California Impressionist Landscape Paintings
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1990s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Oil Pastel
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Varnish, Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Watercolor, Cardboard
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Paper, Watercolor
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Gouache
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
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A Close Look at Impressionist Art
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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Finding the Right Landscape-paintings for You
It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.
The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.
The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).
Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.
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