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Style: Tonalist
French school Spectacular Landscape near a pond Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Landscape Near a pond ⬅️
⏩It is signed F Couly⏪
Probably F Couly Raymond
⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas
⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork.
⭐Size:⭐28x41cm / 11...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
FRENCH SCHOOL Dachshund Fashion Week Mondrian Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️Dachshund Fashion Week Mondrian☀️
In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild.
Artists often use animals as sym...
Category
1880s Tonalist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Glue
$1,763 Sale Price
75% Off
FRENCH SCHOOL Cat Curled up Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️Cat curled up☀️
In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild.
Artists often use animals as symbols to convey dee...
Category
1880s Tonalist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Glue, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$418 Sale Price
77% Off
FRENCH SCHOOL Into the wild Dachshund Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⏩Into the Wild⏪
This work blends playful portraiture with an experimental mixed-media approach. At first glance, the image of a dachshund bright-eyed, with an inquisitive head tilti...
Category
1880s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$450 Sale Price
75% Off
French school Landscape river scene Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Beautiful study Landscape⬅️
Title: Sur les bords du Loing (Seine et Marne France) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Likely mid-19th century
Framing: A wid...
Category
1850s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$132,673 Sale Price
26% Off
French School Impressionist Floral Signed oil painting Certificate included
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Romantique (2004)⬅️
⏩It is signed M Lecomte, Michel Lecomte (1935-2011) ⏪
Michel Lecomte’s career was distinguished by a unique versatility. While known for his work as the offic...
Category
Early 2000s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Still life - FRENCH SCHOOL - Apple Starwars Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Apple Starwars ⭐
This painting is a striking representation of an apple, blending realism with expressive abstract elements.
⏩Subject & Composition⏪
The painting features a single...
Category
1920s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$239 Sale Price
75% Off
French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️
🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen, Canvas, Gesso, Stretcher Bars
$358 Sale Price
78% Off
Portrait PUG Dog - FRENCH SCHOOL - Where is my body?03 Chut les Barbizons! DOG
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait of a Pug _ dog.
In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild.
Artists often use animals as symbols to co...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
French School Portrait Blue White Horse Impressionist th century Original AUC
Located in Zofingen, AG
White Horse
Animal portrait closeup.
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,8x15,8 inch
Sustainability: Wooden frame is made by the arti...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Chauncey Foster Ryder Landscape with Figures Oil Painting 1868-1949 Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
CHAUNCEY FOSTER RYDER (American, 1868-1949),
Pasture Lands
oil/canvas signed LR
31.5 x 39.5 image, 40.5 x 48.5 framed
A wonderfully subtle Tonalist painting by Ryder incorporating ...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape
Beautiful early 20th century landscape of sunset over redwood forest stream by William Lemos (American, 1861-1942). A ...
Category
1930s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Rocky Mountain High Camp Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Tonalist Rocky Mountain High Camp Landscape
Wonderful 19th Century tonalist painting of Flat Top Mountain in the Rocky Mountains by unknown artist (American, late ...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Moon Over the Marsh", 30x40 Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Moon Over the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 30x40 oil painting on canvas featuring a landscape at sunset. Remaining light from the setting sun burns the sky in a...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape with Oak Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W.
Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail.
Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
French school Portrait Nurse Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Nurse Portrait from WWI⬅️
⏩It is signed M Chaumet Sousselier⏪
Jeanne Marie Louise Chaumet Sousselier, born on March 30, 1869 – Paris.
Died on October 19, 1941 – Neuilly-sur-Seine...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$478 Sale Price
75% Off
Dennis Sheehan, "Glowing Hedgerow", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Glowing Hedgerow", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life - FRENCH SCHOOL - Lemon Starwars Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Lemon Starwars ⭐
This painting is a vibrant and textured representation of lemons, blending realism with expressive abstract elements.
⏩Subject & Composition⏪
The painting promin...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$239 Sale Price
75% Off
French school Antique scene Landscape oil on canvas Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Antique scene Landscape⬅️
⏩It is signed J Ch Millet.⏪
Jean Charles Millet (1892-1944)
How did Jean-Charles Millet, the grandson of the celebrated painter, become a master ...
Category
1920s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$442 Sale Price
79% Off
Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Located in Soquel, CA
Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Early California Tonalist painting of the San Francisco Coast and a Whalers Cabin. Possibly by D.A. Fisher (American, 1867-1940). Nocturnal paintings in the late 19th century were very popular in the United States. Condition is stellar and excellent with a period frame having a bit of age yellowing to the finish and the gold leaf filets are beaming.
