Landscape & Seascape

Landscape is where painters went to be honest about scale. Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa are the two most reproduced images in this category anywhere, and both are really about how small a person is under weather. Turner’s Fighting Temeraire watches an old warship towed to the breakers at sunset. Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog invented a way of standing that people still copy in photographs. Monet’s Water Lilies and Haystacks chase the same subject through changing light.

The American works — Church’s Cotopaxi, Bierstadt’s Looking Down Yosemite Valley — were painted to be seen large, as arguments for a continent.

These are the pieces that reward size. Printed on archival canvas up to 54 inches, unframed and rolled, made to order and shipped free worldwide.