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Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Composition with Reading Girl by an Unknown Artist, Ink on Paper, Dated 1922
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unknown Swedish Artist
Composition with Reading Girl
inkl on paper
indistinctly signed and dated Eric Eric SON? 1922
frame included
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
South of France - Early 20th Century Impressionist Watercolour by Bennett
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Sterndale Bennett Honor 1886-1975
Watercolour artist, born in Watford, she married into the famous family noted for its composers and for its military members. As an army wife she s...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Girl With Teddy Bear
By Archie Gunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921
Medium: Colored Pencil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.50"x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Image of seated girl holding a teddy bear.
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Ink Drawing on Card signed " Marc Chagall ", dated 1921
By Marc Chagall
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Attributed to Marc Chagall – “L’Homme à la Lampe” Ink Drawing on paper/ card
Documented History - Christie’s South Kensington Ltd Auction Estimate: £4,000 in April 2001
L’Homme à...
Category
Abstract 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Original Mixed Media Artwork by Maurice Lourday - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing on creamy cardboard, realized in 1927 by Maurice Lourday (1860-1934).
Titled on the lower.
In very good conditions, ex...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard
Antique English Impressionist Charcoal Pencil Drawing Portrait Study Two Heads
Located in Portland, OR
A very good English Impressionist charcoal and pencil drawing of two male heads, by the celebrated British artist Sir George Clausen R.A. (1852-1944), the drawing circa 1905.
Clausen was a very well respected British artist based in London in the late 19th & early 20th century, stylistically he managed to meld Romanticism and Impressionism with great success. This very handsome drawing depicts a study of two male heads, most likely related to the 1905 painting "Binding Sheaves" or another harvest painting from that period.
This work of art was exhibited & sold in 1976 by the "New Grafton Gallery 42 Old Bond Street London W1", exhibition to the verso, the gallery specialized in showing major 20th century British artists.
The drawing is in excellent condition and is ready to hang.
At sight without frame 5.50" x 8.50"
Biography
George Clausen was born at 8 William Street in the Regents Park district of London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Without Results - China Ink Drawing on Paper by G. Grosz - 1925
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Original china ink drawing on paper by George Grosz, representing a typical subject of social and family issues.
Provenance: Grosz Foundation (Regist...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on board
Signed lower right
21.75 x 28 inches
30.5 x 36.5 inches, framed
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 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...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Plain Black and White, " Saturday Evening Post, October 13, 1923
By John Gould
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Art Deco Flapper Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Original Vintage 1920's Ink and Watercolor Fashion Illustration by listed New England artist Harriette (Nutting) Cooper (1901 - 2002).
The illustration depicts a lovely young flappe...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Fanciulla con il Cane - Drawing by Massimo Campigli - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
ink and watercolor on paper.
Prov. Locarno, Collection Nesto Jacometti; Rome Art Center.
Exhibitions:
- Pescara, 2002
Ref. Cat. Raisonné, Electa Editore, Milano 2023, n. 28/021, ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Stevedores, Ohio River, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Stevedores, Ohio River, c. 1920
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
21.5 x 29. 5 inches
"The trip Otto Ege and I made from Pittsburgh to Marietta by riverboat and then by train to Mammoth Cave, was the next high spot in my artistic explorations. We saw something of the Old Southern river life on the way - the roustabouts, the showboat and river town life at Point Pleasant, and then to the sombre tonal mysteries of the Cave. These sights added much to my pictorial vocabulary..." - Frank Wilcox
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...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Working Man's Choice
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Signature: Inscribed and Signed
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Introducing Heidi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Introducing Heidi." Original illustration for page 11 of "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1922). Charcoal and watercolor on board. 10 1/2x8 inches, on 20x15-inch board. Unsigned but captioned "Chapter I" in lower margin with publisher's label on verso.
an original drawing from smith's final fully-illustrated work.
Heidi was "a perfect showcase for Smith's illustrative art...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Board
Letters to Sardinia - Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Letters to Sardinia is a modern artwork realized by Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).Four Separate artworks in one frame. Original drawings realized i...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Football Game Brooklyn Eagle's Sunday Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Provenance: Illustration House, New York, Framed in a simple and modest frame.
This is a brilliant post-Cubist work by Dutch-American illustrator Charles Verschuuren...
Category
Cubist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Untitled Female Nude, Seated
Located in New York, NY
Untitled Female Nude, Seated
Unique Ink on Paper Drawing
Hand signed by Archipenko
Very good condition
There is a companion to this work, a ink on paper unique drawing, also shown ...
Category
Cubist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The General - Original Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1920's
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The General is an original modern artwork realized in the first decades of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original red woodcut print o...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Woodcut
Flapper Era Woman with Feathered Headdress
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920s
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Artist Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Unsigned
The 1920’s painting most likely is the original cover art...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lowe...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Standing Gentlemen
By Susan Flint
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 9.25" x 14.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dining - Pencil Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Dining is a drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in 1924.
Carbon Pencil on ivory-colored paper
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Divinity - III - China Ink Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1925 ca.
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
“Divinity” is the title of this essential and enigmatic drawing by the french artist Jean Cocteau. A figure opening his arms and looking towards the sky is in the center of the scene...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right
21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Neues Album - Rare Book Illustrated by Wilhelm Busch - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Neues Album is an original modern rare book illustrated by Wilhelm Busch (Wiedensahl, 15 aprile 1832 – Mechtshausen, 9 gennaio 1908) in 1925.
First augm...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Mother with Child Under a Tree
Located in London, GB
'Mother with Child Under a Tree', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger ...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good condition.
