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Birches in Spring
Located in Oslo, NO
spring landscape, birch trees, sunlight, plein air, small painting, nature, American art
A plein
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fallen Leaf Lake; Lake Tahoe Region, c. 1916
By Lorenzo Palmer Latimer
Located in Pasadena, CA
–1941) was a foundational figure in early 20th-century California plein air painting, especially known
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Arroyo Seco, Near Pasadena, c 1900
Located in Pasadena, CA
subject. A rare and atmospheric example of Judson's plein air work in Southern California, this
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Desert in Bloom (San Bernardino Mountains), c. 1925
Located in Pasadena, CA
California, he became associated with the California Art Club, where he embraced the plein air approach and
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"BLUE HEAVEN" BLUEBONNET 1930s NEWCOMB MACKLIN FRAME 38 x 46 Framed Robert Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
since early in the century and it was the birthplace for California Plein-Air School, which was still
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bluebonnets Texas Hill Country"
Located in San Antonio, TX
since early in the century and it was the birthplace for California Plein-Air School, which was still
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Forest Snow" George Gardner Symons, Snowy Winter Landscape, Pennsylvania
By George Gardner Symons
Located in New York, NY
, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lu Blows Again
By Hassel Smith
Located in Austin, TX
, painting en plein air and frequenting the Black Cat Café, where he connected with artists like Henri Lenoir
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$140,000
"Pacific Horizon" Signed Ocean Landscape by Robert Kenneth White, Oil on Canvas
Located in Miami, FL
Display
A TRANQUIL VIEW OF THE CALIFORNIA COASTLINE IN EARLY LIGHT
In “Pacific Horizon,” Robert Kenneth
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Robert Kenneth White "Island Goats" Oil on Canvas, 2018, Sunlit Rocky Grove
Located in Miami, FL
—hallmarks of White’s immersive plein air realism.
Painted in oil on canvas and offered in the artist’s
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coastal Landscape "Cypress Road" by Robert Kenneth White, Oil on Canvas
Located in Miami, FL
mastery of California plein air traditions and post-impressionist influences. The piece is painted in oil
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homestead
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were discovered early
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,300
Sunflower State of Mind
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Straw Fields
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
31 inches
Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
"TEXAS HILL COUNTRY" 1951 WILDFLOWER LANDSCAPE PORFIRIO SALINAS 59 X 49 FRAMED
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Farmhouse in a Vineyard - Horse in Rocky Meadow on Reverse Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
vineyard landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White (American, 1943-2009). A small red house sits
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Crashing Surf" - Pacific Coast Seascape
By Steven Guy Bilodeau
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful plein-air seascape of crashing surf along the rocky Pacific coast by California artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Road To the Ocean
Located in Oslo, NO
his painting was created en plein air on Oahu’s North Shore in early summer.
"I was struck by the
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Snow-capped Mountains) – Grand Teton National Park, c. 1930s
By Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
Located in Pasadena, CA
in 1930, working both en plein air and in the studio. This masterful plein air painting is a poetic
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eucalyptus
Oaks
By Jim Lamb
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
landscapes and other subjects in nature and used the plein air technique of painting outdoors and directly in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"MONUMENT VALLEY" LATE 1930s RAREST SUBJECT EVER BY PORFIRIO SALINAS!! DESERT
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"RED BARN RANCH" 1959 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LANDSCAPE WILDFLOWERS PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the
English artist. He began
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pacific Grove Glory" - Rocky Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Landscape Show
2014: Carmel Art Festival • Best Oil Painting
2014: North Tahoe Plein Air • Third Place in
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Masonite, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Carmel Cottage with Flowers Landscape
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
Warner for Still Life studies. Gleiforst primarily painted plein air, as well as landscapes and florals
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"El Cordobés" Spain Bullfighter, Matador Action Scene Beautiful Bull Fight
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Church in Maremma
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a path leading to a Tuscan church. This painting is from earlier in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Robert K. White "The Sea Remembers the Sky" Oil on Canvas, Atmospheric Seascape
Located in Miami, FL
plein air painter Robert Kenneth White
✓ Pristine coastal composition with layered depth and tonal
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
plein-aire painters in Santa Barbara in the Sullivan Goss Gallery exhibition titled “Early California.”
