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"Coyote Park" - Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
“work fast and loose in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his paintings were
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Mt. Lassen Lake - Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
of the early California impressionists.” Two of his paintings were selected for the Fiesta de Artes
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Desert Ranch with Longhorn Steer - Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
him to “work fast and loose in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his paintings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Wyoming Barn - Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
“work fast and loose in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his paintings were
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Mountain Lake - Plein Aire Landscape Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
its quick-drying properties allowed him to “work fast and loose in the style of the early California
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$1,720 Sale Price
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A Pond Under an Aspen Grove - Western Plein Aire Landscape Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
-drying properties allowed him to “work fast and loose in the style of the early California impressionists
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Elk in the Forest - Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his painting were selected for the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
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Pathway to the Church, Pasadena c. 1915
By Jean Mannheim
Located in Pasadena, CA
- October 11, 2025
Early California Masters: Paintings from the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Farmhouse in a Vineyard - Horse in Rocky Meadow on Reverse Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
painting in the early 1970s with some early success> Later in life, White was a member (and board member
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
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Arroyo Grove, c. 1940s
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Pasadena, CA
, Pasadena, California, August 15 - October 11, 2025
Early California Masters: Paintings from the Katherine A
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Masonite
"Touring Monument Valley" - Desert Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
“work fast and loose in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his paintings were
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
River in the Desert - Western Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
in the style of the early California impressionists.” Two of his painting were selected for the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Bison in the Aspen Forest - Western Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
its quick-drying properties allowed him to “work fast and loose in the style of the early California
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
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Untitled (Snow-capped Mountains) – Grand Teton National Park, c. 1930s
By Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
Located in Pasadena, CA
Exhibited
Early California Masters: Paintings from the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection, American
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Category
1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,720 Sale Price
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Mountain Landscape - Sierra Nevada, c. 1927
By Jack Wilkinson Smith
Located in Pasadena, CA
California Masters: Paintings from the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection, American Legacy Fine Arts
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Early Modern Railroad Travel Advertising Serigraph of a Church in Taxco, Mexico
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Houston, TX
commercial art and fine art at the same time. He started exhibiting his paintings of early California by 1918
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
“Southland Trees” Early California painting circa mid 1920
s by Paul Lauritz
By Paul Lauritz
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Southland Trees” is an original oil painting on canvas created circa mid-1920's by early Southern
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clark Hobart “California Idyll” Early California Oil painting circa 1920
s
By Clark Hobart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“California Idyll, Santa Barbara Mission” is an original oil painting on board created circa 1920's
Category
1920s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early California Impressionist Oil Painting by Karl Eugen Neuhaus
By Karl Eugen Neuhaus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
California in the early 1900s, known for his Tonalism - plein aire paintings of the California landscape. Oil
Category
Early 20th Century American Expressionist Paintings
William Ritschel “Whitecaps, 1907” Early California Oil painting
By William Ritschel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Whitecaps” is an original oil painting on canvas created in 1907 by early California Impressionist
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th C. California Landscape
Located in Stamford, CT
California landscape painting. Signed lower right illegible
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Edgar Payne “Sierra Lake” Early California Impressionist Oil painting circa 1920
By Edgar Payne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Sierra Lake” is an original oil painting on canvas created circa 1920's by the important early
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Carmel Coast, 1923” Early California Impressionist Oil painting by Roi Colman
By Roi Clarkson Coleman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Carmel Coast” is an original oil painting on canvas created in 1923 by early Southern California
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Adam “Pacific Grove Garden” Early California Oil painting circa 1910
By William Constable Adam
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Pacific Grove Garden” is an original oil painting on board created circa 1910 by early California
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique 1903 California Coast Watercolor Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Antique 1903 watercolor on artist board painting of Coast of Mendocino California. Signed JW, dated
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Paper
California Harbor Painting by Maurice Braun
By Maurice Braun 1
Located in Alexandria, VA
titled on stretcher.
Measures: Painting size 20” x 22”.
Frame size 26” x 28”.
