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Period: 1950s
Medium: Paper
'At the Park', Metropolitan Museum, NY MoMA, AIC, ASL, Whitney Museum, Toledo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Rainey Bennett' (American, 1907-1998) and dated 1958; titled, verso, 'Romantic Landscape' and accompanied by original ...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1950. From a collection of esta...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Charcoal
"Trees with Flowers and Fruits" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and 1952.
6.5" x 8" Water...
Category
1950s Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Lighthouse at the Shore — Impressionist Pen and Ink Landscape Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Lighthouse at the Shore Maine - Impressionist Original Pen and Ink Drawing Landscape
Delicate landscape pen and ink line drawing by listed Ma...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker, Ink
“New England Homestead”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on archival paper of a New England homestead nestled in a picturesque valley. Early fall with the tress just starting to change colors. The watercolor was done by the American artist Hilton Leech...
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1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mid Century Country Meadow and Hills Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Country Meadow and Hills Landscape
Mid Century California Meadow and Hills landscape, watercolor of a pathway through rolling hills by California artist Rene Weaver (Amer...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Farmers in Kibbutz Ramot Menashe - Uruguayan
By José Gurvich
Located in London, GB
This watercolour on paper is signed by the artist “J. Gurvich” at the lower left corner. It is also signed in Hebrew and dated “1956” at the lower right corner.
Provenance: The collection of Pinchus (Pancho) Getz, Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, Israel.
Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, Israel.
In the Early 1950's, after the death of Joaquín Torres García...
Category
1950s Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
Category
1950s Surrealist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Watercolor
Italy. Paper, mixed media, 33х24 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Italy. Paper, mixed media, 33х24 сm
Category
1950s Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26, 5 x 19, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26,5x19,5 cm
Category
1950s Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
“Rocky Mountain Meadow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a Rocky Mountain Meadow by the well known American artist, Werner Drewes. Signed lower right. Titled and dated 1956 on verso of sheet. Con...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Gorgeous vibrant mid century watercolor on paper painting of river birch trees by artist Eva Collins Marks (American, 20th century),19...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
“Cape Neddick Light”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, Maine. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. Several tiny spots of foxing. The wa...
Category
1950s Academic Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
“Provincetown Harbor”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor of Provincetown Harbor in first light by the well known artist John Cuthbert Hare. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The watercolor is hou...
Category
1950s Academic Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
"Untitled I" Jane Freilicher, Hamptons Landscape Drawing, Mid-century Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Jane Freilicher
Untitled I, 1958-59
Signed lower right
Charcoal on paper
11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Jane Freilic...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
4 American Watercolors, c. 1950s, by Mary M. Johnsen
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mary M. Johnsen
Four Paintings, c. 1950s
Watercolor
Dimensions:
1. Mat: 18 x 21 1/4 in., page: 8 x 12 1/4 in.
2. Page: 14 7/8 x 22 in.
3. Mat: 15 x 19 in., page: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in....
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Old Door
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Old Door, 1953
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front
20 × 14 inches
Unframed
This unique and extre...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor of Doylestown, PA by Ranulph Bye
Located in Larchmont, NY
Ranulph Bye (American, 1916-2003)
Rocks and Trees (Doylestown, PA), 1958
Watercolor on paper
14 x 21 in.
Framed: 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.
Signed bottom: Ranulph...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
In the yard 1950. Pastel on paper, 65x49.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the yard. 1950. Pastel on paper, 65x49,5 cm
Category
1950s Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
“Birches in Winter”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper of birch trees in winter along a fenced roadway with a quaint home in the background. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1960. The watercolor is in a solid mahogany frame under UV glass in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 14 by 11 inches. Provenance: A East Hampton, Long Island, New York collector.
Born in Queens, Long Island, NY, Impressionist
landscape and seascape painter Francis Dixon studied at the Art Students League in New York City under Impressionists Frank Vincent DuMond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts artist, Charles W. Hawthorne, and modernist Robert Henri. Having a good singing voice Dixon was an Army and Navy Song Leader for the War Department during World War I. From 1915 to 1917 was living and painting in Los Angeles, Carmel and Point Lobos, California. Dixon exhibited his California paintings at Folson Galleries New York City in 1917. Dixon continued to travel and paint, visiting Bermuda in 1923 and 1925, and Europe in the mid-1920s. In the 1930s he was living on West 55th Street in Manhattan with a number of other artists. He was a member of the Allied Artists of America (NY); Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; and the Salmagundi Club, NY. He exhibited at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1916); Folson Gallery (NY, 1917, solo); Society of Independent Artists (NYC, 1917-18, 1920-22, 1924); Salmagundi Club (NYC, 1917-1940, 1943, 1945); National Academy of Design (NYC, 1925); Studio Guild Galleries (NYC, 1937); Barbizon-Plaza Galleries NYC, 1939); Allied Artists of America (NYC, 1940); and Salons of America (NYC). Dixon’s solo exhibitions included Babcock Galleries (NYC, 1926 and 1927); Women's University Club...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Landscape - Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1950s
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Arab country is a watercolor realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s.
