Pierre Bonard, part 2

Seated Nude, Bent Leg c. 1909

Paysage de montagne, 1912 

at Kunstmuseum Winterthur Switzerland

La Seine (1930)

Jeune femme peignant - signed ‘Bonnard’ (lower left) (1944)

oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 19 3/8 in. (60 x 49.2 cm)

If you like Bonnard, here much more paintings,

Pierre Bonnard painting in the studio at his home in Le Cannet, south of France, 1946

photograph Gisèle Freund.

A Belgian artist: Richard Heintz

Cascade de Coo

Temps venteux

Le Vésuve vu de Sorrente

Richard Heintz, né le 25 octobre 1871 à Herstal, et mort le 26 mai 1929 à Sy (commune de Ferrières), est un peintre impressionniste belge.

C'est le grand peintre paysagiste du massif ardennais : il peut être considéré comme l'un des artistes liégeois les plus importants de sa génération.

"Je ne vis que pour peindre cette si belle et si difficile nature; n'est-ce point là ma seule raison d'être?" Richard Heintz, 1915.

Herbert Brandl

Herbert Brandl (Austrian, b.1959) - Untitled, 2007

Thage Nordholm

Thage Nordholm (1927-90) - Rallarros

Frederic Edwin Church

Sky at Sunset, Jamaica, West Indies 1865

Ridges in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica (1865)

Off Iceberg, Newfoundland (1859)

Vasili Kirillovich Nechitailo

Wormwood Steppe, 1978

Joachim Weingart

Joachim  Weingart (1895-1942)

Les Voiliers

Jan Honsa

Jan Honsa (Czech, 1876 - 1937)

Chalupy na Vrchovině, kolem 1910

Robert Daughters

Robert Daughters (1929-2013)

Late Morning Las Trampas

Alfons Walde

Alfons Walde (Austria 1891-1958)

Landschaft in Tirol, gouache and watercolour on paper

François Gall (Hungarian, 1912–1987)

Venice

Portrait of a Young Girl (n.d.)

oil on cardboard 28 x 23 cm

People by the Seine, 1974

François Gall (22 March 1912 – 9 December 1987) was a Hungarian-French modern impressionist painter.

wiki/Francois_Gall

Birger Sandzen

Birger Sandzen (1871-1954)

Mountain Sunset

Smoky River, Kansas (1926) oil on canvas

Self portrait of the Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil

Self portrait of the Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) as Tahitian

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Landscape, circa 1914

Vaszary János

 Lake Balaton with Wreathing Clouds

Dreama Tolle Perry, A Walk on the Milky Way

Dreama Tolle Perry - A Walk on the Milky Way

credits: http://dreamatolleperry.com/

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Banks of a River

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism (from wikipedia).

Rudolf Schlichter

Frau mit Kravatte, 1923

Rudolf Schlichter (or Rudolph Schlichter) (December 6, 1890 – May 3, 1955) was a German artist and one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement (from wikipedia)

Raphaël Chanterou

Les Vagues 1920

Tullio Crali

Boats on the Canal 1950s

Tullio Crali (born in Igalo, 1910 – died in Milan, 5 August 2000) was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realistic paintings that combine "speed, aerial mechanisation and the mechanics of aerial warfare", though in a long career he painted in other styles as well.

Manierre Dawson

The Struggle 1912

Manierre Dawson (December 22, 1887, Chicago, Illinois- August 15, 1969, Sarasota, Florida) was a painter and sculptor born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, but lived most of his life in Michigan. A precocious and ceaseless experimenter, Dawson independently developed stylistic and material innovations that rivaled his most progressive contemporaries (from wikipedia). 

Sergei Osipov

Early Green, 1982

Randall David Tipton

Undersea , water media on yupo

credits: http://www.randalldavidtipton.com/

Catalan Modernism

Joaquin Mir Trinxet - Ermita de Sant Joan. Vilanova, Oil on Canvas

Juaquin Mir Trinxet (1873 – 1940) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known by the color of his paintings. They helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.

from wikipedia

John Francis Murphy

October Mist

John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 – January 30, 1921) was an American landscape painter. (from wikipedia)

Wassily Kandinsky, part II

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

If you appreciate Wassily Kandinsky, see Part I on this blog

Rapallo Grauer Day (1905)

Rapallo, Boot im Meer (1906)

Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany

Rapallo - The Bay (1906)

Lake Starnberg (1908)

White sound (1908)

Der Blaue Berg (1909)

Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel (1909)

Winter Landscape (1909)

Wassily Kandinsky - Autumn Landscape (1911)

Hostel

Tor Bjurström (Swedish modernist, 1888 - 1966)

 Afternoon

Summer Idyll

Boat by the Coast

Coastal Landscape

Landscape by the Sea, West-Coast

Tor Bjurström (1888–1966) was an influential Swedish modernist painter, best known for his vivid landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, as well as his pivotal role as an educator in the Swedish art scene.

Artistic Style & French Influence

Early in his career, Bjurström traveled to Paris to study under Henri Matisse. That exposure to Fauvism profoundly shaped his work.

• Palette & Technique: His early pieces feature sweeping lines, swirling brushstrokes, and soft pastel palettes, often evoking light wind or mist veil over landscapes. Over time, his palette broadened into a richer, more expressive color range with strong, emotional brushwork.

• Subject Matter: He focused heavily on rolling landscapes around western Sweden and the Gothenburg coastline, alongside still lifes and portraits.

The Gothenburg Colourists (Göteborgskoloristerna)

Bjurström’s biggest mark on Swedish modernism came during his tenure as director and head teacher at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg (1920 to 1929).

Under his mentorship, a new generation of artists emerged who prioritized color, emotion, and expressive light over strict figurative realism. This group—including figures like Åke Göransson, Ivan Ivarson, Inge Schiöler, and Ragnar Sandberg—became known as the Göteborgskoloristerna. Bjurström was regarded as both their stylistic forerunner and ideological mentor.

Recognition & Legacy

Beyond his canvas work and teaching, Bjurström served on the Swedish State Art Council starting in 1940. In 1961, he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal, one of Sweden's highest honors for artistic achievement. Today, his paintings are housed in major Nordic institutions, including the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.