Clive Pryke

Clive Pryke (1948-2017) - 20th Century Watercolour, Winter Break

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An accomplished watercolour scene depicting a stream running through a country landscape. The artist has captured the scene in fine watercolour detail, highlighting the autumnal colo...

A rural scene in watercolour with gouache details by the well-listed British artist H. Andrew Freeth. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. Inscribed to the lower margin: 'For Felicity and John with good wishes from Roseen and Andrew, July 1955...

An attractive watercolour painting by John Price, depicting a landscape river scene with trees in the background. Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a cream...

Windswept trees provide shade for lambs and their mother's, blinded by the sun at midday in early summer. Rich earthy tones and shaggy shrubbery really capture the ambiance of the D...

Winter Landscape is an original artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in the 1970s. Watercolor and tempera. Includes frame: 38 x 3.5 x 48 cm Hand-signed on the lower margin Sergi...

The idyllic atmosphere of this country 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 (Winter Road)” is a quiet country scene depicting a road leading into the distance either going to or coming from a local farm. The snow does not particularly seem fresh suggesting a melt and the coming of spring. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservator 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...

Delicate Vintage Winter Watercolor Landscape Simple and beautifully rendered landscape depicting a field with trees in the wintertime. A few evergreens are visible while the rest o...

George Bissill (1896-1973) Landscape Watercolour 26 x 31 cm Initialled to bottom right Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in ...