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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: American Realist
Style: Street Art
Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joseph Yeager" lower right. No frame. Estate of Joseph Yeager on verso.
Image, 22.75"H x 30.25"W
Signed, lower right "Joe Yeager"
Provenance; from the Joseph Yeager estate.
Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-Century Cottage in the Woods Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century watercolor landscape of a cottage in the woods, executed with phenomenal attention to detail, by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Turkish Yataghan, Illustration of Baby, Collier's Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Baby caring a horse shoe on his shoulders reminiscent of the famous J. C. Leyendecker Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. This is a cover illustration/ painting for Collie...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Peacock, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Peacock, is an updated, humorous take on Renaissance portraiture. The peacock's gleaming jade, aqua, and royal blue plumage sweeps around him...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Reclining Nude II
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987)
Title: Reclining Nude II
Year: circa 1930
Medium: Pastel and Watercolor on Paper, signed
Size: 15 in. x 20.5 in. (38.1 cm x 52.07 cm)
Fr...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel
Mid Century Autumn Harvest Watercolor Still-Life with Gourds & Purple Corn
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptionally detailed mid century watercolor still-life depicting an autumn harvest, with bumpy gourds spilling out of a basket, several ears of deep purple corn, and a fringed blan...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Listen
Located in Denver, CO
Rock formations in landscape
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Of Pure Heart, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An original culinary-themed still life created in the realist tradition. "I got the urge to paint golden delicious apples, so my wife and I picked up some at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman, Framed Pastel Drawing by Peter Driben
By Peter Driben
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Driben, best known as an American pin-up artist, was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of the 1940s and 1950s. Driben's pinups delighted the American public from the beginning of World War II until the great baby boom of the 1950s. This portrait of a woman...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Illustration signed by J. Meyers, Elegant couple dated (19) '04 Pencil on Paper
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pencil on paper. Note I bought this work sight unseen as Jerome Meyers. That is clearly wrong. Sadly I paid $1300 for it and then another 150 to a paper restorer and now and new f...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Daisies, grey realist graphite on paper floral drawing, 2020
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts seamlessly from branch to pebb...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Stone Monument to a Forest Cabin, Mid-Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stone Monument, a mid-century landscape by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. No frame. Unfinished, unsigned work. Estate of Joseph Yeager on Verso.
Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Final Light on the Mountain, Original Painting
By Jill Poyerd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I really enjoy combining realism with very impressionistic, almost abstract brushwork. The areas of this painting that are loosely interpreted are meant to e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Yellow Bird Akimbo, contemporary realist gouache miniature animal portrait
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist miniature gouache painting, Yellow Bird Akimbo, is kinetic and visceral. Clinging to diverging branches, the little yellow shock of a bird is caught betwixt an...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Straight into Night
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Burned pieces by Paul Chojnowski.
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Monolith Rock - Mid Century Monterey, California Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Seascape of waves crashing against a large rock by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Backyard Bench - original watercolor 1974-2016
Located in Burlingame, CA
Backyard Bench - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Bus Stop, New York City
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Bus Stop
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches
Frame Size: 35 x 27 inches
This watercolor by American artist Don Da...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Long Tailed Sylph, blue and green realist gouache miniature animal portrait
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Car Wash - original unique watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Car Wash - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intagli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Mixed Media "Louis Vuitton + Smirnoff Collab" Pop Art Drawing NYC Street Art
Located in Surfside, FL
The bold and eclectic work of self taught artist Ephraim Wuensch is part social commentary part contemporary street art. These are mixed media reworked luxury magazine advertisements...
Category
2010s Street Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media
Dandelion with Bud, contemporary realist silver floral graphite drawing, 2019
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Crested Bird, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Crested Bird, is a rich melange of hues and textures. The bird's plumage is a blaze of brick red and burnt orange. His tail and crest are pun...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Osprey, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Tree #55, contemporary realist ballpoint pen and gouache nature still life
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
In her ballpoint pen and gouache still-life, "Tree #55," Dina Brodsky uses a sketch-like approach to capture the texture of the tree bark, and the delicacy of its branches. Brodsky c...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Gouache, Ballpoint Pen
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Mixed Media
Black-Bellied Plover #9
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Black Turnstone #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dina Brodsky, Bluebird, realist animal watercolor on paper, 2019
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. The rich royal blue reflects in a dreamy glow off the bird's perch. Each carefully defined f...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Rooster, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Antique American Drawing Football Player Monogrammed Original Frame early 20th C
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original charcoal drawing of a football player in his uniform circa 1910.
