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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: American Realist
Style: Street Art
Pencil Study #6
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #16 2016 Graphite on paper 12.75 x 4.25 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Untitled (Landscape #21)
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Alex Peña, Untitled (Landscape #21), 2021, ink on paper Framed size: 12.5" x 14.5" Image size: 7.5" x 10.5"
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Archival Paper

"Catching A Fish, " Gouache and Watercolor, Signed
By Tom Rost
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Catching A Fish" is an original gouache and watercolor painting on illustration board. It is signed in the lower left by the artist Tom Rost. 25" x 20 5/8" art 30 5/8" x 24 3/4" framed with museum glass Tom Rost spent most of his life in Wisconsin, graduating from the Milwaukee State Teacher's College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). He began his artistic career as an illustrator for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the Treasury Department. Later, he began illustrating for the Milwaukee Journal and then left to work in New York with the Field...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

"Sharecroppers" Watercolor Scene of Laborers Working in a Cotton Field
Located in Austin, TX
This watercolor painting from 1940 depicts a scene of sharecroppers working in a cotton field. This piece represents a blend of American Realism and a more figurative, impressionisti...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pencil Study #6
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #3 2016 Graphite on paper 11 x 8 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Figure Study No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Figure Study No. 3 c. 2016 Charcoal on paper 26 x 16 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Clover 4, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Panel, Graphite

Clover 1, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Panel, Graphite

Clover 3, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Panel, Graphite

Clover 2, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite, Panel

Clover 5, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Panel, Graphite

Wild Foxtail, 2023, graphite on prepared panel, botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Panel, Graphite

139
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pencil Study #13
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #13 2016 Graphite on paper 13 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Pencil Study #22
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #22 2016 Graphite on paper 10 x 4.25 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, con...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Pencil Study #8
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #8 2016 Graphite on paper 13 x 6 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Pencil Study #17
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #17 2016 Graphite on paper 13 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Pencil Study #15
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #13 2016 Graphite on paper 13 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

140
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pencil Study #10
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #10 2016 Graphite on paper 13 x 6 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of th...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cathedral New Yorker cover proposa...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Pencil Study #12
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #12 2016-01-01 cca. Graphite on paper 12 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the inti...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

138
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) Subway Scene, 1930s 8 x 9 inches Ink and wash on paper Singed lower ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

Pencil Study #3
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #3 2016 Graphite on paper 11 x 8 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Pencil Study #11
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #11 2016 Graphite on paper 10 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of th...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Pencil Study #20
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #20 2016 Graphite on paper 11 x 7 Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Figure Study No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Figure Study No. 2 c. 2016 Charcoal on paper 30 x 16 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Seated Nude No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Seated Nude No. 2 2016 Charcoal on paper 14 x 11 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Larry No. 5
Located in Columbia, MO
Larry #5 2016 Charcoal on paper 22 x 10.5 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Pencil Study #1
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #1 2016 Graphite on paper 10 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) The World We Live In Coral Reef ...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

'Bleak House 6-16-19' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 6-16-19" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan and green. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inn...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Robin No.2
Located in Columbia, MO
Robin No. 2 2016 Charcoal on paper 41 x 22 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

La Loire
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and black ink on watermarked Ingres laid paper, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (234 x 310 mm), signed, dated and titled in brown ink, and initialed and titled in black ink in the lower right corner. Light to moderate age tone and mat tone, and with the signature and notations in brown ink having become quite attenuated, although legible. Presented in a basic black wood frame with a label from the Country Art...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Handmade Paper, Pen

Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The Wedding Colliers published, June 17, 1933 17 1/4 X 11 1/2 inches (sight) Framed 23 1/4 X 17 1/2 inches Gouache on board Signed lower right BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Irish Sea
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Sea Watercolor, 1947 Signed and dated by the artist lower right Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist ...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Army Wedding New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 11 1/2 X 8 inches ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Underwater Whale Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953 1...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The World We Live In Birds of Paradise Life Magazine Illustration ...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

