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Style: Folk Art
CELEBRATION (LARGE ORIGINAL ON WOOD)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on wood. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
CONVOY
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 7.5 inch paper mounted on 14 x 11 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condit...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
SOLITARY
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 7.5 inch paper mounted on 14 x 11 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condit...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
GATHERING
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 8 inch paper mounted on 14 x 10.87 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condi...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
HOME SWEET HOME
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 10.375 x 7.875 inches. Frame size approx 16 x 14 inches.
Artwork is in excellent conditi...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
GATHERING
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 11 x 8 inches. Frame size approx 17 x 14 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifica...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Zokou Gbeuli guerrier des traditions Bété, 1980, African Art, Drawing
Located in Milano, IT
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Zokou Gbeuli guerrier des traditions Bétè, 09-02-1980, Drawing in ballpoint pen and colored pencils on cardboard, 29 x 20 cm, Titled, signed and dated on the ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
An Army of Captain Crash - Johnston, Figure Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Art
Located in Houston, TX
Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
19th-Century Swiss School, Montbenon, Lake Geneva
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century Swiss school drawing depicts the beautiful Esplanade de Montbenon in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The picturesque gardens of the Esplanade de Montbenon provide a spl...
Category
1830s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
The Potter's House, Jeremiah 18: 1-6
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Potter's House, Jeremiah 18: 1-6" c.1990 is a colored pencil drawing on paper by noted African American artist Roger Rice, b.1958. It is signed at the lower ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Untitled (Religious scene)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled (Religious Scene)" c.1990 is a colored pencil drawing on paper by noted African American artist Roger Rice, b.1958. It is signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Winged character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art drawing outsider art portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing animal color map
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
I Want Pizza by Daniel Johnston Ink on paper
Located in Austin, US
I Want Pizza by Daniel Johnston
original ink on paper
measures 8.5" x 11"
Est. late 1970s
Signed au recto in ink by the artist
In excellent condition for its age with no rips on the paper
This drawing was part of Power Pathos, a 2006 Station Museum of Contemporary Art (Houston, TX) exhibit showcasing the work of five artists: Ron English, Clark Fox...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour character
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing animal color map
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing animal color map
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Hand VI Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing tree tattoo write
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Korean Buddhist Guardian Mural Taenghwa Painting, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
Evolving from the Korean tradition of tomb mural painting came the Buddhist practice of “taenghwa,” or hanging-painting, a form of religious painting that included hanging scrolls, framed paintings and wall murals. Influenced by Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist art...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment, Paint, Cotton
Toucan Whisperers male female figures with toucan humorous undertones soft color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This soft pastel on toned heavyweight sanded paper is part of an ongoing series by the artist depicting human animal interactions. It is signed and dated on bottom right corner
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Mixed media sketchbook study by female tapestry weaver Lynne Curran of Bali
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A delightful study by the contemporary female tapestry weaver Lynne Curran titled 'Take me to Bali'.
Lynne Curran trained in tapestry at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1973-77. ...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Standing figure, 1992 Ballpoint Ink Drawing on an Envelope (Phone Bill)
By Marc Baseman
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Baseman is a visual artist. Marc Baseman has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico.He has been exhibiting with Dickinson Roundell and Edward Nahem in New York, and Nahem has helped him find an eager audience among collectors in London and Europe. Marc Baseman has Exhibited with these artists:
Larry Bell, Lynda Benglis, Vija Celmins, Ronald Davis, Wes Mills, Lee Mullican...
Category
1990s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Wine & Cigarettes Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Reclining Woman Wine and Cigarettes
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Matted to 13 X 1...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Mean Hippies (Drawing with Rattlesnake Warrior and Red Rebels) Outsider Art
By Alex O'Neal
Located in Surfside, FL
Paper measures 21 X 33 inches
Born and raised in Mississippi, Alex O'Neal graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the Eighties, his formal education overlapped regular visits with Mississippi self-taught artists, including Mary T. Smith, Luster Willis, and Son Ford Thomas. He later immersed himself in art brut collections and European art brut in Switzerland, Germany, and France. His work is also inspired by African-American self-taught outsider art. O'Neal's drawings and paintings have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S.122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d’Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA; Field Projects, New York; LOG at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago. His work is in volumes 16, 38, and 104 of New American Paintings. His paintings and drawings idiosyncratically depict circumstances that associate Americans, i.e. dysfunction, nature worship, cults, homegrown terrorism, Hollywood, reverence for Native America. There is formal influence from stylization found in Romanesque fresco, early American portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era.This painting that depicts figures including a crowned pig, and a princess in a bed. Artist signature above bed. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 14.75 X 21.25.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Broken paper towel Julien Wolf Contemporary art drawing expressionnist outsider
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper pasted on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Fr...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Come back Julien Wolf Contemporary art drawing expressionnist outsider colour
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper pasted on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel
Hula Hoop Julien Wolf Contemporary art drawing expressionnist pastel outsider
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper pasted on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Lilac Fish, Contemporary Watercolor
Located in Brecon, Powys
A framed watercolour by Walshe. Known more for his works in other mediums this is a bit of a departure for Walshe, but still displays his unique style and concern for the environment. Lilac Fish is an intricate work showing happy little reef fish...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. This framed painting depicts figures, a rooster and angels in flying above. Artist signature on farm gate. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 15 X 21.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Artist and Model humorous interpretation of the traditional subject muted color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded heavyweight archival paper suitable for framing under glass signed and dated bottom left. Part of the artists series on the artist and Model subject prima...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Song & Dance Mermaids entertaining sirens soft sunny pastel colors joyful dance
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on archival toned paper signed and dated bottom right corner. Mounted on archival foam board for suitable framing. Part on an ongoing series of Mermaids by the artist.
