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Medium: Ink
Bottle Bag (Lady Selborne, Pretoria, South Africa)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tshidiso Andrew Motjuoadi (1935-1968) Bottle Bag (A Penny for a Bottle). 1963. Ink on handmade paper laid down on plywood board, panel measures 20.5 x 28.75 inches. Signed and dated ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink
Flora Scottish Female Illustrator Glasgow Girls Pre-Raphaelites
Located in Miami, FL
Annie French was part of the Glasgow Girls group of artists and illustrators who worked in a delicate, feminine, and detailed Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite style. This work, "Flora,...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Study for “The Artist’s Studio” 1820, Horace Vernet (French 1789-1820)
Located in Sydney, NSW
Horace Vernet (French 1789-1863), Study for “The Artist’s Studio” 1820.
This is a charming detailed pen and ink study for “Vernet’s The Artist’s Studio” which was painted in 1820. I...
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19th Century Academic Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Las Metas Pequeńas" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Las Metas Pequeńas" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Pencil on Paper. Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 15" x 15" inch
Size framed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, a preparatory drawing by Alessandro Casolani
Located in PARIS, FR
This powerful pen and brown ink wash drawing is a study for an altarpiece depicting The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew. Signed and dated 1604, it was painted at the end of his life b...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
English School 19th Century, Julia Matthews in ‘The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein’
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A highly decorative and whimsical study of ‘The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein’ starring Julia Matthews as the title role, first shown in 1867. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is an ...
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19th Century Academic Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Disegno figurativo impressionista italiano del XIX secolo firmato
Located in Florence, IT
Questo schizzo, inchiostro su carta, è firmato in basso al centro C. Brancaccio. Raffigura un gruppo di figure, tra cui un bambino che sembra protendersi verso un animale, si può sup...
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19th Century Impressionist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
POLITICAL CARTOONS - Vignette by Vauro Senesi, Italy 1970
Located in Napoli, IT
Vauro Senesi, known simply as Vauro (Pistoia, March 24, 1955), is an Italian cartoonist, editor, television personality and actor. He is among the best-known satirical cartoonists in...
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1970s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
The Angels - Original China Ink and Watercolor by Madeleine Scellier - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
The Angels is an original drawing in watercolored china ink on ivory-colored paper realized by the French artist Madeleine Scellier (1928).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin...
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1950s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Village Scene, early 20th century drawing on paper, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Burchfield (American, 1893-1967
Village Scene, 1921
Ink, pencil and watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
11 x 8.5 inches
17.75 x 14.75 inches, framed
Born in Ash...
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1920s American Impressionist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Ink
Talluah Bankhead 3 and Pola Negri II Diptych. From The Dis-enchanted series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Talluah Bankhead 3 and Pola Negri II Diptych, 2016
From The Dis-enchanted series
Ink on paper
Overall frame size: 20 in. H x 32 in. W x 1 in D
Individual size:
Image size: 16.5 in....
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sculptural ink and vintage china plate painting 'Spiraling with Bird in Flight'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Spiraling with Bird in Flight' 2024 by American artist Robert Strati. Broken plate and ink on paper, 30 x 23 x 1.5 in.
Frame: 33 x 25 x 2.5 in. This work incorporates pieces of an antique shattered plate Illustrating an idyllic landscape adorned with pagodas. The artist complements these shattered pieces with intricate ink drawings, carefully replicating the original monochrome hues of the plate. Framed in a white wood frame.
Inspired by the serendipitous event of accidentally dropping a cherished heirloom plate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Porcelain, Paper, Ink
Vintage china plate and ink painting 'The Fall with Bridge' by Robert Strati
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'The Fall with Bridge' 2024 by American artist Robert Strati. Broken plate and ink on paper, 35.75 x 23 x 1.5 in.
Frame: 38.75 x 26 x 2.5 in. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Porcelain, Paper, Ink
Ink and vintage china plate painting of Horses by Robert Strati 'The Race'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'The Race' 2024 by American artist Robert Strati. Broken plate and ink on paper, 21 x 21 x 1.5 in. / Frame: 24 x 24 x 2.5 in. This work incorporates pieces of an antique shattered plate depicting a jockey on a horse. The artist complements these shattered pieces with intricate ink drawings, carefully replicating the original monochrome hues of the plate. Framed in a white wood frame.
