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Period: Mid-20th Century
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Cloudy Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenan...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Moroccan - Original Pencil and Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan is an original pencil and china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Mid Century Ink Wash Bizare Female Figure Original NYC Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Peter Passuntino
BDSM
1960s
Ink, ink wash & chalk on paper
12.25"x10" unframed
unsigned
Peter Passuntino
b. 1936
Peter Passuntino, was born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 18, Passuntino was selected to be in a group show at the Carnegie Institute, and at 19 he was selected for a one-man show at the Artist Guild in Chicago. From 1954 to 1958 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, upon receiving a Fulbright Fellowship in Painting, Passuntino spent time in Paris, from 1963 to 1965. While in Paris he studied art at the Istitut de Arts et Archeologie and exhibited in a solo exhibition entitled “Bad Manners, A Happening at the American Arts Center” (1963). During his time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Passuntino was an organizer of the Exhibition Momentum Group, and he served as the group’s chairman in 1958. The Exhibition Momentum Group was successful in expanding the Chicago-Midwest art community and in bringing emerging and established artists from the East Coast to Chicago as panelists and jurors of the exhibitions.
In 1969, The Rhino Horn Group was founded in New York City by a group of artists bound together by their dedication to figurative art and a collective notion that artistic practice should have both a critical and a social function. They critiqued the art-as-business ideology that absorbed fine arts into consumer culture in the United States during the 1960s.
The seven founding members were Peter Passuntino (b. 1936), Benny Andrews (1930-2006), Jay Milder (b. 1934), Peter Dean (1934-1993), Ken Bowman (1937-2014), Michael Fauerbach (1942-2011), and Nicholas Sperakis (b. 1943). Between 1969 and 1978, active members also included Bill Barrell (b. 1932), Leonel Góngora (1932-1999), Isser Aronovici (1932-1994), June Leaf...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink
Monna Lisa - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Monna Lisa is an original modern artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Watercolor drawing.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame: 49 x 3 x 43
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: approx 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
Fred Conway (1900-1973)
"Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back"
Pen/Ink/Watercolor on Paper
Site Size: approx. 10 x 13 inches
Framed Size: approx. 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School from 1929 to 1970, Frederick Conway...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Birds - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in mid 20th century.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Signed by the artist.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Autumn verso Summer Landscape / - Imagined Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Seidel, Herbert (1906-1974), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953. India ink on grained, bleached p...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Alpine Mountain Chalet Landscape British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Alpine Chalets
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolor painting on thick artist paper, unframed
size: 10...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1947
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1947 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower mar...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
'Three Figures', Mid-century German Expressionist, Düsseldorf, Venice Biennale
By Kurt Craemer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signer upper right, 'Craemer' for Kurt Craemer (German, 1912-1961) and dated 1954.
Born in Saarbrucken, Craemer first attended the Academy of Cologne where he worked under Friedrich Ahlers-Hesterman in 1928. He then traveled to Paris with his teacher, where he was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. From 1930-33, Craemer lived in Düsseldorf where he continued his studies at the Art Academy under Paul Klee. With the Nazi's ascent to power late that year, Craemer moved to Italy and lived there at the Art colony in Ischia until the end of the war when he moved to Positano.
Throughout the 1950's, Kurt Craemer continued to live in Italy exhibited with success internationally, including at the Venice Biennale...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Soviet Ukraine Three Generations Of Steel Worker Framed Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Mid-20th Century 1950s/1960s Soviet Ukraine - Khrushchev & Brezhnev Era.
Three Generations Of Steel Factory Workers.
Framed Charcoal On Paper Period Drawing.
Image size 24.4 inches x...
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Futurist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mother and Child - Drawing - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in 1962.
Black Marker Pen on Cardboard
27.5 x 22.5 cm ; 60 55 cm with frame.
Unreadable signature in the lower part.
...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Pen
May Broadhurst Poynton (act.1930-1950) - Watercolour, A Haitian Mambo
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant artwork captures the frenetic energy of a bustling dance hall, with a scene of musicians and dancers rendered in loose, expressive brushstrokes. The composition draws th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Art Deco Original Gouache Illustration Drawing by Raymonde Hacker
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Art Deco illustrative drawing, hand painted in ink and gouache on blue laid paper. The design includes a collection of fashion accessories, handbags, gloves, hats, and perfu...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Orgy - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Orgy is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Gentleman in Black-Tie, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Keith Vaughan
Gentleman in Black-Tie
Ballpoint pen sketch
17 x 13 cm
Born in 1912, Keith Vaughan was a British painter known for his modernist and semi-abstract depictions of the...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
M...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Female Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled (Reclining Woman)
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1933 watercolor of a reclining woman in a red dress, by Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissily), the identical twin of artist Ivan Albright and son of artist Adam Le Lorraine Albright. Im...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Violin Player Watercolor
By Chaim Gross
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Violin Player 1960/65
work size 11x29, with frame 18x36 inches, artist signed.
