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Landscape Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Mid 20th Century French Signed Painting Washing Line On A House River Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on paper, mounted in a card frame inscribed verso card frame: 15 x 18 inches painting: 9.5 x 12 inches provenance: the artists es...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Historic Miniature Watercolors of Bath Abbey West Front and Klais Organ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolors of Bath Abbey West Front and Klais Organ by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measurements: ...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Brown wooden frame with glass pane 40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essence of a serene winter. The roo...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 22.5 x 27.75 inches 27.75 x 34.5 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 was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Landscape - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by in the 19th Century. Charcoal drawing. Good conditions.
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19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Y Lliwedd
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pencil and watercolour on paper Paper size: 10 x 14 inches Framed size: 20 x 23.75 inches Initialled lower right
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Attrib. Myles Birket Foster RWS (1825-1899) - Watercolour, Little Shepherd
Located in Corsham, GB
A very finely painted bucolic study of a young boy asleep beneath a tree. His dog loyally rests by his side and sheep graze in an idyllic meadow beyond. Finished with touches of body...
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Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

166
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Contemporary colorful Pastel expressionist Landscape clouds trees sky signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Storm Watch 2" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Victoria Ryan. The artist signed the piece. This piece features an idyllic farm landscape with ro...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse) Watercolor, c. 1950 Signed by the artist in ink lower right: Wm. C. Grauer Numbered in pencil verso: 152 Provenance: Estate of the Ar...
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1950s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1940's Provence French Delicate Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) Signed and dated 46' From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947 watercolour painting on paper, unframed meas...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Harold Lawes (1865-1940) - Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour, End of Day
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful watercolour captures a farming family greeting each other at the farmhouse gate. A young girl can be seen eagerly awaiting the return of her father after a long day i...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Colorful Houses Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor landscape by Darrel (Wayne "Bunky") Millsap (American, 1931-2012). Signed "Millsap" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 14.75"H x 22"L. Darrel attended the Art C...
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Vrsar, Kroatien
Located in Wien, 9
- signed, dated and titled lower left
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Vernal Pool Three - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink drawi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Sumi Ink

Lady Profile, Peter Max
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Pen and ink on vélin paper, 1997. Paper size: 13 x 14 inches. Inscription: Hand signed, as issued. PETER MAX (1937) is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his ...
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1990s Pop Art Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Air, light, matter (Abbaye de La Cambre #36) by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, forest
Located in Paris, FR
Air, light, matter (Abbaye de La Cambre #36) is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 185 × 125 cm (72.8 × 49.2 in). Th...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Riverbank 2, photorealist graphite nature drawing, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts...
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2010s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Mid 20th Century French Landscape, Watercolour, The Bastide
Located in Cotignac, FR
French watercolour on paper view of a manor house or bastide in a rural landscape. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine gilded wood frame with a hessian cloth ...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Olive Grove and Poppies, Contemporary Impressionist Pastel on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary Impressionist pastel on paper by British artist Miranda McCarthy. Signed to the bottom right and presented in a black case frame. The softness of pastel as a medium ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original pastel on archival paper of Mount Shasta in Northern California by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas. Signed and dated 1874 lower right. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally matted and framed in a antique silver style gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 36 inches. Under glass. Provenance: A Pennsylvania collector. George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
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1870s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Joseph Arthur Powell - A Sussex Farm - Early 20th Century British watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH ARTHUR POWELL (1876-1961) A Sussex Farm Watercolour Unframed 28 by 38 cm., 11 by 15 in. (mount size 41 by 50 cm., 16 by 19 ¾ in.) Born in London he was the son of the succ...
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1920s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of Villa Strà sul Brenta - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1959. Hand signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
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1950s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of Champs Elisées - Clemenceau, Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s. Hand signed and dated lower left. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Wood in Alsace - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1963. Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Historic Miniature Watercolor of Temple Church and Shakespeare Inn in Bristol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Temple Church and Shakespeare Inn in Bristol by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measurem...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

At the foot of the Salève
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 46 x 56 x 1.3 cm
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Mid-20th Century Italian School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Church in the Cotsworld Way, England
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Church in the Cotsworld Way, England" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Barcelona 9pm - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Boats in Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1969. Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, d...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Boat Scene
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper work is unframed Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso. Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso. ...
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