This work is initialed what appears to be "e.w." with the phrase "1/2 hr" written below. We have not be...
Category
1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Cycling. Two men Sports Racing on Bicycles
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This illustration was commissioned for the 1984 Olympic Games by the US postal service.
Signed and dated lower right
Work is framed
framed under acrylic to an overall size of 31.5 ...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel
Dina Brodsky, Little Rooster, realist gouache miniature animal portrait, 2019
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Dina Brodsky, Crested Caracara, realist gouache animal portrait miniature, 2019
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Untitled
By Carolyn Bullis Blish
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Carolyn Bullis Blish, born 1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17 x 26 inches, framed is 28 x 37 inches. Framed in his original wooden gold and mahogany color frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, with very minor small dents and scratches, hardly visible.
About the artist.
A former model, actress, and newscaster, artist Carolyn Blish is known primarily for her watercolor landscapes. She received a very short training in painting under the tutelage of artist Edgar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fishing Boats in the Harbor with Monterey Wharf Fish Market, Maritime Landscape
By Jones
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Boats in the Harbor with Monterey Wharf Fish Market, Maritime Landscape
Highly detailed watercolor of fishing boats in the harbor along a w...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Passaic Falls in New Jersey
By Nicolino V. Calyo
Located in New York, NY
Nicolino Calyo's career reflects a restless spirit of enterprise and adventure. Descended in the line of the Viscontes di Calyo of Calabria, the artist was the son of a Neapolitan army officer. (For a brief biographical sketch of the artist see Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, exhib. cat. [1976], pp. 299-301 no. 257.) Calyo received formal training in art at the Naples Academy. His career took shape amidst the backdrop of the political turbulence of early nineteenth-century Italy, Spain, and France. He fled Naples after choosing the losing side in struggles of 1820-21, and, by 1829, was part of a community of Italian exiles in Malta. This was the keynote of a peripatetic life that saw the artist travel through Europe, to America, to Europe again, and back to America.
Paradoxically, Calyo’s stock-in-trade was close observation of people and places, meticulously rendered in the precise topographical tradition of his fellow countrymen, the eighteenth-century
vedute painters Antonio Canale (called Canaletto) and Francesco Guardi. In search of artistic opportunity and in pursuit of a living, Calyo left Malta, and, by 1834, was in Baltimore, Maryland. He advertised his skills in the April 16, 1835 edition of the Baltimore American, offering "remarkable views executed from drawings taken on the spot by himself, . . . in which no pains or any resource of his art has been neglected, to render them accurate in every particular" (as quoted in The Art Gallery and The Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland, exhib. cat. [1984], p. 35). Favoring gouache on paper as his medium, Calyo rendered faithful visual images of familiar locales executed with a degree of skill and polish that was second nature for European academically-trained artists. Indeed, it was the search for this graceful fluency that made American artists eager to travel to Europe and that led American patrons to seek out the works of ambitious newcomers.
On June 16, 1835, the Baltimore Republican reported that Calyo was on his way north to Philadelphia and New York to paint views of those cities. Calyo arrived in New York, by way of Philadelphia, just in time for the great fire of December 1835, which destroyed much of the downtown business district. He sketched the fire as it burned, producing a series of gouaches that combined his sophisticated European painting style with the truth and urgency of on-the-spot observation. Two of his images were given broad currency when William James Bennett reproduced them in aquatint. The New-York Historical Society owns two large Calyo gouaches of the fire, and two others, formerly in the Middendorf Collection, are now in the collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. From 1838 until 1855, Calyo listed himself variously in the New York City directories as a painter, a portrait painter, and as an art instructor, singly, and in partnership with his sons, John (1818-1893) and later, the younger Hannibal (1835-1883). Calyo also attracted notice for a series of scenes and characters from the streets of New York, called Cries of New York. These works, which were later published as prints, participate in a time-honored European genre tradition. Calyo’s New York home became a gathering place for European exiles, including Napoleon III. Between 1847 and 1852 Calyo exhibited scenes from the Mexican War and traveled from Boston to New Orleans with his forty-foot panorama of the Connecticut River. Later, he spent time in Spain as court painter to Queen Maria Christina, the result of his continuing European connections, but he was back in America by 1874, where he remained until his death.
