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Naked Female - Original Pencil Drawing by Tibor Gertler - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Female is an original pencil drawing realized by Tibor Gertler.
In very good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (40x60).
Hand-s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Studies for a Female Standing Nude - Pencil Drawing by D. Ginsbourg - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Studies for a Female Standing Nude is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918.
Original red pencil and pencil on paper.
Hand-...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Francisco Zuniga Mexican Modernist Watercolor, 1984, “Mujer Sentada con Rebozo"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful watercolor on paper by acclaimed Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga (1912-1998).
Framed and in excellent condition. Signed and dated lower right.
Image measures: 19 ½” H x 27 ...
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1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
By Sita Devi
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed verso.
Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 22x30 framed under glass 26x36...
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus.
Graphite on paper
5.75 x 6.25 inches (14.6 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Remembered for his m...
Category
1940s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Camp of Soldiers - Original Pencil on Paper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Camp of soldiers" is an original pencil drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the 19th Century.
Very good condition.
Not signed.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Figure - Original Watercolor and Pencil by Raymond Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor and pencil on ivory paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove in 1922.
Hand-signed on the lower margin in ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
The Forum - Original Charcoal Drawing by French Artist End of 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Forum is an original artwork realized by a French artist between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX Century.
Original drawing on paper.
Mint conditions.
Fresh and...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Lady Driving A 2-Horse Tandem Hitch c1929 Gouache by H. W. Standing (1894- 1931)
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 12 3/4"H x 21 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 27 3/4"W
Henry William Standing (British,1894 -1931)
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Porcelain Box - China Ink and Watercolor - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Porcelain Box, 1890s, is a china ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous French Artist of the end of 19th Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
No Access! - Charcoal and Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
No Access! is an original charcoal and watercolor drawing on laid and ivory-colored paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Sie...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
The Useless Attempts - Original Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The useless attempts is an original charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1950s.
The artwork is hand-signed by the artist in the center of the lower margin of the worn paper....
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Embracing the Death - Ink by Adolf Reinhold Hallman - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Embracing the Death is original black China ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hallman arou...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Study of a buffalo
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor Prouvé (1858-1943)
Study of a buffalo
Pencil on paper
32,5 x 50 cm
Provenance : Marianne Prouvé-Georges (1905-1994)’s collection, artist’s daughter
Sold without frame
A major...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Humorous Illustration of a Man Walking his Dog by Maurice Freed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Maurice Freed
(American, 1911-1981)
Dog Walking
Watercolor on board, 8 x 12 1/2 inches
FRAMED: 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower left: “MAURICE FREED”
Maurice Freed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Galloping Horses - Charcoal on Paper by Giuseppe Cominetti - 1916
By Giuseppe Cominetti
Located in Roma, IT
Galloping Horses is a wonderful and original drawing in charcoal on paper, realized by the italian divisions artist Giuseppe Cominetti.
Hand-signed in charcoal and dated on the lower...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Road - Original Pen Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Road is an original blue China ink drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the early 20th Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Unreadable signature on the lower ...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Nude - Drawing in Pencil by Jeanne Daour - 1939
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour.
The state of preservation good except for some foxings and stains.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Sheet d...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cup - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Cup" is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by unknown French Artist of XIX Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet dimension: 2...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Nude - Original Pencil on Paper by Jeanne Daour - 20th Century
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour.
Hand-signed on the lower left and dated.
The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stai...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Morocco - Original Pastels and Pencil by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Morocco is an original pastels and pencil drawing realized by Helen Vogt, in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the ar...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
'Harvest Time', Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, London Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Hammond' for Horace Murray Hammond (British, circa 1879-1966) and dated 1921.
A luminously painted, bucolic view of harvest time in England with the lilac of the evening casting a soft light over the contented horses and loaded hay-cart, as the harvesters come to the end of their day's labors.
Son of the noted landscape painter, Robert John Hammond, Horace Hammond was born and raised in Warwickshire. In 1927, he moved, first to Worcestershire and then to London. Over the course of a long and successful career, Hammond exhibited widely, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at London's Royal Academy, among numerous other locations. A well-listed painter...
Category
1930s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
18th Century Watercolour - Jacob and the Pharaoh
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour interpretation of chapter forty-seven verse seven of Genesis where Joseph presents his father Jacob to the Pharaoh. The artist captures the religious figures o...
Category
Early 18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mr. Magoo Original Vintage Animation Cel Hand Drawing Painting
By Jules Engel
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in animation as a color designer at the Walt Disney studio. Although his credits include work on such classics as Disney’s Bambi and Fantasia and UPA’s Gerald McBoing-Boing, he is best known as a mentor to literally hundreds of students.
Engel was also one of the original members of United Productions of America (UPA), where, during the ’50s, he worked on classics such as Mr. Magoo, Gerald McBoing-Boing and Madeline. According to his biographer, Dr. Janeann Dill, Engel has created more than 33 personal films and received five Golden Eagle awards, an Annie Award, a Winsor McCay Award, the Fritz Award, a Jean Vigo Award, and the Norman McLaren...