"Caribbean Cruise Pool, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carribean Cruise Pool" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The painting is abstract and brightly colored, featuring deep blues, b...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mid Century French Drawing of The Fishermen, Port of Nice, South of France.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century French drawing of Fishermen bringing in their catch. The work is unsigned but annotated to the back of the paper 'Mars 7...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by English artist Derek Carruthers. The work is signed and titled to the back of the paper. A vivid and engaging interp...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Welsh Coast at Ogmore" by the Sea Original Watercolor Grey tones dominate this rocky coastal painting by John Addyman (Wales, 1929-2006), characterized by his use of muted tones, pr...
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1980s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Trees in a French Country Landscape. Watercolor.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French watercolour on paper landscape by Roger Decaux. The work is signed and dated (as yet undeciphered) bottom right. Presented in a wood frame with cut card mount. A fresh and charming view of trees in a landscape. Decaux has used simple, fluid but strong strokes for this composition. One can feel the influence of 'abstraction of form' that was a part of his later work. The eye is drawn from the trees to the surrounding fields, the touches of colour to the right and then to the silhouette of the hills beyond. The use of watercolour at its best. Roger DECAUX was born in 1919 in Dombasle sur Meurthe in the Lorraine. He studied art in Paris with Gino Severini and Jan Brusselmans...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Crashing Waves - Big Sur Coastal Cove Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Crashing Waves - Big Sur Coastal Cove Original Oil on Masonite Dramatic small-scale, professionally framed seascape by Stephen John Skerce (American, 1926-2010). Waves crashing into a Big Sure Cove and Seagulls gliding on the wind currents. Well known for many years on the Monterey coast for his seascapes and beach scenes. Signed "Skerce" in the lower right corner. Signed "Stephen Reno Skerce" on verso, with the artists Mountain View Studio stamp on frame. Presented in a wood frame with a linen liner. Frame size: 12.5"H x 14.75"W Board size: 5"H x 7"W Stephen John Skerce (American, 1926-2010) was a painter from Monterey, California. He received his formal art training from the Chicago Art Institute, Salinas Art School, and the Academie Julien in Paris, France. He is known for his landscapes, seascapes, and harbor scenes. He was an artist with both the Valley Art Gallery in Salinas and Venture Gallery in Monterey. He was also served in the US Marine Corps.
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1980s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Masonite, Oil

French Impressionist Watercolor of a Country Cottage and Pathway
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of a Country Cottage and Pathway By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 6.25 x 8.5 inches (Height ...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Collection of Historic Bristol Scenes and Maritime Watercolors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Collection of Historic Bristol Scenes and Maritime Watercolors by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measurements: 7.25 inch...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor of a Bustling Street Market Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of a Bustling Street Market Scene with Figures By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed Size: 6.25 x 8 inch...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Big sky, clouds over the Seine River French Impressionist landscape painting
By Gaston Prunier
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...
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1890s French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper

