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Framed 20th Century Gouache - Day On the Docks

20th Century

A fine mid Century scene in gouache with graphic charcoal line work. The scene shows a sunny continental harbour scene in a pretty pastel palette. The artist has signed illegibly (po...

Modern British work in ink and watercolour. Indistinctly signed to the lower right. Presented in a sleek contemporary frame with a wide card mount. On paper.

This abstract painting by German artist Anton Reichenberg (1910-1984) depicts a bustling harbour scene with colourful geometric shapes representing boats and their sails. Well presen...

A colourful contemporary harbour scene, with multiple docked fishing boats. Queuing traffic on a road bridge can just be made outer through the sea...

Marston Dean Hodgin, 1902-2003, was born in the mid-west and is best known as a painter and art teacher from the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts. He painted both watercolors and oil...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

In this New England wharf scene, Morris Blackburn composes a familiar assemblage of boats, dock, and weathered, wooden buildings against a crisp blue morning sky with light clouds....

Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - ) Title: Provincetown Dock Year: 1962 Medium: Gouache on black paper, signed and dated l.c. Size: 9 x 11.5 inches Frame Size: 19 x 22 inches