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Debonair Man Cuts his Mustache in Front of Mirror
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to the wonderfully delightful mind of Ludwig Bemelmans.
With a few quick lines, Bemelmans captures the essence of a subject. In this work, the artist portrays a distinguished...
Category
1950s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Framed to 15 X ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman with a child and is hand-painted in a palette of red, blue, and purple. Belonging to a genre known as 'beauties and babies,' the painting represents a harmonious family life. The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Sports Basketball Arena Coca Cola Sign
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
''Basketball'', 1988, gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right, titled in pencil on paper verso
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Fr...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Yangliuqing Peace & Prosperity New Year Painting, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman holding a vase filled with peony blossoms. This combination of motifs is a visual idiom for "may you have peace and prosperity" (ping'an fu gui). The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Yangliuqing Longevity New Year Painting, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pigment, Paper
Untitled, Parade
By Hajo Malek
Located in Surfside, FL
German outsider Naive artist born in 1922. has exhibited in Germany in 1969 worked in painting, gouache and linocuts. Expressionist Folk Art style.
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Coffee Espresso #7
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Espresso #7 by Eliza Southwood [2022]
original
Coffee on Paper
Image size: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unfra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Coffee
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
'Mending', African American Woman Folk Artist, Houston, Dallas, Blues Museum Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989.
Ruth Mae McCrane taught...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
small woman on a big chair, figurative, colorful, botero-like, pastel, paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
"The People People 5, " Paint on Paper, 2006
Located in Chicago, IL
In this series entitled "The People People," Tracy Crump uses washes of grey, white and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each figure stands alone as an indi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Drawing for Allegheny + Ludlum Helmet & Jacket, " Graphite on Paper, 2020
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Drawing for Allegheny + Ludlum Helmet & Jacket," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald is a companion piece to his sculpture "A+L Helmet & Jacket." Worn by the imagined driver of one of his miniature soap box derby cars, each helmet & jacket is branded with an industrial sponsor, in this case the Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, a steel manufacturer from the early 20th century. Mounted on subtle collage materials and paper fragments...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Board, Graphite
"The People People 4, " Acrylic Paint and Watercolor on Paper, 2006
Located in Chicago, IL
In this series entitled "The People People," Tracy Crump uses washes of grey, white and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each figure stands alone as an indi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Drawing for The Sponsor, " Graphite on Paper, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Drawing for The Sponsor," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald envisions an advertisement by Southport Tool and Die, a Chicago company from the 1940s and th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Board, Graphite
Women Carrying Baskets with Children, Figurative Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative gouache painting on paper of four barefoot women dressed in tribal patterned garments carrying baskets and children, by an unknown artist (...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
'Bass Fishing with Naiads' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bass Fishing with Naiads" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of blue, yellow, red, black and green.
Blair Hobbs is inspired b...
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
'The People People 2, " Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 2006
Located in Chicago, IL
In this series entitled "The People People," Tracy Crump uses washes of grey, white and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each figure stands alone as an indi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
'Blind Folly' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Blind Folly" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of orange, yellow, black and green.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of M...
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
Festividades Virgen de Guadalupe / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
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Artisan: Alejandro Diaz Nava
Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper.
- Dimensions: 28" x 37" x 2" in or 72 x 93 x 4 cm
- Weigh...
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paint, Paper, Watercolor
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now"
Ralph Fasanella (1914-_1997) "Victory and After,” gouache on paper. Signed, titled...
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1940s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
"The People People 6" by Tracy Crump
Located in Chicago, IL
In this series entitled "The People People," Tracy Crump uses washes of white, red and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each fig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
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