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Stork - Original Pencil on Paper - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Juggler is an original drawing in China ink realized by Leo Guida in 1972. Good condition. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.

The Bird is an original Etching, realized by an anonymous artist in 1945. The status of preservation Good. The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and strong lines wit...

This color pencil drawing is reminiscent of a John James Audubon drawing with its precision and attention to detail, from the top of its downy head to its craggy feet. A baby heron...

Flamingos By William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) Signed Lower Left Unframed: 12" x 10" Framed: 21" x 17.5" Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he was not a very successful artist in those years in New York. Trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting...