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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting, Nude Figures
By Chaim Gross
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Chaim Gross (American, 1902-1991)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1928
Materials: pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 9"h, 6.5"w; 17"h, 13"...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)
Paris, Les Bouquinistes sur les quais, (The booksellers on the banks)
Signed and titled lower right
Pencil on paper
17 x 27 cm
In good condition, ...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
A ca. 1938 Graphite on Paper Study of Classical Drapery by Modernist Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1938 graphite on paper, study of a classical drapery by notable Modernist artist Jan Matulka. The image is drawn on the back of a typewritten, folded sheet of stationery, from...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Art Nouveau Illustration Women and Children in the Woods
Located in Miami, FL
Complex Art Nouveau patterns intertwined with gracefull figures define this work by American Artist and illustrator, teacher and lecturer Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Signed in cartouc...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Board
Boat in Tunisia - Drawing Ink on Paper Unique Post Impressionist, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Albert Marquet
Boat in Tunisia, ca. 1920
Ink on paper
7 1/5 × 5 in 18.2 × 12.8 cm
Hand-signed by the monogram lower right
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles, c. 1930-33, watercolor on paper, 14 ¼ x 21 ¼ inches (image), inscribed verso: “watercolor by Ruth Zimmerman 1912 – 1968 / Practice work for sc...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman in the Street, Expressionist Painting by Irma Stern 1923
By Irma Stern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman in the Street by Irma Stern, South African (1894–1966)
Date: 1923
Gouache on Paper, signed and dated lower right
Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Category
1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Dancer. 1932, paper, mixed technique, 26.5x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Mixing Mortar
12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Match stick and ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed with the estate stamp B
Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches
Created at the Kakoon Arts Klu...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Chemists
40 ½ x 31 ¾ inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
49 x 40 ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) A landscape, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
A Landscape
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
22.5 x 30.5cm
In good condition
Framed: 37.5 x 46 cm
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877– 1950). Painter of wat...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s WPA Era Graphite Drawing, American Modern City Scene of Houses on Hill, CO
Located in Denver, CO
Graphite on paper drawing by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), circa 1935, featuring a modernist cityscape of houses on a hill in Colorado. This artwork, created during the 1930s ...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Edith Piaf On Stage Watercolor signed Charles Kiffer circa 1935
Located in Paris, FR
Edith Piaf on stage watercolor and pencil on paper, mongrammed K for Charles Kiffer (1902-1992), Workshop stamp.
Charles Kiffer is well known for his figures, paintings, prints, pos...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s Surrealist Still Life with Hammer, Palette and Chopper by Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by notable artist Jan Matulka. Artwork size: 8 1/2". x 11". Matted size: 14...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Dancing Motion.
Located in New York, NY
Drawing, 1938. Signed and dated with the artist cypher. Paper size 7 9/16 x 6 1/4" (19.3 x 15.8 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, wa...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1930s Surrealist Still Life with Profile and Hanger by Artist Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930 graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by notable artist Jan Matulka. Image size: 8 1/2" x 11". Archivally matted to...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
La Rochelle. Sortie du port by Paul Signac - Watercolour on paper
By Paul Signac
Located in London, GB
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La Rochelle. Sortie du port by Paul Signac (...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1940s Western Landscape of Silver Plume, Colorado, Framed Oil Pastel Drawing
By Elsie Haddon Haynes
Located in Denver, CO
A captivating early 20th-century Western mountain landscape by Colorado artist Elsie Haddon Haynes (1884–1963), this original oil pastel drawing captures the charming town of Silver Plume...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Ink on paper. 12 x 19 inches. Pogolotti lived in Paris in the 1930s. The drawing here comes from the collection of his Parisian ophthalmologist, Dr. Prokopenko . Unfortunately, the artist lost his eyesight in 1938.
Marcelo Pogolotti (1902–1988) was a Cuban painter...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Plastic dynamism" , Black and white Futurism, Speed, Pastel cm. 32 x 24 1929
Located in Torino, IT
Plastic dynamism, Blac,white Futurism, Speed
ALFREDO GAURO AMBROSI (Rome 1901 – Verona 1945)
Painter of the second Futurism, he is mainly dedicated to aeropainting. His most famous work is the Air-Portrait of Mussolini the aviator...
Category
1920s Futurist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker
Located in New York, NY
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker. Sight size: 18 x 23 1/4 inches. Estate stamped verso.
This drawing is the study for a large oil we ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
" double face " original drawing by Jean Cocteau . certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
original drawing by Jean Cocteau , certified and signed .
exceptionnel "Oedipe " drawing 27,7 x 22, 6 cm .
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Deco Girl with Car, 1936
30 x 20 inches
Oil on Canvas Board
Signed Arthur ‘36 lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes
17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938
Signed A. Ross lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
"TWO MALLARDS" FLYING DUCKS FRAMED 23.25 X 27.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Weston Benson
(1862-1951)
Massachusetts
Image Size: 15.5 x 15.5
Frame Size: 23.25 x 27.25
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Dated 1930
"Two Mallards
Biography
Frank Weston Benson (1862...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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 ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Golden Miller Winning The 1934 Aintree Grand National" Watercolor by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Watercolor w/ gouache highlights
Art Sz: 12"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 22 1/2"W
Inscribed LL: The Freshest thing to win a National in years- and he broke the record at that. Golden Miller wins in 9:20 2/5 1934
Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934).
Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940–41 and 1951-52.
In 1931, Golden Miller made his steeplechasing debut at Newbury Racecourse where he finished first, only to be disqualified for carrying incorrect weight. On 30 December, he won the Reading Chase before winning the Sefton Steeplechase on 20 January 1932.