Working Horses in a Landscape - Dutch Victorian animal art equine W/C painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Victorian animal landscape watercolour painting is by Dutch artist Johannes Martinus Vrolyk or Vrolijk. Painted in 1875, the painting is of two working horses, one white ...
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1870s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The last rays Watercolor landscape
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting of winter with bright rays of the setting sun. Deep snow shadows, a winter forest in the rays of the sun, a snow-covered earth - this watercolor painting with the...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory, color theory, and philosophy, a writer of art criticism both in German and English, and, above all, a practicing artist. Bluemner was an intense man, who sought to express and share, through drawing and painting, universal emotional experience. Undergirded by theory, Bluemner chose color and line for his vehicles; but color especially became the focus of his passion. He was neither abstract artist nor realist, but employed the “expressional use of real phenomena” to pursue his ends. (Oscar Bluemner, from unpublished typescript on “Modern Art” for Camera Work, in Bluemner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as cited and quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner [1991], p. 60. The Bluemner papers in the Archives [hereafter abbreviated as AAA] are the primary source for Bluemner scholars. Jeffrey Hayes read them thoroughly and translated key passages for his doctoral dissertation, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory [University of Maryland, 1982; UMI reprint, 1982], which remains the most comprehensive source on Bluemner. In 1991, Hayes published a monographic study of Bluemner digested from his dissertation and, in 2005, contributed a brief essay to the gallery show at Barbara Mathes, op. cit.. The most recent, accessible, and comprehensive view of Bluemner is the richly illustrated, Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhib. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.]) Bluemner was born in the industrial city of Prenzlau, Prussia, the son and grandson of builders and artisans. He followed the family predilection and studied architecture, receiving a traditional and thorough German training. He was a prize-winning student and appeared to be on his way to a successful career when he decided, in 1892, to emigrate to America, drawn perhaps by the prospect of immediate architectural opportunities at the Chicago World’s Fair, but, more importantly, seeking a freedom of expression and an expansiveness that he believed he would find in the New World. The course of Bluemner’s American career proved uneven. He did indeed work as an architect in Chicago, but left there distressed at the formulaic quality of what he was paid to do. Plagued by periods of unemployment, he lived variously in Chicago, New York, and Boston. At one especially low point, he pawned his coat and drafting tools and lived in a Bowery flophouse, selling calendars on the streets of New York and begging for stale bread. In Boston, he almost decided to return home to Germany, but was deterred partly because he could not afford the fare for passage. He changed plans and direction again, heading for Chicago, where he married Lina Schumm, a second-generation German-American from Wisconsin. Their first child, Paul Robert, was born in 1897. In 1899, Bluemner became an American citizen. They moved to New York City where, until 1912, Bluemner worked as an architect and draftsman to support his family, which also included a daughter, Ella Vera, born in 1903. All the while, Oscar Bluemner was attracted to the freer possibilities of art. He spent weekends roaming Manhattan’s rural margins, visiting the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, sketching landscapes in hundreds of small conté crayon drawings. Unlike so many city-based artists, Bluemner did not venture out in search of pristine countryside or unspoiled nature. As he wrote in 1932, in an unsuccessful application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, “I prefer the intimate landscape of our common surroundings, where town and country mingle. For we are in the habit to carry into them our feelings of pain and pleasure, our moods” (as quoted by Joyce E. Brodsky in “Oscar Bluemner in Black and White,” p. 4, in Bulletin 1977, I, no. 5, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut). By 1911, Bluemner had found a powerful muse in a series of old industrial towns, mostly in New Jersey, strung along the route of the Morris Canal. While he educated himself at museums and art galleries, Bluemner entered numerous architectural competitions. In 1903, in partnership with Michael Garven, he designed a new courthouse for Bronx County. Garven, who had ties to Tammany Hall, attempted to exclude Bluemner from financial or artistic credit, but Bluemner promptly sued, and, finally, in 1911, after numerous appeals, won a $7,000 judgment. Barbara Haskell’s recent catalogue reveals more details of Bluemner’s architectural career than have previously been known. Bluemner the architect was also married with a wife and two children. He took what work he could get and had little pride in what he produced, a galling situation for a passionate idealist, and the undoubted explanation for why he later destroyed the bulk of his records for these years. Beginning in 1907, Bluemner maintained a diary, his “Own Principles of Painting,” where he refined his ideas and incorporated insights from his extensive reading in philosophy and criticism both in English and German to create a theoretical basis for his art. Sometime between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner’s life as an artist was transformed by his encounter with the German-educated Alfred Stieglitz, proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue. The two men were kindred Teutonic souls. Bluemner met Stieglitz at about the time that Stieglitz was shifting his serious attention away from photography and toward contemporary art in a modernist idiom. Stieglitz encouraged and presided over Bluemner’s transition from architect to painter. During the same period elements of Bluemner’s study of art began to coalesce into a personal vision. A Van Gogh show in 1908 convinced Bluemner that color could be liberated from the constraints of naturalism. In 1911, Bluemner visited a Cézanne watercolor show at Stieglitz’s gallery and saw, in Cézanne’s formal experiments, a path for uniting Van Gogh’s expressionist use of color with a reality-based but non-objective language of form. A definitive change of course in Bluemner’s professional life came in 1912. Ironically, it was the proceeds from his successful suit to gain credit for his architectural work that enabled Bluemner to commit to painting as a profession. Dividing the judgment money to provide for the adequate support of his wife and two children, he took what remained and financed a trip to Europe. Bluemner traveled across the Continent and England, seeing as much art as possible along the way, and always working at a feverish pace. He took some of his already-completed work with him on his European trip, and arranged his first-ever solo exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, and Elberfeld, Germany. After Bluemner returned from his study trip, he was a painter, and would henceforth return to drafting only as a last-ditch expedient to support his family when his art failed to generate sufficient income. Bluemner became part of the circle of Stieglitz artists at “291,” a group which included Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. He returned to New York in time to show five paintings at the 1913 Armory Show and began, as well, to publish critical and theoretical essays in Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. In its pages he cogently defended the Armory Show against the onslaught of conservative attacks. In 1915, under Stieglitz’s