Vertical Landscape Wall Art

Vertical Landscape Wall Art spans 239 public-domain artworks in the Archive Lane archive.

Landscapes composed upright: waterfalls, tall trees, mountains, rivers and paths, all in portrait format rather than the usual wide frame. These are public domain artworks, free to preview, and you can order each one as a canvas or as a framed print.

Why choose a vertical landscape? Most landscapes are painted wide, so an upright one is a different kind of picture. Painters who turned the canvas on its end usually did it for a reason: a path leading away, a tree reaching up, a waterfall dropping. That vertical pull gives a wall height, which is useful in a room with a high ceiling or a narrow bay.

Where do they hang best? Between windows, beside a door, on a chimney breast, or at the end of a short corridor. A tall, thin wall that would swallow a wide picture takes an upright one well, and above a narrow console table a tall piece can work too.

What size? For a standard wall, 20x30 inches (51x76 cm) or 24x36 inches (61x91 cm) is a sensible start. Canvas goes to 40 inches (102 cm) on the long edge, so 20x40 or 28x40 inches (51x102 or 71x102 cm) give you real height. Hang the middle at about 57 to 60 inches (145 to 152 cm) from the floor; with very tall pieces, it is better to hold to this middle height than to align the top edge with the door frame.

One or a pair? Two upright pictures of the same size, with 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 cm) between them, give a wall a calm symmetry, and they can show two different scenes if the colours agree. Three in a row make a long wall into a sequence. Matching the subjects, say all water or all woodland, holds the group together.

How does the crop work? If you pick a size that does not match the proportions of the original artwork, the image is centred and cropped, and the product page shows how much will be lost. With a vertical landscape, the sky at the top and the foreground at the bottom are what get trimmed, so check that nothing essential sits at the edges. Frames? Framed Canvas goes up to 40x40 inches (102x102 cm) and Framed Print to 30x40 inches (76x102 cm). Eight colours are available: Black, White, Natural, Gold, Walnut, Silver, Dark Grey and Light Grey. Plain Canvas is unframed with no glass. Everything is made to order.

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