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Period: 1970s
Untitled (Man Reclining on Tile Floor)
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and conté crayon on paper Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in Ne...
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Realist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite, Conté

Andre Amstutz - Blending into the Landscape - 1970s British Illustration
Located in London, GB
ANDRE AMSTUTZ (1925-2015) Blending into the Landscape Signed l.l. Oil on board Framed 29.5 by 23 cm., 11 ½ by 9 in. (frame size 45.5 by 38 cm., 18 by 15 in.) Reproduced: Guinnes...
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Pop Art 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

India Modern Contemporary Painting Girl with Flowers Indistinctly Signed
Located in Norfolk, GB
Girl with Flowers C 1970 Watercolour and mixed media on Paper Image Size: 35.5 x 24.5 cm Frame Size: 51.5 x 41 cm Full description to follow
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Other Art Style 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Signed, Watercolor on Paper. Framed Painting - Figurations 359.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Figurations 359.009 - Signed, Watercolor on Paper, Framed Painting Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They show the artist's p...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Signed, Watercolor on Paper. Framed Painting - Figurations 359.008
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Figurations 359.008 - Signed, Watercolor on Paper, Framed Painting Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They show the artist's p...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Signed, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper. Framed Painting - Figurations 360.112
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Figurations 360.112 - Signed, Watercolor on Paper, Framed Painting Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They show the artist's p...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic

ON VOIT CETTE REINE
Located in Toronto, ON
- 1978 L'art D'Aimer - Lithography on Arches Paper - Museum Framed - Authenticity Documentation Included
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Impressionist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

Reclining Nude in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Reclining Nude in Pastel on Paper Bright and vibrant nude drawing by Linda O'Hagen (American, 20th Century). A woman is leaning on one arm, with her head propped up on her hand. The...
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American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Laid Paper

Peasant - Drawing by Alessandro Kokocinski - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Peasant is an artwork realized by the Contemporary artist Alessandro Kokocinski in the 1970s.   China Ink drawing on paper.   Good conditions. Hand Signed on the lower
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Located in New York, NY
"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Judy Garland 20 x 15 inches (sight) Etching 26 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches Framed...
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Performance 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Ink

Peasants - Drawing by Alessandro Kokocinski - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Peasants is an artwork realized by the Contemporary artist Alessandro Kokocinski in the 1970s.   China Ink drawing on paper.   Good conditions. Hand Signed on the lower
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Early Modern Black & White Portrait Pen Drawing Study of a Bearded Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Composition - Drawing by Gian Paolo Berto - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an artwork realized by Gian Paolo Berto in the 1970s. Ink drawing. Hand signed. In very good condition.
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

The Big Sleep, Paperback Cover
By Richard Waldrep
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1976 Medium: Watercolor Dimensions: 13.75" x 9.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Paperback book cover art for 'The Big Sleep' by Raymond Chandler, published by Vintage Books (#...
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1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Early Modern Black and White Figurative Pen Drawing Study of a Bearded Gentleman
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Sister Corita Kent, "Love You" Unique signed watercolor painting on paper Framed
Located in New York, NY
Sister Mary Corita Kent Love You, ca. 1975 Original signed watercolor painting on paper Signed in graphite pencil on the recto Floated and framed in white wood frame This is a unique work Measurements: Framed: 5.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" Artwork alone: 4" x 4" Extremely difficult to find unique watercolor works on paper on the market by Sister Corita...
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Pop Art 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

A Piano for Pete, unique signed/inscribed drawing by famed modernist sculptor
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner A Piano for Pete, 1975 Ink on paper Hand signed, dated and inscribed "A Piano for Pete - Best, Dorothy" on the the front Unique Frame included Held in the original vin...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

The Dream is Over - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
The Dream is Over is a Pen Drawing and Watercolour realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1975s. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. Good condition on a white paper. Mino...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pen

Cubist Composition - Drawing by Gianpaolo Berto - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing in pencil and black market pens realized by Berto in 1967. Hand signed and dated. In very good condition, includes a coeval wooden frame. 
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.028
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.028 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting Profile Landscape 438.028 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Board

