Sylvia Spicuzza

"City Lights" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza

ca. 1940

In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...

Here, Sylvia Spicuzza has taken the opportunity to create a geometric, crystalline composition of color while testing a set of Rembrandt artist's pastels. Her fractured planes of col...

"Cousin Mammy Grasp Your Mind" is an original pastel drawing by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece depicts a blonde woman surrounded by snakes an...

"Black Band Abstract" is an original pastel drawing by Valerie Christell. It features abstract markmaking that forms a dark band in the center of the drawing. The artist signed the piece. Artwork Size: 30" x 44" Frame Size: 45 1/4" x 31 1/8" Artist Bio: Valerie J. Christell lives, works and maintains a studio in the Milwaukee area. She’s taught a variety of classes at Alverno over the years and is the former gallery director. Currently she’s teaching Figure Drawing classes and is a member of Alverno’s Art and Environment Committee. After receiving her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, Christell received her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Since then, she has continued her education with post-graduate study in art history. In creating her art, Christell works in a variety of media, including drawing (clayboard, charcoal and pencil), found object, digital photography collages...

"Toonis" is an original pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on verso. It features abstract marks in pinks, purp...

Valerie Christell's large pastel drawings from the early 1980s take the landscape and make it abstract. In them, she tries to emulate the experience of seeing the land while driving at high speed on the back of a motorcycle. The resulting imagery is rendered in energetic and gestural line work that morphs into large fields of color. This example, 'Orange/Black abstract,' takes on the appearance of nighttime, lit only by the light of the motorcycle headlight...

The pastel portrait of Stella Samuel, very likely a starlet from the thirties, created in the style of Charles Sheldon, emanates timeless elegance. With a delicate interplay of color...

Marc Chagall 1887-1985 Russian Musiciens sur fond multicolore (Musicians on a multicolored background) Signed 'Chag' (on the sleeve of the right figure); stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) Tempera, gouache, colored ink and India ink and pastel on paper “The fact that I made use of cows, milkmaids, roosters and provincial Russian architecture as my source forms is because they are part of the environment from which I spring and which undoubtedly left the deepest impression on my visual memory of the experiences I have." - Marc Chagall Marc Chagall’s 1981...

Pastel & pencils on paper Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Department of Art, Moscow State U...

Pastel & pencils on paper Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Depar...

Pastel & pencils on paper Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Depar...

Pastel, 1952 Catalog : Polieri 1123 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (image) This is one of the first experiments in...