John Terelak Figurative Paintings
American, b. 1942
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vesper George School of Fine Art. Terelak's love of paint and canvas and his thorough understanding of color theory and paint technique eventually led him to become Headmaster of the Gloucester Academy of Fine Art. As demand for his work grew, it eventually became necessary for John to devote his full energies to the creation of his own paintings. Since making that decision he has enjoyed outstanding and continuing success in his career. His professional career at the easel now spans more than three decades. In addition to his beautiful work in oil, Terelak is also a master in watercolor and pastel. He is also a past President of The New England Watercolor Society.
While the subject matter of Terelak's paintings is as diverse as the world in which he lives, the 'Terelak touch' is unmistakable in each of his works. An intricate system of layered paint and glazing, incredible use of color, and rich surface texture are hallmarks of his paintings. He has a gift for observation and the ability to paint with both freshness and emotion. His paintings may capture the tranquility of an early spring morning in the Vermont countryside, the beaches of Cape Cod in the summer, a woman hanging her laundry, the great harbors of New York, the hustle and bustle of Times Square, or the serenity of the French countryside. John does a considerable amount of location work. He loves to set his easel up in the woods and chase the passing light with his brush and paints. While exercising appropriate creative license, he documents the beauty of his surroundings and posterity is somewhat the richer for every canvas he completes.
The reception Terelak's work has received from serious collectors is strong evidence that his paintings will be recognized as an important and permanent part of the best of American fine art created in this century. His paintings are included in thousands of private and public collections throughout the United States. Included are the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Sheraton Corporation, Winthrop Financial Corporation, Prudential Insurance Company, Bank of Boston, Shawmut Bank, State Street Bank, Boston, and Sterling-Regal Publishing Company. Included among Terelak's private collectors are many prominent persons from the business world, the entertainment and sports industries, and perhaps most significantly of all, the art community itself. John Terelak has had a number of successful one-man shows. His works have been included in exhibitions at The National Academy of Design, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Springfield Museum, and The Butler Museum, among others.to
1
1
2
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
6
6
6
5
1
1
6
6
6
6
1
26
469
318
261
225
5
6
Artist: John Terelak
"Loblolly Cove" Impressionist Sea Scape with Waves Crashing Oil Painting Framed
By John Terelak
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Gloucester Harbor" Impressionist Sail Boats on the Water Oil Painting Framed
By John Terelak
Located in New York, NY
A truly masterful depiction of several colorful sail boats in Gloucester Harbor, scene on the reflective water with a glowing sun shimmering through the puffed clouds. An oil on boar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Main Street Nantucket
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unframed Dimensions: 26 x 32 in.
Framed Dimensions: 36 x 44 1/2 in.
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusett...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishermen
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tugboat Up for Repairs
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
John Terelak Biography
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art i...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dance to Summer
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Related Items
"View of the Empire State NYC in Snow" Impressionistic Ashcan School Style
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
An impressionistic depiction of a figure in the snow with cars and buildings in the busy City Streets. The Empire State Building is portrayed in the background as the snow filled str...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,200
H 17 in W 13 in D 1.25 in
Mid Century Country Lane Figurative Landscape with Autumn Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Quaint pastoral landscape of a figure and dog walking down a country lane amongst tall autumn trees with beautiful fall foliage by Cal Donna Zell (American, 20th Century). Signed "Ca...
Category
1960s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$559 Sale Price
20% Off
H 21.75 in W 28 in D 0.13 in
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
By Louise Miller Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
1940s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$3,040 Sale Price
44% Off
H 24 in W 18 in D 1 in
“Village Street” by Mary Nicholena MacCord, American Impressionist European Town
By Mary Nicholena MacCord
Located in Yardley, PA
A wonderful view of a charming European town. This work captures the quiet intimacy of a cobbled lane, its golden stones leading the viewer toward a cluster of whitewashed and brick ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$2,750
H 26.75 in W 22.75 in D 1.25 in
“Julian Alden Weir’s House, 1907” American Impressionist Windham, Connecticut
By Emil Carlsen
Located in Yardley, PA
An important landscape work by renowned American impressionist Emil Carlsen (1853-1932).
This work depicts the Windham, Connecticut home of Carlsen’s closest friend and fellow artis...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$8,950
H 11 in W 13.25 in
Mid 20th Century Canadian snow covered landscape, Halliburton Highlands Ontario
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding Oil on board a snow-covered Canadian landscape of the Haliburton Highlands near Ontario.
Andrew B Phin is a painter, who is listed as a 20th-century Canadian painter of ...
Category
1960s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rota, Spanish Landscape -- Pobre Casa Cadiz
By John Sackas
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful Spanish landscape of a humble farm in Rota, Cadiz, Spain with horses, a cow with two herons, one of which is on cow's back by San Francisco artist John Sackas (American, 1910-2004), circa 1950s. Signed lower Left "Sackas" and verso Rota
Farm House Cadiz" "John Sackas" . Verso has location, attribution and full artist's biography. Presented in gilt-toned carved wood frame. Image size: 14"H x 18"W.
Born in New Jersey on May 22, 1910. John Sackas studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (1934), Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and California School of Fine Arts, Jerry...
Category
1950s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
$937 Sale Price
25% Off
H 18 in W 22 in D 7 in
"Le Jardin de Monet, III"(2023) by Leigh Ann Van Fossan, Oil Painting, Lily Pond
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Le Jardin de Monet, III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impression of a lily pond.
Van Fossan was born in Vail, Colorado, and began o...
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Garden, 10x8" oil on board
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
In the Garden by Lu Haskew
Oil Painting of woman with an umbrella in a backyard garden
10x8" image size
14x12" framed
Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for safe t...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"The Green Parasol, " Henry Hannig, American Impressionist, Woman in Beach Scene
By Henry Hannig
Located in New York, NY
Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948)
The Green Parasol
Oil on canvas mounted on board
6 x 7 3/4 inches
Provenance:
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan
Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration.
By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...
Category
1910s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,120 Sale Price
36% Off
H 13 in W 15.5 in
Mid Century Figurative Landscape -- Aptos Village Apple Shed and Market
By Jon Blanchette
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century figurative landscape of Aptos Village Apple Shed and Market by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Aptos is just south of Santa Cruz,...
Category
1960s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
H 16 in W 20 in D 1 in
Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
By Edda Maxwell Heath
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
H 27.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.25 in
Previously Available Items
Winter Study, The Plaza, NYC
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
Figures walking through NYC in winter
Category
2010s American Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hauling Back
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil painting of fisherman bringing in a catch on a trawler.
Category
2010s Impressionist John Terelak Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Terelak figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic John Terelak figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Terelak in canvas, fabric, oil paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the Impressionist style. Not every interior allows for large John Terelak figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 30 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of T.S. Harris, Tim McGuire, and Donald S. Vogel. John Terelak figurative paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $9,000 and tops out at $9,000, while the average work can sell for $9,000.