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Style: American Modern
Book of Remembrance, female figure, gold tones, horses & Van Gogh references
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Requiem, colorful female w figure elephants memorial prayer text collage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works.
Born of the Covid pandemic, the team started working remotely, mailing artwork to each ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Curlee Raven Holton, Three Views of a Dancer
Located in New York, NY
A painter, draftsman, printmaker and master printer, Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) taught for twenty years at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blue Indigo, drawing collage female figure with abstract patterns, bright blues
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Third Man 3, night, city scape, monochromatic, narrative
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative.
Chris Ritter (American, 1906 – 1976) "Animated Discourse," 19 x 24 (sight). Watercolor on paper. Si...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Sylvia Sneidman was originally a fashion illustrator, but assumed the helm of the famous jazz-age panel cartoon "Flapper Fanny Sa...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
"Five Faces #736, " a Black Ink Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Five Faces #736" is an original black ink drawing with a stamped signature in the lower left by Sylvia Spicuzza. It depicts five female faces from a...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965).
Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis.
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Divers
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Jay Alan Babcock is a St. Louis-based graphic designer and painter. His work exhibits his interest in the visual language of Americana, including old ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Women's World Magazine Cover Illustration , Children Sledding
Located in Miami, FL
Children Sledding, Women's World Magazine Cover, December 1939
Signed lower center image
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and wash on paper
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Girl and cat. Black and white charcoal drawing on Grey archival paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black and white charcoal on toned Grey archival paper signed and dated by artist.
fantasy cat lady
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
1945 Pastel Drawing Girl with Flower American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Chain Gang Music
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chain Gang Music
Watercolor on paper, dated '39, but created in the 1970's
Signed "Longstreet" lower left corner
Titled and annotated "George - '39" in pencil at top of sheet
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, friend and patron of the artist
Born Henri Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener), the artist tried alternate names and personae including Paul Haggard, Thomas Burton, and David Ormsbee before settling on the name Stephen Longstreet in 1939. Longstreet dates his art based on the period he means to represent, not the actual date of execution.
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Famous Raincoat
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
A Delightful 1930s Portrait Sketch of a Young Boy in a Baseball Cap
Located in Chicago, IL
A Delightful, 1930s Portrait Sketch of a Young Boy in a Baseball Cap by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Full of Character! A charming little gem of a po...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Famous Raincoat
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Foot with Strawberries
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 unparalleled influence on artists and visual cultur...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Fish Bowl Looks Like the Living Room -School of Macabre Charles Addams
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to Gahan Wilson's magnificently morbid mind, where viewing his cartoons/illustrations gives the viewer the creeps. In this work, a husband designs...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Ink and gouache drawing of a nude woman from behind
Located in Brookville, NY
A nude viewed from behind, with black hair , inscribed on the lower right by the artist John Begg "Mature Nude" c.1953 Outlined in black ink and with som...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Striptease
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Irving Norman. "Striptease" is a macabre cultural commentary drawing, pencil and color pencil on paper executed in a dark palette of blacks, grays, and reds by social su...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Pencil
Handsome Couple in Sailboat - Collier's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Collier's Magazine Illustration
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Work is framed in a period wood frame
Watercolor on board
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Golfers
Located in Missouri, MO
Golfers, 1928
Fred Conway (American, 1900-1973)
Signed and Dated Lower Right
18.5 x 24.5 inches
30.5 x 37 inches with frame
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art ...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Hanging by a Hair, Political Satire Illustration 1902
Located in Long Island City, NY
A political satire illustration “Hanging by a Hair” originally published in the The Philadelphia North American newspaper circa 1902, edited by Edwin A Van Valkenburg and pubilshed b...
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Early 1900s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Price Upon Request
Chinese Theater, Los Angeles
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Dong Kingman
"Chinese Theater, Los Angeles" 1965
Watercolor on Paper
Sheet Size: 15 x 22 inches
Framed Size: approx 19 x 26 inches
Dong Kingman, the world-renowned artist and teacher, died in his sleep on May 12, 2000 at age 89 in his home in Manhattan. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
Long acknowledged as an American watercolor master, he has received an extraordinary number of awards and honors throughout his 70-year career in the arts. Included are two Guggenheim fellowships in 1942 and 1943; the San Francisco Art Association First Purchase Prize, 1936; Audubon Artist Medal of Honor, 1946; Philadelphia Watercolor Club Joseph Pennel Memorial Medal, 1950; Metropolitan Museum of Art Award, and the National Academy Design 150th Anniversary Gold Medal Award, 1975.
