Rolf Armstrong Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Robert Philipp, 'Portrait of a Young Man', color pastel and wet brush, c. 1967. Signed in pencil, lower right. A fine, painterly drawing, on cream laid Michallet drawing paper. The artist's tack holes in the four sheet corners, in very good condition. Image size 19 x 11 1/2 inches (483 x 292 mm); sheet size 19 x 12 3/8 inches (483 x 314 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir. In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...

Red and green pastel portrait study of four faces in different poses, one male and one female, by Visionary artist Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943). Signed and dated "Clayton 197...

Pastel and conté crayon with partial foil star on Rives BFK paper Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in ...

William Huggins was born in Liverpool, England on the 13th of May, 1820. His parents were Samuel and Elisabeth Huggins. He took his first drawing lessons from the Liverpool Mechanics...

The Young Student is an original drawing in Ink, Watercolor, and pastel by an anonymous artist in the first half of the 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted throu...

CHILD - Pastel on paper cm.51x41 signed lower right by Alfonso Grassi, Italy. Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73

Signed and dated top right: "Cinalli / MCMXCVII". Ricardo Cinalli was born in Froylan Palacios in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied Psychology at the University of Rosario, and previously studied Painting at the Academia Fornells and Piano at the Conservatorio Chopin. He moved to London in 1973 to study Painting at the Harrow School of Art and later on at Hornsey School of Art. In 1980 he started to exhibit his works in various galleries and museums in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Amongst his public commissions are frescoes in the Londersborough Room in Alexandra Palace, Vintners Place in London, and the Argentinian Embassy among others. He has created the set designs for Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau for the National Theatre, London (1996), Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro (1998) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Colon...

Portrait is an original drawing in pastel on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the Mid-20th Century. Not signed. Good conditions, with some foxing and folding. The artwork ...

Portrait is a beautiful drawing in pastel and charcoal on paper realized by Fernand Renault (1865-1909) In good condition. Stamped on the lower right. The artwork represents the p...

Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century. Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...

Pastel on paper, signed bottom right Image size: 12 x 14 1/2 inches (30.5 x 36.75 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame This is a touching drawing of a young girl who is seen smili...

An 80's style Art Deco work on paper of a Dancing Nude Lady by contemporary artist Erik Freyman. Collage with pastels on paper, signed lower right.