auspices, Bluemner had his first American one-man show at “291.” Bluemner’s work offers an interesting contrast with that of another Stieglitz architect-turned-artist, John Marin, who also had New Jersey connections. The years after 1914 were increasingly uncomfortable. Bluemner remained, all of his life, proud of his German cultural legacy, contributing regularly to German language journals and newspapers in this country. The anti-German sentiment, indeed mania, before and during World War I, made life difficult for the artist and his family. It is impossible to escape the political agenda in Charles Caffin’s critique of Bluemner’s 1915 show. Caffin found in Bluemner’s precise and earnest explorations of form, “drilled, regimented, coerced . . . formations . . . utterly alien to the American idea of democracy” (New York American, reprinted in Camera Work, no. 48 [Oct. 1916], as quoted in Hayes, 1991, p. 71). In 1916, seeking a change of scene, more freedom to paint, and lower expenses, Bluemner moved his family to New Jersey, familiar terrain from his earlier sketching and painting. During the ten years they lived in New Jersey, the Bluemner family moved around the state, usually, but not always, one step ahead of the rent collector. In 1917, Stieglitz closed “291” and did not reestablish a Manhattan gallery until 1925. In the interim, Bluemner developed relationships with other dealers and with patrons. Throughout his career he drew support and encouragement from art cognoscenti who recognized his talent and the high quality of his work. Unfortunately, that did not pay the bills. Chronic shortfalls were aggravated by Bluemner’s inability to sustain supportive relationships. He was a difficult man, eternally bitter at the gap between the ideal and the real. Hard on himself and hard on those around him, he ultimately always found a reason to bite the hand that fed him. Bluemner never achieved financial stability. He left New Jersey in 1926, after the death of his beloved wife, and settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where he continued to paint until his own death in 1938. As late as 1934 and again in 1936, he worked for New Deal art programs designed to support struggling artists. Bluemner held popular taste and mass culture in contempt, and there was certainly no room in his quasi-religious approach to art for accommodation to any perceived commercial advantage. His German background was also problematic, not only for its political disadvantages, but because, in a world where art is understood in terms of national styles, Bluemner was sui generis, and, to this day, lacks a comfortable context. In 1933, Bluemner adopted Florianus (definitively revising his birth names, Friedrich Julius Oskar) as his middle name and incorporated it into his signature, to present “a Latin version of his own surname that he believed reinforced his career-long effort to translate ordinary perceptions into the more timeless and universal languages of art” (Hayes 1982, p. 189 n. 1). In 1939, critic Paul Rosenfeld, a friend and member of the Stieglitz circle, responding to the difficulty in categorizing Bluemner, perceptively located him among “the ranks of the pre-Nazi German moderns” (Hayes 1991, p. 41). Bluemner was powerfully influenced in his career by the intellectual heritage of two towering figures of nineteenth-century German culture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A keen student of color theory, Bluemner gave pride of place to the formulations of Goethe, who equated specific colors with emotional properties. In a November 19, 1915, interview in the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Abendblatt), he stated: I comprehend the visible world . . . abstract the primary-artistic . . . and after these elements of realty are extracted and analyzed, I reconstruct a new free creation that still resembles the original, but also . . . becomes an objectification of the abstract idea of beauty. The first—and most conspicuous mark of this creation is . . . colors which accord with the character of things, the locality . . . [and which] like the colors of Cranach, van der Weyden, or Durer, are of absolute purity, breadth, and luminosity. . . . I proceed from the psychological use of color by the Old Masters . . . [in which] we immediately recognize colors as carriers of “sorrow and joy” in Goethe’s sense, or as signs of human relationship. . . . Upon this color symbolism rests the beauty as well as the expressiveness, of earlier sacred paintings. Above all, I recognize myself as a contributor to the new German theory of light and color, which expands Goethe’s law of color through modern scientific means (as quoted in Hayes 1991, p. 71). Hayes has traced the global extent of Bluemner’s intellectual indebtedness to Hegel (1991, pp. 36–37). More specifically, Bluemner made visual, in his art, the Hegelian world view, in the thesis and antithesis of the straight line and the curve, the red and the green, the vertical and the horizontal, the agitation and the calm. Bluemner respected all of these elements equally, painting and drawing the tension and dynamic of the dialectic and seeking ultimate reconciliation in a final visual synthesis. Bluemner was a keen student of art, past and present, looking, dissecting, and digesting all that he saw. He found precedents for his non-naturalist use of brilliant-hued color not only in the work Van Gogh and Cezanne, but also in Gauguin, the Nabis, and the Symbolists, as well as among his contemporaries, the young Germans of Der Blaue Reiter. Bluemner was accustomed to working to the absolute standard of precision required of the architectural draftsman, who adjusts a design many times until its reality incorporates both practical imperatives and aesthetic intentions. Hayes describes Bluemner’s working method, explaining how the artist produced multiple images playing on the same theme—in sketch form, in charcoal, and in watercolor, leading to the oil works that express the ultimate completion of his process (Hayes, 1982, pp. 156–61, including relevant footnotes). Because of Bluemner’s working method, driven not only by visual considerations but also by theoretical constructs, his watercolor and charcoal studies have a unique integrity. They are not, as is sometimes the case with other artists, rough preparatory sketches. They stand on their own, unfinished only in the sense of not finally achieving Bluemner’s carefully considered purpose. The present charcoal drawing is one of a series of images that take as their starting point the Morris Canal as it passed through Rockaway, New Jersey. The Morris Canal industrial towns that Bluemner chose as the points of departure for his early artistic explorations in oil included Paterson with its silk mills (which recalled the mills in the artist’s childhood home in Elberfeld), the port city of Hoboken, Newark, and, more curiously, a series of iron ore mining and refining towns, in the north central part of the state that pre-dated the Canal, harkening back to the era of the Revolutionary War. The Rockaway theme was among the original group of oil paintings that Bluemner painted in six productive months from July through December 1911 and took with him to Europe in 1912. In his painting journal, Bluemner called this work Morris Canal at Rockaway N.J. (AAA, reel 339, frames 150 and 667, Hayes, 1982, pp. 116–17), and exhibited it at the Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912 as Rockaway N. J. Alter Kanal. After his return, Bluemner scraped down and reworked these canvases. The Rockaway picture survives today, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (color illus. in Haskell, fig. 48, p. 65). For Bluemner, the charcoal expression of his artistic vision was a critical step in composition. It represented his own adaptation of Arthur Wesley’s Dow’s (1857–1922) description of a Japanese...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s. Hand signed  lower right. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Market in Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

