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'After the Storm', Carmel, California, Paris, Academie Julian, New York, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Herbert Lewis' (American, 1893-1962) and inscribed 'Caques 1928 and Tucson 1950'.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Herbert Taylor Lewis was known as a painter of abstracts, still lives and figure studies painted with a vivid palette in a bold Modernist style. Lewis first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and, subsequently, in Europe including at the Academie Julian in Paris during the birth of Modernism and Cubism in the early part of the 20th century. Upon his return to the United State, he kept a studio in New York City for several years but, by 1920, was living and painting in Arizona. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis was working as an art instructor at Rockford College, Illinois, and, from 1943 to 1954, was a resident of Tucson. By the early 1930s, he lived part time in California...
Category
1950s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Fiberboard, Watercolor
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cadets Football Game
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
14 1/4 X 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Charles Edward Brittan (1870-1949) - Framed Watercolour, Moorland with Sheep
Located in Corsham, GB
Charles Edward Brittan (1870-1949). Original watercolour. A moorland scene with sheep grazing. Smartly mounted in a wooden frame. Signed to the lower left. On paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$251 Sale Price
20% Off
Machu Picchu, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Machu Picchu. The Andes . Peru. Stunning original watercolour on handmade 300 lb 100% rag paper. Presented in a double white bevel cut mount 20 in x16 in, ready for framing. Certific...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"The Luminous Regions of the Sky" mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Meg Hitchcock
The Luminous Regions of the Sky, 2024
Text from Lucretius’ On the Nature of the Universe, acrylic,
graphite, colored pencil
22.5 x 18 in.
frame size: 27 x 22.25 in.
(Hi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Thread, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
French Watercolor of Château de Chenonceau: Perspective from the Northeast
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Château de Chenonceau: Perspective from the Northeast
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unf...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Female Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate...
Category
1960s Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$1,880 Sale Price
20% Off
Lemon Meringue - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of a Multi-Colored Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extraordinary dimensionality. By printing it on Mulberry paper, which mimics the swirl of water, the artist achieves a beautiful aesthetic. The artwork is matted and framed in a simple white wooden frame measuring 18.25h x 24.25w x 1d inches.
Jeff Conroy
Lemon Meringue
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
12.50h x 18.25w in
31.75h x 46.35w cm
JEC118
Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression and is believed to get its inspiration from Chinese stone rubbings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Sunflowers Watercolor painting Aquarelle
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting with sunflowers for living room. Painting with sunflowers for bedroom. A beautiful floral painting with sunflowers for the interior.
Watercolor painting with gol...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Attrib. Samuel A. Rayner (fl.1820-1874)- Watercolour, The Chapel at Haddon Hall
Located in Corsham, GB
The Chapel at Haddon Hall. Watercolour with gum arabic. Well presented in a maroon card mount and gilt effect frame with later photographs and an article on the chapel verso. Unsigne...
Category
19th Century Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Acanthus
Located in Chicago, IL
Color pencil on acrylic-coated canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil
Middle of Nowhere, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A wintry country road stretches into the distance, evoking a sense of serenity and isolation. Bare trees and snow-covered fields frame the scene. Tire tracks ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Academic Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Located in Firenze, IT
Study for the Head of an Apostle or Saint
Artist: Enrico Reffo (1831-1917)
Medium: Charcoal and white chalk on colored paper
Dimensions: [To be specified]
Date: Late 19th - Early 20...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Pink Cloud Hydrangeas - Floral Pastel Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anna Kudriashova, born in a small town in Russia, has always been an artist at heart. From her youngest years, she was passionate about painting, spending her days immersed in the wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage french art by Louis Cabat - cottage in Normandy - oil on canvas, signed.
Located in PARIS, FR
A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Michel Rodrigue accompanies the work.
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Older restauration in the upper part under UV light. Canvas relined...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Donald Sultan "Black Lemon" 1988 Original Charcoal Drawing - Signed - Iconic
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
DONALD SULTAN
Signed, titled & dated in pencil along the left edge of the paper.
In excellent condition
Provenance: McIntosh/Drysdale, Washington, D.C. 1988; Private Collection, Bethesda, Maryland; Private collection, San Diego, CA
Exhibition History: The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. "Donald Sultan: In The Still Life Tradition" May 10-July 7...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
'Woodland Stream', Paris, New York, Hudson River School, Luminism, AIC, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Parton' (American, 1842-1914) and painted circa 1885.
