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Medium: Oil Pastel
Since We Were Children
Located in Columbia, MO
Since We Were Children
Ink and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
Restaurant Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A piece from Bartolome Sastre's mixed media on paper collection.
8.5 x 11.25 inches
Pastel and pencil on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Oil Pastel
The Sun Always Shines
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil pastel on paper. Two abstracted subjects are placed next to each other, overlapping to create a form that is illuminated. Beams of light yellow radiate from the tops of the figur...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Better Things to Come, " Oil Pastel on Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Better Things to Come" is an original oil pastel drawing on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts two figures in conversation against a strik...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
It Smelled Like Earth and was Cold to the Touch
Located in Columbia, MO
It Smelled Like Earth and was Cold to the Touch
Ink and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Académies Chaumière et Etrangères, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
A loose, Post-Impressionist study of a woman, shown nude and standing, while resti...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Faraway from Familiar Sounds, " Oil Pastel Drawing signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Faraway From Familiar Sounds" is an original oil pastel drawing on ragboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts a number of abstracted figures se...
Category
1980s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Last Night
Located in Columbia, MO
Last Night
Ink, graphite, and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Graphite
"On the beach"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover,
This artwork makes part of my series dedicated to " Women" and in particularly celebrates a special bond and connection between women.
This artwork highlights the f...
Category
2010s Impressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Feels Like
Located in Columbia, MO
Feels Like
Ink, graphite and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Graphite
Soft Talk
Located in Columbia, MO
Soft Talk
Ink and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
One More Time (Black Devil) Outsider Art Painting, Drawing
By Peter Dean
Located in Surfside, FL
Dean was born in 1934 of Jewish parents in a Berlin, Germany, that was falling prey to the Nazis. The family immigrated to New York City in 1938, and Dean was raised in the refugee community in Inwood. Dean's first show (ironically, in retrospect) was given him by the USIA in Brazil. In 1959, he returned to New York to work six months on, six months off in soil engineering and made art in the interims. He tried, and failed, to get into a Tenth Street Gallery. Studying painting at night with Andre Girard at City College pushed him over the edge, and in 1969 he committed himself to painting full time. Artists who impressed him in the '60s were Robert Beauchamp, Lester Johnson, Jan Muller...
Category
1980s Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
"Techno Danny, " Oil Pastel Drawing on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Techno Danny" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This artwork features an abstracted figure in fro...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Foot Head Smoking
Located in London, GB
Overflowing with imaginative symbolism, Rafael Melendez's Neo-conceptualist work on paper, Foot Head Smoking, 2022, captivates avant-garde enthusiasts seeking a distinctive approach ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Oil Crayon
"What Was Wanted (Yeah), " Oil Pastel on Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"What Was Wanted (Yeah)" is an original oil pastel drawing on board. The artist signed the piece lower right. This artwork features two abstracted and simplified figures shaking hand...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live" is a religious original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and titled the piece lower right. This piece illustrates...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Double Tone, " Pastel on Paper Portrait signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Double Tone" is a pastel on paper signed by Reginald K Gee. This portrait is of a bald man in a dark room. He is an ashy blue color, whereas the background is warm yellow, red, and ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Floor Phobic, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Floor Phobic" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right as well as signing & dating it on the back. This piece depicts a green-sk...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"The Average Guy" Figurative Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Average Guy" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a seated man with his head resti...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
'The Leftovers Trio' original oil pastel on grocery bag, signed & dated on back
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 17"x 12"
Frame: 24"x 19"
Oil pastel on grocery bag, signed & dated on back.
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
Category
Early 2000s Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Comedians at the Airport, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Comedians at the Airport" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts two abstracted figures over a fi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"3AM Sleepwalking Composer, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"3AM Sleepwalking Composer" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right as well as signing & dating it on the back....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Mouth Smoking
Located in London, GB
Imbued with a darkly humorous iconography, Rafael Melendez's Neo-conceptualist creations captivate the contemporary art scene. Mouth Smoking (2022) epitomizes the audacious, influent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Extremely rare work of art from the early Bezalel School of Boris Schatz in Ottoman Palestine. it depicts an Orientalist Arab Sheik in traditional Headwear.
YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
"Man on Express, " Oil Pastel Drawing on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man on Express" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right margin. It features a man in a green suit loung...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Walk, " Figurative Oil Pastel and Acrylic on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Walk" is an original oil pastel and acrylic painting on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features a line of three people walking in fron...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Where? … In the Heart
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil pastel, pencil & ink on paper
Nina Narimanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nina has been painting since childhood and over time...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Oil Pastel, Paper
"People in Trouble" Multi-scene Oil Pastel on Board initialed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"People in Trouble" is an original oil pastel drawing on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This artwork features multiple scenes of people in dang...
Category
1980s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
"I Don't Know Either, " Oil Pastel on Canvas Board Abstract by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"I Don't Know Either" is an original oil pastel drawing on canvas board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts multiple abstracted faces.
40...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Board
"The Sound of Color, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Sound of Color" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features an abstract figure in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Two Citizens, " Figurative Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Citizens" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper left. Gee engages a variety of themes in his work, including ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Greco Roman Nuko Lok - The Forefront, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Greco Roman Nuko Lok - The Forefront" is an original oil pastel on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the upper left. This piece depicts multiple ...
