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Figurative Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Portrait Of Man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
By Gio Colucci
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Of Man is a charcoal drawing on brown paper, hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Good conditions except for some folds and rips along the margins.
Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique set of expressive portrait studies in watercolor and ink by Santa Cruz artist Bob Newick (American, 20th Century). Signed "To Wendy / In Friendsh...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Foam Board
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
M...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identic...
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1910s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Sunset Tower Hotel)
By Ed Templeton
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free shipping and a 14 day return policy.
Ed Templeton
Untitled (Sunset Tower Hotel), 2019
Image size: 11 ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
Beautiful modern figure drawing of a nude woman by Bay Area Artist George Wishon (Ameri...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Color Pencil
Circus Lot at Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Circus Lot at Toledo, c. 1920
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surrealist Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Heads Pink Orange
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 whi...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
The Lovers "The Eyes Have It" Figurative Abstract Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Lovers "The Eyes Have It" Figurative Abstract Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
A whimsical figurative painting by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Pencil
Girls
Located in Brecon, Powys
A group of girls forms the image for Barbara Wagner's silkscreen print. This is a unique piece and not part of an edition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Screen
"Pink Cheeks" American Modernist Robert Gilberg 1950 Ink and Pastel Nude Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Pink Cheeks"
c.1950s
Ink and pastel on paper
12"x13.75" unframed
Unsigned
Good Condition - Wear consistent with age and history. Deep creases on upper le...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pastel
Seascape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is a Watercolour and Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
One Thousand And One Nights French Orientalism Art Nouveau Decorative Period
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur
French 19ème siècle
Les Mille Et Une Nuits – One Thousand & One Nights, 1892
Charcoal on paper heightened with white.
Signed & dated 1892 lower right.
Image size 23.6 inc...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Allan Rohan Crite "God and Man"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed and important African American artist. He has auction results over $200,000 and as high as $15,000 for his ...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Joseph Harold Swanwick (1866-1929) - Framed Watercolour, The End of Day
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely painted bucolic scene by the highly collected British artist Joseph Harold Swanwick (1866-1929). The composition centres on a tranquil stream where figures gather, surrounde...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Holiday Carriage Ride”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache artwork on heavy card by the American artist, Justin Kilbourne. Signed lower left by the artist. Condition is excellent. Dated and artist address stamped verso. This artwork was used as a Christmas card by the Manville Greeting Card Company in 1980. Presently unframed but recently professionally matted. Overall matted measurements are 10 by 8 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector.
Justin Kilbourne was a student of H.A. Wessel, and senior illustrator and designer at Gibson Greeting Cards. He had four watercolors commissioned by President Johnson...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
1950s "Star Ear" Mid Century Figurative Drawing University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Star Ear"
c.1950s
Ink on paper
Black wood frame 9.75"x17.25
Signed lower right in pencil
Came from artist estate
This striking piece of art is an original drawing by r...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Day in the Countryside - Watercolor on Paper by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper by Sirio Pellegrini in 1969. Hand signed and dated.
Drawing made up of several fragments joined together.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame 97x89 cm.
Sirio ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Investigations (with Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Label)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Morris
Investigations (with Guggenheim Museum Labels), 1990
Graphite drawing on Mylar. Framed with the original Guggenheim Museum label (lent by Sonnabend), & Castelli Gallery...
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1990s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Graphite
India Naga Tribe Watercolour 19th Century Company School Painting Indian
Located in Norfolk, GB
Untitled - Rongmei Naga Tribe India
Watercolour on Paper
c 1860
Mounted Unframed: 38 x 45 cm
Image size: 24.5 x 31 cm
Provenance: Private UK Collection
This is a fabulous and rare 19th century watercolour from India in a style that is often referred to as Company School Painting...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'No Way Back 1, ' by Josette Simon-Gestin, Etching and Pastel Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 11.5" X 10.75" unframed mixed media pastel drawing and ink etching on paper created in 2021 by Josette Simon Gestin is from the artist's series titl...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Etching
18th Century Roman School , A Palazzo with antiques, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Roman School
A Palazzo with antiques
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
12.5 x 20 cm
Framed : 28,5 x 35.5
This nice drawing represents a genre scene, with a nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Window onto the Sea, Original Drawing, Contemporary Landscape, Architecture
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed.
Medium : Watercolour, Soft Pastel and Oil based col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Polo Match At Cirencester Cotswolds The First Chukka Framed Original Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Elin Siân Blake.
Welsh ( b.1981).
Polo Match, Cirencester, The First Chukka.
Watercolor On Paper.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 11.2 inches x 15.6 inches ( 28.5cm x 39.5cm ).
Frame size 16.9 inches x 20.7 inches ( 43cm x 52.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by the contemporary Welsh artist Elin Sian Blake.
The watercolor is presented and supplied in a glazed sympathetic frame (which is shown in these photographs) and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The watercolor is signed lower right.
