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Item Ships From: Illinois
A Lively, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Venice by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Lively, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Venice by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Full of brilliant color and wonderful brushwork; completed...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1930s Mexican City Scene by Famed Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, Guaymas, Mexico
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a quiet street in the historic, picturesque city of Gua...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Colorful, 1930s Summer Harbor Scene of Saugatuck, Michigan by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful , blustery painting of a summer harbor in Saugatuck, Michigan by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. Dating circa 1935, oil on Masonite, the painting depicts a v...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Early Mexican City Scene by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, San Miguel de Allende
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a quiet, picturesque view of the rooftops and cathedral...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Charming, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha
s Vineyard
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted near the artist's longtime studio ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Early Mexican City Scene by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, San Miguel de Allende
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Old Church, San Miguel de Allende (Spanish Plaza)", the p...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Colorful, Vibrant 1930s Painting of Michigan Dunes, Saugatuck by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, vibrant 1930s winter scene painting Saugatuck, Michigan by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting the Old Fish House on the left, with a ...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"River Leap Landscape" original oil painting by Paul Vernon
Located in Hinsdale, IL
This is beautiful little 19th century oil painting on panel. Painted in the barbizon school style. It is a lovely example of pastoral artwork, depicting a sweet little country sce...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Valley South of Junction City, Kansas - Realistic Landscape Oil Painting
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling frequently depicts landscapes at moments when atmosphere dominates the ground, a fascination born from his time living in the West, where storms roll in across unbroken horizo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Serene 1940s, Modern Western Landscape Painting with Horses by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A serene, 1940s Modern Western landscape painting with horses by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Accompanied with a handsome walnut brown stained wooden frame. Canvas size: 22 x 28 inches. Framed size: 25 x 31 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting, "Country Road"
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting of Country Road by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A gem of a painting, exemplifying Chapin's stea...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Vibrant, 1930s American Modern Painting, Chicago City Street Scene, Old Town
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, 1930s Chicago City Street Scene of the Historic Old Town Neighborhood by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a colorful, blustery, au...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Vibrant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Summer Harbor Scene of Martha
s Vineyard
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A busy harbor scene of docks and boat houses,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hills and River - Cloudy skies over river, Original oil painting
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
Ahzad Bogosian
Hills and River
acrylic on canvas
30h x 50w in
76.20h x 127w cm
Framed Dimensions
31h x 51w x 2d in
78.74h x 129.54w x 5.08d cm
AZB159
Ahzad Bogosian
SOLO EXHIBITIO...
Category
2010s Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
The Promise Of Autumn - Original Landscape Painting, Vertical Sky Scene
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
"The Promise of Autumn" is a minimalist landscape painting depicting subtle shifts of color, from moody evocative tones of blue, gray and orange in the sky which lay themselves juxta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Charming, Diminutive 1945 Street Scene Painting of Navy Sailors in Hanover, NH
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, diminutive 1945 city street scene painting of Navy sailors standing beside a store front in Hanover, NH by famed Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". ...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Sunny 1948 Modern Lake Michigan Beach Scene by Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1948 Mid-Century Modern beach scene by notable Chicago artist, Harold Haydon. Depicting a sunlit beach scene with bathers and sailboats painted along the sandy ...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
A Colorful, Modern 1950
s Painting of Martha
s Vineyard, Breakfast on the Porch
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Painting of Martha's Vineyard by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Breakfast on the Porch at the Vineyard Ho...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Ca. 1949 Yellow-Toned Watercolor of Rome, Piazza Esedra by Guy de Neyrac
By Guy de Neyrac
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1949, Mid-Century, yellow-toned watercolor on paper of Rome -- Piazza Esedra by Guy de Neyrac. Artwork size: 24" x 18 1/2". Framed size: 32 1/2" x 27 1/2".
Guy de Neyrac w...
Category
1940s Post-Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-Century Painting of a Red Barn
Mill Scene by Illinois Artist Stan Dudek
Located in Chicago, IL
A Brightly-colored, Mid-Century painting of a red barn & mill scene by notable Illinois artist Stan Dudek.
After years of driving from his home in the far west suburbs to his job as...