L'Opéra in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1975/77. Hand signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, die...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sail Boats
Located in Miami, FL
A precise and exact rendering and meticulous spacial arrangement are on full display in Lewandowski's this later work. The work looks better in person. The artwork is in pristine co...
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1990s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Francis G. Coleridge (1838-1923)- Framed Watercolour, Sheep Grazing near a Gorge
Located in Corsham, GB
An original watercolour landscape by Francis George Coleridge (1838-1923), depicting sheep grazing near a rocky gorge. Signed to the lower left. Presented in a crisp white mount and ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches condition: very good and ready to...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

“Monhegan Island, Maine”
By Ted Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Cond...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pair of Miniature Watercolors of Frenchay Church and Friends Meeting House
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Pair of Miniature Watercolors of Frenchay Church and Friends Meeting House by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measurement...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Landscape - Sailboats in a Bay Awaiting the Incoming Tide
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Sailboats in a Bay Awaiting the Incoming Tide" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7 x 9.8 inches (Height x Width) Signed: Yes,...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Historic Miniature Watercolor of Bristol Corn Exchange The Nails on Corn Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Bristol Corn Exchange The Nails on Corn Street by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measur...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Miniature Watercolor Paintings of 123 and 125 Kingsway Blackboy and Trumpet Lane
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Miniature Watercolor Paintings of 123 and 125 Kingsway Blackboy and Trumpet Lane by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measu...
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20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor of Rustic Farmhouse at Dusk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of Rustic Farmhouse at Dusk By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.5 x 7.75 inches (Height x Wid...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Serene Watercolor of a Calm River with Reflections
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Serene Watercolor of a Calm River with Reflections By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (H...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Landscape with Ancient Olive Tree, Stone Wall and Winding Leading Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Olive Tree Landscape Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ballpoint Pen

"The Lulu" - Harbor Seascape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Lulu" - Harbor Seascape in Watercolor on Paper Serene watercolor titled "The Lulu" by Anne Ormsby (American, 20th century). A small commercial fishing boat, the Lulu, is docked...
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1990s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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