42x33 cm, no frame.
Signature stamp on the yellowed paper.
Good condition, except for slight folding.
Jean ...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Leaping Marlin (with fisherman on the boat Islander) by John Whorf
By John Whorf
Located in Hudson, NY
John Whorf captures one of the thrilling moments of fishing in this watercolor – when the fish is on the line, but still trying to escape. One of the fastest fish in the world, marlin fishing...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
“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...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1950s Art Deco Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
Stresa - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Stresa is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1955.
Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (35x50 cm).
Hand-s...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mid Century Modern East Bay III Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay III Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1950. From a collection of estate of Ruth Loran (wife of artist). Presented in mat. Unframed. Image size: 13"H x 16"W.
Provenance: This piece was from Erle Loran's sketch book and this drawing was then matted, purchased from the Erle Loran estate and the Carlson Gallery, Carmel.
Erle Loran was a modernist of urban-coast views and geometric painting. Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1905. He attended the University of Minnesota for a while before studying at the Minneapolis School of Art, under Cameron Booth...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Mid Century Modern East Bay IV Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay IV Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1950. From a collection of estate of Ruth Loran (wife of artist). Presented in mat. Unframed. Image size: 13"H x 16"W.
Provenance: This piece was from Erle Loran's sketch book and this drawing was then matted, purchased from the Erle Loran estate and the Carlson Gallery, Carmel.
Erle Loran was a modernist of urban-coast views and geometric painting. Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1905. He attended the University of Minnesota for a while before studying at the Minneapolis School of Art, under Cameron Booth...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Two Navajo Colored Pencil drawings by Lois Rogers, New Mexico
Located in Larchmont, NY
Two Navajo Colored Pencil drawings by Lois Rogers, New Mexico.
Sight size: 3 x 4 2/3 in.
Framed: 5 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.
Both signed lower right, and inscribed verso: colored pencil, Lo...
Category
1950s Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
'Historic Downtown, ' by Palgrave Holmes Coates, Watercolor on Paper Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 25" x 30.5" framed and matted watercolor painting on paper of 'Historic Downtown' by artist Palgrave Holmes Coates (also known as Paul H Coates) depicts a sunny scene in an his...
Category
1950s Realist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Lor...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Charcoal
Bonnie Bill - Tugboat at the Dock in Boston - Seascape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Harbor scene by Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014). The Bonnie Bill is docked along with several other boats. Seagulls circle overhead in a pale sky. The colors in this piece are bold - red boats, rich blue ocean, and dark brown wood on the pier.
Signed and dated "C. Patterson Weist 1955" in the lower right corner (the date is covered by the mat)
Presented in a new white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 20"H x 23"W
Paper size: 14.25"H x 17.75"W
Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014) was an artist known primarily for her watercolor compositions. She won several awards throughout her career, including the jury award for graphics from the Illinois Watercolor Society. Weist was originally from the Boston area and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and then Harvard. After spending time teaching art and as an illustrator, Weist moved to Crete, Illinois and opened her own studio, where she spent the remainder of her professional career.
Education:
1949-50 Lomma, Sweden
1951, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1953, B.F.A. Degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Work:
1953, Commercial Artist, Vincent Edwards Art Agency, Boston, MA
1954-1957, Art Editor and Illustrator, Baby Post Magazine, New York, NY
1960-1964, Painter and Art Teacher, Lynchburg, VA
1965-1971, Book and Magazine Illustrator, Delafield, WI
1972, Studio, Crete, IL
Exhibitions and Memberships:
1971 - Alverno Art Fair, Milwaukee, WI
1971 - Elmwood Plaza Art Fair (Best in Show), Racine WI
1971 - Brookfield Square Winter Art Show (First Place, Watercolors), Waukesha, WI
1973 - Marathon County Historical Museum, Wausau, WI
1982 - Park Forest Art Fair, Park Forest, IL
Member, Wisconsin Watercolor Society
Member, Kettle Moraine...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Monument Valley Arizona" - Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed watercolor of Monument Valley by Albert DeRome (American, 1885-1959). The viewer is looking out over the valley from a high vantage point, with towering mesas in the distance. In the foreground, there are some shrubs and a small tree to the right side of the composition. DeRome has created a sense of vast distance by rendering the far background with a hazy quality while keeping the foreground in clear focus.
Signed "Albert DeRome" in the lower right corner.
Inscription on verso as a gift to the artist's mother.
Purchased from the estate of the artist Patterson's Antiques, Los Gatos.
