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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
Study of a Man's Shoulder
By Glyn Philpot
Located in London, GB
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed). First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 19...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Chalk

Drawing of a Boy / Butterflies
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is maybe the most influential and valuable American artist of the 20th century. While he is renowned for his iconic Pop art portraits, Caviar20 has been exploring and offering his inimitable works on paper from the 1950's. We believe this is an important, and for the time being, accessible and under-appreciated part of his legacy. During the 1950's Warhol established his reputation in New York City as an illustrator for numerous fashion publications and businesses. His succinct line drawings were modern and gentle, realized with a brave yet delicate gay sensibility. The images he created "off the clock" from his fashion commissions were romantic sketches, day-dreams of crushes, hunks and friends. His 1956 exhibition, Studies for a Boy Book...
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1950s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

A ca 1954 Watercolor & Ink Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree and a Northern Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Ch...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

CASTLE ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HILL McKAY (1875-1941) ARCH ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA c. 1925-30 Watercolor, signed lower right. Sheet 14 x 18 inches.. Additional full sheet study on verso.. Generally good c...
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1920s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Rose
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Graphite, Paper

Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso) Graphite on paper, 1925 Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925 Created while the artist was studying at the ...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Landschap
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon LANDSCAPE 1956 Gouache on paper 46,5 x 37 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 56’ Provenance: Pri...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Dorpsgezicht
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon DORPSGEZICHT 1953 Gouache on paper 42 x 60 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 53’ Provenance: Pr...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Jean Cocteau - The Fight - Original Signed Drawing
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - The Fight - Original Signed Drawing 1923 28 x 22 cm Signed This drawing was made as a frontispiece of the book Dessins publishe...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Woman smoking pencil drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 74x61 cm.
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1950s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Watercolor & Ink on Paper Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Cahpin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954, watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

'Still Life, Jade and Gold', Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins (American, 1930-2021) and dated 1957. Millicent Tomkins began painting at a young age and, as a child, was award...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Peinzende vrouw
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon WOMAN ON RIVER 1951 Gouache on paper 41,5 x 59 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn van Tiel 51’ P...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled-005 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
This abstract artwork is one of a group of over 100 pieces personally selected by the artist, and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969. Please note this painting was never matte...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Birds
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon ROOSTERS 1953 Gouache on paper 40 x 55 cm. signed: lower right
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Village Scene, early 20th century drawing on paper, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Burchfield (American, 1893-1967 Village Scene, 1921 Ink, pencil and watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower right 11 x 8.5 inches 17.75 x 14.75 inches, framed Born in Ash...
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1920s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Watercolor, Ink

Portrait of a woman, 1929, red chalk on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Erich HERMES (1881-1971) Portrait of a Woman, 1929 Sanguine on paper Signed "E. Hermès" and dated "29" lower left 29.5 x 22.5 cm original frame Erich Hermès, a Geneva artist of Germ...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

village view, 1953
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon VILLAGE VIEW 1953 Gouache on paper 38 x 54,5 cm. Signed and dated: lower left
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

A Pair of Mid-Century, Pen & Ink Interior Drawings by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of delightful, Mid-Century interior scenes in pen & ink by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chi...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Ink

Boris Sporykhin, Interior With Girls Reading, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century drawing by Russian artist Boris Sporykhin (1928-2020) depicts two girls reading within an interior. They also appear in an earlier oil painting, so it’s plausib...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

A ca. 1954, drawing of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Seascape, Brittany, watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Seascape, Brittany, signed lower right watercolor on paper 19.7 x 25.2 cm Framed : 35 x 40.5 cm Maurice Asselin was particularly attached to Britta...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Card Players, Spain - English Pencil & Watercolor Figurative Interior Drawing
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful c.1927 watercolour and pencil interior depicting card players in Spain by Robert Sargent Austin RA. Fine quality work by this noted English Royal Academician. Signed lo...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Watercolor

Nude Drawings On Red Paper
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Standing Nude, Pencil signed and dated March 25, 21. in beautiful vintage frame. George Kenneth Hartwell painter and illustrator was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York City under Kenneth Hayes Miller, Edward Hopper, and George Bellows. His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923), the Society of Independent Artists (1923), Salons of America (1928 and 1934), Library of Congress (1944-46), the Laguna Beach Art...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil, Paper

Watercolor on Paper Study of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor of a football scrimmage at Notre Dame, by artist Francis Chapin. This was a study for a painting he created for the University in 1954. The original painting ...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Watercolour and crayon on paper 31.5 x 48.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 ¹/₈ inches) Titlted, signed and dated lower left, Lyons la Fo...
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1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor

Portrait Of Indian Woman, Drawing Dated 56, Signature To Identify
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Portrait of an Indian woman. Drawing with black chalk, white chalk and blood. Signature to be identified. Date (19)56. A hole in the sheet on the right side, otherwise good condition...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

"Trees with Flowers and Fruits" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and 1952. 6.5" x 8" Water...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Costume teatrale costruttivista" acquerello e china cm. 26 x 38 1920 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Bellissimo studio costruttivista per costume teatrale Kostantin Vialov Pittore, grafico, scenografo, artista di arti decorative e applicate. Uno dei principali artisti sovietici deg...
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1920s Constructivist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor

Lighthouse at the Shore — Impressionist Pen and Ink Landscape Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Lighthouse at the Shore Maine - Impressionist Original Pen and Ink Drawing Landscape Delicate landscape pen and ink line drawing by listed Ma...
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1950s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker, Ink

'Monterey Coast', California Impressionist, Paris, St. Ives, Laguna Beach, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A fresh and breezy view of the much-loved Pinnacle Point in Monterey painted with the artist's characteristic freshness and vigor and dating to the 1920's. Initialed lower right, 'G....
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1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

WW1 1925 Original Artwork
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare example of WW1 art signed and dated 1925. Image shows either a French or American soldier after having shot a German soldier.Signature is illegible.. Piec...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

Composition by Arikha Avigdor - Post-war and Contemporary gouache, c. 1955
Located in London, GB
Composition by Arikha Avigdor (1929-2010) Gouache on paper 39 x 75 cm (15 ³/₈ x 29 ¹/₂ inches) Signed lower right Executed circa 1955 This work is an fine example of the Avigdor’s a...
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1950s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Untitled (Still Life, Interior)
Located in Chicago, IL
A detailed ink on paper drawing of a still-life in an interior by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chi...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Dans La Loge
By Dimitri Bouchene
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed (lower left), 63cm x 49cm (framed 75cm x 60cm). Bouchéne was a Russian artist and costume and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet. Primarily working ...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Paper

"Old Adobe Village, New Mexico" Alice Schille, Taos Pueblo, Female Impressionist
By Alice Schille
Located in New York, NY
Alice Schille Old Adobe Village, New Mexico Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 5 x 6 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Keny and Johnson Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, California A painter in watercolor and oil, Alice Schille was a prolific artist using modernist styles of Post-Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism. Her subjects included portraits of women and children, landscapes with and without figures, a series of scenes of New York City. New Mexico, and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her paintings also reflected her widespread international travels in Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Middle East, Mexico, and Guatemala. Although personally very shy, Schille possessed unusual courage and strength of will, which was reflected in both her independent lifestyle and in her work, as she continually worked to master new modes of painting throughout her career. A German critic once referred to Schille as "this daredevil disciple of art who is interested in anything and afraid of nothing." Alice Schille was born in Columbus, Ohio to a family supported by her father's success in manufacturing. She was raised in Columbus, and by the time she was age six, she determined to be an artist. She graduated at the top of her class from Central High School in 1887, studied from 1891 to 1893 at the Columbus Art School, and returned there as a teacher from 1902 to 1948. Going to New York City as a young woman, she enrolled in the Art Students League from 1897 to 1899 and then the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox. (Some years later, she attended Chase's Shinnecock Summer School on Long Island). From 1903 to 1904, Alice Schille was in Paris at the Academie Colarosi, and also studied privately with Raphael Collin, Rene Prinet, Gustave Courtois and Chase, who was then in Europe. In 1904, five of her paintings were accepted for exhibition at Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, and from that time on her work was included regularly in important American annual exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, American Watercolor Society, Boston Art Club, and the 1987 inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. Between 1905 and 1914, Alice Schille painted in Europe, and during the summers of 1916 to 1918, worked in New York and Gloucester. In 1919, she was in New Mexico. On this trip, her first to the Southwest, she spent a summer in Taos and Santa Fe and painted scenes including the Taos Pueblo, Canyon Road and local Hispanic and Indian figures. Reportedly the Ranchos de Taos Church was one of her favorite subjects. Many of these New Mexico paintings were hung at annual exhibitions of the Philadelphia Water Color Club. Between 1920 and 1940, she traveled frequently in the summers, returning to New Mexico and going to Central America and Africa. In 1922, she began her first series of North-African watercolors...
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1920s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

