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"Landscape" Abstract Drawing - Contemporary Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mineral oxide on Paper ( Canson Montaval Paper 300gr)
42x27 cm
this drawing is sold with white wooden frame as pictured
the total size with frame
50x40x3 cm
Original Art ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Jettisoned, Hand Colored Lithograph, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Donald Owen Colley
Jettisoned, 2016
hand colored lithograph
15h x 22.50w in
38.10h x 57.15w cm
DOC002
Photography is the frozen look… whereas art is the sustained look. One of the m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Lithograph
Lakeside in autumn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
White wooden frame with glass pane
73 x 60 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Follower of Samuel Prout (1783-1852) - Framed Watercolour, A Street in Augsburg
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolor study of a street in Augsburg. Well presented in an antique wooden frame. Unsigned. On paper.
Category
19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
David A. Baxter Jr (1876-1954) - Framed Watercolour, Cottages on the River
Located in Corsham, GB
Original watercolour by David A. Baxter Jr (1876-1954). Cottage buildings and cattle by a river. Signed and dated (1908) to the lower left. Presented in a decorative gilt frame with ...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 20th Century Watercolour - Cattle Over the Brick Bridge
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming farming scene in watercolour, depicting cattle crossing a brick bridge with farm buildings and church spire behind. The watercolour has be left...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Circle of Samuel Prout (1783-1852) - Early 19th Century Watercolour, Augsburg
By Samuel Prout
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of Augsburg in Germany in the style of Samuel Prout (1783-1852). Titled in the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Early 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Betty Guy San Francisco Skyline Watercolor c.1950
By Betty Guy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Betty Guy San Francisco Skyline Watercolor c.1950
Dimensions 25" wide x 18" high.
Frame 25.5" wide x 28.5" high.
Signed by the artist.
Lightly distressed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstracted Forest Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored abstract forest by unknown artist Dersham (20th Century). The trees in this piece are light in color, standing out from the saturated background. Multiple layers of ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Francis E. Jamieson - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Cottage by the Windmill
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a swept gilt frame and gold card mount. On paper.
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Boat in the lake in windy weather, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
40.3 x 49 x 3.5 cm
Category
Early 1900s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Overview of Commugny, Switzerland
By Frédéric Dufaux
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Plexiglass front and back of the work
48 x 41 x 6 cm
Recipe on the back of the work written by the artist's hand
Category
Early 1900s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rue Galande - Fine 19th Century French Paris Street Antique Watercolour Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine signed and dated 1868 watercolour and pencil on laid paper depicting a bustling scene on Rue Galande in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, by Alfred-Alexandre Delauney. Excellen...
Category
1860s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Untitled (Gates and Pink Path), 20th C - Watercolour Landscape Painting, Green
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Peter Potworowski 1898-1962
Untitled (Gates and Pink Path)
watercolour with crayon
24 x 32.5 cm
9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in
unsigned
Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract a...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
Rouen
By Frank Will
Located in New York, NY
"Rouen" is a watercolor by Frank- Will , it is extremely large in size and from an important place in the history of France. This is where the tower of Joan of Arc is located and wh...
Category
1920s Impressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor
Docked Gondolas, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Docked Gondolas, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower right, Size: 19 x 24.5 in. (4...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Three Trees, Modern Watercolor on Paper by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Three Trees, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower left, Size: 27 x 20 in. (68.58 x ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Napa Vineyard
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Napa Vineyard" c.2000 is a color pastel on paper by noted American artist Reif Ray Charles Erickson, 1949-2015. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 12.25 x 19.25 inches, Framed size is 24.5 x 31.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold and black frame, with gold color bevel and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame has very minor restorations, practically invisible.
About the artist:
Reif Erickson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Drawings ...
