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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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Style: Impressionist
"Hilltown-Neighbors Chat" Impressionist Pastoral Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A charming Impressionist winter snow-covered pastoral scene depicting a neighbor's chat in the Hilltown Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This piece is executed in an intimate ...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and intimate observation, capturing the grace, poise, and psychological immediacy that define his iconic ballet imagery. In Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), Degas reveals gesture and inner emotion through economical contour and lyrical nuance. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, one of the notable American ateliers specializing in fine art lithography during the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island, 1945 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published in 1945 by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, stands as one of the most elegant and scholarly mid-century American fine art folios devoted to the ballet imagery of Edgar Degas. Conceived as a high-quality interpretive portfolio, the album presents a series of lithograph-and-pochoir renderings based on Degas’s original drawings, executed with exceptional attention to tonal subtlety, contour fidelity, and the emotional interiority that defines the artist’s draftsmanship. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman on City Island, the publication embodies an American postwar effort to restore and celebrate European masterworks through meticulous handcraft and artisanal color application, honoring Degas’s distinctive line and the atmospheric delicacy of his studio-based studies. Produced in a substantial edition of MMMD examples, the portfolio offered audiences rare access to Degas’s private working drawings—images rarely seen outside institutional collections—while exemplifying the technical refinement and interpretive care characteristic of Carman’s workshop. Today, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches remains a sought-after historical publication, valued for its craft, fidelity to Degas’s aesthetic, and its role in preserving and disseminating the artist’s intimate ballet imagery in a beautifully executed mid-century fine art format. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Edgar Degas lithograph...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fanasy with Flowers 159
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 300+ pictures)   paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper

"BLUEBONNETS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWERS W.A. SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Located in San Antonio, TX
W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Dallas / San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11 x 14 Frame Size: 17 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnets" Biography W. A. Slaughter (1923 - 2003) Willia...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Autumn Morning Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean landscape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Author: Joan Gil i Gil (Barcelona, 1900 – 1984) Title: Autumn Morning Date: 1934 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 81 × 100 cm (31.9 × 39.4 in) Signature: Signed lower left: Joan ...
Category

1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joe s View Deep Yellow Sky, Impressionist Lithograph by John Beerman
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Beerman, American (1958 - ) - Joe's View Deep Yellow Sky, Year: 2002, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 4/36, Image Size: 18 x 25 inches, Size: 26...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

American Impressionist Earnest Albert Landscape Oil Painting Red Mill Winter
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
The Red Mill oil/canvas 25 x 30 image Provenance: Grand Central Art Galleries NY, The Goldfield Collection Los Angeles, CA, John Moran lot 55 Sale 186 California & American Fine Art ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roses √7
Located in Zofingen, AG
I enjoy painting large-scale pieces; they look beautiful in interiors, creating a sense of space and light. Impressionism allows you to give free rein to your emotions and play with ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique French Impressionist Oil Painting Brooding Still Life Flowers in Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Flowers French Impressionist, circa 1890-1900 period oil on canvas, framed framed: 31.5 x 38 inches canvas: 27 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, Cotswolds, En...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

I ve Dreamed 57 Sakura Cherry Tree Blossom, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010+
Located in Zofingen, AG
"I've Dreamed 57 Sakura Cherry Tree Blossom" is a beautiful, modern floral painting that will bring the beauty of spring into your home. The painting is created using professional va...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This oil on canvas by Anton Genberg, signed and dated 1894, portrays a Scandinavian summer landscape bathed in gentle light. The composition features lush green meadows in the foregr...
Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sleeping Beauty
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting depicts a sleeping girl. Her long, fair hair is disheveled on the pillow, and her hands are folded on her bare chest. The beauty's face looks calm and peaceful, as if sh...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Field Flowers Still Life Impressionism Oil Painting Handmade Artwork
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Title: Field Flowers Size: 23.5" x 19" x 0.8'' ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Roses √ 3
Located in Zofingen, AG
Roses and hydrangeas, gerberas and lilies. A wonderful autumn bouquet. It reminds me of childhood and pleasant memories of my grandmother's garden. Only the fashionable vase brings m...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