The Passaic River rises in the hills just south of Morristown, New Jersey, marking a serpentine eighty-mile course before it empties into Newark Bay. It flows north-northeast to Paterson, where it falls seventy feet in a spectacular cataract before continuing south through Passaic and Newark. William Gerdts, in Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey (1964, pp. 51-2), describes the falls as:
the most important [landscape] subject in New Jersey during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. . . . The Passaic Falls remained a popular spot, particularly during the romantic period. Indeed, newspapers, periodicals, and gift books contain many accounts of visits to the Falls, sentimental poems written about them or about a loved one visiting the Falls, or even, occasionally, in memory of one who perished in the waters of the Falls — usually intentionally. . . . Waterfalls . . . were popular among travelers in the period and the Passaic Falls were only surpassed by Niagara Falls and Trenton Falls...
Category
19th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Al Hirschfeld "Beat the Band" New York Times Broadway Theatre Illustration 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Framed size: 22 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Published in The New York Times, October 11, 1942. In collaboration the Al Hirschfeld Foundation
Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the mo...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Palm Tree, New York City, Photorealist Watercolor Painting by Don David
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Palm Tree
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5 inches
Frame Size: 30.75 x 24.75 inches
In a classic example of nature vs. the city, a Palm sh...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Fresh Air, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"An original watercolor that gives homage to a time when grandma or mom baked desserts and cooled them by fresh air," says Dwight. "The windowsill in this pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Country Life Illustration
By Stuart Davis
Located in Miami, FL
Early work when Stuart Davis was an illustrator.
Christie's, New York
Catalogue Raisonné
Category
1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, India Ink
San Gio, Como
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
Crosswalk, New York City, Photorealist Watercolor on Paper by Don David
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Crosswalk
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches
Frame Size: 35 x 27 inches
Amid construction that constantly reinve...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Police Line, New York City - Photorealist Watercolor by Don David
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Police Line
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 18 x 24 inches
Frame Size: 24.5 x 30.25 inches
The viewer is at the edge of the acti...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Shipping Cranes, Evening Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Southwest Living Room Interior Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed watercolor of a Santa Fe southwest style living room, full of vibrant Navajo patterned textiles, by unknown artist "West" (American, 20th Cen...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Soho, Mercer Street - Photorealist Watercolor on Paper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: University Floral Design
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches
Frame Size: 28 x 35 inches
Street scene watercolor by an...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" 1909 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 9.5 x 14 inches, framed is 18.5 x 22.35 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mixed Media Bris Chair Antique Brith Mila Judaica Pop Art Drawing NYC Street Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a take on an ad featuring an antique judaic carved wood circumcision chair from the community of Hebron is Israel. titled Mama with Challah.
The bold and eclectic work of se...
Category
2010s Street Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Franconia, New Hampshire
Located in New York, NY
David Johnson was a stalwart of the New York art world in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the fifty years between 1849 and 1899, Johnson exhibited over fifty paintings at the National Academy of Design, where he was an academician. In 1867, Johnson visited a spot above West Point on the Hudson River to paint a view that had long been a favorite of the landscape artists comprising the so-called “Hudson River School.” John Kensett had painted from the same vantage point ten years earlier, describing the area in a letter of 1854 as being “in the midst of the beautiful highlands of the Hudson, which I think for their peculiar kind of beauty there is nothing to surpass” (Kensett to his uncle, John R. Kensett, March 30, 1854, as quoted in Natalie Spassky and Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845 [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985], p. 33). The Kensett painting, now called Hudson River Scene...
Category
19th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Dodge and Truck, New York City
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Dodge and Truck
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.r.
Image Size: 18 x 24 inches
Frame Size: 24.75 x 30.25 inches
This watercolor by American artist Don ...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes, Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 24 in. x 19.75 in. (60.96 cm x 50.17 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mid Century Seashells and Coral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed still life or seashells and coral on a wood table by Joseph Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Background has an ocean scene with a sailboat and palm trees. Y...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Couple at a Table, Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland
Title: Couple at Table (Self-Portrait)
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed u.l.
Size: 19.75 in. x 25.5 in. (50.17 cm x 64.77 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Edam, Holland
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty.
Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.”
This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them.
Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists.
During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Dollass
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “Dollass”
Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 42 x 43 in.
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing.
Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Chalk, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Squabbling Penguins, contemporary realist animal watercolor on paper
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. Each carefully defined feather shimmers with a prism of color. Her attention to detail is enliven...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Harbor Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Village Harbor" c.1910 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 8 x 15 inches, framed is 17 x 23.75 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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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