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Mid-20th Century Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Figure in Interior - Original Pencil Drawing by Jeanne Daour - 1940
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Figure in Interior is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour in 1940, Hand-signed and dated on the left inside of drawing.
The state of preservation is good...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Opera dei Pupi
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper stuck onwhite cardboard sheet, 1820 c.a. Representing people attending the typical Sicilian"Operadei Pupi". Excellent conditionsexcept a little sta...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figures - Ink and Pencil Drawing by G. Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing in pencil and pen realized by Gabriele Galantara, the state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged, with hand-writing of the artist on it, app...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscapes from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch in pen and ink .
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Like many young asp...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Cyrus Cuneo, Symbolist Fan Design With Couple, Cherubs & Garden
By Cyrus Cuneo
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful early 20th-century fan design by American-English artist Cyrus Cuneo ROI (1879-1916) depicts a couple with cherubs in an ornamental garden. Cuneo was an accomplished p...
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Three Graces Fantasy Fashion Illustration - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
For your consideration, we have a pen and ink drawing of an interpretation of The Three Graces, who strike a pose for a 1930s fashion ad. In Greek mythology, they were goddesses w...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Board
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger,
Signed and dated 1849 lower right
Ink on paper
16.5 x 25.5 cm
In a nice period frame : 33 x 42 cm
Raffet had the occasion to draw studies of austrian soldiers as he took part as observer to the first Italian Independance War (1848-1849). It was the the first of many conflicts between the Kingdom of Sardinia , which later became the Kingdom of Italy , and the Austrian Empire.
The Kaiserjäger (imperial hunters) were founded in 1815 by Emperor Franz I. It was a great honor to enter the Kaiserjäger as they were the only ones to be honored with the term "imperial". However, only Tyrolese, Voralbergers and Welschtirolers were allowed.
They wore this characteristic hat as a parade headdress, it was made of matte black, waterproof felt. It consisted of a crown and brim adorned with a circular, green cord, the Jäger emblem and a plume of black rooster feathers. The hat cord was made of sheep's wool, and had a button and an acorn covered with a green wool.
These two studies clearly evoke the interest of the artist for this part of their uniform.
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
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1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Rome 1878 Classical Roman Architecture Figures at Fountain Signed Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rome
by Arthur A. Wilkinson (British, c.1860-1930)
signed and dated 1878
watercolor on artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 11 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection, the Cotsw...
Category
19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“British Pub 2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top left and dated ...
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
The Ship - Tempera on Paper by Paul Garin - 1950s
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
The Ship is an original tempera drawing on paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s.
Black ink stamp on the lower-right corner: "Catherine Cha...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Christopher Stolworthy - Framed Contemporary Pastel, Cromer Beach, Norfolk
Located in Corsham, GB
Christopher Stolworthy - original seascape in pastel. Cromer Beach and Pier, Norfolk. Presented in a double card mount and gilt-effect frame. Signed and dated lower left.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Old Factory
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: The Old Factory
Year: c.1980
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 16 x 21 in...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
Graphite and colored pencils on wove paper, 1975
Signed and dated lower left center (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Slight waviness visible only on reverse
Image size: 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent
Mary Spain (Colie)
(1934-1983)
Mary Spain was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She taught art in Chagrin Falls...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Cadillac Corner, Venice CA
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: Cadillac Corner, Venice CA
Year: 1983
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 1...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Saint Cergue Switzerland
By Willam Stewart Orr
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Saint Cergue Switzerland" c.1930 is a watercolor by noted Scottish artist William Stuart Orr, 1872-1944. It is hand signed by the artist at the lower left corner...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Fear Not; Only Believe" Watercolor & Gouache on paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fear Not; Only Believe" is an original watercolor and gouache painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the artwork lower right. It depicts two people walking through...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
people on the bar terrace spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Bar - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 11x13cm.
Frame measures 35x37 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas, Manuel Hugué, Isidre Nonell...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Pande Mus
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting shows the artist`s perception of the epidemic. The little mouse has the Latin name « Pande Mus».
This painting is bursting with surrealism and symbolism. It features a...
Category
2010s Futurist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting Lion Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Lion on nude figure of wo,man.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. H...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Yamato Takeru
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Japan, c. 1980-2000
Yamato Takeru
Watercolor on Sumi paper
c,. 1980-2000
Unsigned as is usual
A traditional Kite design from Tsugaru Province
Condition: Excellent
Ver...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
America's greatest female illustrator draws a heartwarming picture of a mother putting to bed her child. Motherly love towards their children is the artist's most iconic theme. This ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Family Group
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Family Group
Drawing in Chinese white, sepia and bistre ink, c. 1790
Signed lower left: G. Morland (see photo)
The present work appears to be a preliminary study for two Morland paintings where the artist uses portions of this preliminary study in finished exhibition paintings. The strongest association is with the painting entitled The Cottage Door (1790), now in the collection of Royal Holloway College, University of London. Morland uses the same small girl (on left side of this sheet) holding a doll on a chair in the exact same pose. The second painting entitled The Tea Garden (Tate Gallery, London, c. 1790) incorporates similar poses and gestures of the three other figure studies on this sheet.