Presented in a wood frame with a new white mat.
Image size: 5.75"H x 8"W
Frame size: 11"H x 14"W
Born in Cayucos, California, Albert De Rome (American, 1885-1959) became a California landscape painter, especially of natural landscapes formations, seascapes and marine scenes near Carmel and Monterey. Usually his palette was bright in both oil and watercolor, but he did the occasional nocturne. Scholars have compared his painting style and subjects to those of Thomas Hill and Albert Bierstadt. However, Albert De Rome never affiliated with any formal group of painters, although he had many close friends including Percy Gray, Gunnar Widforss and Will Sparks.
As a young man, Thomas De Rome worked at the Congress Spring Hotel in Saratoga, and in San Francisco at the Globe Foundry, owned by an uncle. He studied art under Arthur Mathews, John Stanton and Lorenzo Latimer...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk.
Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art
B...
Category
1950s Abstract Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (Ameri...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California lands...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
“Rooftop View, New York Harbor”
Located in Southampton, NY
Modern original oil pastel on archival paper of a rooftop view of buildings and New York harbor by the Swedish born American artist, Carl Sprinchorn. ...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
"Red Rock Country" - Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic desert landscape by Betty Jenkins (American, 20th Century). Red rock formations stretch across the center of the composition, executed with skil...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Italian Village - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Watercolour by Bennett
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Sterndale Bennett Honor 1886-1975
Watercolour artist, born in Watford, she married into the famous family noted for its composers and for its military members. As an army wife she s...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Sleigh Ride, Winter, " Fletcher Martin, Woodstock, Holiday Scene Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin (1904 - 1979)
Sleigh Ride, Woodstock, New York circa 1955
Watercolor on paper
14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
James Cox Galler...
Category
1950s American Realist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Port of Le Havre
By Fred Pailhès
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Le Havre', pencil on art paper, by French artist Fred Pailhès (circa 1950s). Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I h...
Category
1950s Expressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
“Coastal View”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the well known Massachusetts artist, John Cuthbert Hare. Signed lower right you the artist. Condition is excellent. The artwork is in its original gold leaf over wood frame. Circa 1950. Under glass. The scene is mostly likely the Cape Cod coast where Hare painted. Overall framed measurements are 16 by 20 inches. Provenance: Massachusetts estate.
New England painter John Cuthbert Hare was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1908 and studied commercial art at the Pratt Institute in New York City and later at the Art Students League also in New York City. He also studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York followed by employment with the Hearst Newspaper Corporation. For a number of years after his marriage in 1933, Hare and his wife traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Hare was a member of the Provincetown Art Colony, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and was to become known as the "Dean of Cape Cod Artists...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
“Seashore Clouds”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on Grumbacher watercolor board by the well known marine artist, Frederic Whitaker. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Cond...
Category
1950s Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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.
...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎)
Located in London, GB
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Taiwanese artist, Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎) (1956-59). Although elements of landscapes often appear in paintings produced by various cultures, before the 17th century in the West they were only peripheral. In 5th century China, shan shui or landscape painting developed, expressing harmony and natural beauty. These were among the first paintings to make landscape their subject (ref: 'The Short Story of Art...
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1950s Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Green Chair' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Mid Century Crashing Surf on Rocks Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid-century California seascape watercolor of the crashing surf on the rocky coast by Santa Cruz, California artist Margaret E. Rogers (American, 1872-1961), c.1950. Rogers was one of the original "Jolly Daubers" who studied with Frank Heath and took wagon trips to the redwoods and Yosemite to paint.
Signed "M.E. Rogers" lower right.
Presented in a rustic giltwood frame under glass.
Image, 16.5"H x 18.5"L.
Margaret Esther Rogers' (1872 - 1961) early childhood was spent in England. The Rogers were a cultured family who came to California for the father’s health and settled on a ranch in the King City area. Margaret grew up in the curiously paradoxical world of early California, breaking her own riding horses and roping cattle during the day, doing a man’s work, riding a man’s saddle, then sitting down to the piano to play classics in the evening after high tea. Margaret’s mother had the only piano for 80 miles around. Her father, Robert J. Rogers, had been an importer of fine tea, coffee, and spices in England. In Monterey County, he raised sheep and cattle and the family lived under comparatively rustic and modest conditions. When Margaret wasn’t riding, tending a herd, plowing a field, or playing the piano, she was painting. Art was an early love.
Fame caught up with her early. She was written up in a San Francisco newspaper as “Monterey County’s pretty girl who rides a man’s saddle, marks and brands stock, breaks wild colts, plows and sows, plays classical music and paints in oils.” Margaret’s mother was her first music and art teacher; later she took art lessons from Kate Baldwin in Salinas.