Materials
Pastel
Arthur Spooner (1873-1962) - Framed Watercolour, A Sunny Village Street
Located in Corsham, GB
This stunning watercolour by Arthur Spooner (1873-1962), depicts a perspective view down a sunny village street with pretty thatched cottages on the right-hand side. The artwork has ...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Figures
By Frans de Geetere
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled Landscape with Figures" c.1950, is a watercolor by noted Belgian artist Frans De Geetere, 1895-1968. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lexington Backyard
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
Brian Cobble’s landscapes tend to particularly focus on the interplay of man and his surroundings, whether natural or built. A signature attention to the liminal aspects of a scene, ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Mountain River Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful mountain river watercolor painting by Henry "Hank" Volle (American, 20th Century). Signed "Henry Volle" lower right. Artists bio on verso. Pre...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
John Blundell - After the Riot - 20th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOHN BLUNDELL
(1927-2016)
After the Riot
Signed and dated l.r.: J Blundell 1973
Watercolour and bodycolour
Framed
52.5 by 36 cm., 20 ¾ by 14 ¼ in.
(frame size 67.5 by 51 cm., 26 ½...
Category
1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches.
About the Artist:
Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"The Abandoned Farm" Large watercolor.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The abandoned Farm" c.1960 is a large watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sequences III by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary painting, waves, graphite
Located in Paris, FR
Sequences III is a unique graphite on Figueras paper painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold fra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sequences II by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary painting, seascape, graphite
Located in Paris, FR
Sequences II is a unique graphite on Figueras paper painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold fram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
19th Century Surrey Country Cottage Watercolour V Jordan
Located in York, GB
V JORDAN (19th Century) , A Surrey Cottage watercolour heightened with white, signed, inscribed mounts, size overall 23 x 19 inches approx. painti...
Category
19th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
West Window - Georges Windsor Castle - Painting by Paul Fischer - 1847
Located in Roma, IT
West Window - Georges Windsor Castle is a modern artwork realized by Paul Fischer in 19th Century
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Tempera artwork. Incl...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Rome. Trastevere. 1963 paper, mixed media, 45x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rome. Trastevere. 1963 paper, mixed media, 45x37 cm
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil
The Fly Fisherman, Figurative Landscape Watercolor
By Harvey Eckert
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate depiction of a fly fisherman in the rain by Harvey Eckert (American, 1946-2018). This highly detailed landscape watercolor depicts a man fishing in the rain, wading into the water as he smokes a pipe under a tree.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Presented in a wood frame with a double mat and anti-glare glass.
A check from the original purchase is attached to verso (blurred for privacy).
Image size: 14"H x 18"W
Harvey Eckert (American, 1946-2018) was an American artist from Kansas. He attended Colby Community College, Hays Emporia State and graduated from Wichita University with two degrees. While living in Montana, he was employed by Bob Wards, Fran Johnson’s Sporting Goods and Cashell Engineers as a surveyor and draftsman. Eckert illustrated three books, Caddisflies by the late Gary LaFontaine, Montana Trout Flies and The Master Fly Weaver by the late George Grant. He did illustrations for the following publications: Montana Outdoors, Colorado Streamside, The River Rat published by Trout Unlimited, Fly Fisherman, Rod and Reel...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original pastel on heavy card stock (made in Paris) by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A view of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. The artwork is housed in its original scroll decorated frame. Overall framed measurements are 33.25 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate.
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...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Early 20th Century Peking Bell Tower
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant scene of visitors arriving by camels at the Peking Bell Tower by William Clothier Watts (American 1967-1961). This piece is unsigned, bu...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Orchard in Bloom, Mid Century Spring Blossoms Landscape Watercolor by Jay Simm
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely pastoral landscape of beautiful spring blossoms lining a quiet country lane by Jay Simm (American, 20th Century), c. 1960s. The delicate light pink flowers of the orchard in b...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Shoreham Downs Landscape Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely early 20th century colored pencil landscape sketch of Shoreham Downs by an unknown artist (United Kingdom, 20th Century).
Signature i...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
Fishing Boat in Harbor, Nautical Vintage Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming nautical watercolor seascape of a boat by the pier by Shirley Blood Godfrey (American, 20th Century). "Van Camp" advertising visible on a billboard in the background.
Sign...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Frederick Edward J Goff (1855-1931) - Framed Watercolour, Winchester
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely painted autumnal study of Winchester Cathedral by the listed and highly collected British artist Frederick Edward Joseph Goff (1855-1931). Presented in a beautiful bird's-ey...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Houses - Oil Pastel Drawing by N. Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The evening is a mixed colored drawing realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the second half of XX century.
