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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: American Realist
Style: Post-War
Nude on a Stool
By Aaron Bohrod
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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
Color Pencil
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
Materials
Watercolor
"Bathing Nude III" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bathing Nude III" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Signed and dated 1959
A short history of Kawkab Youssef El-Assal:
Wit...
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20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
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
Materials
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
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Harvest" Pencil Drawing 8" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Harvest" Pencil Drawing 8" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
Stamped
Unique work.
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitions of the Av...
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20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Nude Reclining on a Mat
By Aaron Bohrod
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
Materials
Ink
"Arabian Dressage" (double face) Painting 14" x 18" inch (1956) by Ragheb Ayad
By Ragheb Ayad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Dressage" (double face) Painting 14" x 18" inch (1956) by Ragheb Ayad
signed & dated
Ink on Paper
Ragheb Ayad was born in Cairo on the 10th of March 1892 and inscribed himself in the School of Fine Arts since its opening in 1908. After graduation, he taught art in the high Coptic school and made several trips on his own to France and Italy to complete his artistic education. He was the first to obtain a governmental scholarship to Rome, where he stayed for five years studying art at the Superior Institute of Fine Arts. Since his return to Cairo in 1930, he was assigned as director of the decorative section of the Faculty of Applied Arts. In 1937, he was named professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and director of its free section. He was in charge of reorganizing the Coptic museum, and since 1950 became head of the Museum of Modern Art, where he made a special section in it for the great sculpture Mahmoud Mokhtar. Since 1924 and for half a century, he participated in most of the exhibitions of the ‘Cairo Salon’ plus organizing 40 solo exhibitions. Ragheb Ayad is considered one of the pioneers of Egyptian art in the 20th century alongside Mahmoud Mokhtar, Youssef Kamel, Mohamed Hassan, Mahmoud Said, and Mohamed Naghy.
Ragheb Ayad is the first to get rid of the western influences and to create Egyptian art with its own solid identity. For the rest of his life, Ragheb Ayad was dedicated to the popular themes of Egyptian life, whether it is the cosmopolitan Cairo or the upper Egyptian villages and the small towns. He visited all these places, recording the pulsating life of the soaks, the moulids, the cafes, and the men and women dancers. Ragheb Ayad remained forever the painter of this true Egyptian universe. Ragheb Ayad is considered to be the first expressionistic painter who influenced the second and third generation of artists. Aside from the popular Ayad was attracted to the religious themes where he portrayed the flight of the holly family in Egypt and the birth of Jesus. Moreover, Ayad is known to be the first Egyptian artist to be influenced by ancient Egyptian art...
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20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Portrait of Woman I" Watercolor Painting 24" x 16" inch by Kawkab Youssef
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait of Woman I" Watercolor Painting 24" x 16" inch by Kawkab Youssef
Signed and dated 1962
A short history of Kawkab Youssef El-Assal:
With a ...
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20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 51cm, (87cm x 61cm framed).
Born in London to his renowned artist mother Elisabeth Frink RA and a French architect father, Michel Jammet, Ja...
Category
1990s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Materials
Watercolor
Orange Vests
Located in London, GB
Gouache and charcoal on paper, 53cm x 37cm (74cm x 55cm framed). Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso).
Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines...
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1970s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Charcoal
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
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
Materials
Graphite
Japanese Children in Traditional Dress Playing Shamisen - Woman Artist
Located in Miami, FL
East meets West in this charming illustration where a female American Illustrator paints a scene of two jovial Japanese youths in a semi-Japanese style. Clara Miller Burd was a brilliant female illustrator trained in the academic tradition. This work shows her deep mastery of how to render form properly. The way she captures the expression the two children is spot on.
Signed lower right.
Burd was an American stained glass designer, and children's book, and magazine cover illustrator. She was a resident of Montclair, NJ and there is a gallery sticker on the back for a gallery in Montclair.
Framed under glass 17 x 22 1/2".
After returning from France, Burd worked as a stained glass designer at the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
No. 5 with Shallot, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bison in Snow, Animal Picture, American School, John Aldrich Ruthven, signed
By John Ruthven
Located in Greven, DE
John Aldrich Ruthven
American Painter
Bison in a Snow Blizzard
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
signed lower left
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
French Illustration Aviation Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features a young woman in a bikini swimsuit sitting on a globe. She holds in her hand a toy in the shape of an airplane on the end of a string. In the background on the terrestrial globe, the connections between France and the countries of South America are guessed. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
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1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Sexual Perspective,
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed lower right (in pencil), 31cm x 43cm (49cm x 59cm framed). The picture is in good condition, with strong colours. It has been recently framed.
Active within the Gay Liberation...
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1980s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Gouache Drawing Aviation Illustration Poster Project by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features a woman in travel clothes with all her suitcases sitting on a magic carpet. Below the carpet, we guess a plane in the air. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Poster Project Aviation Illustration Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features an airplane with a map book in the background, with emphasis on France and South American countries, on the side we see the hands of a man and a woman. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Aviation Illustration Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features an airplane propeller and the earth in the background, with emphasis on France and South American countries. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Gouache
Studies of Man with Arms Raised
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister.
From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s.
Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...
