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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: American Realist
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Blue Birds
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper, Pen
Three Figures Reading the Torah, Judaica Drawing by Tully Filmus
By Tully Filmus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tully Filmus (1903 - 1998) was a Russian/American artist who was known for his realist drawings of Jewish life. This pastel drawing on paper is signed low...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
French Form - Pencil Drawing - Abstract French German
By Hans Arp
Located in London, GB
JEAN [HANS] ARP 1886 –1966
Strasbourg, France 1886–1966 Basel, Switzerland (German/French)
Title: French Form Forme Francaise, 1959
Technique: Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove P...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Red to Green, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still life of a collection of red and green items. Apples, chillis, beans, buttons, and a spoo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fresh Sketch - Red Ink Drawing by Wifredo Lam - 1970
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful fresh sketch in red ink on an ivory-colored paper, with an autograph dedication "Per Pino Fasio amicia Pittore Wifredo Lam Albissola 1970" . Dated and signed in red ink. V...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Seascape - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1950s.
Hand-Signed on the lower right marg...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Winter Evening”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival Molvin arches paper by the well known American illustrator Fred Sweney. The scene depicts Central Park in New York City in a winter landscape with figures in conversation under an illuminated lamp post. Signed lower right. Titled verso in pencil with American Scene magazine #32 and page 30...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Composition - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Antoine M...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Three Medusas, " Eugene Berman, Surrealism, Greek Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Eugene Gustavovitch Berman (1899 - 1972)
Three Medusas, 1968
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 1/2 inches
Initialed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Larcada Gallery, New York
Frank Oehlsc...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
If Dogs Had Arms, colorful hand painted etching one of a kind
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Etching and watercolor, ideal for special gift
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Beak to Beak, figures birds fire escape mixed media collage w etching urban
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor and cut paper collage w/ etching of staircase. Dream scape fire escape imagery
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
"Under the Beach Umbrella, " American Realist, Watercolor, Seaside, Figural
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Aaron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1900. In 1916 Berkman attended the Connecticut League of Art Students, founded by Charles Noel Flagg. Beginning in 1919 he studied under Albertus E. Jones at the Hartford Art School. Berkman was influenced during this time by George Inness and John Singer Sargent and the Old Masters. He received a scholarship to the Museum Art School of Boston in 1921 and then traveled to Europe, remaining there from 1924 through 1925. He spent time in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Belgium. In 1929 Berkman moved to New York City, continuing a friendship and painting relationship with Milton Avery. He was appointed by the W.P.A. as Director of the WPA Art Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Berkman helped established the A.C.A. Gallery in New York City at 52 West 8th St., the first Artist Cooperative Gallery in New York City. He spent summers on Monhegan Island in...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mother Nature, Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Orange
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper, Pen
Seeking Alignment - Original Surrealist Art Map Figurative
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
'3D Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, ' by Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mixed Media
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Butterfly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TOM PERKINSON
"BUTTERFLY"
MIXED MEDIA, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1974
21.5 X 21 INCHES
Tom Perkinson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was raised in the country, and developed ...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
The Nature of Ascension - Original Figurative Drawing Map
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker
Located in New York, NY
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker. Sight size: 18 x 23 1/4 inches. Estate stamped verso.
This drawing is the study for a large oil we ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
[Man with cigar]
By Martin Lewis
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed lower right: "M.L.". Estate stamp verso, lower left: Lucille Deming Lewis Collection. Inscribed verso, lower left: "LDL-803". In fine condition.