Coltelli
Located in Malmo, SE
Dated: 19 Januari 1976. (19.1.76) Artwork size: 48×36 cm. Frame size: 65×52 cm. Frame in white gold. Free shipment worldwide. Signed,titled and dated. Acquired directly from the ar...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Vito Tomasello. Portrait of Wayne Herman, 1971. Pasel on paper, 18 x 24 inches. Signed and dated upper left. A lifetime NYC resident, Tomasello is best known for his male nude draw...
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Realist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Untitled (large original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, oil and charcoal on paper. Hand signed lower front by Luis Caballero. Artwork size: 25.56 x 25.56 inches. Frame size: 35 x 36 inches. Artwork is in excellent con...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Charcoal, Pencil

"Masha's fairy tales" watercolor cm. 17 x 22 1970
Located in Torino, IT
Children, illustrations, tales Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007) Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the 1905 Art College, where she ...
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Realist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor A two sided watercolor on Arches paper by San Francisco and Maryland artist Harolod Gretzner (America...
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American Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Surrealist Latin American Mixed Media Watercolor & Ink - Woman Holding Purse
Located in Surfside, FL
Armando Villagran lived from 1945 to 1995 in Mexico. He was a self-taught artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. He has been considered by Mexican ar...
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Surrealist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Surrealist Latin American Mixed Media - Woman In Green Pants With Ship
Located in Surfside, FL
Armando Villagran lived from 1945 to 1995 in Mexico. He was a self-taught artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. He has been considered by Mexican ar...
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Surrealist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.057
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.057 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.057 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.049
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.049 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.049 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.054
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.054 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.054 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.044
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.044 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.044 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.048
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.048 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.048 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.056
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.056 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.056 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.050
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.050 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.050 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, col...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1977, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled Year: 1977 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 48.5 x 38.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & date...
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Photorealist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.045
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.045 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.045 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.046
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.046 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.046 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, col...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.052
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.052 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing Profile Solid 383.052 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
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Feminist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1973, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1973 Year: 1973 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 40 x 30.25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & ...
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Photorealist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Posing Figure - Drawing - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Figure is a drawing realized in 1978 by an unknown artist. Penc on paper. Monogrammed and dated on the lower. The state of preservation is good. The artwork is represented...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Torso
Located in London, GB
Claudio Bravo, (Chilean 1936-2011), Torso, 1978, Screenprint on paper, signed and dated (lower right) and numbered '28/50' (lower left), 18cm x 30cm (image size), 34cm x 46cm (sheet ...
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Post-War 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Screen

Bull - Drawing by Mario Jannaccone - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Bull is a Drawing in china ink drawing realized by Mario Jannaccone in the 1970s. Hand-signed. Good conditions.
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Bird - Drawing by Benn - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an Drawing in pencil realized by Benn in the 1970s. Hand-signed. Good conditions.
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Gauchos En Un Asado, Modern Watercolor and Graphite on Paper by Ada Peacock
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ada Peacock, American - Gauchos En Un Asado, Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on Paper, signed and titled in pencil, Image Size: 9.5 x 17 inches, Size: 14.25 x 20 in. (36.2 x 50.8 c...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Ven Dedoras-de-Chica, Modern Watercolor and Graphite on Paper by Ada Peacock
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ada Peacock, American - Ven Dedoras-de-Chica, Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on Paper, signed and titled in pencil, Image Size: 9.5 x 17 inches, Size: 14.25 x 20 in. (36.2 x 50.8 ...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Electric Guitarist - II, Contemporary Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Electric Guitarist - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: This...
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Contemporary 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Untitled (Seated Young Woman)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Seated Young Woman) Graphite on Veritable Papier d'Arches wove paper, 1970 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image/sheet size: 15 x 11 1/4 inch...
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American Realist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

" Maurice Chevalier " à la Bocca
Located in CANNES, FR
James Rassiat ( 1909 -1998 ) « Vacances à la Bocca » pastel and gouache on paper 38 x 28 cm
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French School 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper

Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Black Power, Attica Prison Riot Prisoners Racial Justice - African American Art
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Vincent D Smith makes a statement about racial justice. In this work from 1972, he depicts three African American prisoners with their faces pushed up agains...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sole Tree - Drawing by Mareal Abougit - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Sole Tree is a drawing realized by Mareal Abougit (1903-1985) in 1974. Pencil, pastel and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower left. Good conditions with slight...
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor

Ballet Dancer (Young woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rosemary Bothwell (20th century).Ballet Dancer, ca. 1975. Pastel on paper, 19 x 25 inches. Creasing and stray markings in margins and corners. Signed lower right.
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American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Two Boys Fishing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rosemary Bothwell (20th century). Two Boys Fishing, ca. 1975. Pastel on paper, 18.75 x 22.75 inches. Creasing in upper right corner. Signed lower right.
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American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
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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Folk Art 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Child and Mother Chicken Greet Birth of a Chick, Children's Book Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to the World. A blue-eyed child in a wide-rimmed hat with flowers and an adult chicken greet the emergence of a chick. The charming illustration is titled " Karen and Etta ( the chicken ) have a Little Chick " Notice the whimsical touch of a piece of egg shell that sits on the chicks head like a little white hat. Signed lower right. unframed Alice Rose[1] Provensen (née Twitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April 23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen (July 10, 1916 – March 27, 1987) were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited.[4] According to Alice, "we were a true collaboration. Martin and I really were one artist."[4] Biographies Their early lives were similar. Both were born in Chicago and moved to California when they were twelve.[5] Both received scholarships to the Art Institute of Chicago, and both attended the University of California, though at separate campuses. After college, Alice went to work with Walter Lantz Studio, the creators of Woody Woodpecker, and Martin took work with the Walt Disney Studio, where he collaborated on Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. The pair met in 1943 when Martin, working as a creator of training films for the American military, was assigned to the Walter Lantz Studio. They were married in 1944 and settled in Washington, D.C., where they worked on war-related projects. After the war, they moved to New York City where a friend helped them get their first job, illustrating The Fireside Book of Folk Songs.[5] They illustrated several Little Golden Books including The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown (1949). In 1952, Tony the Tiger, designed by Martin, debuted as a Kellogg's mascot. The Provensens were a runner-up for the 1982 Caldecott Medal as illustrators of A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard...
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Impressionist 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Four Faces, Modern Charcoal by Ben Macala
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ben Macala (1938 - 1997) - Four Faces, Year: 1976, Medium: Charcoal on Paper, signed and dated lower right, Size: 24.5 x 28.5 in. (62.23 x 72.39 cm)
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Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Black Panther Trials - Civil Rights Movement Police Violence African American
Located in Miami, FL
The Black Panther Trials - In this historically significant work, African American Artist Vicent D. Smith functions as an Art Journalist/ Court Reporter as much as a Artist. Here, he depicts, in complete unity, 21 Black Panther Protestors raising their fist of defiance at the White Judge. Smith's composition is about utter simplicity, where the Black Panther Protestors are symmetrically lined up in a confrontation with a Judge whose size is exaggerated in scale. Set against a stylized American Flag, the supercilious Judge gazes down as the protesters as their fists thrust up. Signed Vincent lower right. Titled Panter 21. Original metal frame. Tape on upper left edge of frame. 255 . Panther 21. Framed under plexi. _____________________________ From Wikipedia In 1969-1971 there was a series of criminal prosecutions in New Haven, Connecticut, against various members and associates of the Black Panther Party.[1] The charges ranged from criminal conspiracy to first-degree murder. All charges stemmed from the murder of 19-year-old Alex Rackley in the early hours of May 21, 1969. The trials became a rallying-point for the American Left, and marked a decline in public support, even among the black community, for the Black Panther Party On May 17, 1969, members of the Black Panther Party kidnapped fellow Panther Alex Rackley, who had fallen under suspicion of informing for the FBI. He was held captive at the New Haven Panther headquarters on Orchard Street, where he was tortured and interrogated until he confessed. His interrogation was tape recorded by the Panthers.