Image, 16"H x 22"D
Frame, 22"H x 28"W x 2.5"D
Fisher appears to have spent most of his career in Portland, Maine. He was an itinerant artist who painted in the San Francisco Bay area in 1891 and at Mount Shasta...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Siberian Kitten Cat - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait of a Siberian kitten
Technique: oil, acrylic, glue, ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,7 x15,7inch
⭐Sustainability⭐: Wooden frame is made by the artist b...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Paper
$430 Sale Price
82% Off
Dennis Sheehan, "Mid Fall" 12x12 Tonalist Tree Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Mid Fall", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a daytime landscape setting during autumn. Tree leaves are deep reds, purple, oranges an...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,880 Sale Price
20% Off
French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️
🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$418 Sale Price
75% Off
“A Lovely Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas laid down on fiberboard by the American artist, Albert Lorey Groll. Signed lower left and in pencil lower right. Signed verso as well. Condition is good. Circa 1910. Sa...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Forest in the Fall
, Contemporary Impressionist Pastel, Homage to Gustave Klimt
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Impressionist pastel of an autumnal woodland scene by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom right and presented in a simple gold contemporary frame un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tonalist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Elbridge Kingsley 19th Century Tonalist Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Elbridge Kingsley: 1842-1918. Listed American artist whose paintings are very rare. He was born in Carthage Ohio and moved to Hatfield Massachusetts as an infant. He ended up becomin...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Colorful Twilight Sky
Located in Milford, NH
A fine tonalist landscape with colorful twilight sky at the end of the day by American contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and wen...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn, New England" Charles Warren Eaton, Tonalist Gloaming Sunset in Woods
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton
Autumn, New England
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Connecticut
A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings o...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Farmland Meadows" George Henry Smillie, Hudson River School, Sunset Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie
Farmland Meadows, 1865
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
10 1/2 x 18 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Langley, Washington
The career of George Sm...
Category
1860s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape: the Uplands by Massachusetts artist Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Uplands
Oil on panel, 5 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches
FRAMED: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (approx.)
Exhibition label on verso: "Salamagundi Club/Thumb-box Exhibi...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Artist Sitting by the stream 19th Century Tonalist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
An Artist sitting by the stream, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape
Gorgeous landscape painting by unknown artist, 1900+-. This impressive Tonalist landscape, untitled, depicts a s...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Linen
French school Portrait Nurse Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Nurse Portrait from WWI⬅️
⏩It is signed M Chaumet Sousselier⏪
Jeanne Marie Louise Chaumet Sousselier, born on March 30, 1869 – Paris.
Died on October 19, 1941 – Neuilly-sur-Seine...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$478 Sale Price
75% Off
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Located in Soquel, CA
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Beautiful early 20th Century tonalist landscape of California by New York artist William G. Schneider...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter
s Warmth", Tonalist Landscape Mountain Tree Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter's Warmth", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional snowy landscape just before dusk. Warm afternoon light surrounds fol...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Royal Meoxit Cat Pop Art - Chut les Barbizons! Ready to Hang French School
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait Royal Meoxit Cat
Portrait closeup of a cat with Royal cloak painted during Brexit
Technique: oil, acrylics and ink on canvas 73x60cm ■■ 28,7x23,6inch
⏩》R E A D Y -- T O...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
French School L
oeil qui ne contemple Impressionist century Cat Painting Indian
Located in Zofingen, AG
Citation : Si l'oeil ne contemple pas, l'oeil ne verra pas
Animal - Closeup portrait of a cat
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden fram...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique oil painting in its original ornate gold leaf frame.
This tonalist painting depicts figures against a dramatic sunset.
The work is signed illegibly lower left. It ap...
Category
1860s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
20% Off
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954)
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 - THE ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso. THE 1921 UC BERKELEY YEARBOOK CONTAINED SEVERAL LEMOS PASTEL REPRODUCTIONS.
Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture.
He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department,
From Wikipedia:
Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.....
In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Pastel
"Fall Landscape"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921)
John Francis Murphy is increasingly recognized today as one of the leading American Tonal...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Twilight Marsh", 19x28 Dusk Moody Tree Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Twilight Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 19x28 tonalist oil painting on canvas featuring a moody marshy green landscape just b...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Maine Coast Seascape
By Julian Walbridge Rix
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Gouache Maine Coast Seascape by Julian Walbridge Rix
This seascape is of the Maine Coast by tonalist painter Julian Walbridge Rix (American, 1850–1903) depicting a...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
"Autumn Landscape, " Bruce Crane, Tonalist American Impressionist Fall Scene
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937)
Autumn Landscape
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 190...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School Road Line III New York City Impressionist Chut Les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️⭐Road Line III ⭐☀️
Landscape - Sky scrappers, office- NYC Building avenue Painting with mirror effect
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden strecher frame ...