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (Stock # D25924, see photo)
Maynard Walker Gallery, New York ( see photo of label)
Davis Galleries, New York, their Eagle stamp and stock number (see photo)
Ms. Gloria Kaplan (1930-2011) New York City
Regarding Maynard Walker:
Maynard Walker New York Times obit:
"Maynard Walker, an art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters, died of pneumonia Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Carbondale, Pa. He was 89 years old and lived in Lake Ariel, Pa.
In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry.
After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war."
Condition: Aging to paper
Slight fading to ink
Tiny spotting in image
All consistent with the age of the drawing
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches
George Morland was born in London on 26 June 1763. He was the son of Henry Robert Morland, and grandson of George Henry Morland, said by Cunningham to have been lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, while other biographers go so far as to say that he had only to claim the baronetcy in order to get it. Morland began to draw at the age of three years, and at the age of ten (1773) his name appears as an honorary exhibitor of sketches at the Royal Academy. He continued to exhibit at the Free Society in 1775 and 1776, and at the Society of Artists in 1777, and then again at the Royal Academy in 1778, 1779 and 1780.
His talents were carefully cultivated by his father, who was accused of stimulating them unduly with a view to his own profit, shutting the child up in a garret to make drawings from pictures and casts for which he found a ready sale. The boy, on the other hand, is said to have soon found a way to make money for himself by hiding some of his drawings, and lowering them at nightfall out of his window to young accomplices, with whom he used to spend the proceeds in frolic and self-indulgence. It has been also asserted that his father, discovering this trick, tried to conciliate him by indulgence, humouring his whims and encouraging his low tastes.
He was set by his father to copy pictures of all kinds, but especially of the Dutch and Flemish masters. Among others he copied Fuseli's Nightmare and Reynolds's Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. He was also introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and obtained permission to copy his pictures, and all accounts agree that before he was seventeen he had obtained considerable reputation not only with his friends and the dealers, but among artists of repute. A convincing proof of the skill in original composition which he had then attained is the fine engraving.
It is said that before his apprenticeship to his father came to an end, in 1784, Romney offered to take him into his own house, with a salary of £300, on condition of his signing articles for three years. But Morland, we are told, had had enough of restraint, and after a rupture with his father he set up on his own account in 1784 or 1785 at the house of a picture dealer, and commenced that life which, in its combination of hard work and hard drinking, is almost without a parallel.
Morland soon became the mere slave of the dealer with whom he lived. His boon companions were "ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks, and pugilists." In this company the handsome young artist swaggered, dressed in a green coat, with large yellow buttons, leather breeches, and top boots. "He was in the very extreme of foppish puppeyism", says Hassell; "his head, when ornamented according to his own taste, resembled a snowball, after the model of Tippey Bob, of dramatic memory, to which was attached a short, thick tail, not unlike a painter's brush." His youth and strong constitution enabled him to recover rapidly from his excesses, and he not only employed the intervals in painting, but at this time, or shortly afterwards, taught himself to play the violin. He made also an effort, and a successful one, to free himself from his task-master, and escaped to Margate, where he painted miniatures for a while. In 1785 he paid a short visit to France, whither his fame had preceded him, and where he had no lack of commissions.
Returning to London, he lodged in a house at Kensal Green, on the road to Harrow, near William Ward, intercourse with whose family seems for a time to have had a steadying influence. It resulted in his marriage with Miss Anne Ward...
Category
1790s English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Country Scene
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Pastel on paper
Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in.
Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going?, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Art Deco Polo Players Study by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
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...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mock Practice, Figurative, Japanese Ink on paper by Contemporary Indian Artist
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
A set of four works 15 x 11 each (unframed size)
Prasanta Sahu - Mock Practice
Japanese ink on acid free paper
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style :
Commingling pictures and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude signed Arno Breker
Located in Pasadena, CA
Arno Breker is an artist supported by the Nazi regime and a German sculptor whose neoclassical works meet the military aesthetic of the regime. Breker was born on July 29, 1900, in E...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Nude II by Jacques Nestle Petite, blue and white modern nude painting on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
“The Race”
By Henry Alken
Located in Southampton, NY
Graphite and watercolor attributed to the well known British artist, Henry Thomas Alken. Circa 1825. Unsigned. Condition: Good. Provenance: Christie’s London, 1993. Matted but presently unframed.
Alken was born on 12 October 1785 in Soho, Westminster, and baptised on 6 November at St James's Church, Piccadilly. He was the third son of Samuel Alken, a sporting artist. Two of his brothers were George and Samuel Alken the Younger, also an artist. In 1789, the Alken family moved from Soho to 2, Francis Street East, Bedford Square.
Young Henry first studied under his father and then with the miniature painter John Thomas Barber...
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1820s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Framed English School 19th Century Watercolour - Fishing in the Bay
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful coastal scene in watercolours showing numerous ships and fishing boats dotted off the British coast. Unsigned. Well-presented in a glazed gilt frame with ornate foliate ...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother & Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a mother and child standing by a mill pond before a rustic watermill.
De Poix was a gentleman artist descended from French nobility...
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1870s English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil