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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: Expressionist
Style: American Realist
'Meyer's Lemon Soap - still life watercolor - ordinary objects - George Inness
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Meyer's Lemon Soap" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of grey, yellow and red.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sleepwalking 18, monochromatic dream like figures
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Last Mohawk
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Last Mohawk, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 4 x 9 inches and 11 x 15.75 inches professional...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled (Oklahoma Landscape #4)
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Alex Peña, Untitled (Oklahoma Landscape), 2020, ink drawing on paper,
Framed size: 14" x 12"
Image size: 8" x 5.75"
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink
Paragon Park, 1997
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Paragon park, 1997' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 10 inches ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
La Montera
Located in London, GB
'La Montera', gouache, watercolour and ink on art paper, by Pierre Ambrogiani (circa 1960s). The artist created many artworks with bullfighting as theme. In this case, a single torer...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Three Dandelions, contemporary realist botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass reimagines color and tone, using luminescent graphite to translate vivid shades into bursts of silvery-gray. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemerality, Glass lingers...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Neugestorben
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.5 x 29.8 x 3.5 cm
This work includes a ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Keep, black and white realist northeastern landscape drawing, charcoal
By Dozier Bell
Located in New York, NY
The drawings and paintings of Dozier Bell are at once deep evocations of natural environments culled from memory and experience past, and reflections of a life of philosophical inqui...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Fast Eddies, 1996
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fast Eddies, 1996' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 15 inches a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mori Point II
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Mori Point II', original watercolor by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson measures 20 x 38 inches and framed 29 x 46 1/2 inches.
"Torlakson's work depicts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Spurred on by the Crowd
By Garth Bayley
Located in Deddington, GB
Spurred on by the crowd- horse racing painting [2022]
original
Pen and Ink
Image size: H:32 cm x W:24 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:32 cm x W:24 cm x D:32cm
Sold Unframed
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Painting the Town Red urban narrative warm southwestern color female figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Surrealistic expressionist with humorous undertones
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Anemone 1, contemporary realist botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass reimagines color with her newest specimen, anemones, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemera...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Emile's Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Grounded Angel
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Grounded Angel' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 14 inches and 19 x 23 inches professionally f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Allan Rohan Crite Boston Harbor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed African American artist. He has had auction results over $200,000 for a painting. He is mostly associated w...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Moose Lodge No 2171
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Moose Lodge No. 2171,' is a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 16 x 24 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Arcade II, 1983
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Arcade II, 1981' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 8 x 11 inches and 15.5 x 18.5 inches framed and r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Tourists Viewing the Temple of Karnak, Egypt
Located in New York, NY
Eleanor Park Custis painted scenes as varied as the artist's travels: from her hometown of Washington, D.C., to the coastal towns of New England; from the prosperous fishing villages of Brittany, to Venice and the mountain villages and lakes of northern Italy.
While Custis's subjects are diverse, her style is consistent and distinctive throughout this body of work. Her use of flat areas of color delineated by dark contours is reminiscent of the aesthetics of woodblock printing. Like many artists of the day, she was profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and her adaptation of the aesthetic by 1924 led to her most productive artistic period.
Eleanor Custis hailed from a socially prominent Washington, D.C., family. She was distantly related to Martha Custis Washington, America's first First Lady. Custis began three years of formal art training in the autumn of 1915 at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and was guided and inspired by Impressionist artist Edmund C. Tarbell, one of the Ten American Painters, who became the Corcoran School's principal in 1918. Custis exhibited widely in many of the Washington art societies and clubs for much of her career. She was also a frequent exhibitor at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City; her last one-woman show there was in April 1945.
Custis's mature style emerged in scenes of the streets, wharves, and drydocks of seacoast villages from Maine to Massachusetts, which she visited during the summers of 1924 and 1925. She was working in Gloucester, Massachusetts in August 1924, and painted several gouaches of the town's wharves and winding streets, including In Gloucester Harbor and At the Drydock, Gloucester. During her stay, Custis may have met Jane Peterson or at least must have seen her work, the best of which was executed in Gloucester during the preceding ten years. The similarity between their styles is unmistakable, but, while it may be tempting to suggest that Custis was influenced by Peterson during her summer in Gloucester, the connection between their work is probably more a case of shared aesthetics and common European influences.
Custis expanded her subject repertoire with three trips to Europe between 1926 and 1929, and was inspired by the Old World charm of Holland, northern France, Switzerland, and Italy, leading to such works as New Kirk, Delft, Holland, Market Day in Quimper, At the Foot of the Matterhorn, and The Town Square, Varenna. A Mediterranean cruise in 1934 introduced her to the Near East, and the bustling, colorful streets and bazaars of Cairo, captured in works like A Street in Cairo, Egypt and A Moroccan Jug...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large Thistle 1, contemporary realist botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass reimagines color and tone, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemerality, Glass lingers over t...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bay no. 4, (nocturnal)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bay no. 4 (nocturnal), 1981' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 11 x 16 inches and 15 x 20 inches pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Bay no. 4, II (daylight)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bay no. 4, II 1980' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 11 x 16 inches and 15 x 20 inches professional...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Bakery
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bakery, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 18 inches and 33 x 27 inches professionally fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Zirkusdirektor und Bajazzos
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 54.1 x 42 2.5 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
FRIENDS
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original hand painting, markers on paper
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nor Cal
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Nor Cal, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 20 x 18 inches and 29 x 27 inches professionally fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mallory' for Ronald Mallory (American, 1932-2021) and dated 1975.
