Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Couple - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painte...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Les Mains de ma mère - Original Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mains de ma mère is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Edouard Dufeu in the 1880s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions and aged with some diffused foxing ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Village Laundry Laying
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Laurence Dunn, SS Kentish Coast (c.1925) Merchantman Tramp Steamer
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Untitled II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled II" 2001 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the middle right by the artist. The artwork size is 13.5 x 16.75 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings.
Jean-Ray...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
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1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache, Pencil
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings.
Jean-Ray...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Ink Drawing by Auguste Bigand - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Auguste Bigand (1803-1875).
Good condition included a green and white cardboard passpartout (50x65 cm).
Stamp Signed on the l...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mexican House with Porch
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled I" 1998 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left by the artist. The artwork size is 14 x 17 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Albert Moore: 30 Fenchurch Street, London, 1915 architectural watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Albert Walter Moore (1874 – 1965)
D...
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1910s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
John Stanton Ward: St John's College, Cambridge watercolour
By John Stanton Ward
Located in London, GB
John Stanton Ward CBE (1917 - 2007)
St John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour
30 x 47 cm
John Stanton Ward CBE was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator. This...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Couple - Original Drawing by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in pencil, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter, e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins an d some foxings.
Jean-Ra...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings.
Jean-Ray...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Windmill on the Plains, 1940s Watercolor and Ink Mixed Media Modernist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Windmill on the Plains' is watercolor and ink on paper painting by Jenne Magafan. Depicting a large windmill on a 1940s Colorado farm scene with sheds and a fencing in the backgroun...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hugh Casson: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge watercolour 1985
By Hugh Casson
Located in London, GB
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Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Watercolour
11 x 21
A beautiful original water of Corpus. Casson juxtaposes the sparely painted figures of undergraduates and academics with the majesty of the pale stone used to build much of the college. This watercolour was used in Casson's book "Hugh Casson's Cambridge."
Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 20th century watercolour of Monreale, Sicily
Located in London, GB
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004)
Monreale, Sicily (1955)
48 x 58 cm
Pencil and wash on paper
Provenance: Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, authentication no 1665.
A heady evocation of summer in Sicily, characterised by burnt oranges and yellows.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, known as Willie, was born in St Andrews, Fife, on 8 June 1912. Her parents were second cousins, and their respective families were well established representatives of minor Scottish gentry from both the east and west of the country. As a child, Barns-Graham showed very early signs of creative ability. It was at school that Wilhelmina decided that she wanted to be an artist, stating later in life that "painting chose me, not I it".
After school she set her sights on Edinburgh College of Art where, after some dispute with her father (who was an emotional man prone to uncontrolled anger), she enrolled in 1931. During her time at Edinburgh College, Barns-Graham was taught by tutors including portrait painter David Alison and painter William MacTaggart. Her friends there included the influential Scottish painters Robert MacBryde, Robert Colquhoun...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pencil
Mountain House - Drawing in Tempera - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mountain House is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored tempera on board.
Includes frame: 42 x 4 x 48 cm
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Boucher au Travail - Original Drawing by Pierre Gatier - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boucher au travail is an original drawing in charcoal and watercolor realized by Pierre Gatier in the mid-20th Century.
good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted throu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Hopi Village on First Mesa, Arizona, Red, Blue, and Orange Mixed Media Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Watercolor, ink, and charcoal on paper titled 'Walpi #9 (Hopi Village on First Mesa, Arizona)' by Bert Van Bork (1928-2014). Painted in saturated shades ...
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1990s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original China Ink and Watercolour realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900).
Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Dark Toned Modern Abstract Angular Landscape Drawing of a Small City or Village
Located in Houston, TX
Dark toned modern abstract pastel drawing by Texas-born artist Eugene Massin. The work features a small city or village tucked away behind green foliage. Signed in front lower left c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Port - Original Drawing by Edmond Cuisinier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Port is an original drawing in pencil realized in the early 20th Century by Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917).
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted th...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Robert Tavener: Lansdown Parade, Cheltenham architectural watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pen, Watercolor
Robert Tavener: Cheltenham College architectural watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pen, Watercolor
Nude - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Paper
Barclays Bank 1964 architectural drawing. Design by JDM Harvey, London, England
Located in London, GB
John Dean Monroe Harvey (1895-1978)
A design for Barclays Bank, Walthamstow, London, England, UK (1964)
Gouache
41 x 60 cm
Signed and dated 1964.
A very fine architectural perspe...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Gouache
Sir Albert Richardson: Christopher Wren Emmanuel College, Cambridge watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., P.R.A. (1880 - 1964)
Cambridge Revisited (1933)
Pen, ink, and wash
24 x 35 cm
Signed and dated lower right.
Renowned for his architectural fantasies, Richardson here depicts Sir Christopher Wren...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Gwyneth Johnstone: 'The Railway Bridge' Modern British Art watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Couple Admiring The French Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 10.75 x 9 inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Border - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Border is an original watercolor drawing on paper, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower, illegible.
Good condition.
The artwork...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
'Junks in Hong Kong Harbor', Kowloon, Bank, California Watercolor Society, SFAI
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Frank M. Hamilton' for Frank Moss Hamilton (American, 1930-1999) and painted circa 1965. Titled, verso, 'The Smugglers, Hong Kong' on artist card and inscribed, ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cows in a Field (Recto)
Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938
Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Cloudy - Original pencil drawing by Raymond Jean Verdun - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
Cloudy is an original pencil drawing realized by Raymond Jean Verdun (1873 - 1954) in 1908.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist.
Good condition.
Born in 1873 in Nogent-le-Rotrou, Raymond Jean Verdun was a student of Henri Harpignies...
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Early 1900s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Laurence Dunn, SS Pinhel Lisboa (c.1927) Merchantman Tramp Steamer watercolour
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Ink
Landscape - Original Drawing by Edmond Cuisinier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original watercolor drawing in on paper realized in the early 20th Century by Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917).
Monogrammed on the lower and stamped on the rear.
Good c...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
V A Hards: 'Design for A Departmental Store' Mid Century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 193...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Architectural Design for Fairfield House Droxford (1910) Norman Nisbet ARIBA
Located in London, GB
Norman Clayton Hadlow Nisbet ARIBA
Design for Fairfield House, Droxford, Hampshire (c. 1910)
Watercolour and pencil
33 x 51 cm
Signed and extensively inscribed.
Exhibited Royal Acad...
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1910s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Boucher au Travail - Original Drawing by Pierre Gatier - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boucher au travail is an original drawing in charcoal and watercolor realized by Pierre Gatier in the mid-20th Century.
good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted throu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Charcoal
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Black and White Harbour Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Marie Franke - Original drawing by Gustave Bourgogne - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Marie Franke is an original drawing realized in the first decades of the 20th Century by the French artist Gustave Bourgogne (Veignè, 1888 - Paris, 1968).
Original pencil on paper. ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil, Paper
Laurence Dunn, SS Denmark Maru (c.1927) Merchantman Tramp Steamer painting
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Ink
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Blue Skies Over French Chateau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour with biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 7 x 11 inches
condition: very good and ready ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Boats Down By The River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour with biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 8.25 x 11.25 inches
condition: very good and ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Detailed Small French Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9.5 x 12.5inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965)
Hydrangeas, circa 1950
Mixed media on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey
Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021
Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art.
The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot.
But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience.
But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed.
In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Crayon
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Flowers In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour with biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 11 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and read...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Peaceful French Bridge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be en...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Small Black & White French Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour with biro on artist paper, framed with white card
stamped verso
size: 7 x 8.25 inches
condition: very...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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