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
"TEXAS AUTUMN" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ROBERT WOOD
By Robert W. Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
been an artist colony since early in the century and it was the birthplace for California Plein-Air
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastoral Morning; Redding
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
his pastels on an early spring morning to capture this tranquil scene of grazing cattle, en plein air
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Southern Beach" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Max Flandorfer
Located in Soquel, CA
Canvas size: 9"H x 12"W
Primarily a plein air painter, Max is an avid outdoorsman and is always seeking
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
"Late Afternoon Sunlight, Bruges". European Street Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
California artist Jacobus Baas. This plein air painting exhibits the subtle touch and beautiful light that
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Mid Century Yosemite Mountain Peak Landscape
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
Still Life studies. Gleiforst primarily painted plein air, as well as landscapes and florals. During her
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Sunset Pt. Lobos, CA" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Linen
By Max Flandorfer
Located in Soquel, CA
size: 13.5"H x 16.5"W
Canvas size: 9"H x 12"W
Primarily a plein air painter, Max is an avid
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
California plein-aire painters in Santa Barbara in the Sullivan Goss Gallery exhibition titled “Early
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sierra Grandeur; 5th Lake View of Mt. Robinson and Palisade Glacier
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
" on lower right
Description
The painting was created from the artist’s original plein air study
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Portrait of a Girl in Bonnet
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
, John Hubbard Rich and Nell Walker Warner for Still Life studies. Gleiforst primarily painted plein air
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Bouquet Figurative
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
painted plein air, as well as landscapes and florals. During her lifetime, Helen Gleiforst frequently
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Rolls of Hay" Sunny Maine Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
LPAPA (Laguna Plein Air Association) Jacobus is being represented by galleries in Hawaii, California
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Figurative Nativity Scene w Hummel Figurines, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
painted plein air, as well as landscapes and florals. During her lifetime, Helen Gleiforst frequently
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Les deux soeurs by Federico Zandomeneghi
By Federico Zandomeneghi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Italian artists dedicated to executing landscape paintings en plein air. Zandomeneghi embraced the
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Tree Shadows" Snowy Maine Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
.
A founding board member of LPAPA (Laguna Plein Air Association) Jacobus is being represented by
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pathway to the San Gabrielino Trail; Neglected and Protected
By Tim Solliday
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Painted en plein air in the San Gabriel
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Rocks, Contemporary Utah Desert Landscape by Mike Wright
By Mike Wright
Located in Soquel, CA
southwest to paint plein air. His major art influences include Maynard Dixon and Jimmy Swinnerton.
Wright's
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Point Lobos Cove Carmel Landscape
By Max Flandorfer
Located in Soquel, CA
, 16"H x 20"W.
Primarily a Plein Air painter Max is an avid outdoorsman , and is always seeking to
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panamint Valley Desert Landscape
By Mike Wright
Located in Soquel, CA
plein air. His major art influences include Maynard Dixon and Jimmy Swinnerton.
Wright’s mother was a
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century High Sierra Mountain Lake Landscape
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
painted plein air, as well as landscapes and florals. During her lifetime, Helen Gleiforst frequently
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Life Goes On" Landscape
By Max Flandorfer
Located in Soquel, CA
verso. Presented in a black wood frame. Image size, 16"H x 20"W.
Primarily a Plein Air painter Max is
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Pony in the New Forest - Etruscan School British landscape by Arthur Lemon
By Arthur Lemon
Located in London, GB
excelled in sensitive and lively plein-air oil studies of which the present work is a typical example. He
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Along the River
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Missouri, MO
his love for his adopted California and her landscape." He preferred painting en plein air to the
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Above the Beach
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Missouri, MO
his love for his adopted California and her landscape." He preferred painting en plein air to the
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Lone Pine (Cottonwoods)
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Missouri, MO
California and her landscape." He preferred painting en plein air to the studio. He loved the outdoors
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Autumn II
By Samuel Hyde Harris
Located in Missouri, MO
California and her landscape." He preferred painting en plein air to the studio. He loved the outdoors
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
"AUTUMN PATH" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY RARE G. DAY SIGNATURE
By Robert W. Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
popular California Plein-Air movement. These more mature works are distinguished by a fine sense of detail
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Twin Cypress"
By Charles Dorman Robinson
Located in Southampton, NY
20 years of his Yosemite works. A prolific plein air painter, Robinson followed in the tradition of
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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