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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a boy, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of a boy
Signed lower left
Pastel on paper
28 x 23 cm
Framed : 63 x58 cm
Guirand de Scévola is particularly renowned for his...
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Xmas Gifts, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Xmas Gifts
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illu...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Paul Brown Color Lithograph "The Water - Aintree" from The Grand National
Located in Bristol, CT
Paul Brown (New York/ Minnesota; 1893 – 1958)
The Water – Aintree, 1931
Color lithograph on paper
Signed to lower right margin; signed in plate
Print Sz: 9 3/4"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 1...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Stettiner
Located in New York, NY
This work by Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) is offered by CLAMP In New York City.
Jacques Stettiner
c. 1927
Signature stamp in purple ink, verso; Also titled in pencil, verso
Ink o...
Category
1920s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Seated Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude
Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle
Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Bullfighting Scene Gouache on paper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Bullfighting Scene
Artist: Roberto Domingo
Technique: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 7 x 10 in (14 x 17.3 in with frame)
Period: 1930s
Style: Spanish Impressionism with Post-Impressionist influence
Condition: Framed in a classic wooden frame
Theme: Bullfighting scene
Description of the Artwork
"Bullfighting Scene" by Roberto Domingo is a vibrant and dynamic depiction of a typical moment in a bullring. The composition captures the drama and intensity of the moment, with a mounted picador on a striking white horse as the centerpiece, flanked by a matador and assistants preparing for the spectacle. The artwork radiates energy through swift and loose brushstrokes, imbuing the scene with movement and vitality.
Domingo’s style emphasizes visual synthesis, focusing on color and form rather than meticulous detail to convey the atmosphere of the bullfighting arena. Warm tones dominate, with vibrant yellows and reds contrasting against the grays and whites of the horse and costumes, creating a captivating chromatic interplay.
The classic frame adds sobriety and balance to the piece, further highlighting the expressive power of the gouache.
Biography of the Artist
Roberto Domingo Fallola (1883-1956), born in Paris, was a renowned painter and illustrator of Spanish descent. The son of the celebrated bullfighting painter Vicente Domingo, he inherited a passion for bullfights and became one of the leading exponents of bullfighting art...
Category
1930s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Male Nude, Seated
Located in New York, NY
Untitled Male Nude, Seated
Unique Ink on Paper Drawing
Hand signed by Archipenko
Good condition overall. There are paper losses and tears to upper right corner, as shown.
There is ...
Category
1920s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Portraits - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing and watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
On the verso: male portrait, charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Sketch - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed in the bottom center.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Vase - Drawing by Gabriel Fourmantraux - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor drawing realized by Gabriel Fourmantraux (1886-1984) in 1930s.
Matted, mat dimensions cm. 45x24.
Very good condition.
Gabriel Fourmantraux was an important fren...
Category
1930s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Virginia Gold Cup 1931/ Llangollen Farms & National Horse Show 1932 Triptych
Located in Bristol, CT
Rare original trio of drawings by Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) depicting: Virginia Gold Cup 1931/ Llangollen Farms 1932/ & National Horse Show 1932...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Drypoint
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Study of a peasant woman.
Located in Paris, FR
Study of an peasant woman. Red pastel. Signed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour and Ink on Paper Painting
Located in London, GB
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Inscribed, dated and signed lower left, Les Andelys 1927 Ludovic Rodo
Thi...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Sacred Flying Chariot -Drawing - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
The Sacred Flying Chariot is an ink drawing and collage on paper realized by an anonymous surrealist artist in 1937.
Monogrammed "P.B." on the lower and dated and hand-note on the r...
Category
1930s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Parisian Women's c1920s Fashion Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Boats in the Harbour - Seaside Maritime
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Boats in the Harbour, circa 1938
Technique: Original...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
New York City Skyline
14 x 21 1/2 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22.5 x 27.75 inches
27.75 x 34.5 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woman with Dog, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Thomas Webb 1
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Watercolor
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 13th, 1937.
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Jazz Duet"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980)
Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks Count...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Introducing Heidi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Introducing Heidi." Original illustration for page 11 of "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1922). Charcoal and watercolor on board. 10 1/2x8 inches, on 20x15-inch board. Unsigned but captioned "Chapter I" in lower margin with publisher's label on verso.
an original drawing from smith's final fully-illustrated work.
Heidi was "a perfect showcase for Smith's illustrative art...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Board
'Miss Personality' Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Miss Personality", American Art Works original art for a calendar.
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Femme en Costume Oriental, Pastel on Paper, Georges Manzana Pissarro, circa 1925
Located in London, GB
Femme en Costume Oriental by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pastel on paper
31.5 x 23.6 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Executed circa 1925
This wor...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right by the artist, see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Note:
Despiau ...
