Black-and-White Paintings for a Home Office

Paintings with almost no color: grays, browns and blacks that sit quietly on any wall and beside any fabric. Architecture, bridges, harbors, library and study interiors, and calm geometric or early abstract compositions give the wall order; muted palettes keep the room focused. Here are 87 paintings for a home office, each with almost no color, with works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Camille Corot.

All 403 paintings for a home office

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet 24 × 40 in landscape print (61 × 102 cm), centered 51¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the desk. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds.

Claude Monet Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877 Art Institute of Chicago

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris.

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

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89 Art Institute of Chicago

Impressionist painting of two girls on balcony, bright flower hat, knitting basket.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881 Art Institute of Chicago

Opulently dressed light-skinned man and woman drink at a small table. A mirror behind them reflects a crowd. Her blue dress and dark hat dominate.

William Glackens At Mouquin's, 1905 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

Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, Claude Monet, 1900, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

The Crystal Palace, Camille Pissarro, 1871, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Crystal Palace, 1871 Art Institute of Chicago

View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds.

Paul Cézanne Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873–75 Art Institute of Chicago

Venice, Palazzo Dario, Claude Monet, 1908, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Venice, Palazzo Dario, 1908 Art Institute of Chicago

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

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

Charing Cross Bridge, London, Claude Monet, 1901, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901 Art Institute of Chicago

A lone wheat stack, in shadow, rests on a snow-covered field that is rendered in shades of white, blue, yellow, and purple. A house can be seen in the distance on the right against the blue hills beyond.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, Camille Pissarro, 1879, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879 Art Institute of Chicago

The Banks of the Marne in Winter, Camille Pissarro, 1866, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866 Art Institute of Chicago

The Departure of the Boats, Étretat, Claude Monet, 1885, oil on canvas

Claude Monet The Departure of the Boats, Étretat, 1885 Art Institute of Chicago

The Place du Havre, Paris, Camille Pissarro, 1893, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

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

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

Light-colored snowscape with visible brushstrokes featuring a bridge in front of red and white barns and farmhouses, surrounded by trees.

Claude Monet Sandvika, Norway, 1895 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond, 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

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

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

Reading, Berthe Morisot, 1873, oil on canvas

Berthe Morisot Reading, 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Gustave Caillebotte Villas at Trouville, 1884 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Writing Master, Thomas Eakins, 1882, oil on canvas

Thomas Eakins The Writing Master, 1882 The Met

Figure in Hammock, Florida, John Singer Sargent, 1917, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Figure in Hammock, Florida, 1917 The Met

The Environs of Paris, Camille Corot, 1860s, oil on wood

Camille Corot The Environs of Paris, 1860s The Met

River with a Distant Tower, Camille Corot, 1865, oil on canvas

Camille Corot River with a Distant Tower, 1865 The Met

Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen, Camille Pissarro, 1896, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen, 1896 The Met

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro, 1897, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897 The Met

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon, Camille Pissarro, 1899, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon, 1899 The Met

Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, Alfred Sisley, 1891, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, 1891 The Met

We look across a river at a bridge that spans the center of this horizontal landscape, which is painted entirely with broad, visible brushstrokes in muted blue, pink, and brown.

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, 1903 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and horse-drawn carriages in this horizontal painting.

Camille Pissarro Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight, 1897 National Gallery of Art

We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a dozen small boats, and a mustard-brown, boxy building under a bridge that crosses the width of the canvas in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Monet Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day, c. 1876 National Gallery of Art

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset, 1904 National Gallery of Art

Mill of Pont Maupuit, Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900, oil on canvas

Armand Guillaumin Mill of Pont Maupuit, c. 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

The Building of the Dam, Julian Alden Weir, 1908, oil on canvas

Julian Alden Weir The Building of the Dam, 1908 Cleveland Museum of Art

View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons, Eugène Boudin, 1874, oil on fabric

Eugène Boudin View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons, 1874 Cleveland Museum of Art

View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1853, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, 1853 The Met

Lake George, New York, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Lake George, New York, 1872 The Met

The Red Bridge, Julian Alden Weir, 1895, oil on canvas

Julian Alden Weir The Red Bridge, 1895 The Met

The Grand Canal above the Rialto, Francesco Guardi, late 1760s, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi The Grand Canal above the Rialto, late 1760s The Met

View from the Quai d'Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854, oil on canvas, mounted on wood

Johan Barthold Jongkind View from the Quai d'Orsay, 1854 The Met

From under an elevated train track, we look at a cluster of people hammering and working on the far side of a wooden fence, all against a silvery-blue building that fills most of the background in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows Blue Morning, 1909 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a crush of pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and streetcars enclosed by a row of densely spaced buildings and skyscrapers opposite us in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows New York, 1911 National Gallery of Art

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

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

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

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