central Park with a leafless tress raises questions. How can a city with over 8 million people jammed into a small space yield an expansive, unp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Rainbow with Flock of Birds in East Hampton, Symbolic of Togetherness
Located in Miami, FL
A densely packed flock of birds fly over a beach in East Hampton while a magnificent rainbow serves as a backdrop. The tight formation of the flock of birds symbolizes unity and to...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Color Photography Abstraction of Park Bench in Central Park - Brooklyn Museum
Located in Miami, FL
A simple park bench acts as inspiration for an early example of semi-abstraction in color photography. Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk waits for "magic hour" light to ill...
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1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Statue of Liberty New York Harbor at Sunset with Green Light
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant orange sunset silhouettes the iconic Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In the foreground, a partly out-of-focus green street light occupies the top half of the composi...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pink Umbrellas in the Snow, New York City, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower left recto 3/15 , other sizes available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$5,900 Sale Price
26% Off
Hedge Fun - Naples, Florida - Happy Colors Landscaping, Abstract Photography
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Landscaping in Naples, Florida gives the residents and visitors a visual treat. The community has transformed a typical banal Florida city into an outdoor art exhibition of by Land...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Snow Abstract Architecture, Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm allows Street Photographer Mitchell Funk to transform facades of Upper Eastside walkups into a stunning impressionist cityscape. Monochromatic grays are pun...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sunbathers Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
People are reduced to patters when rows of sun worshipers are caught with a 105 mm lens.
Signed and dated lower right Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$7,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Impressionist Snow Storm - Bethesda Fountain Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow blankets Bethesda Fountain and simplifies the landscape so that only a few sick-figure people dot the blue on the blue-white ground. The one figure with a red coat acts ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
:ate golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Early Morning Light, Yellows and Gold ( Color Photography )
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years pioneering color photographer Mitchell Funk has been documenting the life of New York City. Funk's central preoccupation is recording the beauty of the visual worl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Classical Roman Bronze Head in thought
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Roman bronze figure after the antique is capture in an introspective moment. Highlights on the eyelids accent the dreamy quality of the gaze. ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Harold Davis, Robert Funk, and Marc Garrison. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist photography, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $65,500, while the average work sells for $4,250.