Inspired by the serendipitous event of accidentally dropping a cherished heirloom plate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Porcelain, Paper, Ink
Charles Mahoney - Self Portrait, Modern British watercolour and ink drawing
Located in London, GB
CHARLES MAHONEY
(1903-1968)
Self Portrait – A Study for Muses
Signed with initials l.l.
Pen and ink with sepia watercolour
Framed
27.5 by 18 cm., 10 ¾ by 7 in.
(frame size 46 by 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
A ca 1954 Watercolor & Ink Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of...
Category
1950s American Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Mid-Century, Black & White Portrait of a Young Man by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959, black & white, ink on paper portrait of a young man by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicag...
Category
1950s American Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Watercolor & Ink on Paper Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Cahpin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954, watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
Category
1950s American Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Rose
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
Category
1950s American Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Paper
The Lady of the Lake.Naked Lady with Red Boa Skating Poodle Art Nouveau Such Fun
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Oscar Wilson.
English ( b.1867 - d.1930 ).
The Lady of the Lake.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper.
Signed.
Image size 17 inches x 10.2 inches ( 43cm x 26cm ).
Frame size 23 inches x 16....
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Poli Negri I and Vilma Banky Diptych. Drawing From The Dis-enchanted series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Poli Negri I and Vilma Banky Diptych, 2016
From The Dis-enchanted series
Ink on paper
Overall frame size: 20 in. H x 32 in. W x 1 in D
Individual size:
Image size: 16.5 in. H x 11....
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Modern Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'Prince of Innocence'
Located in Surfside, FL
Angelic boy with a devil figure.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Poli Negri III, Poli Negri and Louise Brooks II, Triptych.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Poli Negri III, Poli Negri and Louise Brooks Triptych, 2016
From The Dis-enchanted series
Ink on paper
Overall frame size: 20 in. H x 48 in. W x 1 in D
Individual size:
Image size:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Woman sitting in red s" figurative drawing water colour, ink on paper 65x50 cm
Located in Roscoff, FR
This captivating piece, titled 'Woman Sitting in Red,' offers an intimate exploration of relaxation and tranquility. Precisely executed in figurative drawing with watercolor and ink ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Musiciens Sur Fond Multicolore By Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, India Ink, Tempera, Gouache
Untitled Female Nude with Male, Original Drawing by Surrealist Painter
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Untitled Female Nude and Male" is a 22 x 17 inches, ink on paper drawing by American Surrealist painter Leon Kelly. The drawing is signed and dated in the lower right, it is matted ...
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1960s Surrealist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Costume teatrale costruttivista" acquerello e china cm. 26 x 38 1920 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Bellissimo studio costruttivista per costume teatrale
Kostantin Vialov
Pittore, grafico, scenografo, artista di arti decorative e applicate. Uno dei principali artisti sovietici deg...
Category
1920s Constructivist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Original bird drawing (hand signed and inscribed by Ronnie Cutrone) in monograph
Located in New York, NY
Ronnie Cutrone
Original bird drawing (hand signed and inscribed by Ronnie Cutrone), 1990
Original signed drawing done in marker held in hardback monograph with dust jacket
Boldly signed, dated and inscribed by Ronnie Cutrone on the first front end page
11 × 9 1/2 × 3/4 inches
Original signed drawing done in marker held in monograph, dated and inscribed by Ronnie Cutrone on the first front end page.
The inscription reads:
For David & Barbara
Ronnie Cutrone 90
Book information:
Publisher: Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, (January 1, 1990)
English; Hardcover; 46 pages with 44 color and 11 monochrome illustrations
About Ronnie Cutrone:
Ronnie Cutrone (July 10, 1948 – July 21, 2013) was an American pop artist known for his large-scale paintings of some of America's favorite cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker and No Glove No Love.
Cutrone's paintings are colorful, lively, and less challenging than those of his contemporaries. As Andy Warhol's assistant at the Factory atop the Decker Building from 1972 until 1980, Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and other concepts, eventually co-opting Warhol's earliest work (pre-1960) as well as works by Roy Lichtenstein and others, until finally distilling those myriad influences into the style a few critics eventually labeled "Post-Pop."
He exhibited at the Niveau Gallery in 1979 with a Scottish artist called Mike Gall who showed paintings of Snoopy, Mickey and Minnie mouse, the Pink Panther and also a small series of Peter Rabbit paintings...