English Fox Hunting Scene Horse Hounds Large Oil Painting by M.cDowell, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This vintage oil on canvas, signed M. cDowell in the lower right, depicts a dynamic English fox hunting scene. At the center, a huntsman in a traditional red coat rides his galloping...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

California Landscape, Near Carmel Ocean Tree View, Cleveland Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
May Lydia Ames (American, 1863-1943) Near Carmel, Calif., 1932 Oil on board Signed and dated lower left, signed and titled verso 14 x 20 inches 18.5 x 24.5 inches, framed May Ames w...
Category

1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sky Cloud Study
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Partly Sunny is a new oil on panel painting just completed in the studio. The painting exudes the rich qualities of oil paint with bright strong color, a variety of lost and found ed...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

“Fall Landscape”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas board painting of a fall landscape by the American artist, Arthur Mitchell. Signed lower left by the artist. Circa 1890. Condition is very good. The paintin...
Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

19th century Impressionist Elegant figures in a Paris or London Park landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Alberto Ludovici Jr. Italian / Anglo-European School, late 19th century Elegant Figures in a Parisian (or London) Park Oil on panel Signed lower right Circa 1890 A refined and atmo...
Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

American Impressionist James Goodwin McManus Old Lyme CT Salmagundi Club Artist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
James Goodwin McManus (American 1882-1958) CT oil/panel Summer landscape with split rails signed LR dated June 22, 1934 verso 8 x 10 image Biography: James Goodwin McManus was a no...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roses and gerberas.
Located in Zofingen, AG
Flowers in a glass vase. Roses and gerberas intertwine with fresh greenery to create a vibrant bouquet. The blue and gray background creates contrast. This bouquet exudes the flavor ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

F. Berthy Vintage Landscape Oil Painting Spring Cottage Scene Framed Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
A charming vintage oil painting on canvas signed F. Berthy, depicting a serene spring countryside scene with a rustic cottage surrounded by blossoming trees and lush greenery. A smal...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden End of Winter
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
End Of Winter oil/canvas panel 9 x 12 image unframed, 15.38 x 18.38 framed signed LL I enjoy playing with light in my paintings and creating a mood while trying to push the range of ...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Edgar Degas, Dancer Arranging Her Dress, 1945 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseuse arrangeant sa robe (Dancer Arranging Her Dress), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and intimate observation, capturing the grace, poise, and psychological immediacy that define his iconic ballet imagery. In Danseuse arrangeant sa robe (Dancer Arranging Her Dress), Degas reveals gesture and inner emotion through economical contour and lyrical nuance. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, one of the notable American ateliers specializing in fine art lithography during the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseuse arrangeant sa robe (Dancer Arranging Her Dress), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island, 1945 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published in 1945 by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, stands as one of the most elegant and scholarly mid-century American fine art folios devoted to the ballet imagery of Edgar Degas. Conceived as a high-quality interpretive portfolio, the album presents a series of lithograph-and-pochoir renderings based on Degas’s original drawings, executed with exceptional attention to tonal subtlety, contour fidelity, and the emotional interiority that defines the artist’s draftsmanship. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman on City Island, the publication embodies an American postwar effort to restore and celebrate European masterworks through meticulous handcraft and artisanal color application, honoring Degas’s distinctive line and the atmospheric delicacy of his studio-based studies. Produced in a substantial edition of MMMD examples, the portfolio offered audiences rare access to Degas’s private working drawings—images rarely seen outside institutional collections—while exemplifying the technical refinement and interpretive care characteristic of Carman’s workshop. Today, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches remains a sought-after historical publication, valued for its craft, fidelity to Degas’s aesthetic, and its role in preserving and disseminating the artist’s intimate ballet imagery in a beautifully executed mid-century fine art format. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Edgar Degas lithograph...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Nude Lora Figurative Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vadim Zang Title: Lora Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2014 Style: Figurative Impressionism Dimensions: 14" x 11" x 0.8" inch (36 x 28 x 2c...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Spiritus I – Quies
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work explores the themes of inner peace and harmony. The central figure is enveloped in golden light and merges with the natural world to form a unified image of a guardian spir...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stream, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A stream winds between green fields, with a small patch of white in its blue water reflecting the clouds above. Trees in the distance add vertical contrast, whi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Beautiful English signed oil painting c.1950 River Mole Devon England
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Morris Meredith Williams (1881-1973) Welsh TITLE: “River Mole, Devon" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 50cm x 43cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Painter, stained glass artist and illustrator, born in Cowbridge, Glamorgan. Was married in 1906 to the artist Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams, who died in 1934. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art and in Italy and France. During World War I he served in the Army in France and completed work based on his Somme front experiences. Work by Williams and his wife is at the Scottish National War Museum in Edinburgh. He painted widely in France and showed in Liverpool and elsewhere, sometimes signing as M M Williams.
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting, Scene near Barbizon
Located in Harkstead, GB
This dream like image of a fisherman gliding in his boat on the river Seine was painted from a viewpoint that Montezin returned to again and again. The village of Veneux-les-Sablons ...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Coastal View with Cliffs and Waves Nolton Haven Pembrokeshire Wales 1979
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Coastal View with Cliffs and Waves Nolton Haven Pembrokeshire Wales 1979 By Tony Herbert (1927-2024) Medium: Watercolor on board, unframed Size: 10 inches (height) x 14 inches...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Ocean View Seascape Original Oil Painting on Linen, Ready to Hang
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: Ocean View Size: 15.5" x 21" x 0.8''...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Canvas

