India Ink Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Landscape is a drawing in China ink on paper realized in 1950 by René Gouast ( 1897-1980) The State of preservation is very good with the traces of time a...

Rene GENIS (1922 - 2004) View of the Pont Neuf in Paris Original ink on paper Hansigned in ink (monogram) Size of the image : 14 x 19 cm (c. 5.5 x 7.5 inch) Size at view : 40.5 x 60...

'Chatham Square'; watercolor, color pencil, India ink, and scratchwork; 1955. Signed and annotated '© 1955' in ink, lower left. Titled 'Chatham Square' in pencil, verso. An atmospheric, mixed-media, aerial cityscape of mid-century Manhattan, with fresh colors, on heavy watercolor paper; the full sheet with the image extending to the sheet edges, in good condition. Chatham Square is a historic intersection in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York City. The square lies at the confluence of eight streets: the Bowery, Doyers Street, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street, and Park Row. The small park in the center of the square is known as both Kimlau Square and Lin Ze Xu Square. Painter, muralist, and teacher, Stuyvesant (Stuart) Van Veen was born in New York City in 1910. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Daniel Garber, the National Academy of Design under David Karfunkel, the Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton, and at the New York School of Industrial Art and Columbia University. Prolific and notably active in the art world throughout his career, Van Veen was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Society for Painters Casein, the National Society of Mural Painters, the Artists’ Equity Association, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Artists Congress, the Artists League of America and the Mural Artists Guild. His numerous exhibitions include: the Carnegie Institute, 1929, 1943; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1930-1946; the Society of Independent Artists, 1930; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1930, 1933-34, 1938; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1940, 1941, 1943; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1929, 1936; Brooklyn Museum, 1929, 1936; St. Louis Art Museum, 1929, 1936, 1939, 1943; Minnesota Institute of Art, 1929, 1936, 1939; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1935-40; Museum of Modern Art, 1934, 1937, 1939; Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1935-36, 1939, 1941; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1936-49; Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, 1939; National Gallery of Art, 1942, 1944; National Academy of Design 1965-69; American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1961 (Childe Hassam purchase award); American Society of Contemporary Artists, 1966 (Nelson Whitehead Prize); and the “New York City WPA” at Parsons School of Design, 1977. Van Veen created more than 30 murals in public buildings, many commissioned by the WPA, including paintings for Riverside Memorial Chapel, New York; Fordham Hospital, New York; the Labor Building, Washington, DC; the United States Post Office, Pittsburgh, 1937; the New York World’s Fair, 1938; and the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base, 1945. One of his best-known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field...

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country Snow Shoes signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by ...