American landscape painting began as early as the 17th century as a form of documenting the New World for Europeans. The 18th century relegated the landscape to the background of a portrait as a way of providing more information about the sitter. The American landscape painting came alive in the 1820s with artists like Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand and Albert Bierdstadt. What came known as the Hudson River Valley School was the first school of loosely knit artists who saw the landscape as a step towards enlightenment and memorializing the great American wilderness. American art was always influenced by European trends and the impressionist school was no different. Artists like Mary Cassatt, John Twachtman, Thomas Eakins and Daniel Garber were just a few of many American impressionists who successfully captured the landscape while capturing the mood and light with broad and vibrant brush strokes. The twentieth century introduced new interpretations of the landscape from the modernist to abstract interpretations of artists like John Marin and his expressionist landscspes to the abstract landscapes of the likes of Leonard Nelson.

HL CHALFANT buys and sells landscape paintings from all periods and genres. If you have a landscape painting you believe would interest us, please feel free to contact us with information on the size, medium and artist when possible.