Chaim Gross (1904 Austria–1991 USA) will always be remembered as one of the foremost American artist : ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Archival Paper
Snobby Chef Big Hat - Upscale Restaurant Sophisticated Taste
Located in Miami, FL
With his hands on his hips and a look of contemplation, Bemelmans, with a few lines, captures the essence of a top Chef. This is not a portrait of a specific individual but more of a...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pen
Study on a Mouse - Drawing by Augusto Monari - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Study on a Mouse is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in 1935.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, 1932
Watercolor on board
Signed and dated lower right
15.25 x 21 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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled: Seated Lady
By John LaGatta
Located in New York, NY
John LaGatta (American 1894-1977), "Untitled: Seated Lady", Signed Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper, 17.38 x 11.38, Early to Mid 20th Century
Colors: Bl...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
“Tavern Life”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a lively tavern scene. Signed lower right and dated 1942 by the British artist, George Anderson Short...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
29 x 37.5 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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Sante Monachesi - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Sante Monachesi in 1939.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Johnny Carson for His Debut Appearance on "The Tonight Show"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Center Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Johhny Carson on `The Tonight Show...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Blanche Grambs, (Study for a Souffle)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
The symmetrical nature of the drawing suggests it was for a book or magazine project with facing pages -- possibly a cookboo...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ballet Dancer by Jules Schyl, Pastel on paper, Similarities with Degas
By Jules Schyl
Located in Stockholm, SE
Jules Schyl (Sweden, 1893-1977)
Title: Ballet Dancers
A Ballet Dancer painting is a rare find for an artist mostly known for his oeuvre with Cubism and Expressionist paintings. The current painting has many similarities with Degas sketches...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Alfred Mira (1900-1981)
Greenwich Village NYC
14 x 17 inches
Oil on board,...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Dances - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dances is a watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Whimsical Illustration Skiing Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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Naturalistic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Located in New York, NY
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
"Bathers"
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed lower le...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fruit Basket - Original Pencil by Serge Fontinsky - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fruit basket is an original sketch pencil drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions, minor cosmetic wear.
Hand-signed on the...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Reclining Nude 2" Robert Gilberg 1950s Ink Brush Drawing on Japanese Rice Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Reclining Nude 2"
c.1950s
Ink on Japanese rice paper with writing
21.75"x9.75 unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
"Modella" Matita cm. 50 x 70 1962
Located in Torino, IT
Disegno espressionista
Figura femminile
Artista Italiano che ha dedicato la vita all'arte
Edgardo CORBELLI (Torino, 1918 – 1989)
MUSEI
Orléans, Francia, Musée Collégiale Saint Pierre le Puellier
Salon de...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
1950s "Mark" Oil Pastel and Gouache Figurative Painting NYC Modern Mid Century
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Mark"
c.1950s
Oil pastel and gouache paint on paper
14x17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
'Boy with a White Cat', Philadelphia Woman Artist, Moore College of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Anne Jenkins' (American, 1923-2023) and dated 1958.
An elegant and psychologically penetrating study of a young boy, shown seated and holding a white cat.
Born...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Laid Paper
The Couple and Roosters - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple and Roosters is a pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Prince's Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Shell Fish: Lobster, Crab, and Shrimp)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
This ink drawing with a lobster, crab, and a shrimp, was probably for a cookbook; the sheet is cut in a free-form, modernist...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Giorgio de Chirico ( 1888 - 1978 ) - Coloured lithograph on paper - 1969
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper, edited in 1969.
Limited edition of 90 copies, numbered as 54/90 in lower left corner.
Paper size: 61 x 81 cm
Framed size: 76 x 96 cm
Very good conditio...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Unique Mid-Century Original Mixed Media Newsprint and Crayon. Hat and Flowers.
By Max Papart
Located in Cotignac, FR
Unique Mid-century original mixed-media newsprint and crayon collage/drawing by French artist Max Papart, signed with dedication and dated 1967 to the bottom right. The work is on th...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Newsprint
Countryside - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is an original painting in watercolor by an anonymous French artist of the XX century. The state of preservation is good and aged with signs of time on it, with two small...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Busy Figures In Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper stuck on card
size: 18 x 25 inches
condition: very good and ready t...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Untitled #187
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 187 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman an...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
Located in London, GB
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower centre and upper right
Executed circa 1940s
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Down in Mexico Way
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Down in Mexico Way" 1955 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Stanley M. Long 1892-1972 It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 13.25 x 18.5 inches, framed is 23.5 x 28 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Stanley M. Long spent his childhood on a ranch in Napa where he broke wild horses. He began sketching when quite young and at 15 enrolled at the San Francisco Institute of Art. He continued at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was awarded a scholarship for further study at Académie Julian in Paris.
He served in the camouflage corps in both world wars. Long taught art in San Francisco at Mission High School and for 17 years at Polytechnic High School. His western illustrations were featured in Sunset Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Having worked with horses all his life, they were to become the main theme of his paintings.
Long died in San Carlos, CA on March 29, 1972.
Member: Society of Western Artists, Napa Valley Art...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed with the Estate stamp lower center
Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Country Scene
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woodblock Print Polish Israeli Artist Azriel Awret Rainy Street Jerusalem Israel
By Irene Awret
Located in Surfside, FL
Awret, Azriel (Polish Israeli, 1910-2010),
Rainy Street in Jerusalem,
Woodblock print, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, pencil hand signed and numbered 35/60, framed measuring 19.5 x 14.25 inches.
Azriel Awret was born in Lodz, Poland, and moved to Belgium where he lived in Brussels. He married an Aryan woman, Anna Louisa Bonhiere, which saved him from deportation. But in January 1943 he was interned in Malines camp. Awret was an engineer, so he was given employment as an electrician. While in Malines he met Irène Spicker, who was working in the Mahlerstube (art workshop). They married after the war and moved to Israel, settling in Safed and continuing their artistic activity. Today they divide their time between Israel and the United States.
The Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum) art collection includes works by Awret from his time in Malines. These works depict various aspects of life in Malines, including figures of internees. They were donated by the artist.
He collaborated with his wife in a naif, folk art style.
Irène Awret...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Woodcut
Man In His Search for God, 1939 WPA Era Original Grey Scale Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This striking vintage 1939 original painting, titled Man In His Search for God, is a powerful piece from Charles Bunnell’s renowned Black and Blue Series. The artwork is painted in i...
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Futurist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