This notable Hudson River School painter first studied under William Trost Richards, from whom he gained a grounding in the technical aspects of his craft, and, subsequently, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While in Philadelphia, he began to exhibit with success and, in 1864, moved to New York where he continued to exhibit before leaving for Europe in 1869. In France, he was influenced by the works of the Barbizon painters and then furthered his studies in Paris and London (1870) before continuing to Scotland (1871). Upon his return to America, he would go on to establish himself as a major figure in the art world, maintaining a studio at 51 West 10th Street from 1874 to 1893.
Best known for his landscapes of the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains, Parton also painted in England and Scotland. During his career, he explored several styles including Tonalism and Impressionism, but remained closely influenced by the Hudson River style including Luminism. Parton was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Artists Fund Society and, from 1871, the National Academy of Design, becoming a National Academician in 1884. Parton exhibited widely and with success including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1907-1908, 1910), Brooklyn Artists Association (1866-85), Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876), Boston Art Club (1882-1909), New York City (1886 gold medal), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1889 Temple gold medal, 1891, 1896-97, 1905), Paris Exposition Universelle (1889 honorable mention), St Louis Exposition (1904 medal), the Art Institute of Chicago and, for more than 50 years, at the National Academy of Design (1862-1914, 1896 prize).
Parton gained widespread recognition after his painting of the Shenandoah River (1872) was published in William Cullen Bryant...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
Mediterranean Coast
Located in Houston, TX
Dazzling watercolor landscape painting of a small town lining the sparkling mediterranean coast by artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original ...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
ITZCHAK TARKAY "GARDEN PARTY" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15"
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: "GARDEN PARTY"
Size: 15 X 22 INCHES
Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Edition: ORIGINAL
Description: Hand signed by the artist
The artwork is i...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$5,993 Sale Price
24% Off
“New Mexico” Adobe Painting by Pawel Kontny, 20th C. Southwestern Watercolor
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative 20th-century watercolor painting by Polish-American artist Pawel Kontny captures the timeless architecture and spirit of the Southwest. Titled “New Mexico,” the work f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Familiar Marks, Unfamiliar Places Number 11
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Familiar Marks, Unfamiliar Places Number 11" is an original artwork by Kelly Knaga made of photography, digital print, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Digital
"Flowers in Vase with Handles, " Pastel on Paperboard signed by F. Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Flowers in Vase with Handles" is an original pastel drawing on paperboard by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This drawing depicts a bouquet of wa...
Category
1930s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Board
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle of Life
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Vintage French Watercolor - Windmill
Located in Houston, TX
Picturesque French watercolor of a windmill in tranquil cool hues, circa 1920.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bord...
Category
1910s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$350 Sale Price
46% Off
Dramatic Profiles in Multiples
Located in Houston, TX
Dramatic mid-century etching of profiles layered over each other by French artist Collette Pettier, 1965. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with...
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Colorful Countryside Scene w/ Cypress Trees and Cottage - Vibrant Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Colorful Countryside Scene with Cypress Trees and Cottage" - Vibrant Expressionist Pastel Drawing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist pape...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
'Medea', Jason's Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, born 1944) and dated 1964-1965. Titled, upper left, 'Medea' and bearing 2017 dedication in graphite, lower r...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Birds Circle Life
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
View of Royal Palace at Naples - 19th Century - Watercolor - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
View of Royal Palace at Naples is an original watercolor on paper of 19th century. Unreadable sign of the artist on lower right. Gilded wood frame included.
Image dimensions: 25 x 4...
Category
19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Femme Cheval
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
“Femme Cheval” 1971
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 in
Signed and dated at the bottom left corner
Provenance:
Gallerry Dobbelhoef, Kessel.
Private Collection, Brussel.
Campo and...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
1950s "Sitting in Chair" Mid Century Figurative Pratt Graphic Arts Center
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Sitting in Chair"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additio...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
St. Peter's Basilica from the Edge of the City - Roman Lansdcape
Located in Soquel, CA
St. Peter's Basilica from the Edge of the City - Roman Lansdcape
Lush watercolor of a sunset behind St. Peter's Basilica by Gaetano Facciola (Italian, 1868-1949). From a road at the edge of town...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Guy Lipscomb South Carolina Dunes
By Guy Lipscomb
Located in San Francisco, CA
Guy Lipscomb:1917-2009. Listed American artist from South Carolina. He is best known for doing these watercolors of the beach dunes. This wonderful watercolor measures 20 inches wide...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Drawing for Tiziani
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019)
Marking(s); notes: marking(s)
Materials: heavy card stock
Dimensions: approx. 12.75"h, 10"w (159 images)
Additional Information: Fashion d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Feminist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
A Fine French 19th Century Parisian Watercolor & Gouache "Theatre du Chatelet"
Located in LA, CA
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso carved frame and behind a prot...