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1990s Pop Art Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Paper
LeRoy Neiman 'Femling - Happy New Year 1992' Original ink & watercolor
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012)
Title: Femling - Happy New Years
Type: Original
Material: Ink & Paper
Year Produced: 1992
Medium: ink on paper
Size: 8.25" x 13"
Framed approx.: 20...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Composition - Drawing by Alfredo Mezio - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing in pen on paper, realized by Alfredo Mezio in 1934 for the magazine "Il Selvaggio", Year XI, p. 46.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident an...
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1930s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960 ca.
Drawing pen on yellowed paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena,...
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1960s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
HORSE AND RIDER - Ink drawing signed Marino
Located in Napoli, IT
Indian ink drawing on paper inspired by the works of Marino Marini, embellished with a beautiful frame, mis. est. cm. h.37x32x2.
Category
1970s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
"Arrows of St Sebastian" diptych 2 sepia ink drawings by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Arrows of St Sebastian" diptych 2 sepia ink drawings by Paula Craioveanu
This is a set of 2ink drawings, showing in a modern vision the martyrdom of St Sebastian.
These 2 drawings ...
Category
2010s Old Masters Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Two Villages" - Black and White Ink Landscape Drawing By Joan Carl Strauss
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Two Villages" is a black and white landscape ink drawing by Joan Carl Strauss that unfolds a narrative of hidden rivalry within a picturesque valley.
In the heart of a flat-floore...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 editi...
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1890s Pre-Raphaelite Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
PINK BUG - Ink drawing by Robert Clarence, 1989
Located in Napoli, IT
Ink drawing Title "Pink Bug" made by Robert Clarence, framed signed and numbered.
Category
1980s Modern Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Zoomorphic composition, 1979, India ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Alena NADVORNIKOVA (née en 1942)
Zoomorphic composition, 1979
India ink on paper
Signed and dated "1979" lower left
50 x 32 cm
Frame : 60 x 40 cm
A Czech artist born in 1942 in Lipn...
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1970s Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Dva svety (Two Worlds), 1979, India ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Alena NADVORNIKOVA (née en 1942)
Dva svety (Two Worlds), 1979
India ink on paper
Titled "Dva svety", signed and dated "79" lower left
50 x 32 cm
Frame : 60 x 40 cm
A Czech artist bo...
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1970s Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Shadow of a Doubt
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden.
This is how she writ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Pen
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan & concubine
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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17th Century Rajput Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Woman Painting in Garden Landscape Scene, 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Algesa O'Sickey (American, 1917-2006)
Woman Painting
Watercolor and ink on green paper
Unsigned
9 x 12 inches
13.75 x 16 inches, framed
Born Algesa D’Agostino on June 4, 1917, Alges...
Category
20th Century Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Located in New York, NY
"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003)
Judy Garland
20 x 15 inches (sight)
Etching
26 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches Framed...
Category
1970s Performance Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Ink
Bette Midler Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Located in New York, NY
Bette Midler Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003)
Bette Midler
15 x 11 inches (sight)
Etching
22 x 18 inches Framed
Signed an...
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1980s Performance Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Ink
Odalisque
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden.
This is how she writes about the drawing:
In my intimate drawings, I capture what is closest to me – the private moments that I would hardly want to reveal. And yet, I choose to share them with my audience.
The motif of the odalisque, a reclining woman, has long been a popular subject in art. Throughout history, numerous artists have embraced this theme, and some of their paintings depicting reclining women have become iconic, shaping the course of art in their respective eras. Art historians have extensively written about the influence of these works. Notably, the odalisques created by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, such as his renowned piece “La Grande Odalisque...
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1990s Contemporary Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Acrylic
"Figure Study" Rockwell Kent, American Modernism, Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Rockwell Kent
Figure Study
Estate stamped lower right
Ink on paper
6 x 10 inches
Rockwell Kent, though best known as an artist and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his long life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager. Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing career in the fine arts, however, and after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies, but soon left Columbia to study painting full time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929) and Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876 - 1952). His classmates included the artists George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925) and Edward Hopper (American, 1882 - 1967).
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921) at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his own work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in the natural world. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York and in 1907 was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They in turn divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist then married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took a number of extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, rural locales provided inspiration for both his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
Category
Early 20th Century Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
Category
18th Century Rajput Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Inbetweeners
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden.
This is how she writ...
Category
1990s Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Acrylic, Ink
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
Category
18th Century Rajput Ink Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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