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1930s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
With a Side of Ketchup, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith presents a still life of an order of french fries with a bucket of tomatoes by the side. A realistic rendering o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Crimson Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a realistic rendering of Saucer Magnolias in bloom. The crimson globes of the flower display a wonderful contrast of bulbous shapes...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mini Daisies in Many Pinks, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents pink daisies in detailed realism. She highlights the combination of the high-key delicate pink against the bold, saturated fuschia....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Goblet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"There were several things that drew me to this Calla Lily in a garden full of lilies," says artist Jinny Tomozy. The flower's structure appears to resemble a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Six Soviet Gymnasts
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, felt tip pen, and pencil on paper, titled (lower left), 48cm x 37cm, (70cm x 58cm framed). It is in its original frame, although the glass and mount have been replaced.
Patrick Procktor was part of an influential group of British artists in the 1960s. His early paintings were dynamic, abstract depictions of the male nude, before he established himself as one of the leading watercolourists of his generation from the 1970s His work is held in many major public collections. This work is after the soviet painting...
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1960s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Felt Pen, Pencil
Garden Layers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Layers of various flowers, buds, and leaves crash into each other, creating a wonderful divergence of garden layers. Artist Jinny T...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lily Quartet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Many flowers bloom from one bush and form clusters that are set up for dynamic compositions. Artist Jinny Tomozy presents four blossoming Calla Lilies in a harm...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blooming Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy displays a budding aloe vera with a realistic approach. The contrast in color and shape of the flower in comparison to the rest of the succu...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Moody Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy captures the drama of light and shadow on blooming Magnolias. She renders the flowers with a realistic approach, carefully detailing the del...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Another Man's Treasure, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a bouquet of red and yellow roses in realistic detail. "Sometimes one's discarded items become another's cherished findings, as wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rainbow Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In realism, artist Jinny Tomozy presents a view of flourishing succulents. "What intrigues me about succulent plants are the abstract forms they create," shares...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Succulent Stars, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a birds-eye view of growing succulents. She draws inspiration from the bright spectrum of color and contrasting shapes and textures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Lily, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The sculptural forms of a Calla Lily are so fluid and smooth, like the forms on the human figure," says artist Jinny Tomozy. She presents a closer view of the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dancer in White
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Dancer in Pink
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Only the Psychic has Reality
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, ink and ink wash, and collage on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 70cm x 51cm (78cm x 59cm framed). The picture is floated within the frame, behind non-reflective UV glass.
Renowned as Australia’s foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson...
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1970s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Nude with Fan
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Dancer in Green
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Uncorked Cider, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still-life of a delectable granny smith apple with buttons and a cork. It honors the tradition of growing and harvesting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chicory 2, gold ink botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
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
Materials
Wood Panel, Ink
"Robed Woman" Watercolor Painting 24" x 16" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Located in Culver City, CA
"Robed Woman" Watercolor Painting 24" x 16" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Signed and dated 1959
A short history of Kawkab Youssef El-Assal:
With a s...
Category
20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) "Going to the Festival," 14 1/2 x 10 1/2. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s....
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
RARE WPA ARTIST ISAAC FRIEDLANDER Judaica Drawing 1946
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Friedlander, Isaac American (1890-1968)
Isac Friedlander Latvian-born American Printmaker, 1890-1968
was born in Mitau, Latvia. He studie...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Breaking Up of the Penelope
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope
watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Exhibitions:
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso)
Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso)
"Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring.
Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Watercolor, c. 1950
Signed by the artist in ink lower right: Wm. C. Grauer
Numbered in pencil verso: 152
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof, the artist's daughter
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 18 3/4 x 24 inches
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
126
By Russ Havard
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Frolic Club IV - New York City in the 1960's - Strip Club Gritty Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Philip Reisman paints the raw street life of New York City. Whether he's painting a barmaid or a street hobo, Reisman is a people painter. He studied at the Art Students League with ...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
125
By Russ Havard
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Native American Indian Portrait in Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning use of cross-hatching. Close up this is an abstract drawing. Ink on Strathmore Bristol Board - Perfect Condition and looks better in person. Elegantly matted but not framed
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Jazmen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jazmen
Pen and ink on paper, 2013
Signed and titled lower right (see photo)
Annotated: “I want to go to Dunbar,…because my friends are there…”
Series: The 99% - Highland Hills
Exhibited: Valley House Gallery, Everyday Glory, Dec. 4, 2013-Jan. 11, 2014
Illustrated: Everyday Glory, page 45
Condition: excellent
Sheet size: 14 x 10 7/16 inches
Provenance: Valley House Gallery (no. 18597)
Sedrick Huckaby (b. 1975)
Born in Fort Worth in 1975, Huckaby has been creating some form of art since his childhood. In 1995, he began his formal art studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After a brief stay he transferred to Boston University, where he received a BFA degree. He then earned a MFA degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Huckaby is known for his powerful use of color and his exploration of cultural roles and the heritage of the African American family. His work has evolved from portraiture to objects and interiors that venerate his personal family legacy rooted in Fort Worth, Texas. Portraying these familiar subjects on a large scale and pushing his use of materials, Huckaby defines the significance of family and tradition while touching on the subject of ethnographic stereotypes in our culture.
For the past few years he has concentrated his efforts on a series of quilt paintings. One of the series he created is a tribute to both of his Grandmothers and a celebration of the African American quilting tradition. He used the actual quilts sewn by family members as models for his paintings. These quilts document significant events in his family history. According to Huckaby, the paintings represent an artistic family legacy. The colorful, rhythmic abstracted patterns come together like the musical notes in African American musician John Coltrane's famous jazz composition, A Love Supreme, from which the painting series acquired its name.
He has earned national acclaim for his work over the past several years. Huckaby has received the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
124
By Russ Havard
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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