L'Église de Morgny-Eure by Paulémile Pissarro, 1927
Located in London, GB
L'Église de Morgny-Eure by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Watercolour and black crayon on paper 31.5 x 43.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 17 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile and dated, Mor...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

The Boathouse - Impressionist Watercolor, Figure in Landscape by Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figure in landscape watercolour on paper circa 1920 by Henri Duhem. This beautiful work depicts a view of a lake with banks of green trees beside it and blue mou...
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1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Flowers" Mary Abbott, Colorful Floral Still Life, Female Abstract Expressionism
Located in New York, NY
Mary Abbott Flowers, circa 1950 Signed lower left Pastel on paper 30 x 22 1/4 inches Provenance: Aaron Galleries, Glenview, Illinois Among the early exponents of Abstract Expressio...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Untitled (Fishermen and Sailboat)
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming Modernist watercolor by notable artist Flora Schofield, depicting fishermen and a sail boat. Archivally matted to 16" x 20". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Wild Ducks, Charcoal and Pastel on Paper by Georges Manzana Pissarro, circa 1920
Located in London, GB
Wild Ducks by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Charcoal and pastel on paper 46 x 62 cm (18 ⅛ x 24 ⅜ inches) Estate stamp lower left Manzana Pissarro Executed circa 1920 This w...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Cityscape Modern Dark Cold Tones Winter Urban Everyday Life Watercolor Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Free Press-Composition" is a watercolor street scene created by Joseph Ferrara. The street is dark, evoking the feeling of night and cold. There are white rings expanding from t...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Henri Rapin, Gouache on Paper "Fructidor", 1924-1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
This gouache is a museal and historical piece. Gouache and charcoal on paper stuck on panel by Henri Rapin, France, 1924-1928. "Fructidor". With frame: 80x114x3 cm - 31.5x44.9x1.2, w...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Composition Original Drwaing Hand signed dated Unique piece
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper Pastel and color pencils Hand signed lower right Hand dated 1953 Unique piece
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Color Pencil

Portrait, woman's head, 1959, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Marc DAUTRY (1930-2008) Woman’s head, 1959 ? Pencil on paper Signed and dated "1959" ? lower left 14 x 10.5 cm Frame (antique glass) : 36 x 30 cm Born in Nime (south of France), Mar...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Glamour Fashion Portrait of Model Sara Thom - Mid Century
By Richard Stone
Located in Miami, FL
Dick Stone was a top mid-century illustrator who worked for the most famous brands. He was an assignment artist hired by such esteemed Ad Agencies as BBDO ...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Casein, Board, Pen

