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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1940s
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Man on Horseback Abducting a Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jean-Robert ANGO (Active 1759 – 1773)
Man on Horseback Abducting a Woman
Red chalk and white chalk
26.1 x 25.9 cm
Provenance
Libert-Castor sale, November 19, 1993 (lot no. 23, ill...
Category
1760s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
British Light Tanks, c.1940, original painting by Vivian Bewick
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick
British light tanks
Gouache
17 x 25 cm
This striking gouache depicts two British light tanks in formation. Bewick captures the details of these vehicles seemingly w...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
'Fremantle Harbor, Perth', Western Australia, Post Impressionist, SFAA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'.
A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Paper
Study for the Spring (preparatory to the Four Seasons) by René-Marie Castaing
Located in PARIS, FR
René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47.
1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau
René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf.
René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death.
Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent.
Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943.
2. Description of the drawing
Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress.
Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Recumbent Lion" by Jean Pages
By Jean Pagès
Located in Bristol, CT
Watercolour of a recumbent lion w/ sapphire eyes by the artist, Jean Pages (1903-1976) signed (LR) who illustrated for Vogue magazine in the 1930s-1940...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A ca. 1940s Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a City Scene by Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1940s graphite on paper mural study of a Chicago city scene by notable Modern artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Artwork size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4". Archivally matted to 18" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 ...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely watercolor painting on Arches paper features a landscape view in Provence. This typical Mediterranean country house in the south of France has a veranda and the Saint Victoire...
Category
1940s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chicken Ride
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chicken Ride
Pen and ink on paper, c. 1940
Unsigned
Annotated by the artist with his color intentions
Preliminary study for "Chicken Ride," watercolor, 1940, in the collection of Mr...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Girl Playing Golf
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink with White Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A pin-up study
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as M...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son.
Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
Category
Mid-18th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999)
Surreal Abstract
18 x 11 3/4 inches
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Signed lower left
Framed: 23 x 17 inches
Note. We are currently have listed a 1935 oil by Guccione, and in addition to this abstract drawing, we have several other works on paper, along with a major surrealist oil, none of which are currently listed. Inquiries are invited.
BIO
The following is from Djelloul (Del) Marbrook, son of the artist. Of signatures on paintings by his mother, Juanita first signed as Anita Rice, then as Juanita Rice, Juanita Rice Marbrook, Juanita Marbrook, and finally Juanita Guccione after marrying in the 1940s.
Juanita Guccione's life (June 20, 1904-December 18, 1999) spanned all but four years of the 20th Century. Cubist*, realist, surrealist*, automatist* and abstract strains are all to be found in her work, but by 1970 she was painting works in watercolor and acrylic that no longer included the human figure or the observed world. She was the younger sister of the abstract geometric* artist Irene Rice Pereira. The sisters were born in Chelsea, MA, but spent most of their working lives in Manhattan.
In the early 1930s, Guccione, then painting as Nita Rice, lived for four years among the Ouled Nail...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Paris Shops
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Colourful Shops
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet:: 9.75 x 12.5 inches
Very pretty painting b...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'Self-Portrait with Black Hat' — Mid-Century American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Self-Portrait with Black Hat', ink and color pastel, c. 1945. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, spontaneous drawing, on heavy, buff wove paper; the artist's tack holes in the top and bottom left sheet corners, minor rippling in the bottom sheet edge; otherwise in good condition. Image size 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
“Cat in Profile”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisitely done profile of a cat done with graphite, watercolor and brushed wash by the Norwegian born artist, Charles Hermansen. Signed lower middle. Circa 1940. Condition is very...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Industrial Street)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed
Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Watercolor Called "A Värmland Landscape, 1941" Racksta Group Artist Ture Ander
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Värmland Landscape" is a watercolor painting by Ture Ander, an artist who was a member of the Racken Group. This artwork, incorrectly titled "Vår i Värml...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Art Lovers and Art Critics Analyzing Obscene Painting. Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Cartoonist Richard Taylor was trained in academic art. He frequently comments on abstract art which was the new and radical thing at the time. "Curtis sees so much more in these thi...
Category
1940s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Paris: Atelier Studio French Watercolour
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Atelier Rue Alain Chartier
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
unsigned but inscribed by Miloch verso
watercolour and graphite painting on artist's paper, unframed
sheet: 11 x 14 inc...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ginger Rogers, circa 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration is on 13.50" x 10.00" illustration board with a 8.00" x 5.00" image.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Dancer & Actress Ginger Rogers...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Antique Asian India Ink Calligraphy Set in A Custom Frame
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3825 Asian calligraphy in india ink on paper with custom frame
Image 14x10"
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
Located in Miami, FL
Historically, academic artists have always featured the central figures in their composition in a prominent light with the background figures being darker. In water sports...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
The Family - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
The Family is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink, pencil drawing and watercolor; hand signed on the left ma...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
"Pan" Original Watercolor & Ink Storyboard by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the defau...
Category
1940s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Sanguine Nude Female
By P. Balet
Located in Houston, TX
Sanguine female nude drawing in reclined pose by French artist P. Balet, 1947.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
"Grazing"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Country villa
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
LE PAON Watercolor lavis ink Military scene castle bridge French 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Baptiste LE PAON
Paris, 1738 – Paris, 1785
Military scene near a castle
Wash and ink on paper
25 x 31 cm (38 x 44 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower right: “Le Paon / 1785”
C...
Category
1780s Baroque Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"portrait d'homme aux longs cils " by Jean Cocteau .certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau
original , certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
drawing size : 23.5 x 17.7 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Our Army, Magazine Cover, July 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Gouache and Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Soldier awakens in bunk, with lipstick mark. "Who kissed me?" Magazine Cover July 1945
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
The Lumber Wharf
By Gordon Grant
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) created the watercolor entitled “The Lumber Wharf” in circa 1947. It is signed in the lower left 1 inch above the paper edge. The watercolor paper size ...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girton College, Cambridge, watercolour by Joy Fox
Located in London, GB
Joy Fox (née Hollings)
Girton College
Watercolour
24 x 17 cm
Signed to bottom right.
Little is known about Joy Fox. It seems that she studied at Girton College, Cambridge between 1939 and 1942. This charming watercolour depicting the main gate at the college featured in Douglas de Lacey...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study for a Frieze - Original Pen Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for a Frieze is an original drawing in pen realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th Cent.
Good conditions but aged.
The artwork is depicted through perfect hatching in a w...
Category
18th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Industrial Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the industrial East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1940. From collectio...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
'Standing Girl', École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michonze' for Gregoire Michonze, also known as Gregoire Michonznic (Russian-French, 1902-1982) and dated 1945.
Grégoire Michonze (Michonznic) was born into a Je...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
French Watercolor - Tropical Village
Located in Houston, TX
Bright and airy watercolor of a figure in a small tropical village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displaye...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 shows a jet ...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches.
About the Artist:
Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Tuilerie, study
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
62.6 x 67.7 x 1.5 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon
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). With a backdrop of the world a...
Category
1940s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727 – Madrid 1804)
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent) – interpreted either as Echidna or a personified Hydra
c. ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Ray Bolger in "Three to Make Ready" & "Where's Charley?"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
PEN & INK CARICATURES & SKETCHES - Drawings by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Ray Bolger in...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Turin Countryside - Original Ink and Watercolor by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1744
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and Watercolour. With handwritten notes, indicating the place and date of the artwork in lower margin: "Fait proche de Turin, ce 13 Juin 1744". Numbered on the lower right ...
Category
1740s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Design for a theatre fresco with fancy plasterwork - early 18th century French S
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink on cream laid paper, 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (222 x 136 mm). Scattered paper tape repairs on the verso in the area of the upper left corner, and along the right sheet...
Category
Early 18th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
George Jessel, circa 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image.
Caricature by George...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Graphite
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
1944 Searing Broadway Drama, "Anna Lucasta"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on 11.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 8.50" x 10.00."
Caricatur...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Church of Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont, Paris
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Gray wooden frame with glass pane
94 x 73 x 3 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Caricature of the Cast of the Broadway Production of "Another Part of the F
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature of the cast of the Broadway production of `Another Part of the Forest` by Lillian Hellman, including (l to r) Mildred Dunnock, Percy Waram, Leo Genn, Patricia Neal...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1943 Broadway production of "The Voice of the Turtle"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), for the long running 1943 Broadway production of `The Voice of the Turtle`, starring Peggy...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Pensive little girl
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
43.7 x 56 x 2 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Tony Award Winning Actors, Arthur Kennedy, David Wayne & Sam Wanamaker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Triple Portrait by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Tony Award Winning Actor...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1945 Broadway Musical, "The Red Mill"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On 17.50" x 15.00" illustration board with an image that measures to 12.00
x 11.50." Illustration includes some blue indicating halftone.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1945 Broadway Musical...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Revitalize your interiors — introduce drawings and watercolor paintings to your home to evoke emotions, stir conversation and show off your personality and elevated taste.
Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art. The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
When you’re shopping for new visual art, whether it’s for your apartment or weekend house, remember to choose something that resonates. It doesn’t always need to make you happy, but you should at least enjoy its energy. On 1stDibs, browse a wide-ranging collection of drawings and watercolor paintings and find out how to arrange wall art when you’re ready to hang your new works.
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