At Dawn - Graphite Drawing by Robert Kipniss
Located in Larchmont, NY
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) At Dawn, 1975 Pencil on paper 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Framed: 14 2/3 x 11 1/3 in. Signed upper right: Kipniss '75 Verso bears Hirschl & Adler Galleries Label Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work. Robert Kipniss has received many awards: 1965 - Ohio University National Drawing Show, Purchase Prize 1976 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Ralph Fabri Prize 1978 - The Print Club of Philadelphia, Charles M Lea Prize 1979 - Charlotte Printmakers Society, Purchase Award 1979 - Society of American Graphic Artists, Printmaking Award 1979 - Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, Honorary Doctorate 1980 - Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City 1980 - Audubon Artists, New York City, Silver Medal 1980 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Leo Meissner...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude) Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987 Signed lower right Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Pirate Ship - Skull-and-Crossbones Seven Seas Illustration in White and Blue
Located in Miami, FL
The Skull-and-Crossbones flag flies atop this illustration of a Pirate Ship. Two palm trees flank it, and it floats in a cropped stylized sea. A single hatted figure is seen looking ...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Ink, Board

American Watercolor Angel Painting Stained Glass John La Farge New York 1886
By John La Farge
Located in Portland, OR
An important American watercolor painting study for a stained glass panel, by the celebrated American artist John La Farge (1835-1910), the painting titled an...
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1880s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Nude on a Stool
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude on a Stool Ink on paper, c. 1970-80 Signed in red ink lower right Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 232 A copy of this hardbound books accompanies purchase Condition: Excell...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Cafe, Madrid
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Western Scenes
By Leonard Reedy
Located in Raleigh, NC
Set of four (4) watercolors by Leonard Reedy. Each identically famed and each measuring approximately 8 in x 10 in. All are in excellent condition.
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pyracantha Bonsai, 2023, hyper-realist drawing, colored pencil on paper
Located in New York, NY
Ever-interested in delicate and often toiling labor, David Morrison’s newest body of work stems from his practice as a master gardener. David’s methodical cultivation of irises and b...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil

"Afternoon Sun, " Ann Wyeth McCoy, Interior and Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Ann Wyeth McCoy (1915 - 2005) Afternoon Sun Watercolor on paper Sheet 24 x 18 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Somerville Manning Gallery Private ...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Nude in a Mirror
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude in a Mirror Ink and wash on paper, n.d. Signed in red ink lower right (see photo) Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 153, a monograph on the artist's drawings Note: a cop...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Thomaston Maine, Original Rooftop View Townscape in Watercolor
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Thomaston, Maine" is a 15 x 13.5 inches, watercolor townscape, signed in the lower left, and framed behind glass. Ranulph Bye was born in 1916 in Princet...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Nude Reclining on a Mat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Reclining on a Mat Ink on paper, n.d. Signed in red ink lower right Same model used in Elliott & Wooden pages 198 and 199 Condition: Excellent Provenance: Estate of the Artist Warren Shaull, Dodge City, KS (collector's stamp verso) Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings. Education Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings. Career He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Hamsa and fishes
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Mixed media on paper by the french street artist KLG Combining acrylic and Posca felt pen Unique piece Hand signed
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2010s Street Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Felt Pen

Shadowed Hill Behind the Barn, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar displays a view of a barn overlooking a verdant hill. After winter rains, the hillsides in northern California green up, and winter mo...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Point Lobos Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar presents an intriguing close-up of succulents tenaciously adorning a dramatic cliff. The view overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Point Lobos Natural Reserve. "This park near Carmel, California, is among my most inspirational places to visit," shares Catherine. She joyfully gets lost in painting, adding detail after detail. The fluid colors allow the movement of pigments and the precision of brushwork.


About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

No. 5 with Shallot, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith presents a culinary still life painted in the realist tradition. "My mom gave my wife and me several cast iron skillets...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) A master of ...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Boy on a balloon - Seth Globepainter - Street Art - France - Unique piece
By SETH
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original drawing on canvas with black marker Hand signed lower right Dedicated in french, lower left Unique piece Framed Mint condition
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2010s Street Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker

Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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