Prof Sir Albert Richardson PRA Architect A Classical Building with Elegant Figs.
Located in London, GB
To see our other architectural drawings and Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you ...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Berthomme Saint-André, Before Bathing, 1926
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, 1926. Befor bathing. With frame: 74x63.5 cm - 29.1x25 inches ; without frame, just the watercolor: 50x36 cm - 19.7x14.2 inches. Si...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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...
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1920s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Vintage Watercolor “Steel Rocks” Palm Springs, California; Roy H. Collins 1929
Located in Baltimore, MD
Roy Huse Collins was a Midwestern artist associated with Chicago and Minnesota. Born in Saint Paul in 1884, he exhibited often at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) during the 1920’s and 30’s. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1925 and 1931. Collins was a painter and illustrator until he died in 1949. This watercolor includes (on the back) the original exhibition label from the AIC in 1929. The work is titled “Steel Rocks...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1950's Modernist Watercolor Painting Israeli Bezalel School Bauhaus Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Louise (McClure) Schatz (1916 – 1997) Born in Vancouver, Canada, Louise Schatz moved with her family at age three to Minnesota. Her father, a stage director, was part of the local Bohemian culture and traveled the theater circuit around the U.S. She earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the University of California, where she became a skilled water colorist. “My Japanese instructor showed me how to preserve several colors together on paper,” she noted. “Water colors can bleed into the paper, and the paper plays with the colors – some of which can even disappear. I have a great love of texture and what materials do to color. I was very excited to discover what happens to colors and how to achieve what I wanted.” Her interest in astronomy also led Louise to study science at the university. Louise joined the “California Seven” artists in 1945 and for the next three years created prints and textile patterns. During WWII, she earned her living as a sketch artist for ship builders in San Francisco Bay, and it was there she met her future husband, Bezalel. “Then, it was very avant-garde to hire women in ship-building,” she once recounted. “We used to take dimensions from engineers and make sketches. It was very trailblazing and exciting, and the ships were constructed very quickly and launched very quickly. Besides the fact that we contributed to the war effort, it was really beautiful art.” The Bohemian society developing in San Francisco at the time included the novelist Henry Miller, who was then married to Louise’s sister, Eve. “There was a group of artists in Big Sur, all of them poor,” according to Bezalel Schatz’s sister, Zohara. “They were a group of Beatniks before the hippy era of the 1960s. There were novelists, poets, and painters there who lived communally under primitive conditions and were close to nature.” Bezalel and Louise were married in 1948 and moved to Israel. There, together with Zohara, they founded the arts and crafts workshop, “Yad,” with the goal of creating and selling alternative art objects that differed in style from those of the Bezalel School of Art. The couple divided its time between the family home in Jerusalem and a residence in Ein Hod designed for them by the architect David Resnik. Despite her connection to the Schatz family and her active involvement in the Israeli art world at the time, Louise guarded her privacy and rarely granted interviews. As Henry Miller wrote, “Her paintings reflect and reveal the extent of her sensitivity, shyness, and gentleness…” Scenes of Israel were a source of inspiration for Louise, and, in addition to her abstract Bauhaus geometric works, she also painted landscapes, flowers, and other elements of the environment in which she worked. Louise worked mainly in water colors but also created collages, book illustrations, and applied art. Among her outstanding works are murals for Zim’s “Shalom” and “Theodore Herzl” ships (together with Bezalel), El Al’s London office, and Jerusalem’s tenth anniversary exhibition, as well as ceramic walls for Jerusalem’s Midreshet Amalia and Beit Ha’am Library. She was awarded the Silver Medal in 1954 at the tenth Triennale in Milan for her copper designs, and in 1952 she received the “Above Competition” prize for her textile designs at the Bezalel National Museum. She was also awarded the Shen Beit Haomanim Prize in 1970 and the Jerusalem Prize for painting in 1973. Louise took part in many art exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Her works are held by the Israel, Tel Aviv, and Haifa Museums, and in private collections in Israel, the U.S., England, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Following her husband’s death in 1978, Louise continued to live with her sister-in-law, Zohara, at the family home in Jerusalem on Schatz Street. Louise died in Jerusalem in 1997. She has been called in the pages of the Jerusalem Post " the greatest Schatz of all" and "Israel's finest watercolorist" Parts of her work summon up affinities with Paul Klee and Julius Bissier and occasionally even Joan Miro. But she never copied any of them. Her work also bears affinities for Lyonel Feininger and Wassily Kandinsky Between 1937 and 1951, Bezalel resided in the U.S. Near the end of WWII, he worked in a California shipyard, and it was there he met his future wife, Louise. He was also introduced to the novelist Henry Miller in California, and their friendship blossomed into a creative collaboration. The artist May Ray recorded his observations about the two, noting that “I have never encountered such smooth cooperation…” Bezalel produced silkscreen prints for Miller’s novel, Into the Night Life, an innovation for both the art and publishing worlds. In Florence, New Mexico, New York, San Francisco, and other locations, Bezalel exhibited his own work and participated in group shows with some of the greatest artists of his era – Picasso...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Abstract Composition
By Julius Hubler
Located in Buffalo, NY
Julius Hubler, American artist. Deans scholar; State University Iowa graduate scholar, 1944; Arthur W. Dow scholar Columbia University, 1947; distinguished se...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Female Torso, Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Female Torso Charcoal on paper, c. 1920 Stamped and initialed in pencil "Asa Cheffetz/A.D.C" Estate signature by wife, A.D.C. Exhibited: Museum of F...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Head with Green Dress
Located in Provincetown, MA
Alfred H. Maurer emerged as an influential crucial figure in the art scene of late 19th-century America, gaining widespread recognition for his innovative Fauvist approach characterized by vibrant colors and expressive brushwork. Departing from his renowned portraits and genre paintings, he delved into Fauvist landscapes, still lifes, and depictions of anonymous individuals. His distinctive technique relied on saturated colors rather than precise lines or forms, allowing him to convey a profound psychological intensity through dynamic, flowing strokes. As he matured as an artist, Maurer pioneered American...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Staten Island
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island Watercolor on paper, c. 1928 Signed with the Estate stamp lower left Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches Titled on verso Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Musical Conductor" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative Concert Scene
Located in New York, NY
Amy Londoner Musical Conductor, 1922 Signed and dated lower right Pastel on paper Sight 18 x 23 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at ...
Category

1920s Ashcan School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Paper

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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