Category
1980s Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Seated Figure in Studio, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Figure in Studio" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. It features an abstracted figure seat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Dance Studio, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dance Studio" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right as well as signing and dating it on the back. It depicts...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Praying for Sam" Figurative Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Praying for Sam" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features a large silhouetted figur...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Ulsto, " Abstract Figurative Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Ge
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ulsto" is an original oil pastel drawing on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features abstract color fields but also depicts an ab...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Remembering, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Remembering" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features an abstracted, skeleton-like man in front of...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Painting Style of 814 BC, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Painting Style of 814 BC" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. Painting Style of 814 BC, of 1999, is one of Gee’s ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Person Vs. Plant Vs. Abstract Canvas on Blased Wall, " by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Person Vs. Plant Vs. Abstract Canvas on Blased Wall" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece featu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"The Light from Beneath, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Light from Beneath" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features multiple simplified figures in a d...
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"The Three Dollar Bill Network, " Oil Pastel on Cardboard signed by Reginald Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Three Dollar Bill Network" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts abstract marks, small figures, and scenes separated by lines and space.
30" x 40" art
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
Woman in Flight /// Contemporary Fantasy Female Figurative Pastel Painting Lady
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frank Rakoncay (American, 1936-1998)
Title: "Woman in Flight"
*Signed by Rakoncay in pencil lower left. It is also signed again lower right
Circa: 1980
Medium: Original Oil P...
Category
1980s Surrealist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Pencil, Pastel, Oil Pastel
"Techniques of Meditation, " Oil Pastel Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Techniques of Meditation" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. It depicts a variety of abstracted figures in brightly-colored landscapes. The ...
Category
1980s Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
The Mean Hippies (Drawing with Rattlesnake Warrior and Red Rebels) Outsider Art
By Alex O'Neal
Located in Surfside, FL
Paper measures 21 X 33 inches
Born and raised in Mississippi, Alex O'Neal graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the Eighties, his formal education overlapped regular visits with Mississippi self-taught artists, including Mary T. Smith, Luster Willis, and Son Ford Thomas. He later immersed himself in art brut collections and European art brut in Switzerland, Germany, and France. His work is also inspired by African-American self-taught outsider art. O'Neal's drawings and paintings have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S.122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d’Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA; Field Projects, New York; LOG at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago. His work is in volumes 16, 38, and 104 of New American Paintings. His paintings and drawings idiosyncratically depict circumstances that associate Americans, i.e. dysfunction, nature worship, cults, homegrown terrorism, Hollywood, reverence for Native America. There is formal influence from stylization found in Romanesque fresco, early American portrait painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
"Sincerely Yours, " Oil Pastel mounted to Cardboard signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sincerely Yours" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard. The artist, Reginald K. Gee, signed the piece on the back. This piece depicts four men looking out at the vi...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
Man crumbles
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel, wax pastel, acrylic on paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
1945 Pastel Drawing Girl with Flower American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works ...
Category
1940s American Modern Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Untitled, Horse and Wagon Pastel Drawing Shtetl Judaica Scene Polish Jewish Life
Located in Surfside, FL
Simon Karczmar, Polish (1903 - 1982)
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 1962, most of his work evokes his experiences in Eastern Europe.
Immigrated to Israel 1962 and joined Artists' Quarter in Safed.
Represented Israel at exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A. and Europe.
In this series of images known collectively as Shtetl, Karczmar draws inspiration from his childhood memories of the vacations he spent at his grandfather's house in Lithuania. The word shtetl is Yiddish for little town and refers to the villages with significant Jewish populations that could once be found throughout Eastern Europe.
The nostalgia of Karczmar's renderings contrasts with the darker views of life for Jews revealed in the photographs by Roman Vishniac and drawings of Ephraim Moshe Lilien...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
"The Fairy" by Anna Pennati - from William Blake and George Byron poems
Located in Milano, MI
Inspired by William Blake's poem "The Fairy"
Exhibited in Milan (Italy) in 2005. Part of a series o 10
Exclusively on 1stdibs
measures are referred to the painting. Passepartout is ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
Just Banana
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel on black paper cutout.
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Paris et la Belle Epoque - Pastel Drawing by Roberto Regalier - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paris et la belle époque is an artwork realized by Roberto Regalier in the mid-20th Century.
50X50 cm, 83 x 73 cm frame included.
Oil Pastel on canvas.
Signature in the lower part...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas
Stairs & Streets_America Martin_Oil Pastel/Acrylic/Ink/Cotton Paper_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Stairs & Streets"
Oil Pastel, Acrylic & Ink on Cotton Paper
26.5” x 40.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Preparing for Labor
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and colored pencil on collaged paper cutout.
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pencil
Mercedes Matter, New York School Abstract Figures
Located in New York, NY
Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001)
Untitled, circa 1937
Pastel on paper
16 x 13 1/2 inches
Estate stamped on the reverse
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013
Private Collection, New York, 2021
Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe.
She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann.
In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939.
The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband.
Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work.
The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...
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1930s Abstract Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Pastel
Not Enough Soup
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel, wax crayon, and acrylic paint on paper.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Wax Crayon, Oil Pastel
"Deseo" by Anna Pennati
Located in Milano, MI
This work by Anna Pennati is part of a series of works the artist has dedicated to Spanish poets.
This one is inspired by a passage from a poem by Luis Ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Canvas
Pink General
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel on paper.
Category
2010s Fauvist Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Grace and Terror
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic paint, wax pastel, and oil pastel on paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Pastel Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Oil Pastel figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
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