"BLUE HEAVEN" BLUEBONNET 1930s NEWCOMB MACKLIN FRAME 38 x 46 Framed Robert Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 28 x 36 Frame Size: 38 x 46 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed Front Signed Titled on Verso Newcomb Macklin Frame Circa Late 1930s "Blue Heaven" Bluebonnets Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.L. Wood, a famous home and church painter who recognized and supported his son's talent. In fact, he forced his son to paint by keeping him inside to paint rather than playing with his friends. At age 12, Wood entered the South Kensington School of Art. As a youth, he came to the United States in 1910, having served in the Royal Army, and he never returned to England. He traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. His itinerant existence took him to Illinois where he worked as a farmhand, to Pensacola, Florida where he married, briefly in Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 1912, he was in Los Angeles, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived and in 1928 exhibited in the "Texas Wildflower Competition." From San Antonio, he gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Some of that prestige has been credited to his association with Jose Arpa, prominent Texas artist. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas. During this period, Wood sometimes signed his paintings G. Day or Trebor, which is Robert spelled backwards. In 1941 he went to California and painted numerous desert and mountain landscapes and coastal scenes. He lived in Carmel for seven years, and then moved to Woodstock, New York, but he soon returned to California, settling first in Laguna Beach, then San Diego, and finally in the High Sierras, where he and his wife built a home and studio near Bishop and lived until his death in 1979. Robert Wood was born March 4, 1889, in Sandgate, England, a small town on the Kentish coast not far from the white cliffs of Dover. His father, W. J. Wood, was a successful painter who recognized Robert's unusual talent. At the age of twelve, his father enrolled Wood in art school in the small town of Folkstone. He then attended the South Kensington School of Art. While attending art school, Wood won four first awards and three second awards, one each year, a record. In 1910 after service in the Royal Army, nineteen-year-old Wood and his friend, Claude Waters, immigrated to America. Initially, he settled in Illinois and worked as a hired hand on a farm belonging to Water's uncle. He would then strike out on his own, living the life of an itinerant painter. Wood traveled as a hobo, hopping freight trains and selling or bartering small paintings to support him along the way. When times were hard, he worked at whatever job was available. In this manner, he saw most of the United States and fell in love with rural America. By 1912, Wood visited Los Angeles for the first time, arriving on the day of the Titanic tragedy. Later that year, he had met, courted and married young Eyssel Del Wagoner in Florida. The couple moved to Ohio where a daughter, Florence, was born. During World War I, the family moved to Seattle where a son, John Robert Wood, was born in 1919. In the early 1920's, the young Wood family was almost constantly on the move. They stayed for short periods in Kansas, Missouri, California and for a longer time in Portland, Oregon, where Wood's friend Claude Waters had settled. Wood's seemingly endless wanderings disrupted his family life and delayed his development as a painter. However, through his travels he developed an appreciation for the American landscape that would inspire him for the rest of his career. Although aware of the current movement away from traditional realism in American art, he elected to travel that solitary path and remain true to his own vision of American’s grandeur and beauty poetically translated through his landscape and seascape paintings. In 1923, the Wood family discovered the beautiful city of San Antonio, Texas and it was there that he and his family would finally settle. He studied briefly at the San Antonio Art School with Spanish colorist Jose Arpa y Perea (1860-1952), who had arrived in San Antonio that same year. In the latter part of the 1920’s, Jose Arpa’s influence quickly became evident. Wood after several years of experimentation was becoming fine easel painter, capable of great subtlety with a new mature original style. Like Texas painters Robert Onderdonk (1853-1917) and his son Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Robert Wood concentrated on the distinctive Texas landscape with its Red Oak trees and wildflowers that covered the hill country landscape. He developed a reputation for his scenes of Blue Bluebonnets, the state flower. In the spring, the Texas prairie is covered with wildflowers, especially in the hill country surrounding San Antonio and Austin. Wood incorporated native stone barns and rough wood farmhouses that added authenticity and romance to his compositions. In 1925, Wood was divorced from his wife. In 1932, he moved to the famous scenic loop on San Antonio's outskirts. While still living in Texas, he took extensive western sketching trips that brought him to California. It is evident that his 1930’s California...
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Mid Century portrait of a Irish Setter or Spaniel dog laying down
Located in Woodbury, CT
Raymond J. Cress (American, mid-20th century) Portrait of a Resting Irish Setter or Spaniel, circa 1950 Pastel and mixed media on paper, signed lower right Presented in an ornate ca...
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1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel, Oil