Category
1960s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Pond Near St. Cloud, MN -Serene Pastoral Landscape with Meandering Water, Framed
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling’s Minnesota works reflect his long engagement with the northern Midwest, where wetlands, ponds, and rolling farmland create a quieter but no less captivating atmosphere. In th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Colorful 1950s Mountain Beach Scene by Famed Modern Artist, Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Painting of a Beach Scene along a Mountain Coast by Famed Chicago Modern Artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a picturesque view of a quiet bea...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Delightful 1950s Cubist Harbor Scene by Woman Artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Mid-Century Modern, 1950s Cubist watercolor of a brightly-colored dock scene by Chicago and New York artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed "Duis", lower left. Artwork size: 8 1/...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Light Pillars - Atmospheric Optical Phenomenon, Framed Oil Painting
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
In Light Pillars, Aeling captures one of the atmospheric effects that fascinated him throughout his life: the moment when light interacts with suspended ice crystals to create lumino...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Large, Beautiful Painting of Sedona, Arizona by Modern Artist Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, magnificent 1950s Southwestern Painting of Sedona, Arizona by Francis Chapin depicting Cathedral Rock, Red Rock State Park. Canvas Size: 20" x 40"; Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 4...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Colorful, 1930s American Scene Painting "House with Gable" by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant 1930s American Scene painting of a sunlit Victorian house by noted American Modern painter Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Very reminiscent of Edward Hopper's artwork, the...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Illusion of Havana, Highly Detailed Landscape with Water
Rolling Hills
By René Monzón Relova “Pozas”
Located in Chicago, IL
***This artwork is currently on exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago until September 2025. If purchased this artwork will be available to ship after September 1, 2025. Contact the gallery with questions.
This small scale painting draws the viewer in with its painstaking detail. Each leaf and blade of grass a rendered in tiny brush strokes making the painting feel much larger than it is. Vivid greens and crystal clear water create an almost fish-eye perspective. This oil on panel painting is framed in a rich brown wooden frame measuring 13.25 x 21.25 inches
"Pozas" René Monzón...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wisdom Trumps Violence - Surreal Oil Painting with a Leopard, an Owl, and a Man
By Christopher Klein
Located in Chicago, IL
Toying (e.g., rider on toy horse) with violent threats is not wise. The sounds (e.g., horn) of violence (e.g., spear and leopard) will never overtake wisdom (e.g., owl and pearl). This masterfully painted surrealist artwork draws in the viewer with its extraordinary detail. The artwork is framed.
Christopher A. Klein
Wisdom Trumps...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Tranquil 1950s American Scene Country Landscape Painting, Farm in Late Autumn
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Tranquil, 1950s American Scene Country Landscape Painting of a Wisconsin Farm in Late Autumn by Famed Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A small gem of a paint...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Picturesque, 1940s American Scene Farm Landscape Painting by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A picturesque, 1940s American Scene landscape painting of a country farm with barn and silo by notable Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. Painting likely depicts a country farm ...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Charming, Vibrant 1950s Modern Painting of Martha’s Vineyard by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant 1950s painting of Martha’s Vineyard by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Depicting a colorful, bustling view of Main Street in the historic whaling p...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
By the Baker House - Original Oil Plein Air Landscape Painting
Located in Boston, MA
By the Baker House
10.0 x 8.0 x 0.1, 0.2 lbs
Oil paint on panel
Hand signed by the artist
Artist's Commentary:
"A plein air painting, I got out of the house late one afternoon and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Washerwomen in Landscape
Located in Hinsdale, IL
This is beautiful little 19th century oil painting on panel. Painted in the barbizon school style. It is a lovely example of pastoral artwork, depicting a sweet little country scen...
Category
1850s Barbizon School Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Large Mid-Century Harbor Scene with Boats by French Artist Georges Rocher
Located in Chicago, IL
A large tonal, Mid-Century harbor scene with boats by French artist Georges Rocher. Artwork size: 24" x 30". Framed size: 31" x 36".
Georges Rocher was born in Casablanca, Moroc...
Category
1950s Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ca. 1935 Atmospheric Tonal Farm Scene by Artist Joseph Lane
Located in Chicago, IL
An atmospheric, tonal farm scene by artist Joseph Lane. Image size: 25" x 30". Framed size: 29" x 34".
Joseph Lane was born in Austin, Texas in 1900. ...
