Landscape Paintings
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero presents a view of a canoeist traversing the New Jersey river as storm clouds brew in the distance. The piece embodies the adventure of ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
On a solo hike, I passed through some beautiful aspen groves. It was early morning and the sunlight was filtering in behind. I noticed a lone, small pine grow...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Spring mornings often begin with gray overcast skies that give way to bright blue sunshine mid day. This painting depicts Texas Hill Country as the sun begins...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
A misty dawn over a western prairie, the yellow grasses and dark foliage contrast suggesting a sunny day to come. Part of Nancy's si...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the coastal palette of the Mendocino region in California," shares artist Lisa Elley. The soothing cool hues present the scene ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Street Art Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1970s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Teresa Smith displays a picturesque impressionist landscape of Aspen groves. "Autumn is here," declares Teresa. The leaves slowly turn a crisp, bright yellow. The sunny fall day along the shoreline brings inspiration from its vivid colors.
About the Artist
Teresa Smith captures the soul of the west coast landscape in her contemplative oil paintings. Teresa gathers impressions of the land around her remote island home on horseback rides accompanied by her Irish wolfhound. Her works capture the light coming through the trees, a richness of color, and the interconnectedness of nature. Her subjects emerge through lyrical brushwork, sometimes with light streaming as if through a stained glass window. Her major influences are Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr, and the Canadian Group of Seven, the latter of whom pioneered a distinctive style defined by a direct connection with nature. In addition to painting, Teresa is a master gardener, and she grows food year-round in her garden and volunteers in the community to educate and diagnose plant problems. She works from her studio on the top floor of a barn overlooking the pond and trees, where deer walk by and ducks swim. According to Teresa, "much of today’s art is based on concept. That is, the artist has an idea, then uses their art to educate and inform. I do contemplative painting, which is different. For me, it is allowing the painting to unfold in a contemplative or meditative way."
Words that describe this painting: landscape, Tom Thomson...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Shuxing Fan displays a scene of a suburban neighborhood after a snowfall. Painting in classical realism, he details the envi...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
As the sun slowly sinks behind the sea stacks, waves peacefully roll toward the shore. The sailboats on the horizon are illuminated in the twilight. "I painte...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Karen E Lewis creates a view of the full moon, the morning after a lunar eclipse. She paints an ethereal sky with shades of pink and blue that set a co...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1950s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Beautiful spring blossom in a rural area. Lilac and apple trees are highlighted under the light of the spring sun. I used thick ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
"When surrounded by shoreline views most of your life, you take a closer look at the water, studying the lines, shadows, and cloud reflections enhanced by light," says artist Nancy Jadatz...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the dreamy vistas of the Monterey Bay in California," shares artist Lisa Elley. "Just as the morning light caressed the popular...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Artist Comments
A fall landscape at sunset, with golden clouds rushing across the expansive sky. "Northern New Mexico is known for mythical light, sculptural land forms and d...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist James Hartman says this tranquil landscape was inspired by a stay at these cabins at the edge of Clear Lake in northern California. While there, he com...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This painting is part of an ongoing series depicting the nature around Teresa Smith's home. Her main considerations as she works are color and shape. "I am p...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Smith Rock is a nationally known rock climbing destination in the high desert of Central Oregon, a hub of outdoor recreation. As I walked the trail that circ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Raw Linen, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Inspired by a beautiful basin in northern New Mexico outside of Santa Fe. "A monsoonal storm passed through and left the ground wet," says artist Heather Fost...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"This lake in southern New Mexico in wintertime has muted earthy colors," says artist Heather Foster. "There is a lot of strife with local ranchers surroundin...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
I used my finger tips to apply many layers of translucent cool colors in oil and wax. There is a softly calm feeling to the quiet distance of the winter trees in the background while one sturdy pine comes forth. Hints of apricot and lavender glow from beneath misty layers. My choice in this color palette lends itself to any season's decor, inspired by Wolf Kahn. The edges of this piece are natural wood. This piece is wired to hang.
About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”
Words that describe this painting: Impressionism, Wolf Kahn, transparent, translucent, layers, abstract landscape, oil, wax, finger painting, impressionism, landscape, representational, oil painting, purple
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Valerie Berkely offers a dreamy, light-filled atmospheric scene in soft gradient hues of purple and orange. She captures the glowing twilight with a gl...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero paints a magnificent scene of a flowing river stream. Part of his series exploring the terrain and geology of northwest New Jersey. He t...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Jesse Aldana composes an exciting sunset with golden peach rays stretching across a speckled blue sky and crashing waves. "In this painting, the sea an...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.
The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.
The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).
Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.
Whether you’re seeking works by the world’s most notable names or those authored by underground legends, find a vast collection of landscape paintings on 1stDibs.