In 1987, the American Watercolor Society awarded Dong Kingman its highest honor, the Dolphin Medal, "for having made outstanding contributions to art especially to that of watercolor."
His work is represented in the permanent collections of 50 museums and universities, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Des Moines Art Center, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Brooklyn Museum and Hirshhorn Museum.
Born in Oakland, California in 1911 of Chinese descent, Kingman moved to Hong Kong at age five. He studied art and calligraphy in his formative years at the Lingnan School. The painting master Szeto Wai had recently studied art in Paris and took a keen interest in young Dongs precocious talents. He taught him both Chinese classical and French Impressionist styles of painting. Kingman returned home to Oakland when he was 18 at the height of the Depression. He worked as a newsboy and dishwasher to make ends meet.
When he was employed as a houseboy for the Drew family in San Francisco, he painted every spare moment. In a year, he created enough pictures to have a one-man show at the Art Center. It attracted the attention of San Francisco art critics who raved about Kingmans unique style. Wrote Junius Cravens of the San Francisco News: "That young Chinese artist is showing 20 of the freshest and most satisfying watercolors that have been seen hereabouts in many a day Kingman already has developed that universal quality which may place a sincere artist work above the limitations of either racial characteristics or schools. Kingmans art belongs to the world at large today." Dong Kingman became an overnight success.
From 1936 to 1941, he was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style." His two Guggenheim fellowships enabled him to travel the country painting American scenes. His first one-man show in New York at Midtown Galleries in 1942 was well received in the media, including Time, Newsweek, the New Yorker and American Artist. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco held a major exhibit of his watercolors in 1945.
In 1951, Midtown presented a 10-year retrospective of his work. Time Magazine wrote, "At age 40, Kingman is one of the worlds best watercolorists." Other retrospectives, including Corcoran in Washington,D.C. an d Witte Memorial Museum in San Antonio, were held for the artist. Kingman moved to Wildenstein (1958-1969) where he had successful exhibits in New York, London and Paris. Hammer Galleries exhibited his paintings in the 70s, and then the artist expanded his venues to the West Coast and Far East.
During World War II, he served with the OSS in Washington, D.C. where he was a cartographer. After his honorable discharge, Kingman moved to Brooklyn Heights from San Francisco when he became a guest lecturer and then art instructor at Columbia University (1946-1958). Hunter College also appointed him instructor in watercolors and Chinese Art (1948-1953). His teaching career continued with the Famous Artists School, Westport, CT in 1953, joining such distinguished artists on the faculty as Will Barnet, Stuart Davis, Norman Rockwell and Ben Shahn.
He also became a teaching member for 40 years for the Hewitt Painting Workshops, which conducts worldwide painting tours. He taught at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, was a member of its board, and received an honorary doctorate from the Academy.
In 1954, the U.S. Department of State invited Kingman to go on a cultural exchange program tour around the world to give exhibitions and lectures and to meet local artists. When he came home, he presented the State Department with a 40-foot long report on a scroll, which later appeared in LIFE Magazine.
One of Kingman's most treasured experiences was his invitation by the Ministry of Culture of the Peoples Republic of China to exhibit in that country in 1981. He was the first American artist to be accorded a one-man show since diplomatic relations resumed. More than 100,000 visitors attended his exhibitions in Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou and the retrospective received critical acclaim from the Chinese press. Noted the China Daily Mail, "Just as the master painters of the Song Dynasty roamed about mountain and stream to capture the rhythm of nature, Dong Kingman traveled the world capturing the dynamism of modern lifefamiliar scenes have been transformed into a vibrant new vision of life through color schemes with rhythms that play over the entire surface of the picture. The wind swept skies which enliven his watercolors remind us of the pleinairism of the French Impressionists."
Kingman, who has been fascinated with movies since seeing his first film "The Thief of Baghdad...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
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