Roy Henry Brown NA American Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting 1879-1956
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
A landscape mountain hillside oil painting on panel by artist Roy Henry Brown possible western scene. Painting is under glass signed lower right. The image measures sight size 10 x 1...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist River and Park Landscape
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Impressionist oil on canvas view of a river in parkland by the noted French artist Albert Uriet. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and is presented in a fine car...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Loblolly Cove" Impressionist Sea Scape with Waves Crashing Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A truly masterful depiction of waves crashing by the rocks at Loblolly Cover in Rockport Massachusetts. The scene of Seagulls flying through the water as the waves crash create a stu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Pastoral Landscape Under a Dramatic Sky Horse Munching on Grass Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastoral Landscape French Post Impressionist, mid 20th century indistinctly signed oil on board, unframed Board : 12 x 15.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Sun and Sails
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this painting, I immersed myself in the dance of colors and forms. Using acrylics, oils, and pastels, I captured an ethereal sunrise where light and sea merge into a vibr...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fanasy with Flowers 167
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 300+ pictures) paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Sold and sent unframed -V...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Pair of Docked Fishing Boats in Empty Beach Bay French Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paired Boats at Bay by Fanch Lel Size: 16 x 13 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board , unframed Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface handling marks and light ...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Montecito View Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Montecito View Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 34" x 34" x 1" inch (87 x 87 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrap...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Oil Painting Signed by William Harnden American Impressionist 1920-1983
Located in Palm Coast, FL
A captivating vintage oil painting on board signed Harnden, depicting a lively tavern scene filled with musicians, dancers, and warm ambient lighting. A violinist and guitarist perfo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Majestic, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A powerful buffalo strides into view, its massive form radiating strength and dignity. In this oil painting, artist Karen Barton captures not only the animal’...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Reclining Nude Artist: Roser Vinardell Tolrà (Cabrera de Mar, 1941) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 46 x 65 cm (18.1 x 25.6 in) Date: 1970s Signature: Signed in the lower...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Femme nue couchée (tournée à droite)" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1909 for Theodore Duret's "Die Impressionisten" and published in Berlin by Bruno Cassirer. This impression on laid paper bears the Fortuna waterm...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

