Paintings for Light Gray Walls (page 3)

Soft and muted

Gentle, low-color paintings that keep a pale room calm. The coolest come first, then the lightest, to suit a cool gray. Showing 97 to 144 of 1,315.

Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?), François Boucher, 1747, oil on canvas

François Boucher Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?), 1747 Art Institute of Chicago

No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?), Paul Gauguin, 1896, oil on jute canvas

Paul Gauguin No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?), 1896 Art Institute of Chicago

David Sears, Jr., Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1815, oil on canvas

Gilbert Stuart David Sears, Jr., ca. 1815 The Met

Watering Place at Marly, Alfred Sisley, 1875, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Watering Place at Marly, 1875 Art Institute of Chicago

Mary Cassatt Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886 National Gallery of Art

A snowy landscape in cool tones featuring a prominent, snow-dusted haystack in reddish brown in front of a row of red-brown trees and low, blue mountains, all beheath a pink-gray strip of sky.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat, 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

Claude Monet The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867 Art Institute of Chicago

Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, Camille Pissarro, 1881, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, 1881 Art Institute of Chicago

To our left, a young woman sits facing us on a low stone wall at the base of the vertical, black bars of an iron fence and a young girl stands facing away from us to our right in this horizontal painting. Both have pale skin.

Édouard Manet The Railway, 1873 National Gallery of Art

The Seine at Bougival, Alfred Sisley, 1876, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Seine at Bougival, 1876 The Met

Two sailboats and a rowboat float on a glistening, azure-blue river spanned by a stone bridge to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Monet The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 National Gallery of Art

Edward Guthrie Kennedy, James McNeill Whistler, 1893–95, oil on wood

James McNeill Whistler Edward Guthrie Kennedy, 1893–95 The Met

This painting displays an elevated view of a bustling port town. In the center, a tall tree with dense green foliage stands out against a light blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

Jurgan Frederick Huge Composite Harbor Scene with Castle, c. 1875 National Gallery of Art

Summer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891, oil on fabric

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Summer, 1891 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Customs House at Varengeville, Claude Monet, 1897, oil on canvas

Claude Monet The Customs House at Varengeville, 1897 Art Institute of Chicago

The Brook, Paul Cézanne, c. 1895–1900, oil on fabric

Paul Cézanne The Brook, c. 1895–1900 Cleveland Museum of Art

A Turn in the Road, Alfred Sisley, 1873, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley A Turn in the Road, 1873 Art Institute of Chicago

Snow at Louveciennes, Camille Pissarro, c. 1870, oil on panel

Camille Pissarro Snow at Louveciennes, c. 1870 Art Institute of Chicago

Two pale-skinned little girls sit back-to-back on a sandy beach, almost filling the width of this vertical painting. The girls wear matching pale, ice-blue pinafores over short sleeve, ocean-blue dresses.

Mary Cassatt Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 National Gallery of Art

We look beyond a cluster of flags hanging from the side of one tall building onto a wide street at a row of buildings across from us in this vertical painting.

Childe Hassam Allies Day, May 1917, 1917 National Gallery of Art

Villas at Trouville, Gustave Caillebotte, 1884, oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte Villas at Trouville, 1884 Cleveland Museum of Art

Pale beige, angular houses cluster at the center of the horizontal landscape painting. The hilly, rocky landscape around and below the houses is painted with cool blues and greens, and warm ivory and caramel brown beneath a pale blue sky.

Paul Cézanne Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, c. 1883 National Gallery of Art

A light-skinned man and woman stand looking at each other, surrounded by blooming flowers and lush green trees in this square landscape painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Picking Flowers, 1875 National Gallery of Art

Luman Reed, Asher Brown Durand, 1835, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Luman Reed, 1835 The Met

Street in Moret, Alfred Sisley, c. 1890, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Street in Moret, c. 1890 Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Euclid Thompson, William Sidney Mount, 1830, oil on canvas

William Sidney Mount Martin Euclid Thompson, 1830 The Met

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Piet Mondrian Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921 Art Institute of Chicago

A row of spire-like structures of different heights is silhouetted in azure blue against a soft pink, yellow, peach, and lavender-purple sunset and reflected in a rippling river in this nearly square landscape painting.

Claude Monet The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903 National Gallery of Art

Seven people with cream-white skin crowd together, sitting at or standing among tables in an interior space in this vertical painting. The composition is dominated by shades of blue and pale green.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892 National Gallery of Art

Mottled, geometric shapes painted in shades of peanut brown, beige, grass and spruce green, smoky gray, golden and buttercup yellow, and topaz and lapis blue are arranged across this wide, horizontal, abstract painting.

Roger de La Fresnaye The Watering Can (Emblems: The Garden), 1913 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a young woman with peachy skin and red hair sits facing us on a pine-green bench in this vertical painting.

Mary Cassatt Woman with a Red Zinnia (Revery), 1891-1892 National Gallery of Art

The Road from Moret to Saint-Mammès, Alfred Sisley, 1883–85, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Road from Moret to Saint-Mammès, 1883–85 The Met

Portrait of a Woman, Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1775, oil on canvas

Charles Willson Peale Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1775 The Met

Lady in Gray, James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883, watercolor and gouache on dark brown wove paper

James McNeill Whistler Lady in Gray, ca. 1883 The Met

Adeline Ravoux, Vincent van Gogh, 1890, oil on fabric

Vincent van Gogh Adeline Ravoux, 1890 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Gentleman, Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1775, oil on canvas

Charles Willson Peale Portrait of a Gentleman, ca. 1775 The Met

Lush treetops give way to a body of water and a hill in this loosely painted horizontal landscape.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir View of Monte Carlo from Cap Martin, c. 1884 National Gallery of Art

The Pink Cloud, Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1896, oil on canvas

Henri-Edmond Cross The Pink Cloud, c. 1896 Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman in a Garden, Berthe Morisot, 1882–83, oil on canvas

Berthe Morisot Woman in a Garden, 1882–83 Art Institute of Chicago

A nearly square landscape with a bridge to our right and a person walking at the lower center is painted loosely in tones of pine, spruce, and sage green with a few touches of yellow, black, and brown.

Ernest Lawson High Bridge at Night, New York City, c. 1910/1920 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, Jacometto, ca. 1485–95, oil on wood; verso: oil and gold on wood

Jacometto Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, ca. 1485–95 The Met

View of Toledo, El Greco, ca. 1599–1600, oil on canvas

El Greco View of Toledo, ca. 1599–1600 The Met

Stag at Sharkey's, George Bellows, 1909, oil on canvas

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 Cleveland Museum of Art

Arques-la-Bataille, John Henry Twachtman, 1885, oil on canvas

John Henry Twachtman Arques-la-Bataille, 1885 The Met

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris.

Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877 Art Institute of Chicago

Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise, Camille Pissarro, 1879, oil on fabric

Camille Pissarro Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise, 1879 Cleveland Museum of Art

Fir Trees and Storm Clouds, Albert Bierstadt, c. 1870, oil on paper mounted on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Fir Trees and Storm Clouds, c. 1870 Cleveland Museum of Art

Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.

Vincent van Gogh Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières), 1887 Art Institute of Chicago

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