Category
1930s Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,200 Sale Price
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"Tree Talk, " Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Tree Talk," this exquisite painting by Chinese artist Ren Hui celebrates the beauty of nature with an abstracted view of a tangle of tree branches. Using a style he calls “uncomplicated and honest,” the artist creates beautiful pointillist compositions that reference the underlying dot matrix of a photograph. Full of bold colors and high-contrast imagery, Ren Hui's modern pointillism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Volcano - Erupting Volcano with Swirling Cloud of Ash, Framed Oil Painting
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling’s Volcano evokes both geological force and atmospheric delicacy, combining two subjects that defined his artistic identity. The plume rising from the crater recalls the volcanic forms he encountered during his winters in Hawaii—where he surfed, explored calderas, and observed firsthand how ash, vapor, and heat bend the light. The ring-shaped formation above the eruption suggests the interaction of rising particulate matter with upper-air currents, a phenomenon Aeling studied intensely. This small painting captures a vast event, merging his lifelong fascination with natural systems and the lived experiences that nurtured his deep respect for the Pacific landscape.
Jeff Aeling
Volcano
oil on panel
10h x 8w in
25.40h x 20.32w cm
JAE037
Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers
Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character.
Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings.
Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present.
Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life.
Jeff Aeling
(1958-2025) Iowa City, IA
Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR
Education
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY
2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO
1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO
1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO
1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2021
2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Earth Wind
Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL
Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY
Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Painting of Fishermen at the Shore Nazarre by Portuguese Artist Gustavo Ferreira
Located in Chicago, IL
Exquisite & beautifully painted Portugese painting of "Fisherman at the Shore, Nazarre" by artist Gustavo Ferreira. Nicely framed in a gold-toned frame. Artwork size: 19 3/4" x 23...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figur...
Category
1960s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Large, Quirky Painting of Artist Harold Haydon Painting in a Vermont Farm Yard
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Colorful Vermont Landscape Painting by Famed Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful quirky self portrait of the artist ...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Charming 1950s Martha
s Vineyard Street Scene Painting by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, delightful oil on Masonite, 1950s, Martha's Vineyard street scene painting by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. Depicting a picturesque and stylized view of Main...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Serene 1940
s Vermont Landscape Painting by Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A serene 1940s Vermont Landscape, depicting evergreen trees and a lake by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 16" x 20". Framed size: 20" x 24". In a rustic brown wood frame. Es...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vue de Village dans l
Oise
By Léopold Survage
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil lower left.
Category
1920s Fauvist Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Las Vacaciones de Jose, Surreal Landscape of Rocky Islands off a Sea Coast
By René Monzón Relova “Pozas”
Located in Chicago, IL
***This artwork is currently on exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago until September 2025. If purchased this artwork will be available to ship after September 1, 2025. Contact the gallery with questions.
This surrealistic seascape of a group of small rocky islands off the coast of a crystal blue sea is a place in the mind of the artist Pozas. As the titled suggests, this is a vacation for the mind when travel is not an option! The painting is framed in a simple wooden frame and measures 12h x 20w inches.
"Pozas" René Monzón...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting with Church and Country Road
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting with Church and Country Road by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A gem of a painting, exemplifying ...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
A Colorful 1950s Martha
s Vineyard Harbor Scene by Noted Artist, Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful harbor scene of Martha's Vineyard by notable Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A vibrant, blustery dockside view, with fishing and sailboats in the h...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare
Special Painting by Important Chicago Modernist Artist Davenport Griffen
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1936 Modernist landscape painting with figures by important Chicago artist (William) Davenport Griffen. His paintings tend to be rare. Image size: 18" x 20". Framed size: 22" x 24".
(William) Davenport Griffen was born in 1894 in Millbrook, NY. He graduated from Iowa State College in Ames, IA in 1918 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering; however, Griffen’s true love was painting. In 1919, he enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1923-1928. In 1926, he was awarded the American Travel Scholarship and began painting in Provincetown, MA. In 1928, he was awarded the John Quincy Adams Scholarship and spent six months painting in Paris, France. Griffen also painted in the U.S. Virgin Islands for 11 months between 1930-1931. Griffen had one-man exhibitions of his Virgin Islands paintings...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Uscita - Large Scale Trompe L
oeil Gardenscape Inspired by Ancient Roman Frescos
By Carol Pylant
Located in Chicago, IL
"Uscita" takes Inspiration from ancient Italian frescos originally found at the Villa di Livia outside of Rome. The trompe l'oeil frescos were from a subterranean room used for dining. The lush gardens gave the dinner guests the illusion of dining alfresco. Here Pylant took particular notice of the flora and fauna painted over 2000 years ago only to discover they were species that were also present at her then North Carolina studio. The artist adds an architectural element to the gardenscape to suggest a portal from the past into the present. This exploration of the ancient world and its connection to the present is a central theme running through Pylant's work.
