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Style: American Modern
Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Snow in the Forest, 1945
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 23.75 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook C...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
Refer...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Feet)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of Male Feet by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study (a composite...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue El at 8th Street
13 x 18 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Egg Tempera, Board
A Drawing of a ca. 1930s Bicycle Race by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for your cycling enthusiast! A 1930s charcoal on paper drawing of a bicycle race by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 11" x 14". Archivally matted to 16" x 20". 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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Eve Asleep, nude, female figure graphite drawing archival paper monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1984 oversize nudes on mylar and/or archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawi...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Graphite
Jazz Age Dancer Illustration by Broadway Designer Mabel E. Johnston
Located in New York, NY
Mabel E. Johnston
Untitled, c. 1930s
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Sight: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Mabel E. Johnston
The first tidb...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper Image of a Boy by Margo Hoff, Titled Sun Child
By Margo Hoff
Located in Chicago, IL
A brightly colored, Mid-Century, watercolor and charcoal on paper image of a boy by notable artist Margo Hoff, titled "Sun Child". Image size: 31" x 22". Framed size: 34" x 25". ...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
"Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism, 20 x 14 inches. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1938. Signed...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, early 20th century landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, c. 1925
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 20 inches
20.75 x 25.75 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...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Reclining nude, female figure pastel drawing on oversize black paper, colorful
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently re-discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
A Ca. 1915 Portrait of a Gentleman by Artist Anthony Stuffers
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1915 portrait of a gentleman by artist Anthony Stuffers. This artist died at the age of 26--so this is a rare drawing, indeed! Image size: 19 1/2" x 14 3/4". The watercolor...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
William Sanderson, Fascists
Located in New York, NY
Latvia-born William Sanderson became a contributor to the New Yorker and New Masses magazines during the 1930s. He was drafted into the Army during World Wa...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue Elevated
19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed an...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Perplexed Gentleman
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
13 1/4 X 8 ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Graphite on Paper Figure Study by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 black and white figure study of a nude male, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to: 24" x 30". Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Es...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
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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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
For your hockey enthusiast! A ca. 1950s, pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". Matted to: 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...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
1951 Ink on Paper Figure Study of a Conversation by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation.
Artwork size: 12" x 9 1/2". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist....
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Figure by Window, graphite, pastel, mylar, paper layered drawing, female, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This feminist work of a nude gazing directly at the viewer, features graphite on mylar over cut paper, aligned to amplify the forms while maintaining the delicacy of the drawing. These recently discovered 1984 oversize works on mylar and archival papers were created with a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand.
As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mylar, Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
“Ski Style 1960”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
"Pink Cheeks" American Modernist Robert Gilberg 1950 Ink and Pastel Nude Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Pink Cheeks"
c.1950s
Ink and pastel on paper
12"x13.75" unframed
Unsigned
Good Condition - Wear consistent with age and history. Deep creases on upper le...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pastel
Ca. 1950 Standing Male Bather in Red & Orange Tones by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
Ca. 1950 watercolor of a standing male bather in red & orange tones by artist Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, se...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"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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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
A Fine Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figure Study Drawing, Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern, Abstracted Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model, Young Man by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execute...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
$850 Sale Price
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Broadway Costume Illustration by Designer Mabel E. Johnston
Located in New York, NY
Mabel E. Johnston
Untitled, c. 1920s
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Sight: 18 x 12 1/2 in.
Framed: 39 x 21 1/4 x 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Mabel E. Johnston
The first tidbit I fou...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Early Drawing and Watercolor Painting Figurative Abstraction
By Mitch Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
Mitchell Mitch Becker, painter, born November 12, 1938, Chicago, Illinois. 1972, Emigrated to Israel.
Education
1961 - School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of Art Education,
1971 - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Master of Fine Arts,
Teaching
1968-1972 High School, Skokie, USA.
1973-1974 Thelma Yellin Art School, Givatayim
1974-1976 Institute of Visual Art, Beersheba
1977-1981 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon
1981-1982 Bezalel, Jerusalem
Awards And Prizes
1958-61, Anna Tucson Scholarship, USA
Mitchell Becker emerged into the art world of late 1950s Chicago, between gestures of Abstract Expressionism and declarations about the "death of painting." The hot names of his youth, such as Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Larry Rivers, provided him with interest and challenges for years to come, and his awe for them is still evident in his voice to date, many years after drawing away from them. This work is reminiscent of the work of Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston.
Heroes - Past and Present, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva
Artists: Shalom Moskowitz, (Shalom of Safed) Yohanan Simon, Boris Schatz, Motti Mizrachi, Hanan Milner, Mitchell Becker, Edith Samuel, Ludwig Schwerin, Igael Tumarkin, Talia Tokatly.
EDUCATION:
1971 Master of Fine Arts,University of Chicago, Illinois
1961 Bachelor of Art Education School...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Mid-Century, Black & White Portrait of a Young Man by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959, black & white, ink on paper portrait of a young man by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size:
12" x 8 3/4". Archivally matted to: 12" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the Ar...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century, Cleveland
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
13.75 x 20 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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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930s ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
A 1940s Fashion Study for Women's Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring women's hats in pink tobes. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s c...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A 1950s Pastel on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for your hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel on paper drawing of a hockey game by Francis Chapin. Image size: 9" x 12". 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...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
A 1950s Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for you hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". 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...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Over Head
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
American flag collage with a 19th century engraving of an eagle
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America.
Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works.
His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied.
Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes..
He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city or style.
Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him.
Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts.
These set of collage...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
$1,510 Sale Price
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"Empire State Building" Leon Dolice, New York City Street Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Empire State Building
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
19 x 12 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon th...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mid Century "Driver with Hard Hat" Gouache and Oil Pastel Figurative 1960s SF
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Driver with Hard Hat
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper
27"x36" unframed
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Beautiful watercolor painting of Capitola Beach by Ken L. Stephens (American, 20th Century). A couple sits by the water, wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study of a by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 graphite on paper, black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Paper
$285 Sale Price
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"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
$2,400 Sale Price
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Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,257
headwind, female figure w beach umbrella beach blue ocean sand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Crayon
Audience
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Audience" 1983 is a watercolor on hand made paper by noted artist Ruth Weisberg, born 1942. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left
21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Worlds Beyond - Surrealist graphite drawing, Ohio artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Study for Worlds Beyond, 1980
Graphite, collage and white heightening on illustration board
Signed and dated lower right
10.75 x 4.5 in...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Emil Ganso, (Reclining Nude)
By Emil Ganso
Located in New York, NY
A classic Emil Ganso nude. Quite large, the sheet is 14 1/8 x 21 inches and the image goes all the way across the sheet from left to right. Very delicately drawn - especially for Ganso.
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
A 1951 Ink on Paper Figure Study of a Conversation by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation. Artwork size: 12" x 9 1/2". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Haro...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Paper
Alfred Bendiner, Santa Fe Cowhands (New Mexico)
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing!
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Young Bird with Ferns)
Located in New York, NY
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Her birds are masterful. This charming piece places the yooun...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
1950s Pastel Drawing of a Young Boy by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1950s pastel drawing of a young boy by artist Francis Chapin. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Image size: 16" x 15". Artwork is not matt...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Board
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