Maurice Braun is
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Charles Bethell California Coastal Landscape Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage circa 1930's oil on canvas board California coastal landscape painting by Charles Worden
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
California Farmstead
By Maurice Del Mue
Located in Graton, CA
. Santino came to California to work in the silver mines, and Maurice and his mother followed when the
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
California Cypress
By Louis H. Sharp
Located in Graton, CA
Pasadena and Taos, NM. I n 1917 he spent many months painting in the Grand Canyon; in 1925 he was on the
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Charles Worden Bethell California Coastal Landscape Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage circa 1930's oil on canvas board California coastal landscape painting by Charles Worden
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Ayaka - Early Californian portrait; Daphne Huntington; 1910-2012; oil on board
By Daphne Huntington
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sisters Venetia Epler and Daphne Huntington are California artists whose work is represented in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Balloon Woman” 1981 California Modernist watercolor painting by Millard Sheets
By Millard Sheets
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Balloon Woman at the Zoo”, painted in 1981, is an original watercolor painting by early California
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bass Lake, Merced County, California
By Alexander Bower
Located in Graton, CA
Santa Cruz in 1915 and conducted classes and brought paintings from ‘Monhegan’ which depicted its beauty
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Morning by the Lake” California Oil painting circa 1920s-30
s by Dedrick Stuber
By Dedrick Stuber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“Morning by the Lake” is an original oil painting on board created circa 1920's-1930's by early
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Palm Springs, California circa 1930
By Joel Levitt
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on canvas, 25 x 30, signed lower left, original Newcomb-Macklin frame.
Levitt studied at the Imperial Academy in Petrograd, Russia. Also studied with Ilia Repin at the Odessa A...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
California Plein Aire Landscape
Located in Kenilworth, IL
15” x 22” oil on canvas California Plein Aire landscape attributed to Bertha D. Sanders. The
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Water
Located in Seoul, SO
California sunlight. The early California paintings by Ahn were semi-abstract, light-filled studies of beach
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$28,000
Water
Located in Seoul, SO
1966,he became enamored with the Southern California sunlight. The early California paintings by Ahn
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$220,000
California Harbor - Oil on Board - Irish
By Michael Augustin Power O
Malley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
MICHAEL AUGUSTIN POWER O'MALLEY
Irish, 1878–1946
California Harbor
Titled and inscribed with the
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Armin Hansen, Floral Still Life, American Impressionist Oil Painting circa 1930s
By Armin Hansen
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is an original painting by Early California Impressionist Armin Carl Hansen (1886 - 1957
Category
1930s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring in Marin County
By John Modesitt
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
This fine Impressionist painting is reminiscent of the Early California Plein Air style of painting
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening Shadows
By John Modesitt
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
This painting depicts the California back country and the style is very reminiscent of the Early
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mrs. Maloney
By Virgil Williams
Located in Graton, CA
hearkened back to an earlier time and occasionally painting California landscapes from trips into Yosemite
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Across the Bridge
By Virgil Williams
Located in Graton, CA
hearkened back to an earlier time and occasionally painting California landscapes from trips into Yosemite
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring Storm at Lone Pine
By Otis Oldfield
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
excellent example of early California avant-garde painting by one of the deans of California Modernism
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peasant Girl with Jug
By Virgil Williams
Located in Graton, CA
hearkened back to an earlier time and occasionally painting California landscapes from trips into Yosemite
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Whimsical Owen Holmwood Early California Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful whimsical ship painting by Owen Holmwood. The painting has deep texture and has been
Category
Vintage 1920s American Modern Paintings
Early 20th century California seascape paintings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th century California seascape painting. Oil on canvas board. Monogram lower left "C.M" 14
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Early Summer Colors" California Plein Air Painting With Greens, Blues
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Early Summer Colors" is an atmospheric oil painted on location in Lompoc by noted California
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century California Stream
By Thor Christian Nielsen
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful early 20th Century naive landscape of California stream by Thor Christian Nielsen
Category
1920s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Oil Painting Seascape California
Located in Rochester, NY
Painting: Oil painting. Impressionist seascape. Oil on board. Dated August 1914 on reverse. Matilda
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Paintings
F. Elliott Early 20th c. California Coastal Oil Painting with Wildflowers c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th c. California Coastal Oil Painting with Wildflowers c.1920
A beautiful California coast
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Paintings, California
By Elizabeth Gowdy Baker
Located in Rochester, NY
Pair of antique paintings. Watercolors of the Japanese gardens at Wattles Mansion, Los Angeles
Category
Early 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Watercolor
$1,500 / set
"Lost City of Demille"
By Gail Morris
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
paintings are influenced by the traditions of early California painting as well as the work by the great
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California
France Impressionist Landscape Painting Portfolio
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
paintings are earlier, circa 1900. California paintings are later, circa 1940s. Three of the pieces are
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Watercolor Painting of Redwood Forest in California
Located in Houston, TX
Watercolor painting of the Redwood forest located in California. Painting is mainly red and blue
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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