Head Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes. In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia." Portrait subjects included Presidents Calvin Coolidge...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Center Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), Henry Fonda as USN Lt Douglas Robert...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right The piece is on 20.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 10.50" x 8.50." There is some glue in the margins. Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of enduring TV Host Milton Berle...

Medium: Pen & Ink, Watercolor Paper Overlay on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right This piece is on 14.75" x 22.00" illustration board with an image that measures to 9.50" x 14.00." Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for CBS-TV`s for the sitcom with a lot of horse sense, `Mister Ed...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned This piece is on 15.00" x 11.00" illustration board, each drawing measures to 7.00" x 9.00." Includes copy of the program page. Minor soiling, editors notations. Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Melvyn Douglas...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Center Left This illustration is on 15.00" x 11.00" illustration board, the drawing itself measuring to 8.00" x 6.00." Ca...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Henry Wilcoxon as the Prosecutor in 1948 production of `The Vigil...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of ZaSu Pitts in `Cordelia` & Eva Le Gallienne h...

Two Knights

"Free Trade and Protection in Great Britain - Past and Present" by Francis W. Hirst and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, March 1...

Signature: Initialed Lower Center "Self-Determination," by Robert Lansing and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, April 9, 1921.

Signature: Initialed Lower Center "As Others See Us," by Princess Cantacuzene and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1924.

Signature: Initialed Along Lower Edge "Capital on Strike," by Albert W. Atwood and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, October 8, 1921.

Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950. A dynamic and loose figural showing a woman in contrapposto, draped in a shawl and...

Dolly Dingle's Story of Pinafore. Illustration possibly for children's booklet published by John H. Eggers Publishing Company, 1921. Watercolor on paper. 18 x 13 inches. Signed in lo...

This framed Ink painting by Shiri Mordechay has a beautiful openness with the way the paint is handled, allowing full attention to the curious faces presented. Depicted is a face, th...

Lisa Martin - Putto, Year: circa 2000, Medium: Color Pencil on Paper, Size: 13.5 x 10.75 in. (34.29 x 27.31 cm)

Fernand Léger, Attributed to, French (1881 -1955) - Figure Study, Year: circa 1949, Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on Paper, Size: 17 x 28 in. (43.18 x 71.12 x 93.98 cm), Frame S...

John Button Untitled 1975 Signed and dated in pencil, l.r. Pencil on paper 14 x 11 inches

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Melike Kılıç (b. 1982) is a Turkish artist who tells stories through drawings and delicate paper cutouts. She grew up in a small village in Sebinkarahisar, and currently works in Ist...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...

Artist Enrique Alférez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied in C...

Artist Enrique Alférez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied in C...

Melike Kılıç (b. 1982) is a Turkish artist who tells stories through drawings and delicate paper cutouts. She grew up in a small village in Sebinkarahisar, and currently works in Ist...

This is a drawing of a man nude from the waist down wearing a blue tank top that says Hawaii. This work by Zachari Logan measures 64 by 42 inches and is mad...

"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (So Cool Cat)" (2022) by street artist City Kitty 18.25 x 12.25 x .75" Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster, framed. Artist's signature graffiti style of comic relief for subway notice posters, often relating unfortunate news to the public of delays or changes to the regular schedule. Portrait of classic City Kitty character with his third eye and in this case with words written across his open mouth that read in bubble letters, "SO COOL" in pink. Black and white "7" train line Friday night service update poster with purple diamond 7 line train logo. Neon and pastel palette accents include pink and blue. ABOUT THE ARTIST For the past 12 years, NYC-based street artist City Kitty has been pasting elaborate, hand-drawn scenes of an adventurous street cat onto buildings, subway stations and alleyways throughout North America and Europe. Best known for his large-scale drawings of cats...

"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (Pirate Cat)" (2019) by street artist City Kitty 18.25 x 12.25 x .75" Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster, framed. Artist's signature graffiti style of comic relief for subway notice posters, often relating unfortunate news to the public of delays or changes to the regular schedule. Portrait of classic City Kitty character, in this case a pirate, adorned with pirate hat...

"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (Ecstasy)" (2019) by street artist City Kitty 18.25 x 12.25 x .75" Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster...

"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (The Count)" (2020) by street artist City Kitty 18.25 x 12.25 x .75" Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster...

Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885) ‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’ With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855 Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...

This painting on paper is a playful, yet elegant depiction of a personal mantra of Bhatt’s in which she concedes, “life is a circus.” Amita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Bhatt’s work has been exhibited at noteworthy venues such as the Bluestar Contemporary Art Center, Walters Art Museum, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Project Row Houses, all in the United States as well as Museo Pedro de Osma in Peru. She has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards and recently served as a Grant Panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works are included in many important private and public collections. Bhatt digs deep into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Unafraid to explore uncomfortable territories, the artist mines from a range of sources to create hybrid creatures that are often symbolic of man’s psychological condition in an angst-ridden zeitgeist. In exploring issues of identity and violence, Bhatt’s research led her to the beginnings of mankind. Most ancient creation...

TSUGOUHARU FOUJITA 1886-1968 Edogawa Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich (French / Japanese) Title: The Little Housewife Le petite ménagere, 1956 Technique: Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawin...

Presenting a magnificent early watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.) Lillies, is an original watercolor on paper, signed, painted in 1936, currently unframed with an image dimension of 10.5 x 15 inches, excellent original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...

Gisella Loeffler "The Necklace and the Pot" c. 1919 Gouache on Paper Initialed Lower Left Framed Size: approx 15 x 15 inches In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos. 

In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention. Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.  In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s. Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico. Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images. In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed. In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.  Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...

Gisella Loeffler "Going for a Stroll" c. 1919 Gouache on Paper Initialed Framed Size: approx 17 x 13 inches In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos. 

In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention. Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.  In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s. Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico. Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images. In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed. In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.  Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...

Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...

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