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Etching

Sunset on the East Coast. Singapore
Located in Oslo, NO
"Sunset on the East Coast. Singapore" is an expressive watercolor that captures the iconic, moody atmosphere of the city's beloved coastline at twilight. The painting is a masterful...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Inner Garden No.2 — Irises
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Between Light and Silence — Botanical Whispers. Blooming irises rise like silent flames of dignity, their petals unfolding in deep blues and violets. For centuries the iris ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"RED BARN RANCH" 1959 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LANDSCAPE WILDFLOWERS PORFIRIO SALINAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 19 x 23 Hand Carved "Melvin" Frame Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left 1959 "Red Barn Ranch" Texa...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Cold Fury
Located in Zofingen, AG
Never be jealous of a biker to her biker friends. Firstly: it is useless; secondly: are you jealous of your brothers? The only thing you can be jealous of is the motorcycle, because ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Morning in a Forest
Located in Oslo, NO
"Morning in a Forest" is a serene and masterfully delicate watercolor that captures the first light of dawn filtering through a quiet, snow-covered woodland. The painting evokes a se...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"TEXAS HILL COUNTRY" 1951 WILDFLOWER LANDSCAPE PORFIRIO SALINAS 59 X 49 FRAMED
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 50 x 40 Frame Size: 59 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas. Signed 1951 “Hill Country in Spring “ Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910...
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1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Signed Antique American Impressionist Moonlit Framed Nocturnal Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist moonlit seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 35 by 30 inches overall. Handsom...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Festive bouquet 004
Located in Zofingen, AG
The work is painted with large brushstrokes, in the artist's characteristic manner. The painting conveys vivid impressions of summer, sun glare, feelings of warmth, freshness and ce...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

OLD MASTER Signed L S Lowry " Bridge Street Road " Oil Painting 20th Century GGF
By Laurence Stephen Lowry
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER Signed L S LOWRY OIL PAINTING 20th CENTURY NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF OLD HISTORY Here we have a unique and rare piece of Art signed Goo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Paris, Le Sacre Coeur
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paris, Le Sacre Coeur" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French impressionist artist Emile Lesaout, 1926-2001. It is signed at the lower left corner b...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

American Impressionist Woodstock Artist John F Carlson Oil Painting Snow
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Wintry Pool oil on canvas 12 x 16 image size Signed LR when viewing the painting and again verso, on back. Image measures 12 x 16 The painting is in good condition in a period gilded Impressionist frame showing Carlson's mastery of light and technique. Carlson uses subtle cool snow tones juxtaposed with soft warm sunlit areas of snow help to create form and depth in this winter stream scene. The warm brown tones of the earth showing through the snow and darker trees in the backgroaund add a nice contrast. John F...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Vicious Black-end Bull Symbol
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I've poured my passion into depicting the raw intensity and elegance of a timeless struggle. The blend of acrylic and oil mediums allowed me to capture both the sof...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Impressionist French landscape with Tree , garden and flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
Jean Ekiert French Impressionist Landscape with Tree, circa 1950 Oil on canvas, signed lower right An attractive French landscape by Jean Ekiert, depicting a solitary tree set with...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Roses √ 5
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting is painted with large brushstrokes in the style of impressionism. The idea is based on color contrasts. The variety of colors is intertwined into a beautiful bouquet Coo...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Heavy Clouds
Located in Oslo, NO
"Heavy Clouds" is a dramatic, immersive landscape executed in watercolor, capturing the immense power and movement of a vast sky meeting a fertile field. The artist employs spontane...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

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