Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
American
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Education Northwestern University, MFA, Illinois(Biography provided by David Barnett Gallery)
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Artist: Sylvia Spicuzza
"Downtown Lakefront" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
"Milkweed Pod I #528" Original Charcoal Drawing
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of two milkweed pods, bursting forth with cotton. Examples like this show the ability of Spicuzza to draw in a naturalistic style, where most of her work is usually in a highly stylized, graphic mode. The richness and depth of the black charcoal makes for a moody image.
8 x 5 inches, artwork
18 x 14.5 inches, frame
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
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1920s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
"Summertime Fun at Big Cedar Lake" original charcoal drawing
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young women relaxing on a dock in a lake. A dinghy floats beside them as other boats traverse the water. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, who is better known for landscapes in the Impressionist style.
12 x 9 inches, artwork
18.63 x 15.75 inches, frame
Stamped with artist's signature, lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
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1950s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
'Four Figures' Charcoal drawing, signature stamped lower left
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 11"x15"
Paper: 12"x16"
Frame: 20 1/2"x24 1/2"
Charcoal drawing, signature stamped lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery...
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Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
'Clown Close Up' Watercolor, signed in ink lower right
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 23" x 18"
Frame: 33" x 29 1/4"
Watercolor, signed in ink lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
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Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
'Head of Woman With Collar #781' Felt tip pen, signed by artist
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 9"x11-1/2"
Frame: 16"x18-5/8"
Felt tip pen, signed lower right Sylvia
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
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1960s Surrealist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Felt Pen
'Merry Christmas' original color woodcut on paper, signed in block
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 5 1/2 x 4 3/8"
Frame: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8"
Original color woodcut on paper, signed in block.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
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1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Woodcut
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
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1940s Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
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1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
"Still Life with Fruit" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of two apples, still clinging to their leaves. Examples like this show the ability of Spicuzza to draw i...
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1920s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Paper
"Landscape with Two Figures" original monotype and drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Monotype
"Still Life with Artist's Hand" original watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This still life is an unusual example of Sylvia Spicuzza's work, as most of her most significant output are geometric and biomorphic abstract images. The objects in the image - a sea shell, a pitcher, a heavy necklace - are objects the artist likely had at home and staged for the image. But of particular significance is the insertion of the artist's hand, as though she was reaching into the still life while she was painting. The hand has been a significant symbol of the artist throughout art history as a source of creation: Albrecht Dürer's 'Self Portrait at the Age of Twenty-Eight' (1500) highlights the artist's hand much like traditional images of Christ giving gestures of blessing. Likewise, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 'Self Portrait as a Soldier' (1915) shows the artist in military uniform but with a severed hand as a symbol of helplessness during the First World War. Another important comparison, given Spicuzza is a Midwestern artist, is Ivan Albright's magic realist work 'That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)' at the Art Institute of Chicago. The massive painting...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Two Women In Oriental Costume" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a bust-length view of two elegant women dressed in East Asian costume. Their faces reflect the ideal of beauty during the 19...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"The Dance" original crayon drawing inscribed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza cavalry takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous paintings titled "La Dance" that hang in the Hermitage Museum ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"Teacher (The Echo, Milwaukee Normal)" original ink drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents us with something of a self portrait, showing an instructor at the head of a classroom, her students looking forward intently. Sylvia hersel...
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1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pencil
"Two Women Bathers at the Beach #403" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza is clearly taking influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." Like in that pa...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"Woman in Dress & Fancy Hat" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." This influence is more pron...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"Young Woman in a Landscape" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this intimate drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a young woman crouched down in a garden. The image is framed by foliage and fields of color.
3.75 x 5.25 inches, ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"Five Actresses" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene from the theater or opera, showing five women on stage. Three of the women have their backs to the viewer, while one...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Crayon
"Trampoline-WI State Fair Park" original signed drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a view of children jumping on a trampoline near the entrance to the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair...
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1950s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
"Snowman" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This winter scene painting is unusual in the work of Sylvia Spicuzza, but is one of the finger paintings that she produced probably in conjunction with...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paint
"Abstract Figure With Bird" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision. The scene is dominated by the figure of a woman in a ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Conté
"Fish" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an excellent example of one of Sylvia Spicuzza's rare 'finger paintings': not only is it remarkably large, but it also shows her mastery of the...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paint
"Self-Portrait With Student Creating a Mobile" watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this watercolor, Sylvia Spicuzza presents us with a self portrait, constructing a mobile with one of her young students. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Woman in Coat & Fancy Hat, " Graphite Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman in Coat & fancy Hat" is a graphite drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. An older woman is sketched as she stands. She is wearing a winter coat and quite a large hat.
Art: 8.25...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
"Woman in Fancy Costume Estate #752, " Watercolor & Graphite signed by Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman In Fancy Costume Estate #752" is a watercolor and graphite signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. A woman stands with arms stretched out. The lady is wearing a red and white stripped outf...
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1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Watercolor
"Clown Close Up, " Watercolor Portrait signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Clown Close Up" is an original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in ink lower right. It depicts a clown in red in front of a blue background.
23" x 18" ar...
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Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Two Art Deco Nude Dancers #763" Crayon & Color Pencil signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Art Deco Nude Dancers #763" is an original graphite, crayon, and color pencil drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower left. This piece depicts two nud...
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Mid-20th Century Neo-Expressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Color Pencil, Crayon, Graphite
"Playing Dress Up in the Attic, " Original Graphite Drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Playing Dress Up in the Attic" is an original graphite drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features two children playing dress-up.
8" x 5" art
19...
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1920s Other Art Style Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
"Dreaming of Paradise Island, " Watercolor and Pastel signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dreaming of Paradise Island" is an original watercolor and pastel on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts a large female figure overl...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pastel
"Bee Keeper, " Black Conte Crayon Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bee Keeper" is an original black conte crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed this piece lower right. This drawing depicts abstrac...
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1950s Expressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Conté
"Five Faces #736, " a Black Ink Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Five Faces #736" is an original black ink drawing with a stamped signature in the lower left by Sylvia Spicuzza. It depicts five female faces from a...
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1940s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
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