Carol S. Pylant
Uscita
oil and acrylic on canvas
40h x 62w in
101.60h x 157.48w cm
CSP035
CAROL PYLANT
Resume
Title
Artist / Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education
1979 M.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1977 B.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Academic Appointments
1996 - 2011 Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991-96 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1987-91 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985 Instructor, Simmons College, Boston, MA
1984 Instructor, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1984 Instructor, DeCordova Museum and School, Lincoln, MA
1984 Instructor, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
1982-84 Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1978-82 Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
International Teaching
2011 Professor, UW- Madison, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy
2006,7 Visiting Affiliate Professor, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
International Artist Residencies
2017 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain
2015 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain
2002 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain
1990 The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
1990 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus,Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany
1987 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy
1987 The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France
International Research Awards
2010 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Villa di Livia Frescos, Museo Nazionale, Rome, Italy"
2005 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Romanesque Art in France"
2004 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings Inspired by Romanesque Art in France"
2002 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Pagan or Christian, Romanesque Art in Spain"
1998 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Neolithic Monuments in Brittany"
1996-7 Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin System, "Paintings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Ireland and the British Isles
1995 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Celtic Ceremonial Sites in Ireland and the British Isles"
1993 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Egg Tempera Paintings in Florence, Italy"
1992 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Ireland"
1990 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment: Ireland"
1989 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment Painting: Germany"
1988 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Landscape Painting: Umbria, Italy"
Other Awards
2008 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison
2007 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2006 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison
2002-3 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Named Professorship, University of Wisconsin
2000 Alumni Arts Achievement Award, Wayne State University Dept. of Art & Art History, Detroit, MI
2000 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison
1999 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Past /Present: Paintings based on Celtic Imagery"
1999 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin
1998 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship
1993 Faculty Development Grant, "Figurative Sculpture" University of
Wisconsin System
1991,93 Visual Arts Development Grant, The Wisconsin Arts Board
1989 Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts
Midwest
1986 Residency, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY
1985 Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1985 Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1985 Milton and Sally Avery Award for Painting, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1984,5,6 Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
International Exhibitions
2010 Handmade Artist's Journals, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy
2008 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
1995-99 Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1994 "Exquisite Corpse" Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1992 "Faces and Places of Ireland" Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland
199l "Ardara Annual Show" Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland
1988 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany
1988 "Art .... Made in USA" Stadische Galerie, Deutsch-Amerikanisches
Institut, Regensberg, West Germany
1987 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2005 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2001 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2000 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1999 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (with John Sayers)
1998 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1997 Barbara Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1993 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1993 Carey Gallery, Rochester, MI (with Jo Powers)
1993 J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y.
1990 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Lancaster,
PA (with Dan Gihooley)
1990 Hobe Sound Gallery, Brunswick, ME
1990 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 1985 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
1982 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 "Exquisite Corpse" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Non-Stop" Invitational, Train Depot, Madison, WI
1989-2014 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 "Invitational Alumni Exhibition", Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2002-10 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2008 Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2008 Chapman Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, NC
2007 Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
2007 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2007 "Real and Imagined" Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2003-7 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 "The Exquisite Snake" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2002 Sonyia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1994 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
1993 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1993 New York Arts Club, New York, N.Y.