Elin Siân Blake is a contemporary Brecon-based artist, originally from the South Wales valleys, whose work delves deeply into the rich tapestry of Welsh heritage. Through various mediums, she creates poignant reflections of societal and cultural issues that have shaped the Welsh identity.
Born in 1981, Elin Siân Blake began producing commissioned artwork from an early age, focussing on the traditional Welsh ponies and landscapes of her childhood. She was particularly inspired by the agricultural and equestrian events she attended. As a teenager she spent all her spare money on art supplies. Blake graduated from the University of Glamorgan in 2002 with a degree in graphic design and illustration, but quickly realised that she wanted to create conventional paintings, rather than producing digital images. She then spent several years living on the road in vintage vehicles, painting the scenes and characters she encountered on her travels.
Blake taught herself oil painting using library...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Compassion - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Compassion is a drawing in watercolor and ink realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century.
In good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork is presented through deft st...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Sketch Class, Figurative Study Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive line drawing figure study featuring a group of figures in a classroom by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Unsigned, but was acquire...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Watercolor
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Crashing Estuary Waves
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour by an unknown hand, evocative of tidal waters and the coastline of the British Isles. Unsigned. Well presented in a cream card mount and antique ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
" Le Fumeur de pipe "
Located in CANNES, FR
Paco Rabanne ( 1934 -2023 )
Grand couturier et parfumeur franco - espagnol . Il a marqué
l'univers de la mode dans les années 60.
En 1963 , Lauréat de la Biennale de Paris avec une s...
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Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt, Felt Pen, Graphite
Christ - Original Drawing - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the mid-20th Century.
Original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard (24 x 16 cm).
Not sig...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Eugène Cicéri (1813-1890) The Mill, original signed drawing
By Eugène Ciceri
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Cicéri (1813 - 1890)
The Mill
Signed lower right
Monogrammed AE, probably a collector's mark as it appears on numerous drawings by Cicéri
30.5 x 22.5 cm
In good condition : ...
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1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper by B. Warde
Located in Soquel, CA
Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper
A woman is depicted standing, presumably pregnant, in the nude with her hand on the small of her back. The artist u...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Woman Figure - Original Ink and Pastel on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" is an original erotic ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on white paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XX Century.
In excellent condition...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Lovers - Charcoal Drawing by A. Leroux - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is an original artwork realized in 1927 by Andre Leroux.
Original black and white charcoal drawing.
The artwork represents a couple of lovers wh...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed.
Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina.
Biography
One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine.
In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education.
In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced:
...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4]
After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6]
Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems.
From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics.
In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
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1920s Conceptual Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Figurative/Portrait/Abstract_Acrylic on Paper_America Martin, Under The Trees
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Under The Trees"
Acrylic on Paper
46 x 43 in. Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Art Deco Buick Car 1937 Design Mid-20th Century American Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Buick Car 1937 Design Mid-20th Century American Modern Illustration
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
1937 Buick
10 1/2 x 19 inches (sight)
11 5/8 x 23 inches (sheet)
Go...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Delicate drawing of a woman in a white dress by Palo Alto artist Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015). Acquired with a colle...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Poupee Espagnole
Located in New York, NY
Poupee Espagnole. Costume design for the entertainer Mistinguette for her production at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. Watercolor. Signed Zig. Ca 1928, . Framed.
Provenance: Nephew of M...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled, Nude
By June Felter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: June Felter (1919-2019)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1964
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 20 x 14.25 inches.
Framed size: 29.25 x 23 inches
Signature: Si...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Card Players, Spain - English Pencil & Watercolor Figurative Interior Drawing
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful c.1927 watercolour and pencil interior depicting card players in Spain by Robert Sargent Austin RA.
Fine quality work by this noted English Royal Academician. Signed lower right and presented in an oak wash frame.
Exceptional provenance having previously been exhibited at The Fine Art Society and sold through Abbott & Holder. Label verso.
Artist: Robert Sargent Austin RA (British, 1895-1973)
Title: Card Players, Spain
Medium: Watercolour & pencil
Size: 15 x 16.5 inches (38 x 42 cm) including the frame
Robert Sargent Austin RA PPRWS PPRE (23 June 1895 – 18 September 1973) was a noted artist, illustrator, engraver and currency designer and widely considered to be one of Britain's leading mid-twentieth century printmakers.
Austin studied at Leicester Municipal School of Art from 1909 to 1913 then at the Royal College of Art in London where his studies were interrupted by the First World War. He returned to the College in 1919 when he studied etching under Sir Frank Short and was awarded a scholarship in engraving to study in Italy. During the last 10 years of the etching revival between 1920 and 1930 he produced etchings from copper plates worked in very fine detail in an almost Pre-Raphaelite style.
During the Second World War Austin worked as a war artist recording the efforts of women in the Royal Air Force and in the nursing services for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. During that period he produced a portrait of Lord Nelson as one of a series commissioned by London Transport called 'Our Heritage' and which also included portraits of William Pitt, Francis Drake, Earl Haig and Winston Churchill.
He then returned to teaching at the Royal College of Art as Professor of Engraving from 1946. Austin acted as an advisor on the design of banknotes to the Bank of England between 1956 and 1961 and designed the ten shillings and one pound notes issued in the early 1960s.
Austin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (R.E.) in 1927 and succeeded Malcolm Osborne to become the Society's President from 1962 to 1970. He was elected a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society (R.W.S.) in 1934 and served as President from 1957 to 1973. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1939 and to the full membership (R.A.) in 1949 as an engraver.
Austin was married to the writer Ada May Harrison for whom he illustrated a number of books. Ada's sister Rose was married to the sculptor and Royal Academician James_Woodford. Robert and Ada had a son, also Robert, and two daughters, Rachel and Clare. In 1936 the artist purchased...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Contemporary Drawing "Blue Prayer" Draw, Pastel, Ink And Colored Pencils
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Drawing, pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is ordinary yellow paper of 80 gr. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
WPA Post Office Mural Study American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
WPA Post Office Mural Study American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980)
Oil Riggers, Mural Study
Image: 6 1/2 x 37 inches
Watercolor and egg tem...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Toiler's House Drawing
By George Demont Otis
Located in Soquel, CA
Significant 1940s work titled "Toiler's House" by George Demont Otis (American, 1879-1962). Titled "Toiler's House on the bottom left and signed "George Demont Otis" on the bottom right. Presented in a black wood frame. Image size, 12"H x 18"W.
Otis was born in Memphis, Tennessee where he was orphaned at age six and was raised by his grandmother in Chicago...
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1940s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Rue des Fossés, Saint Valery
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles in 2006, 2007, 2010 & 2011. She also worked in stained glass and mosaics in France. She achieved artworks in 1963 at Saint-Henri Pontoise chapel, Saint-Pierre des Louvrais church in Pontoise in 1969 & Mosaic in the same year at Jean Moulin...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Original Animation Cel from PIERRE, "I DONT CARE" (CBS 1970s)
Located in Surfside, FL
An original animation cel drawing from the CBS-TV broadcast of Sendak's "REALLY ROSIE" - (this was the first time "Rosie" appeared anywhere other than Sendak's original book) - this cel is from the PIERRE, "I DONT CARE" sequence. this is the original vintage acetate drawing/painting from the 1970s. it is from the estate of the film producer Dan Hunn. I cannot say definitively that it is by Maurice Sendak's hand. He definitely worked on this project and the provenance is impeccable. They are quite rare and unusual.
Maurice Bernard Sendak, June 10, 1928-2012
Dubbed by one critic “the Picasso of children’s literature” and once addressed by former President Bill Clinton as “the King of Dreams,” Maurice Sendak illustrated nearly a hundred picture books throughout a career that spanned more than 60 years. Some of his best known books include Chicken Soup...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fort Stephenson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wheeler Williams Classical Figure Study for Twilight
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Study for Twilight, 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
Inscribed: Study for Twilight
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Large Surrealist Painting Royal of College Art LGBTQ+ Woman artist Blue Bicycles
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 whi...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Vintage Figurative Landscape -- Sleeping Among the Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling figurative nude with a surrealist feel by Ken Bower (American, 20th-C) a San Francisco Bay area artist. Pastel chalk color on paper created in 1980. Signed “Ken Bower 80' ...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Lounge Chair Nap - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Lounge Chair Nap - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A man lazes in a lounge chair, book still in hand, as he dozes off with a content e...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen
English School, circa 1800 Georgian watercolor, The Sailor's return
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene dating to circa 1800 with the sailor returning to his thankful wife and the domestic idyll of his country cottage. The harbour with sailing ships ferrying c...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Twentieth Century Landscape with Nude - Cecilia Lake Orta Original Watercolour
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Landscape with Nude - Cecilia in the grounds of a Villa at Lake Orta in Italy. Original Signed Watercolour of one of his most favourite Models.
I have long since ...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing by Andre Derain of a Saint
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
Saint
Black crayon
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
15.1/8 x 9.1/2 in. (38.3 x 24 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a...
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20th Century Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Self Portrait (original signed unique charcoal drawing) Kraushaar Gallery label
By John Heliker
Located in New York, NY
John Heliker
Self Portrait, 1991
Charcoal Pencil on Paper (with original Kraushaar Galleries label verso)
Signed on the front
bears the original KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES label on the verso on the frame
Vintage metal frame included
Self portrait done in charcoal pencil by distinguished American artist John Heliker. Hand signed on the front
This work is framed - bears the label of the renowned KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES on the verso.
Image size: 13 inches by 10 inches;
Framed: 18 1/2 inches by 14 1/2 inches
About John Heliker from The New York Times Obituary, 2000 (Roberta Smith)
John Heliker, a painter and teacher who was a fixture of the New York art world for nearly seven decades, died on Tuesday at the Sonojee Estate, a health center in Bar Harbor, Me. He was 91 and had lived in New York during most of his career, spending summers on Cranberry Island...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Boxing - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boxing is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Pencil on ivory-colored paper
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