She had suitors and several proposals, but never married. In the year 1898, Margaret’s “intended” put in 700 acres of grain, spending all he had plus money he borrowed. Not a spear of grain grew, she wrote, and their plans to marry when the crop was sold dried up with the weather.
When her mother died, Margaret and her father moved to Soquel, taking along her favorite saddle horse. Now living in Santa Cruz County, Margaret at once became involved in art circles which were unofficially headed by Frank Heath and his wife, Lillian Dake Heath. Frank Heath and Margaret together founded Santa Cruz Art League in 1919, and a few months later were joined in their efforts by a Dutch woman named Cor de Gavere who arrived in Santa Cruz.
The two women artists, Margaret and Cor, became fast friends and remained so until Cor’s death in July 1955, while she was visiting relatives in Holland. They painted together almost every day and shared many meals at each other’s cottages which were just a few blocks apart in the Seabright area. However, those Victorian ladies, raised in the era of rigid social conventions, always addressed each other as ‘Miss Rogers’ and ‘Miss de Gavere’ as long as they lived. Money was never in great supply for either lady, but Cor managed to buy a small automobile, and after six driving lessons the two of them took off for southern California. Cor and Margaret took many camping and painting trips in Cor’s automobile. Sometime later, Margaret herself got brave enough to buy an auto.
From 1925 to 1947, Margaret made her home in the basement of the Arts and Crafts Building. She managed the Art League’s first gallery, which was started there. Holding informal court for friends who called, Margaret would open a can of sardines, put out a plate of crackers, and conversation about art or music would follow. During World War II, Margaret raised rabbits in cages. In later years, Margaret purchased a small studio-home on Alhambra Street – still in the Seabright area, which both women clung to as home territory.
In 1929, Margaret helped found the Art League’s first Statewide Show, which became an annual event. She served as show chairwoman for more than 20 years. A fine painter of landscapes, Margaret became better known for her strong marine scenes. Once she explained that the ocean was “the real challenge, because it won’t stand still.” She served as president of the Art League from 1925 to 1947. Short, stocky, outspoken and very talented, Margaret gained many honors in her later years. With her short haircut and her dark dresses...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Dining Room Interior, Pastel Drawing by Joseph Barber
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Barber, American (1915 - 1998)
Title: Dining Room Interior
Year: circa 1945
Medium: Watercolor and Pastel on Paper, signed l.l.
Size: 15 x 21 inches (38 x 53.5 cm)
Fra...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
“Smoke House, Duck Cove”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting on archival paper of a smoke house in Duck Cove, Maine. A flock of white geese are seen in the foreground. Signed lower left. Circa 1955. In excellent original condition. The artwork is housed in a thin custom gold leaf frame and is double mated. Condition of frame is also excellent. Overall framed measurements are 16 by 18.25 inches.
James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator.
He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country.
Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945.
In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper.
Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache
“Nova Scotia Landscape”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting by the American artist, James Milton Sessions. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. The landscape is of a Novia Scotia pastoral landscape. Here you see horses grazing and two men fishing nearby. The watercolor is in excellent original condition and is beautifully double matted and framed in a thin gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurement 16 by 18.25 inches.
James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator.
He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country.
Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945.
In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper.
Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache
“End of Season” Abstract Blue and Grey Toned Watercolor Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract landscape watercolor painting on paper that incorporates blue and grey tones.
The painting is signed in the lower center and is currently displayed in a beautiful silver fr...
Category
1950s Abstract Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Old Carmel', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with estate stamp and certification of authenticity.
A delicate, grisaille watercolor view of a park a...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
French Church - Original Pencil Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Church is an original pencil drawing realized by an unknown French artist in 1950s.
The drawing is a preparation for a picture.
In good conditions and mounted on a white cardboard ...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sketch Casetta Canottieri - Pencil Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural sketch of a popular building in Rome, Italy.
Original Pencil on paper.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
'Taos', American Watercolor Society, Chouinard, New York, Art Student's League
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James Vance, AWS', (American, 1919-2007), titled 'Taos' and painted circa 1950.
James Vance grew up in Los Angeles and first applied ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Landscape - China Ink on Paper by René Gouast - 1950
By René Gouast
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized in 1950 by René Gouast ( 1897-1980). Hand-signed on the lower right.
The State of preserva...
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1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
The Terrace
Located in London, GB
'The Terrace', watercolour on art paper, by Maurice Savin (circa 1950s). An inviting scene from the South of France depicts a quiet sun terrace on a balmy day with azure skies. The v...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Old Carmel Cottage', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A mid-twentieth century watercolor and graphite study of an early c...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
'University Village, Berkeley' Carmel, California, Woman Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled 'University Village', dated 1958 and with inscription verso, 'Demonstration painting- horizontal and verti...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paper Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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