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Fall is such a beautiful season of the year. The leaves start to change color and the weather cools down. This makes for some great painting inspiration. Fall paintings are a great way to celebrate the changing seasons. Artists often use warm colors to convey the feeling of nostalgia and harvest. The use of orange, reds, and yellows is common in these paintings.

It is difficult to imagine a painting of fall without its signature reds, oranges, yellows, golds, and browns. Fall is also considered one of the best times to view nature up close while hunting for leaves or acorns. And autumnal colors are deeply connected to our emotions. Many artists choose this time of year to depict landscapes with saturated hues that symbolize a sense of change or slowing down after the long summer days and warmer nights have passed.

Let us share some beautiful fall paintings from a variety of different artists. Some you might have already seen and others maybe not.

Autumn Landscape with Four Trees – Van Gogh

Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil – Claude Monet

The Forest in Autumn – Gustave Courbet

Autumn – Frederic Edwin Church

Autumn in Bavaria – Wassily Kandinsky

Autumn Woods – Albert Bierstadt

Four Trees – Egon Schiele

The Birch Wood – Gustav Klimt

Peasants in Autumn – Katsushika Hokusai

 Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon – Thomas Moran

Poplars– Claude Monet

Autumn Leaves– John Everett Millais

Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania– Jasper Francis Cropsey

Many of these paintings appear in art books held in our extensive art book collection in the Art & Music Room. Swing by the second-floor display case by the Art Room for a small selection which you can borrow and enjoy long after all the fall leaves have dropped.