American painting

28 American works, by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, John James Audubon and others.

Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: a gnarled apple branch with pink-white blossoms and dark green leaves standing on a wooden ledge against a muted grey-green background — Apple Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade

2518 × 4477TS·0216
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: bighorn ram standing on a rock ledge against storm cloud with other sheep below — Rocky Mountain Sheep

Albert Bierstadt

1800 × 3200TS·0291
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: volcano erupting at night with red glow on smoke and snow and figures on the dark slope — Mount Vesuvius at Midnight

Albert Bierstadt

1893 × 3366TS·0355
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: sunbeams through cloud onto a mountain lake with dark firs on the far shore — Mount Starr King, Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt

2160 × 3840TS·0354
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Vertical iPhone background from an Audubon engraving: dark olive warbler above yellow-green warbler on a stem of deep blue gentian flowers, long lance-shaped leaves, cream paper — Connecticut Warbler

John James Audubon

2807 × 4990TS·0028
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: autumn scrub in red and gold before a wide valley and blue mountains under a soft sky — An October Day in the White Mountains

John Frederick Kensett

1814 × 3225TS·0358
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Vertical iPhone background from an Audubon engraving: three yellow-breasted chats with black face masks, two airborne and one tending a woven nest, amid pink wild rose blooms — Yellow-breasted Chat

John James Audubon

2428 × 4316TS·0027
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: small glowing figures fleeing through a rocky gateway from a sunlit paradise into a dark wilderness, a volcano erupting in the distance, a beam of light cutting through storm clouds — Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0461
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: storm-split birch trunk glowing golden against dark purple-grey storm clouds, pink mist in a mountain gorge, menacing and dramatic — Storm in the Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church

1913 × 3400TS·0043
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark red rock arch over emerald water framing a hazy Mediterranean bay, a tall ship in the distance, scrub-covered cliffs and misty mountains — Natural Bridge, Sorrento

William Stanley Haseltine

2040 × 3626TS·0046
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: autumn river flanked by crimson and gold trees, a snow-capped peak in the far distance, grey cloudy sky, figures resting by a canoe on the bank — Mount Washington, New Hampshire

Jasper F. Cropsey

1949 × 3464TS·0045
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a lush garden framed by palms and vines, a waterfall glowing through mist in the distance, small figures near a quiet pool — The Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0465
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: enormous jagged dark rock spire rising from a still teal sea, pink hazy sky, a small rowboat with figures, a sailing ship tiny on the horizon — Capri

William Stanley Haseltine

1748 × 3108TS·0054
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: flat marsh with a haystack, a broad bank of cloud and low sun across the grass — Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade

2160 × 3840TS·0297
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Desktop background from a painting: a headless marble colossus striding above a sacked ancient city, shield raised, fire and black smoke pouring along a long colonnade behind it, fighting and fallen bodies on the steps below — The Course of Empire: Destruction

Thomas Cole

2139 × 3802TS·0460
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: sunlight breaking over a mountain lake with deer at the shore and a waterfall on the cliff behind — Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt

2152 × 3825TS·0350
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: tropical river valley with palm trees, gondola on calm water, figures by a fountain, domed buildings and blue mountains in golden light — Vale of Kashmir

Robert S. Duncanson

2148 × 3818TS·0042
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: dark forest of massive arching trees with tangled trunks, a lone woman in blue and white sitting in dappled light at the base, deep green shadows — In the Woods

George Inness

1913 × 3400TS·0053
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Vertical iPhone background from an Audubon engraving: two streaky brown flycatchers among large white magnolia blooms and broad dark leaves, one bird reaching up toward a flower — Warbling Flycatcher

John James Audubon

3146 × 5592TS·0026
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: sheep grazing in a green meadow under broad oaks with russet leaves, a seated figure in red, storm clouds massing on the horizon — Durham, Connecticut

George Inness

1865 × 3316TS·0047
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: rocky New England shoreline with autumn trees, calm grey-blue bay, distant sailboats, muted ochre and grey palette — View near Newport

John Frederick Kensett

1569 × 2790TS·0057
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a small boat carrying an elderly figure adrift on dark water, a glowing angel pointing toward a break of golden light in heavy storm clouds — The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Thomas Cole

1930 × 3431TS·0466
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desktop wallpaper from a painting: vanitas still life — skull on a red leather book beside an hourglass, open book, spent candle, and handwritten note on a draped table — Memento Mori, "To This Favour"

William Michael Harnett

1983 × 3525TS·0052
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: an architect reclining atop a column, framed by green drapery and looking out over an imagined skyline of Egyptian, Greek and Gothic monuments bathed in golden light — The Architect's Dream

Thomas Cole

2160 × 3840TS·0463
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: two brown falcons with wings fully spread confronting each other over a prey bird on rocky ground, detailed plumage, pale blue sky behind — Peregrine Falcons

John James Audubon

1976 × 3513TS·0051
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: wide pale bay with sailing boats and a red rowing boat in front below hills in haze — Haverstraw Bay

Sanford Robinson Gifford

2143 × 3810TS·0357
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: classically robed figures at leisure beside a marble temple in a golden pastoral valley, distant mountains under a warm hazy sky — Dream of Arcadia (copy)

2003 × 3560TS·0464
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: white and magenta orchid on a branch against dark green jungle with a small bird below — Orchid Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade

2359 × 4193TS·0356
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All 28 are phone wallpapers, 10 of them at 2160 × 3840 or larger. Free to download and set as your background, no account needed.

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