The tradition of city and townscape paintings may go back to ancient Rome, but it is still a theme being explored by today's artists. The beauty of the genre lies in its multitude of variations - from bustling streets where the buildings are mere backgrounds for the people going about their everyday lives, to artworks where the architecture is the sole subject. City and townscapes may depict main thorofares or they can show the grittier side of a metropolitan area. On top of these perspectives you also will find the artist painting any and all types of weather.
Emil Barbarini
Vienna Flower Market
Oil on panel, 10" x 16"
Johann Berthelsen
Bridge Nocturne (c.1945)
Oil on canvas, 22" x 28"
Otis Bullard
Horse Trade Scene (1853)
Oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
Seymour Franks
Environs of a Bridge, NYC (1944)
Oil on canvas, 26" x 32"
E.L. Henry
Delaware & Hudson Canal, Ellenville, NY (1900)
Watercolor on paper, 8 1/4" x 11 5/8"
Stefan Hirsch
New England – Portsmouth, NH (c.1927)
Oil on canvas, 10" x 10"
Jane Peterson
A Busy Corner Tunis (c.1910)
Oil on canvas, 24" x 18"
Suburban View #8 (2001)
PRB.333
Oil on canvas, 31 1/2" x 25 3/4"
Easton Pribble
Urban Construction No.8 (1992)
PRB.219
Oil on canvas, 33 1/2" x 37 1/2"
Easton Pribble
Jones Street, NYC (1958)
PRB.156
Oil on canvas, 19 1/2" x 23 1/2"
Easton Pribble
Cinema City (1994)
PRB.109
Oil on canvas, 36" x 32"
Frank Shapleigh
The Plaza Basin, St. Augustine Florida (1889)
Oil on canvas, 10" x 16"
Joseph Solman
ASPCA: Street Near Bellevue (1939)
Oil on canvas, 25" x 34"
Vaclav Vytlacil
City Scene with Faces (1932)
Casein tempera on canvas, 20" x 24"
George Welch
The Hote Earlington, Richfield Springs, NY (1894)
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 24" x 34"