The artwork is framed (40.5 x 3 x 48.5 cm).
The artwork represents a noct...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
John Burgess (1814-1874) - Framed Watercolour, Normandy View near Avranches
By John Burgess
Located in Corsham, GB
This panoramic landscape captures a sweeping vista near Avranches. Rolling countryside leads to a distant shoreline, with dramatic cloudy skies overhead. In the foreground, a winding...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lost Paradise. Paper, mixed media, 28.5x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lost Paradise
Paper, mixed media, 28.5x18 cm
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Fred Pearson- Early 20th Century Watercolour, Drover & Cattle on a Country Path
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric watercolour scene depicting a drover and cattle on a country path at sunset. Well presented in a narrow wooden frame. Signed. On watercolour paper.
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Winter Reflections, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and lake
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Docked in the Marina, " Watercolor Illustration Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original nautical illustration by Laerta Premto is made with watercolor and ink on paper. It captures small boats of varying colors docked together in a marina, with one sailer ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Old Barn - Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic farmhouse landscape by California artist Edwin Haas (American, 1927-2010). A barn with a boarded window is the primary focus of this piece. It is seated in a lush landscape, full of grass, with a small stream running through the center. To the right of the barn is a bare oak tree, and steps can be seen leading to another building. A Sacramento artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Rider On A Horse - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple black frames behind glass. The full signature is on the back of the drawing. Monogram signature with date is on the front
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Over the Pastel Garden Wall - New England - Original Oil Pastel on Paper 1998
Located in Soquel, CA
Over the Pastel Garden Wall - New England - Original Oil Pastel on Paper
Bright New England watercolor by New Hampshire artist Eileen Belanger (Amer...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Cliffs near Paramé, France, vibrant seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs near Paramé, France, c. 1926-7
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
11 x 14.5 inches
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". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Impressionist Cityscape, "Palms (Study)"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original impressionist cityscape watercolor painting by southern California artist, Duke Windsor. It is framed as pictured. Its framed dimensions are 14" x 14...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Surrey Common - Pre-Raphaelite landscape watercolour by George Price Boyce
Located in London, GB
GEORGE PRICE BOYCE, RWS
(1826-1897)
A Surrey Common in November
Signed, inscribed and dated 1866.7; indistinctly signed and inscribed with title and the...
Category
1860s Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mount Monadnock
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional watercolor of Mount Monadnock snow capped in winter in New Hampshire by American artist Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951). Benson was born in Salem, Massachusetts and went on to study in Boston at the Museum School of Fine Arts and later with Julian Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Academie Julian in Paris. Benson was well known for his impressionist landscapes and seascapes, and etchings of hunting scenes.
Watercolor on paper, signed lower left F.W. Benson with inscription “To Mrs Bush,” titled on Vose Galleries...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Radicofani- Ink and Watercolor on paper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Radicofani is an original artwork realized by Anonymous artist in the 19th Century.
Original mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper,
Titled on the lower left margin.
Mint cond...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
"Sierra Maestre" Cuban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic watercolor of grassland and mountains in Cuba by Leonard Lester (English, 1870-1952). A large, grasy field stretches out from the viewer, lush a...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Leningrad
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Leningrad" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right cor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“The Pool of London”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original watercolor on archival paper of the busy port of London, England with tugs and ships by the British artist Douglas Ian Smart. Signed lower left. Titled...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Old Riga. 2010, paper, watercolor, 48x36 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The series is dedicated to the artist's home town Riga.
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"After the Sou'Easter, " Laurence Sisson, modern, watercolor, coastal, seascape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Boston in 1928, painter Laurence P. Sisson lived most of his life in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Sisson studied at the Worcester Art Museum School, Yale Summer School and was the...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John Syer RI (1815-1885) - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Rocky Landscape
By John Syer
Located in Corsham, GB
A realistic study of a mountain stream by the British artist John Syer RI (1815-1885). Painted in fine detail, the artist has captured the tranquil atmosphere of the land in ever cha...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