1993 "Previews of l993" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY
1992 "Small Painting Exhibition" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY
1992 "Women in the Bowdoin Collection" Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, MA
1992 Steibel Modern, New York, NY
1984-91 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA
1986-7 Portraits Inc., New York, NY
1985-6 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1981-4 Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 "All California '84" Laguna Beach Museum of Art,
Laguna Beach, CA
1983 "Western States Figurative Realism" Cypress College Art Gallery,
Cypress, CA
1982 "Atlas Building Artists" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1981 "Michigan Artists 80-81" Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
1981 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1970 Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI
Public Collections
Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio
Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Gallifa/Barcelona, Spain
American Express Corporation, New York, New York
Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
The Block Museum of Northwestern University
Malden Public Library, Malden, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, Germany
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
University of Wisconsin, The Graduate School, Madison, Wisconsin
Carol Pylant
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely completed during the artist's trip to Mexico in 1944 after rec...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1955 View of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado by Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A small, vibrant 1950s Mid-Century Modern mountain landscape painting depicting Aspen, Colorado by famed Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Titled "Western Vi...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Light Pillar - Atmospheric Optical Phenomenon, Framed Oil Painitng
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
In this larger treatment of the light-pillar phenomenon, Aeling demonstrates his mastery of night atmospherics. The bright vertical beam—pure, white, and nearly architectural—cuts through a heavy indigo sky, reflecting the artist’s fascination with moments when the environment becomes momentarily structured by light. His winters in cold climates provided ample opportunities to see such displays, and he painted them with the same meditative intensity he applied to Hawaiian sunsets and surf. In all these subjects, Aeling returned to a central theme: the sky as an evolving organism, capable of sudden, transcendent gestures.
Jeff Aeling
Light Pillar
oil on panel
14h x 10w in
35.56h x 25.40w cm
JAE034
Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers
Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character.
Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings.
Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present.
Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life.
Jeff Aeling
(1958-2025) Iowa City, IA
Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR
Education
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY
2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO
1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO
1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO
1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2021
2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Earth Wind & Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL
Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY
Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunset - Fiery Sky with Silhouetted Trees on the Horizon, Oil on Panel, Framed
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Sunset is a study in incandescent atmosphere, where the sky ignites in deep reds and oranges that spill downward toward the darkening trees. Aeling’s sensitivity to transitional light—particularly dawn and dusk—was honed both on the Great Plains and during his surfing winters in Hawaii, where he spent countless hours watching the sun drop behind the ocean. Here, the fiery illumination feels both immediate and eternal, a reminder of his fascination with the emotional temperature of the sky. The silhouetted treeline grounds the composition, giving the viewer a point of stability amid the sky’s turbulence.
Jeff Aeling
Sunset
oil on panel
8h x 10w in
20.32h x 25.40w cm
JAE024
Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers
Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character.
Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings.
Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present.
Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life.
Jeff Aeling
(1958-2025) Iowa City, IA
Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR
Education
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY
2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO
1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO
1993 Sean Kelly Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1955 View of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado by Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A small, vibrant 1950s Mid-Century Modern mountain landscape painting depicting Aspen, Colorado by famed Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Titled "View NW fr...
Category
1950s Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Harpignies oil painting "Landscape at Twilight
By Henri Joseph Harpignies
Located in Hinsdale, IL
HENRI JOSEPH HARPIGNIES(1819–1916)
Landscape at Twilight
Oil painting on canvasImage
Size: 24.6”x 20.6”Signed in oil, lower left
Verso: Gallery label reading “The Lenz Gallery –Mi...
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Figurative Landscape Painting by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with standing female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely express...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
October Field, South of Peoria - Cloudy Skies, Original oil painting
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
Ahzad Bogosian
October Field, South of Peoria, 2021
oil and acrylic on canvas
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
AZB128
Ahzad Bogosian
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ahzad Bogosian, Gallery V...
Category
2010s Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
A Tiny Painting of the Racine, WI Ravine, by Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Harold Haydon called his tiny paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. This 1943 oil on paper painting depicts the Racine Ravine (Wisconsin Lakefront Beach). This is the perfect ser...
Category
1940s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
1950s Cubist Watercolor "Dry Dock, Burrard Shipyard, Vancouver" by Rita Duis
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist watercolor, "Dry Dock, Burrard Shipyard, Vancouver" by Notable Chicago and New York Woman Artist, Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed and ins...
Category
1950s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
A Lovely ca. 1930s Watercolor of Summer Nocturne Moonrise by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A lovely 1930s watercolor on paper of a summer nocturne moonrise by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. A captivating dune landscape completed while Chapin was an instructor...
Category
1930s American Modern Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Catelayas
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Catelayas
Series: Florals
Date: 2015
Medium: Oil on panel
Unframed Dimensions: 28" x 47"
Framed Dimensions: 30" x 49"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$36,000
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