[2] During that time, national party chairman Bobby Seale visited New Haven and spoke on the campus of Yale University for the Yale Black Ensemble Theater Company.[3] The prosecution alleged, but Seale denied, that after his speech, Seale briefly stopped by the headquarters where Rackley was being held captive and ordered that Rackley be executed. Early in the morning of May 21, three Panthers – Warren Kimbro, Lonnie McLucas, and George Sams, one of the Panthers who had come East from California to investigate the police infiltration of the New York Panther chapter, drove Rackley to the nearby town of Middlefield, Connecticut. Kimbro shot Rackley once in the head and McLucas shot him once in the chest. They dumped his corpse in a swamp, where it was discovered the next day. New Haven police immediately arrested eight New Haven area Black Panthers. Sams and two other Panthers from California were captured later. Sams and Kimbro confessed to the murder, and agreed to testify against McLucas in exchange for a reduction in sentence. Sams also implicated Seale in the killing, telling his interrogators that while visiting the Panther headquarters on the night of his speech, Seale had directly ordered him to murder Rackley. In all, nine defendants were indicted on charges related to the case. In the heated political rhetoric of the day, these defendants were referred to as the "New Haven Nine", a deliberate allusion to other cause-celebre defendants like the "Chicago Seven". The first trial was that of Lonnie McLucas, the only person who physically took part in the killing who refused to plead guilty. In fact, McLucas had confessed to shooting Rackley, but nonetheless chose to go to trial. Jury selection began in May 1970. The case and trial were already a national cause célèbre among critics of the Nixon administration, and especially among those hostile to the actions of the FBI. Under the Bureau's then-secret "Counter-Intelligence Program" (COINTELPRO), FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had ordered his agents to disrupt, discredit, or otherwise neutralize radical groups like the Panthers. Hostility between groups organizing political dissent and the Bureau was, by the time of the trials, at a fever pitch. Hostility from the left was also directed at the two Panthers cooperating with the prosecutors. Sams in particular was accused of being an informant, and lying to implicate Seale for personal benefit. In the days leading up to a rally on May Day 1970, thousands of supporters of the Panthers arrived in New Haven individually and in organized groups. They were housed and fed by community organizations and by sympathetic Yale students in their dormitory rooms. The Yale college dining halls provided basic meals for everyone. Protesters met daily en masse on the New Haven Green across the street from the Courthouse (and one hundred yards from Yale's main gate). On May Day there was a rally on the Green, featuring speakers including Jean Genet, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and John Froines (an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon). Teach-ins and other events were also held in the colleges themselves. Towards midnight on May 1, two bombs exploded in Yale's Ingalls Rink, where a concert was being held in conjunction with the protests.[4] Although the rink was damaged, no one was injured, and no culprit was identified.[4] Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin stated, "All of us conspired to bring on this tragedy by law enforcement agencies by their illegal acts against the Panthers, and the rest of us by our immoral silence in front of these acts," while Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. issued the statement, "I personally want to say that I'm appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass that I am skeptical of the ability of a Black revolutionary to receive a fair trial anywhere in the U.S." Brewster's generally sympathetic tone enraged many of the university's older, more conservative alumni, heightening tensions within the school community. As tensions mounted, Yale officials sought to avoid deeper unrest and to deflect the real possibility of riots or violent student demonstrations. Sam Chauncey has been credited with winning tactical management on behalf of the administration to quell anxiety among law enforcement and New Haven's citizens, while Kurt Schmoke, a future Rhodes Scholar, mayor of Baltimore, MD and Dean of Howard University School of Law, has received kudos as undergraduate spokesman to the faculty during some of the protest's tensest moments. Ralph Dawson, a classmate of Schmoke's, figured prominently as moderator of the Black Student Alliance at Yale (BSAY). In the end, compromises between the administration and the students - and, primarily, urgent calls for nonviolence from Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers themselves - quashed the possibility of violence. While Yale (and many other colleges) went "on strike" from May Day until the end of the term, like most schools it was not actually "shut down". Classes were made "voluntarily optional" for the time and students were graded "Pass/Fail" for the work done up to then. Trial of McLucas Black Panther trial sketch...
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American Modern 1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pen, Pencil, Paper

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