Fire & Art: paintings of wildfires and burned landscapes

George Catlin (USA, 1796–1872)

1832, Prairie meadow burning

1832, Prairie Bluffs Burning, on the Missouri River

Others, before 1940

A. K. Denisov-Uralsky, ca. 1900 [info] Joseph Lycett, ca. 1820, Drawings of Aborigines and scenery [info] Keeley Halswelle, mid 1800s, UK Jules Tavernier, 1886, Yosemite (Forest Fire in Moonlit Landscape); French painter

Charles Deas, 1847, Prairie on fire V.N. Dobrovolski, URSS Charles Whymper, 1910, UK

G.J. Tisdale, 1871, The Great Peshtigo fire (unknown), Steppe fire in Buryatia, Russia Paul Kane (1810-71), Canada Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

John Longstaff, 1898, Red Tuesday fires (Gippsland, Australia) Alfred J. Miller (1810-1874), E North America (unknown), 1840s, The trapper's defense- fire fights fire, N America Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), N America

William Strutt, 1851, Black Thursday (Australia) Vasily Polenov, 1881, The burnt forest

Eugene von Guerard, 1859, Bushfire between Mount Elephant and Timboon, Australia [info] Carl Wimar, 1860

Donald Ramsay (Australia, 1957-), 2013

After The Fire, Glenburn After The Fire, Mount Gordon, Yarra Ranges

Burnt Forest, Captains Creek Burnt Forest, Captains Creek2

Burnt Forest, Yarra Ranges I Burnt Hillside, Yarra Ranges I Sunset after fire

Burnt Ridge, Yarra Ranges Evening After Fire, Yarra Ranges Sunset After Fire, Yarra Ranges

Fred Williams (Australia, 1927–1982)

1970, Burnt landscape II (Bushfire Series) 1968, After bushfire (3) [info]

Hillock 1968, Approaching bushfire [info]

Lysterfield Burning tree stump

Burnt Landscape 1965, Upwey landscape

Reg Mombassa (Christopher O'Doherty), Australia/NZ (1951-)

Burnt gums on the King’s highway approaching Byron Bay Stumps trunks and shrubbery, 2021

Carbone and Trunks After Fire, 2009 Reeding a book after the fire

Moses robot II with burning bush

Philip Juras (Southeast USA), 2003-2018

2003, Fir-snags 2012, Wade tract burn #7 2015, Burn 2010, Day after fire

2012, Fire in saw palmettos 2013, Heading fire 2018, Burnt

2013, Backing fire 2014, Deadfall 2015, Burn 2010, After fire

2015, Burn 2015, Burn 2015, Burnt

Josep Serra Tarragón (Catalonia, Spain) [digital art]

Doble caiguda Col·lecció Memòries de foc Col·lecció Memòries de foc Supercel.lula de foc al capvespre, 2021 Col·lecció Memòries de foc Tocat però latent, 2024

2012, Inferno Col·lecció Memòries de foc Thin orange line Afterburnt, 2022 Fire pathways, 2021

Brownian sparks in the wood, 2021 Col·lecció Memòries de foc Col·lecció Memòries de foc Tongues of bushfire, 2021

Serra, 2022, The big one - Montserrat 1994

Australian aboriginal art

Ngamaru Bidu, Waru (fire)

Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels, Uni Nampijinpa Martin, 1988. Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (fire country Dreaming) [info]

Ngamaru Bidu, Warntilli Waru, 2014 (red lines = recent burning) [info]

Prabha Mallya [source]

Miriam Morill (California)

Fleur de lis-Life returns from fire

Vladimir Velickovic (Serbia)

Fire, 1995 Fire, 2015

Fire 1996 Fire, 2016

Soleil noir #3, 1997 Corbeaux

Les Noyers de l'Altenburg 15, 2013 Fire

Petra Kaminen Mosher (Finland)

2021, Full on balze

2021, Balze on violet

2023, Like a torch

2021, Blaze on gray

Stephanie Peters (USA)

Burnedcapes (acrylic and charcoal on canvas) Resurrection Fire Poppies (mixed media) Winter forest (charcoal)

Crownfire Smoke (charcoal on paper) Slide Fire Sky (acrylic & charcoal on canvas)

Fire (acrylic on canvas) Wildfire (watercolor on panel)

On Fire (acrylic on canvas) Roaring flame (acrylic and charcoal on canvas)

Other artists

Cota Marqués, 2020. Cota Marqués, 2020. Paul Klee, 1933, Fire at full moon Albert Tucker, 1999, After the Bushfire [info] Sue Todd Adam Straus, 2008, Fire and Earth Sharmian (@sharsart1.bsky.social), 2024, Wildfire

Rick Amor, 2014, The island on fire Arthur Boyd, 1966-68, Nebuchadnezzar on fire falling over a waterfall René Magritte, 1928, Le paysage en feu Jaume Marzal, 2021 Denize Torbes, 2015, Queimada Jessie Homer French, 2021, The Dome Fire - Mojave- National Preserve Janine McGinness, 2019, Bushfire Chili Thom, It started like wildfire Ana Rey, Sierra Bermeja

Tom Thomson, 1915, Burnt land at sunset, summer Geun-Taek Yoo, 2000, Five Gardens 4(Fire) John Glenn, 2009, Black Saturday 2009 Laurie Wigham, 2021, Lorna Muir Nimmo, 1952, The Bush Fire’s Passage Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, 2019, Bushfire Max Angus, c. 1964, Rain After Fire Inkvisage, 2023, The Burning Bush

Sidney Nolan, 1947, Detail from Landscape Charles Burchfield, 1920, Forest fire in moonlight Charley Harper, Secretary bird with black mamba Robin Lee Carlson, 2021 Carole Pierce, Desert fire #4 Sue Michael, 2018, Bushfires Where There Were None Before Phil Caterino (lostcabinpress), Fire in the Valley - Yosemite National Park

Others

Emily Milligen, 8th grade, Reed Point School, (Keep Montana Green, art contents, 2021) Kira Brousseau, 11th grade, Columbia Falls High School (Keep Montana Green, art contents, 2021)

Direct fire attack [info] Ground fire [info]

Dan Day, "what happens when a forest burns?"

Eugene Warming, "Burned campo cerrado (Lagoa Santa, Brazil)"