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
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Koi Island, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Challenging conventional still-life pieces, artist Dwight Smith paints a contemporary koi pond with metal screws in the center. "Industrial or organic, animate ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Green Pine Nest, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a modern realist composition of the ends of pencils. He paints them in different colors to lead your eye through the painting. Dwight...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Chaos, black and earth colors, figure, animals, creation, rain
Located in Brooklyn, NY
elephant
bat
butterfly
panda
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pas...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Huge Triptych Surrealist Royal College Art Painting LGBTQ+ Artist Oranges Blues
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper, Pen
Fort Stephenson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Farm House, colorful 20th century American scene watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Farm House, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, handwritten artist and title label verso
12.5 x 18.75 inches
18 x 24.5 inches, framed
A major painter of American scene...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Country Farmhouse with Dog, Watercolor on Paper, Landscape, Original Art
By Henry Soulen
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Country Farmhouse" is a 9 x 10.5 inches, watercolor on paper painting by American illustrator, Henry James Soulen. The landscape is signed "H J Soulen" in the lower left, it is newl...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Large Surrealist Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Pink Blue Tiger Palms
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Archival Paper, Paint, Mixed Media
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Apple Cider, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith depicts a realistic culinary-themed still life. "The bottle opener was of my dad and mom's from so long ago I don't remember when," shares Dwight. He paints a bright red apple on its side adjacent to it. A focused light source highlights the foreground, while strong contrasts of dark shadows in the background frame the elements.
About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.
Words that describe this painting: watercolor, realism, still life, culinary, apple, apple cider...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Yellow Phone
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Yellow Phone, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 14 inc...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Sleigh Ride, Winter, " Fletcher Martin, Woodstock, Holiday Scene Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin (1904 - 1979)
Sleigh Ride, Woodstock, New York circa 1955
Watercolor on paper
14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
James Cox Galler...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Shame Faced Crab, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A mystical eight-legged creature towers up a hill in artist Drew McSherry's piece. It clasps its head, hiding its face but peeping with one eye. Drew draws this...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
A suspiciously Low Tide, 2021
Located in Burlingame, CA
'A Suspiciously Low Tide, 2001', the original painting is 20 x 40 inches and the outer dimensions of the frame is 30 x 50 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excell...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
'Surrealistic Nude Figures, ' by Leonard Kaplan, Painting, c. 1960s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame.
Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Masonite, Chalk, Acrylic
Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora is loved sketching and drawing and did so for almost every day of his career. This allegorical and very finished pencil drawing depicts a Faun in the forest. Poss...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway.
10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Hodel Fantastic Surrealist Oil Painting Monotype Switzerland Signed 1969
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Hodel
(Swiss, 20th Century)
Fantastic Surrealist Painting
• Extensively overworked monotype on stiff paper
• Mixed media - Ink, oil and/or gouache on stiff paper
• Signed ' HODEL' ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Oil, Gouache
'Drawing with Water' - interior watercolor - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Drawing with Water" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, green, red and orange.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Moose Lodge No 2171
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Moose Lodge No. 2171,' is a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 16 x 24 inche...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
Fast Eddies, 1996
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fast Eddies, 1996' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 15 inches a...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
Graphite on paper, c. 1890
Unsigned
Graphite study of standing female nude verso
Provenance:
Rookwood Pottery Factory ...
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1890s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the famous American marine artist, Gordon Grant. The artwork depicts two rugged lobstermen bringing their catch ashore...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Arcade II, 1983
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Arcade II, 1981' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 8 x 11 inches and 15.5 x 18.5 inches framed and r...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Paragon Park, 1997
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Paragon park, 1997' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 10 inches ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Bakery
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bakery, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 18 inches and 33 x 27 inches professionally fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Grounded Angel
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Grounded Angel' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 14 inches and 19 x 23 inches professionally f...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Surrealist Mermaid Orchestra Large Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Blues
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper
Last Mohawk
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Last Mohawk, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 4 x 9 inches and 11 x 15.75 inches professional...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Nor Cal
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Nor Cal, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 20 x 18 inches and 29 x 27 inches professionally fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin
Graphite on laid paper, 1984
Signed and dated in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Donald Morris Gallery, Inc. Birmingham, MI
...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Bay no. 4, (nocturnal)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bay no. 4 (nocturnal), 1981' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 11 x 16 inches and 15 x 20 inches pro...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Bay no. 4, II (daylight)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bay no. 4, II 1980' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 11 x 16 inches and 15 x 20 inches professional...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Mori Point II
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Mori Point II', original watercolor by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson measures 20 x 38 inches and framed 29 x 46 1/2 inches.
"Torlakson's work depicts...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
Large Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women painting Blue Foot Foliage
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper, Pen
The Waggle Dance
Located in Nashville, TN
Waggle Dance is a watercolor-on-paper painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. In this piece, the artist depicts hundreds of colorful beetles forming an intricate, decorat...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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