Category
1920s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s
By Robert Riggs
Located in New York, NY
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s.
Robert Riggs (1896-1970)
The Knockout
22 x 30 inches watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
Framed: ...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Double Fall Bechers Stanley Chase 1928
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Tyrannus, Early 20th Century painting of a dog, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949)
Tyrannus, c. 1935
Watercolor and pen and ink on paper
Signed lower right
7.5 x 9.5 inches
16 x 18 inches, framed
William Sommer is seen as a ke...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Ink
“New York at Night”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso.
Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
"Plain Black and White, " Saturday Evening Post, October 13, 1923
By John Gould
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (seated female nude)
By Henry Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Femake Nude
Graphite and chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Signed "Keller" and signed again with the artist's initials in a cypher
A finished life drawing most probably exhibited at...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
2 STUDIES FOR REVOLUTION II (Grosvenor School Color Linocut)
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (British 1872-1951)
STUDIES FOR THE COLOR LINOCUT REVOLUTION II, 1931
Pencil on thin wove paper. Unsigned. Consists of two 3 inch square pencil drawings on one sheet of thin wove paper 10 x 7 3/8 inches. Preliminary studies for Power's Grosvenor School...
Category
1930s Futurist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"My Son George" 1921 Pen & Ink Portrait by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Very early 1921 pen & ink drawing on board by Paul Brown
Sz: 10 3/4"H x 8 1/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Hole In The Wall Meadow Brook Cup 1929
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
His Last Fence Sandown 1928
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Happy Landing - Louis D'Or Pecked Llangollen Farms 1932
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
For Radnor Foxhall Farm Challenge Cup
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist
William McGill (Keller's student)
Image size: 4 3/8 x 5 ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Actress June Knight
Located in Miami, FL
Celebrity portrait sketch of
actress June Knight but James Montgomery Flagg on card stock in two colors.
Signed and inscribed lower right. The work is unframed.
There
is a slight cr...
Category
1930s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"International Meadowbrook Polo Match" c1930s Charcoal Drawing
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic charcoal polo drawing depicting 4 players on the field
Art Sz: 8 1/4"H x 11 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 13 1/2"H x 16 1/2"W
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
War Machine — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (War Machine)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with marg...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sleeping Cat, Early 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Sleeping Cat, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper right
15 x 19 inches
21.25 x 25.25 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Car...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Trinity Church, Wall Street”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. The painting depicts Trinity Church with several of the more contemporary buildings of Wall Stre...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
A Man's Wife
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 31.00" x 23.75"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed. Signed and inscribed 'To Steve Kovac/sincerely/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
Proven...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Gentlemen's Apparel c1923 Watercolour Vignetteby Herbert 'Fell' Sharp (1880-1972
Located in Bristol, CT
Stylish & dapper watercolour 'decoupage' vignette by 'Fell' 1923
Featuring seven English gents sporting various styles of bespoke apparel
Image Sz: 17"H x 12 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 23 1/4"H x 18 3/4"W
(04/14/1880- 11/1972)
Herbert Fell Sharp was a British comic artist/illustrator born in London, United Kingdom in the district of Islington, son of Charles Sharp and Catherine née Fell. He immigrated to United States by 1910 married Ruth Sheriff in 1916 in Westchester, New York.
He lived at 31 Poplar Street, Brooklyn and served as a former president to the New Rochelle Art Association in Westchester County, New York, an organization that included J.C. Leyendecker as a prominent member during the 1950's. Sources suggest that Fell Sharp began his career as a comic artist, composing illustrations for the Amalgamated Press comics circa 1900 and "The Jester and Wonder" in 1905.
Mr. Sharp possesses an artistic technique that is easy to identify and yet unique. The people featured in his artwork show details of pointed noises. Sharp's career, like his contemporaries, explored a diversity of avenues in which to market his craft. For example, he sketched artwork that consisted of war themes. As you will see, his art signatures feature his middle name on most prints, but sometimes may include middle and last names together coupled with the year of its completion.
There are some websites that happen to confuse Sharp's work with Laurence Fellows...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Conditi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Revitalize your interiors — introduce drawings and watercolor paintings to your home to evoke emotions, stir conversation and show off your personality and elevated taste.
Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art. The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
When you’re shopping for new visual art, whether it’s for your apartment or weekend house, remember to choose something that resonates. It doesn’t always need to make you happy, but you should at least enjoy its energy. On 1stDibs, browse a wide-ranging collection of drawings and watercolor paintings and find out how to arrange wall art when you’re ready to hang your new works.
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