In 1933, as a six-year-old and winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cups, he started as the 9/1 favourite in the Grand National but fell at the Canal Turn.
In the 1934 Grand National win, he set a new course record of 9 min 20.4s for Aintree. This victory was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.[2]
He retired in 1939 with a record of 29 wins from 52 races. He is buried at Elsenham Stud, a working farm in Elsenham, West Essex.
Artist Bio:
Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) was born in Minnesota and soon moved to New York City with his family. A quote from his biography:"Paul Brown told his host on a radio interview held in September of 1956, 'One day in 1904, I got 50 cents someplace and went over to the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden and saw 'fine leppers,' [a term used for jumpers] as we called them, and Thoroughbreds for the first time.' From then on he appeared to be hooked on drawing horses."
At the age of 17, his family relocated again to Garden City on Long Island, where Brown had the opportunity to explore polo grounds...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Green Landscape, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, circa 1926
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Green Landscape" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted landscape painting. The 17.5" x 23.5" watercolor and ink on paper is signed...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"interior with plant" watercolor 1934 cm. 13 x 21
Located in Torino, IT
Interior,Room,Small,shipping free
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize La Coupole de Montparnasse (from Kisling to Pascin, from Derain to Vlaminck). He is considered one of most representative exponents of the Turin’s artistic scene in the ‘30s-‘40s, close to the Gruppo dei Sei. His works can be found in the following museums:
Turin, Modern Art Gallery...
Category
1930s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
New England Landscape, Watercolor by Allen Tucker
By Allen Tucker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Allen Tucker, American (1866 - 1939)
Title: New England Landscape
Year: 1936
Medium: Watercolor, signed and dated
Size: 19 in. x 28 in. (...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Quick Change
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change
Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931
Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau
Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL (1881 - 1949), "Portrait of Miss Lise Brissaud"
Located in Paris, FR
Bernard Boutet de Monvel was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator and interior decorator. Although first known for his etchings, he earned notability for his pai...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Daphne and Chloe - Lithograph by Pierre Bonnard - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Daphne and Chloe is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper by Pierre Bonnard in 1930s.
Not signed, as issued.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Eric Blore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of 1930s English character actor Eric Blore, best known for his film roles in ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
1930s Modernist Line Drawing: Native American on Horse, Pinto, Black Ink Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1933 black-and-white line drawing titled "Pinto" by renowned New Mexico modernist artist Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) captures a striking Native American figure wearing a feathered bonnet headdress, riding horseback. Rendered in fine ink on vellum, this drawing reflects Hiler’s signature style with clean, fluid lines that embody the modernist movement. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower right corner, adding authenticity and value. Custom framing options are available to enhance this timeless piece.
About the Artist: Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he developed an early interest in art. He studied at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design as a child, before pursuing further education at several renowned institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Paris. Hiler lived in Paris from 1919 to 1934, supporting himself as a jazz musician while continuing his artistic endeavors.
After relocating to San Francisco in 1934, Hiler became involved with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), where he painted murals in the Aquatic Park...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Cactus (Mexico), Early 20th Century Cubist Still Life by Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Cactus (Mexico), 1930
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled and dated on label verso
15.25 x 13.25 inches
25 x 22.5 inches, framed
A gradu...
Category
1930s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, New York Harbor Scene Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour on paper
Located in London, GB
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and inscribed lower left, Paulémile - Pissarro -...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Printing Press
40 ½ x 26 inches (sight)
Oil o...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Secret Service Operator 13, Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “End of the World,” the final installment of the serial “Secret Service Operator 13” by Robert William Chambers, published in Cosmopolitan, July 1933, illustra...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Launois (1898-1942)
Opium smokers, Indochina
Stamp of the artit's estate on the lower right
Black ink on paper
22.5 x 30.5 cm
Framed : 38 x 46 cm
This beautiful drawing, a fine example of Jean Launois' particular art, dates from the artist's stay in Indochina, from which he brought a group of works. An exhibition devoted to this Indochinese period of the artist's production was held at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables d'Olonne in 1998.
About the artist :
Of Vendée origin, Jean Launois very quickly showed a sure talent for drawing and was encouraged in this by his parents. He trained with his fellow Vendeans Charles Milcendeau and Auguste Lepère and then entered the Académie Jullian in Paris.
Enrolled in the First World War in 1916, he continued to draw at the front, and produced numerous portraits of soldiers...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Social Realism WPA Era Scene Pin-Up
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Social Realism WPA Era Scene Pin-Up
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
'Edward, This Man Insulted Me. Do Something"
Sight: 20 x 15 inches
Wa...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
"Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy" Louis Wolchonok, Boats in the Harbor Scene
Located in New York, NY
Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973)
Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy, 1928
Watercolor on paper
Sight 18 x 23 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Louis Wolchonok was an author of ar...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jean Cocteau - The Fight - Original Signed Drawing
By Jean Cocteau
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...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Plage Normande (Normandy Beach)
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower center
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
A typical Normandy beach scene, perhaps near Deauville or Trouville.
Category
1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Dance - Drawing - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a pencil drawing realized in 1920 and attributed to Augusto Monari.
Good condition, no signature.
Mounted on a grey cardboard passpartout ( 23.5x18.5).
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
September Morning: The First Ferry.
Located in Storrs, CT
September Morning: The First Ferry. 1929. Watercolor. 10 1/8 x 13 (image and sheet). Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London. A misty, impressionist watercolor on French papier ved...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Monotype in colors, 1936
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936"
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago
Hans Hermann...
Category
1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Salzburger Berge
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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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.
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