Category
1920s Tonalist Art
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino" is a painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed lower left, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 31 1/2 x...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French School Portrait Frieze me Cat XL Impressionist th century Original MAK
Located in Zofingen, AG
Animal Frieze me
Portrait - Closeup of cat
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on canvas F30 92x73cm ■■ 36,2x28,7 inch
》》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《《
❶ → Original signed work. Cer...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Mid Century Colorado River Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...
Category
1940s Tonalist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sunset River
Located in New York, NY
Johann Berthelsen and one of New York city’s best known artists along with Guy Wiggins, depicting the streets, parks and skyline of New York. This is a romantic and atmospheric work ...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nymphs at Dusk
, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tonalist Oil, Three Graces, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910.
Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance'...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Cardboard
Portrait PS251 Beauty and the Beast Dachshund Chut Les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 251 Beauty and the Beast
The painting features a young woman with striking, vivid features and deep blue hair, holding a small black and tan dachshund. The background is composed...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Gesso, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"November" Bruce Crane, Tonalism Landscape Autumn Scene, American Impressionism
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937)
November
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Harborside Bathers" Large Scale Landscape with Figures and Boats in Acrylic
Located in Soquel, CA
"Harborside Bathers" Large Scale Landscape with Figures and Boats in Acrylic
Idyllic harbor landscape with bathers and boats by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). Richard is...
Category
1990s Tonalist Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Stone Wall, Autumn, " George Smillie, Tonalist Fall Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921)
Stone Wall, Autumn, 1879
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 15 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Skinner, Boston, September 19, 2014, Lot 389
The career of George Smillie (1840-1921) followed the arc of nineteenth-century U.S. landscape painting. Trained in the Hudson River School tradition, Smillie successfully adapted to changing U.S. tastes and growing interest in European trends. In the late 1800s, he moved to tonalist paintings full of brushwork and influenced by French Barbizon painting. By the end of his career, he had lightened his palette to produce works similar to those of the U.S. impressionists. Yet in all styles, he was never less than competent, and his tonalist work is among the best produced in the United States.
Like many nineteenth-century painters, George Smillie’s artistic training began with the study of printing. His father, James Smillie...
Category
1870s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Landscape with Farm"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921)
John Francis Murphy is increasingly recognized today as one of the leading American Tona...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional tonalist landscape of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California by Scottish American artist William Keith (1838-1911). Keith was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and came to New York with his family and apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he was determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm...
Category
1880s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Late Afternoon, " J. Francis Murphy Tonalist Summer / Autumn Landscape
Located in New York, NY
John Francis Murphy (American, 1853 - 1921)
Late Afternoon, 1895
Oil on canvas
14 x 19 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Housed in a reproduction fluted cove frame.
Provenance:
Kenneth Lux Gallery, Inc., New York
BNY Mellon, New York
Christie's New York, Living with Art, October 14, 2016, Lot 352
In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.”
John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design.
In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tonalist Hills and River, American Landscape circa 1900
Located in Hillsborough, NC
The technique of American Tonalism is evident in this oil painting on canvas from the early 20th century/late 19th century. Hues of muted greys cre...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,272 Sale Price
20% Off
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter Dusk", 16x20 Snowy Landscape Tonalist Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter Dusk", is a 16x20 winter landscape oil painting on canvas by artist Dennis Sheehan. Featured is view over a snow covered marshland during the evening hours. The w...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,160 Sale Price
20% Off
"Ploughing on the Hillside" Jean-Charles Cazin, Plein Air Landscape Sketch
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Charles Cazin
Ploughing on the Hillside
Signed lower left
Oil on board
6 1/2 x 6 inches
The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin, he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. After st...
Category
Mid-19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Small Tonalist Landscape by Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Trees by a Small Pond
Oil on panel, 5 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Framed: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (approx.)
Unsigned
The landscape painter and etcher...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tonalist art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Tonalist art 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 art 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 and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Dennis Sheehan, John Francis Murphy, Bruce Crane, and Edmund Ward. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Tonalist art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $300 and tops out at $285,000, while the average work sells for $5,900.
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