A dramatic, disjunct figural study of a man wearing a checked cap, shown dancing and playing ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
German Expressionist Bakers, colorful painting with food cakes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Gladiolas - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink gladiolas, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American,...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Tower of Glamour. Still life bright colors hats sunglasses and mirror subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper suitable for framing.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nude in Furs, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Nudes in Fur II
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed
Image Size: 22 x 16.5 inches
Size: 28.5 in. x 22 in. (72.39 ...
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
San Cristobal bright color religious Saint blue water sky human condition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned signed and dated bottom. Part of 4 works the artist has done on the subject of Saint Christopher who is depicted in art history carrying the Christ child on his...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Flight, realist black and white charcoal skyscape drawing
By Dozier Bell
Located in New York, NY
Dozier Bell’s paintings and intimate, diminutive charcoal drawings (some of which measure as small as 2 x 4 inches) bring to mind 19th-century American painters Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora is loved sketching and drawing and did so for almost every day of his career. This allegorical and very finished pencil drawing depicts a Faun in the forest. Poss...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Two Monkeys
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Monkeys) is an original ink drawing on thick Bristol paper by American artist Lynn Gertenbach, b.1940. It is hand signed at the lower rig...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Opal Magic
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
The mystery of the flashing colors of opals is in tiny spheres that retain water and diffract light into it's component wavelengths. If we zoom in close enough, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Le Silence des Yeux
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 50 x 37.7 x 3 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Fe...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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
'No way back 4, ' by Josette Simon Gestin, Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 11.5" X 10.5" unframed mixed media pastel and ink etching on paper by Josette Simon Gestin is from the artist's series titled "No way back." On the ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
Category
1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Notre Dame de Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). An absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. It is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in Paris. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower left hand corner. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Anemone 2, contemporary realist botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass reimagines color with her newest specimen, anemones, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemera...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Blue Waves, Watercolor by Jon Carsman
By Jon Carsman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Carsman, American (1944 - 1987)
Title: Blue Waves
Year: 1976
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 39.5 x 28 in. (100.33 x 71.12 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Productivity' - still life watercolor - ordinary objects - George Inness
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Productivity" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of purple, orange and green.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Man drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935. Signed lower right. Unframed. No damage or conservation.
Birth place: Cinc...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Steps", 1980s Farmhouse Staircase Realist Watercolor Landscape with Barn
Located in Soquel, CA
"Steps", a highly realistic late 20th century watercolor landscape of a staircase in front of a wooden barn by Verne R. Horton (American, 1941-2020), 1986. Horton's background as a technical artist and draftsman is apparent in the fine details of this piece, such as the crisply rendered planks of wood that comprise the barn, the individual pieces of metal that form the railing, and each block of cement that make up the staircase. Horton's meticulous rendering of shadows enhances the sense of realism.
Signed and dated "Verne R. Horton '86" lower right. Signed and titled "Steps" on verso.
Displayed in a new off-white mat and rustic wood frame with plexiglass.
Image size: 13.75"H x 9.75"W.
Born February 1, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA, Verne R. Horton went to Los Angeles State College where he earned a degree in pre-architecture. As a young man Verne joined the US Navy, in 1960 and served as a draftsman until 1965. After leaving the Navy, he ended up as a technical artist for North American Aviation. His charge: illustrating publicity pictures for the Apollo space program. After working on the Apollo program for three and a half years, he was lured into the corporate world as a regional manager for New York Life Insurance.
Horton said he did virtually no artwork in the 17 years he worked for the insurance company. He ended up earning another degree in insurance and finance from American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., in 1978. He moved within the company 14 times in 17 years, living in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Arizona and San Francisco.
"Then I had an awareness that I had always wanted to be an artist," he said. "It seemed that if I were going to do it, I needed to just do it." He quit his job and became a fine artist.
Horton's paintings and sculptures are truly those of a professional. He specializes in 1800s to 1930s Western Americana, but his love is steam era railroad art. "You must have historical accuracy. The worst thing is to have somebody come by and say, 'That's not right," Horton said. "You can't get involved in the history of the railroad without getting to know a community."
It was his insistence on historical accuracy and love of railroads that brought him to Carson City...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Modern Realist Watercolor Still-Life with Toothbrush & Tool
By Claude Buck
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century modern realist watercolor still-life by Claude Buck (American, 1890-1974). This highly detailed watercolor features a yellow toothbrush and set of pliers in a decorative...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Sudden Shower
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Gabriel 1946. SUDDEN SHOWER. / SUNSHINE. WIND AND RAIN’ (lower edge)
5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Las Vegas Date
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Las Vegas Date
Watercolor, c. 1965
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil upper left (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 11 ...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'Cafe au Lait' - still life painting - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Cafe au Lait" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of grey, brown and yellow.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
Pastel, Ink Drawing Rocks And Cloud Landscape Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Landscape
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol)
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
“Ben-Zion has his hands on the pulse of the common man and his natural world”
As he emerged as an artist Ben-Zion never lost his gift for presenting the ordinary in ways that are vital, fresh and filled with emotions that are somber and exhilarating, joyous and thoughtful, and ultimately, filled with extraordinary poetic simplicity.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952).
Along with ben Shahn, William Gropper, Chaim Gross and Abraham Rattner he was an influential mid century Jewish American...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
The Port of Le Havre
By Fred Pailhès
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Le Havre', pencil on art paper, by French artist Fred Pailhès (circa 1950s). Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I h...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Tiger Lily - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Revitalize your interiors — introduce drawings and watercolor paintings to your home to evoke emotions, stir conversation and show off your personality and elevated taste.
Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art.
The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
When you’re shopping for new visual art, whether it’s for your apartment or weekend house, remember to choose something that resonates. It doesn’t always need to make you happy, but you should at least enjoy its energy. On 1stDibs, browse a wide-ranging collection of drawings and watercolor paintings and find out how to arrange wall art when you’re ready to hang your new works.
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