The...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Élégante au chien 1925, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
Élégante au chien, an elegant woman with a dog
signed lower right
pastel on paper
32 x 25 cm
Framed 52 x 42 cm
Published under n°602 of the artist's cat...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Seducing Lady - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Seducing Lady is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition,...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Village - Original Watercolor and Pen by Paul Albert Moras - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Village is an original drawing in watercolor and pen realized by the French artist Paul Albert Moras in 1926. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passepartut: 27.5 x 37.5 cm.
The artwork represents a brilliant landscape, created through soft and precise strokes with poetical hatching which made the village picturesque, with delicate coloring and lighting. The artwork characterized by a well-balanced drawing of houses...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
The Birthday Cake
By Anthony Nelle
Located in Buffalo, NY
An Art Deco gouache painting by American artist Anthony Nelle featuring exquisite details and materials to create a fantastic and enchanting scene.
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver Leaf
Attributed to Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A Provence landscape, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
A Provence landscape,
watercolor on paper
24 x 32 cm (view)
In a modern frame : 45 x 55.5 cm
When unframed it appears the work is larger (...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Small Sketch of Interiors - Pencil Drawing by J. Dreyfus-Stern - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Small Sketch is an original artwork realized in pencil by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the first decades of the XX Century.
Pencil and colored pastels on paper...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a mother and her children by the Japanese artist, Takashi Nakayama. Signed in watercolor lower left...
Category
Academic 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Charcoal Drawing by Achille Lega - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Achille Lega in 1928.
Black and white charcoal drawing.
Published on the Art Review "Il Selvaggio".
Hand signed and dated on the lower ma...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Vintage Parisian Theater Sketch - Bonnet Beauty
Located in Houston, TX
Darling gouache and pencil sketch of a feminine stage costume complete with matching bonnet for a Paris theater by Willie & Co., circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pencil
The Rescue - Ink and Watercolor by Gino Spalmach - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Glacier is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by the Italian artist Gino Spalmach in the early 1920s
The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged.
...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (Mother Holding Baby)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Mother Holding Baby", Figurative/Academic Drawing signed on Paper, 14 x 8, Early 20th Century
Colors: White, Black
"Untitled: Mother Holding Baby" is a Figurative/ Academic Drawing signed on Paper. Among our Gilroy collection of drawings, this particular work is unique due to its original grid markings included here within. As one can view among our details, the drawing has visible age markings and 3/4 of the perimeter rear of the work has tape. Nevertheless, as with all his figurative graphite works, a wonderfully drawn piece of a Mother cradling her infant child.
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
Academic 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Gossip - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Gossip is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition, excep...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Drawing by Alberto Manetti - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Duce Portrait is a modern artwork realized by the artist Alberto Manetti (known also as Brivido).
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the higher right margin.
Inscription...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
The Weight Lifter (L'Homme aux halteres)
Located in Chicago, IL
The work is signed on the lower right by Gromaire. One of Gromaire's favorite subjects were men "of the people,” whether they worked in the fields or at sea, were construction worke...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
'Gypsy Flute Player', Royal Academy, NY World's Fair, Pasadena, GGIE, Romany
By Aage Christian Wiboltt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'A. C. Wiboltt' for Aage Christian (Jack) Wiboltt (Danish-American, 1894-1952) and created circa 1925.
Framed dimensions: 33.25 x 1.5 x 28 inches
A substantial, early twentieth-century, figural pastel showing a young woman wearing traditional gypsy costume and playing her flute beside a deep azure lake dotted with water-lilies.
Jack Wiboltt first trained at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen before moving to New York in 1919. In 1924, he settled in California where he lived and painted in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. For 30 years, he practiced as an easel painter and was also commissioned to paint murals including for the 1939 exposition at San Francisco and for Hollywood's Fox Theater among others He exhibited widely and with success including at the Danish Royal Academy (1913), the New York World's Fair (1939), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939) and the Pasadena Art Institute (1932) among others.
Exhibitions:
Royal Academy, 1913; Danish Art Gallery, 1917 (1st solo); Pasadena Art Inst., 1932; Warner Gallery (LA), 1934; Modern Art Gallery (Hollywood), 1935 (solo); County Fair (LA), 1935; American Artists Congress, 1936; GGIE, 1939; NY World...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Untitled (Sideview of a Gentleman)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Sideview of a Gentleman", Charcoal/Pencil on Paper signed and matted to original card stock, 20.75 x 12.75 (22 x 14), Early 20th Century, 1920
Colors: White, Black
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.[1]
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.[2] He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers.[3] He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
Academic 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Ancient Egypt - Watercolor by R. Fedi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Egypt is an drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by R. Fedi in 1922.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Hand-signed on the lower right and dated....
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Little Siren - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Little Siren of the Arts Bridge is an Original Etching and aquatint realized by Edouard Chimot in 1922.
The artwork is in good condition on the yellowed paper, included a cardbo...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, c. 1920
Watercolor and graphite on 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...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a reading monk , original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a reading monk
Pencil on paper
29.5 x 19 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : crease and ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A ca. 1928 Drawing of a Dapper Man with a Pint Glass by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1928 charcoal on paper drawing of a dapper man with a pint glass by artist Francis Chapin.
Image size: 12" x 9". Matted size: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Confidences - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Confidences is a beautiful artwork realized by Luigi Bompard in the 1920.
Original Ink Drawing and watercolor.
Signed by the artist.
Good conditions except some minor foxing.
I...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Horses - Ink Drawing by Ildebrando Urbani - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a China Ink drawing realized by Ildebrando Urbani in 1926.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
Ildebrando ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Childhood', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Titled, verso, 'Childhood', signed with artist's Paris address and dated 1926.
This early twentieth-century...
Category
Surrealist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Illustration Board, Watercolor, Gouache
