Gerald Wasserman

Minimalist Figure Drawing in Graphite, Circa 1998

Circa 1998

This 1920-1930s graphite on paper drawing of a female nude is by San Francisco artist Clyde Follett Seavey (1920-1991). Seavey studied at UC Berke...

This circa 1960s graphite on paper nude drawing in the Bay Area Figurative style is by San Francisco painter Jack Freeman (1938-2014). Freeman studied at the High Museum of Art in A...

This 1928-1936 graphite on paper female figure is by San Francisco artist Clyde Follett Seavey (1920-1991). Seavey studied at UC Berkeley and Cali...

This 1999 gouache and graphite on paper nude figurative scene with yellow, orange and gold is by Monterey/Carmel artist of Russian descent, Gerald Wasserman (1920-2011). Wasserman s...

This 1979 charcoal on paper figure is by Bay Area painter and sculptor Laura Lengyel (b. 1946). She studied at Oakland’s Mills College and later moved to Mendocino. From 1968-1973, ...

This 1950-60s oil pastel on paper nude is by New York artist and art collector Anne Granick (1911-2006). Granick was a self-taught artist and a dancer for the Martha Graham Company i...

Reclining Female Nude Charcoal on paper, c. 1933 Signed lower right (see photo) Provenance: Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941) Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1 In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that. His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects. (from a profile written by Clyde Singer...

Signed by artist "M. O'KEEFE 2013" at lower left. Media is graphite on clay-coated panel. Overall dimensions including the frame are 18 x 15 inches.

This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November '30 (1930). Clearly the works are authentic and this...

Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed). John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...

August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...

Figurative drawing of two male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper 30 x 14 inches, unframed This unique life study drawing of two standing nude m...