Bedroom Paintings: Calm Famous Works for Above the Bed (page 6)

Calm first: paintings with low contrast, soft color and a horizon your eye can rest on.

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From atop a high hill, we look across a broad valley leading to a winding river in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The scene is created entirely with visible brushstrokes in fresh and vibrant green and shimmering and smoky blues.

Theodore Robinson The Valley of the Seine, from the Hills of Giverny, 1892 National Gallery of Art

We look across a shaded field of snow, through a screen of loosely spaced trees at a cobalt-blue mountain that dominates this square landscape painting. The scene is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout.

Abbott Handerson Thayer Mount Monadnock, probably 1911/1914 National Gallery of Art

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

The artwork depicts a peaceful landscape viewed from an elevated perspective. The horizon divides the sky from the land below, with distant blue hills visible. The sky shows soft blues and gray clouds.

George Catlin Halsey's Bluff - Sioux Indians on the March, 1861/1869 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts an elevated viewpoint of a grand waterfall surrounded by a landscape filled with people and canoes. The horizon is high in the composition, marked by a line of trees and the flowing waterfall.

George Catlin Portage Around the Falls of Niagara at Table Rock, 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

This image depicts a snow-covered landscape with a high horizon line meeting a line of evergreen trees under a sky with blue and grayish clouds. The sky and treetops are textured with lively brushstrokes.

George Catlin La Salle Crossing Lake Michigan on the Ice. December 8, 1681, 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

This is a landscape painting depicting a body of water surrounded by greenery, with tall green and purple mountains in the background under a sky full of dark pink clouds and a strip of bright blue-green.

John La Farge The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish, c. 1895 National Gallery of Art

We look down at and across a sun-soaked landscape with tile-roofed, white-stucco buildings and plowed fields in this horizontal painting.

Willard Leroy Metcalf Midsummer Twilight, c. 1890 National Gallery of Art

Field with Young Trees in the Foreground, Piet Mondrian, c. 1907, oil on paper laid on board

Piet Mondrian Field with Young Trees in the Foreground, c. 1907 Cleveland Museum of Art

Entrance to a Village, Meindert Hobbema, ca. 1665, oil on wood

Meindert Hobbema Entrance to a Village, ca. 1665 The Met

Sunset Sky, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Sunset Sky, 1872 The Met

A Pond in Picardy, Camille Corot, ca. 1867, oil on canvas

Camille Corot A Pond in Picardy, ca. 1867 The Met

The image shows a landscape with a settlement surrounded by lush greenery and mountains in the distance. The mountains are partly covered by clouds. The painting technique is smooth and gentle, giving the scene a serene atmosphere.

George Catlin A Crow Village and the Salmon River Mountains, 1855/1869 National Gallery of Art

Olive Trees, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh Olive Trees, 1889 The Met

We look across a lush landscape of olive-green forests lining a glimmering, silvery-blue lake with hills in the deep distance under a pale blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

Camille Corot The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake, 1861 National Gallery of Art

Two men and a dog walk or stand on a rutted dirt road that stretches into the distance in front of us, between a grove of trees to our left and a shallow, narrow canal or ditch to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

Meindert Hobbema Wooded Landscape with Figures, c. 1658 National Gallery of Art

Bay of New York, Sunset, Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century, oil on canvas

Thomas Chambers Bay of New York, Sunset, mid 19th century National Gallery of Art

Landscape with Goatherd, John Singer Sargent, 1890–1891, oil on canvas

John Singer Sargent Landscape with Goatherd, 1890–1891 The Met

This painting depicts a green landscape under a blue sky. Trees fill the grassy landscape, and a small blue stream winds across the grass on the left side, reflecting light.

Gustave Courbet La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre, 1856 National Gallery of Art

Newburyport Meadows, Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81, oil on canvas

Martin Johnson Heade Newburyport Meadows, ca. 1876–81 The Met

Salt Meadow in October, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Salt Meadow in October, 1872 The Met

An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau, Théodore Rousseau, probably 1861, oil on wood

Théodore Rousseau An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau, probably 1861 The Met

Far below us, a river winds through a valley lined with hazy mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Moran The Juniata, Evening, 1864 National Gallery of Art

A rocky shoreline juts into a vivid, aquamarine-blue body of water in this loosely painted, nearly square landscape.

Childe Hassam A North East Headland, 1901 National Gallery of Art

A man stands and a woman sits near a herd of seven cows under a light-drenched sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The herd gathers on a grassy rise just beyond some large boulders and twiggy branches.

Aelbert Cuyp Herdsmen Tending Cattle, 1655/1660 National Gallery of Art

A rutted, dirt road curves from the bottom center of the canvas toward and behind a grove of tall trees to our left, beneath a pale blue sky with fluffy white clouds that fills the top two-thirds of this horizontal landscape painting.

Meindert Hobbema A Wooded Landscape, 1663 National Gallery of Art

A Winter Sky, George Inness, 1866, oil on canvas

George Inness A Winter Sky, 1866 Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting depicts a wide country road seen from above. The horizon is halfway up the painting, showing the flat, green land meeting the blue sky. Far in the distance there are faint blue buildings, including a tall tower.

Jan Brueghel the Elder Wooded Landscape with Travelers, 1610 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a rural landscape from a distance, showing a hill, houses, and trees. At the bottom of the painting is a body of water with two green banks on either side. The water reflects the green surroundings.

Henri-Joseph Harpignies Landscape in Auvergne, 1870 National Gallery of Art

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, George Caleb Bingham, 1845, oil on canvas

George Caleb Bingham Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 The Met

We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a railing overlooking a boat-clogged waterway in this horizontal painting.

James McNeill Whistler Wapping, 1860-1864 National Gallery of Art

Sunset, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Sunset, 1872 The Met

Young Herdsmen with Cows, Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1655–60, oil on canvas

Aelbert Cuyp Young Herdsmen with Cows, ca. 1655–60 The Met

Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir, Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1782–1783, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir, c. 1782–1783 Cleveland Museum of Art

Man and Pool, Florida, John Singer Sargent, 1917, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Man and Pool, Florida, 1917 The Met

A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study"), Gustave Courbet, probably 1862, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study"), probably 1862 The Met

We look across a river and slightly up at a pair of tall, leafy trees framed by steely-gray clouds against a a vivid blue sky in this nearly square landscape painting.

Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape, c. 1670 National Gallery of Art

Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead, John Constable, 1828, oil on canvas

John Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead, 1828 Cleveland Museum of Art

Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field, John Singer Sargent, 1885, oil on canvas

John Singer Sargent Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field, 1885 The Met

Landscape, Camille Corot, c. 1870/1875, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Landscape, c. 1870/1875 National Gallery of Art

Dawn—Early Spring, Dwight William Tryon, 1894, oil on wood

Dwight William Tryon Dawn—Early Spring, 1894 The Met

The Seine: Morning, Charles-François Daubigny, 1874, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny The Seine: Morning, 1874 The Met

This is a painting of various people gathered in a pastoral setting. The scene features a group of nude and partially-clothed people of different ages, including an elderly man who is seated on the left, gesturing to the others around him.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Rest, c. 1863 National Gallery of Art

This is a painting of a gathering near a river. The scene depicts a riverside filled with tall trees and grass where several groups of people have gathered. Several canoes are visible on the water and docked along the shore.

George Catlin La Salle Taking Possession of the Land at the Mouth of the Arkansas. March 10, 1682, 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

The Ford, Claude Lorrain, possibly 1636, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain The Ford, possibly 1636 The Met

View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet, probably mid-1850s, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet View of Ornans, probably mid-1850s The Met

Newport Mountain, Mount Desert, Frederic Edwin Church, 1851, oil on canvas

Frederic Edwin Church Newport Mountain, Mount Desert, 1851 National Gallery of Art

The Lovesick Maiden, Jan Steen, ca. 1660, oil on canvas

Jan Steen The Lovesick Maiden, ca. 1660 The Met