Category
Early 1900s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Watercolor, Pencil
Landscape with Man and Goats
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Man and Goats', gouache on paper, by Raymond Guerrier (circa 1960s). After the artist moved from Paris to the South of France, he started painting landscapes illumina...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$874 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.46), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Complemented by the deep ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Nasturtiums" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Flowers
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Nasturtiums, circa 1940
Signed and stamped lower left
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Four Poses - Original Figurative Nude Study Sketch on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Four Poses - Original Figurative Nude Study Sketch on Paper
Clean and confident sketch of a female nude model by an unknown San Francisco Bay Area artist (20th Century). A nude woma...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Laid Paper
"Mushroom Magic" - Original Folk Art Pen and Ink Illustration on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mushroom Magic" - Original Pen and Ink Illustration on Paper in the Style of Folk Art
A charming illustration by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), of a scene with three woodland animals - a fox, a bear, and a deer - cuddled up together on an armchair reading a book titled, "Mushroom Magic." A cat sleeps below the three in a basket full of yarn.
The detailed ink gives such depth and texture to the artwork with patterns, stippling, and shading. The interior of the cabin gives an old-fashioned Alpine chic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Internal Nude - Original China Ink by Tibor Gertler - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Internal Nude is an original china ink drawing on ivory paper, realized by Tibor Gertler, in 1950s.
In good conditions.
This artwork represents a figure of a nude woman.
Not signed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Registrar - Contemporary Art, Collage on Paper, Funny, Green
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Registrar, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of faces composed of different materials – cardboards, textiles...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Studies of Juliet - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Studies of Juliet
Original charcoal drawing
Signed in the bottom right
Stamp of the artist on the back
On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch)
Ex...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$296 Sale Price
28% Off
Maine, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine (P6.41), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.26 cm), Description: Looking out over a group of...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup (Tonalist Style Country Landscape at Twilight)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Romantic, Tonalist style landscape drawing by Sue Bryan of a lush country forest set against a serene sunset
charcoal and acrylic on Arches paper mounted on wood
16 x 20 inches, unf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic
Daydreams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel, and Watercolor on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 16.00;" Framed 28.00" x 25.00"
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, Board
$32,500
Composition in Red
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Composition in Red
c. 1960
Gouache on paper
52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins)
SF14434
$125,000
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gall...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Animal Capers (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Animal Capers, ca. 1970 .
Ink on illustration board, image measures 20 inches. inches; illustration panel measures 21.5 inches. Unsigned.
Minor staining evident in detail photos
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.39), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Casting a shadow across t...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Dahlias, 1940
Signed, dated and stamped lower right
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled - Blush
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Play Ball
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
12 x 8 inches (sight)
Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches
Gouache on board
Estate sticker verso
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
1890s Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel Landscape
By George Hamilton Brodhead
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century watercolor of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, in Carmel CA, by George H. Brodhead (American, b. 1860). Signed "G.H. Brodhead" ...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spring Table Still Life with Floral Bouquet & Fruit
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring still life with bright, luminous colors by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed "Les Anderson" ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rocio Rodriguez "8-Jul-13" Abstract Oil Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Rocio Rodriguez
July 8, 2013, 2013
pastel, oil pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper
18 x 24 in.
This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez features abstracted ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil
Pink Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Pink Flowers (P5.64), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 13 in. (50.8 x 33.02 cm), Description: Arranged in a tall a...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Rose) Unique original signed graphite drawing from MOCA Detroit Framed
Located in New York, NY
Donald Baechler
Untitled (Rose), 2015
Original Graphite drawing on archival bond paper. Framed, with museum provenance
Signed and dated in graphite pencil on the front
Provenance: Do...
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Graphite
Red Poppy - line drawing woman figure with flower
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (gold) with a styrene face on a double mat b...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French Watercolor of "Château de Cheverny" with Lush Grounds and Towering Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "Château de Cheverny" with Lush Grounds and Towering Trees
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
Category
1930s Performance Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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