Landscape paintings make great interior decoration pieces. They are a constant reminder of the beauty in nature. The landscape oil paintings are collectors items and the most expensive landscape art work was sold for a whopping $8.4 million and it was Claude Monet's,'L'lle aux Orties'. The second most expensive painting was Edward Hopper's 'Blackwell Island' and was sold for $19.2 million. The most famous landscape painting artists are: Claude Monet, J.M.W Turner, John Constable, Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Lorrain, Thomas Cole, Thomas Moran and more. The artists of 21st century have taken a more contemporary approach towards landscape artworks and they excel in carved book landscapes, anamorphic illusions and more.