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MOMA Exhibited Watercolor by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, "Tourists in Taxco"
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Tourists in Taxco", the watercolor was exhibited at the M...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modern American Industrial Drawing Factory Graphite Framed Black and White
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic industrial drawing dated 1935, which depicts the former Plymouth Motor Company's Powerhouse in Buffalo, NY.
Housed in a contemporary frame presentation this unique work ...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Place Pigalle
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Place Pigalle', oil and gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Pigalle is well known to tourists who want to experience "Paris by night". It is home to some of Paris' most famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge which was immortalised by artist Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec's studio was here as was Picasso's, Vincent Van Gogh's and that of Andre Breton. In 1928 Josephine Baker opened her first nightclub next door to Breton's apartment. It is certainly a historical landmark of Paris and well known to so many visitors of this beautiful city. Génin painted Paris and Parisians and this is another one of his charming works among many held by this gallery. Please feel free to peruse them all on this platform. In good overall condition. Newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
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1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
$1,360 Sale Price
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Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Army Wedding
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
11 1/2 X 8 inches ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
A Stylized, Modern 1930s Art Deco Drawing of Two Young Men Planting a Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stylized, 1930s Art Deco Pastel Landscape Drawing of Two Young Men Planting a Tree by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches, u...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Oil Terminal
Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s.
15 3/4 X 12 inches (image)
18 X 14 inches board
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
unframed
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Ink
“Trinity Church, Wall Street”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. The painting depicts Trinity Church with several of the more contemporary buildings of Wall Stre...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,306 Sale Price
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Children Playing
By Elba Louisa Riffle
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Winamac, Indiana in 1905, painter, illustrator and commercial artist Elba Louisa Riffle studied at the John Herron Art Institute and School of Art and Design. Riffle was a me...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Courtyard in Provence
Located in London, GB
'Courtyard in Provence', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a tree...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$544 Sale Price
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Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right
Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
“The Harbor Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor over graphite under drawing of the harbor with sailboats in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic by the American artist, Wilmot Emerton Heitland. Signed “Heitland” lower right by the artist. Condition is excellent. Circa 1930. Under UV plexiglass. A similar painting of the same harbor done in 1924 by Wilmot Heitland is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artwork is housed in a light blue laminate frame with navy blue mat. Overall framed measurements are 25 by 31 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Born 1893 in Wisconsin, Wilmot Emerton Heitland was an illustrator and painter trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For a time, he was president of the American Watercolor Society. He also painted numerous illustrations depicting high society that were published in magazines such as: Collier’s, Women’s Home Companion, Cosmopolitan, and McCall’s, throughout the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Later, Heitland moved on to paint and teach at the Art Club. His paintings can be found in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Brooklyn Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and locally at the Museum of Fine Arts, William R. Hough and Co., Stetson College of Law Library, and the Poynter Institute. Heitland moved to St. Petersburg because of the active Art Club here. He had a solo show of his work at the Art Club in 1963, and served as the exhibition chairman in 1964. He died in 1969.
Overview
San Felipe de Puerto Plata is the capital of the Puerto Plata province on the Dominican Republic’s Atlantic north coast. The city is best known for its beaches. Playa Dorada’s lengthy beachfront is backed by resorts and an 18-hole golf course. The city’s old colonial-era center is dominated by the 16th-century Fortaleza San Felipe, a Spanish fortress that now houses historical and military artifacts.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
$2,560 Sale Price
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Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles, c. 1930-33, watercolor on paper, 14 ¼ x 21 ¼ inches (image), inscribed verso: “watercolor by Ruth Zimmerman 1912 – 1968 / Practice work for sc...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Potts Point Sydney Australia
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Sydney Ure Smith O.B.E. 1887-1949, was an English born Australian Arts publisher and part time painter, but did not exhibit his own works. He studied pencil and ink drawing at the A...
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Men by Lake
Located in Houston, TX
English watercolor of two males by a lake, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-sized frame. Archival plastic sleev...
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
California landscape
By Carl Sammons
Located in Houston, TX
Considered one of the early "California Impressionists" Carl Sammons is known for plain air landscapes that featured the flowering plants native to the coasts, mountains, and desert...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$1,920 Sale Price
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“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the famous American marine artist, Gordon Grant. The artwork depicts two rugged lobstermen bringing their catch ashore...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
The Medway, Rochester - Large Modern British Kent Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large signed and dated 1937 watercolour by Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA depicting the River Medway at Rochester in Kent.
Fine qua...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"East Gloucester, Massachusetts' — Cape Ann Regionalism
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'East Gloucester, Massachusetts', watercolor, c. 1930. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous watercolor with fresh colors on off-white watercolor paper...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Old Pecan Trees, Early 20th Century Landscape, 1st Place May Show Winner
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Two Old Pecan Trees, 1932
Watercolor on paper mounted on board
Signed lower right
21 x 28.25 inches
27 x 35.25 inches, as framed
Exhibited: 1932 May Show (1st Place) Cleveland Museum of Art; Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and His Contemporaries, 2001 Cleveland Artist's Foundation.
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...
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of Montmartre, la place du tertre Paris by Frank Will
By Frank Will
Located in PARIS, FR
Painter and Aquarellist. Nanterre (92) March 13th 1900 – Clichy (Seine) Dec 29th 1950.
He was the son of Frank Boggs, an American citizen. He started his career with the nickname “Wi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
'St. Astruell, England' — British Post-Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$2,240 Sale Price
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Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Côte d'Azur
By M. Kessler
Located in Houston, TX
Serene French watercolor along the banks of the Côte d'Azur by artist M. Kesseler, 1938. Signed and dated lower left.
Original vintage one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a ...
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
New York City Skyline
14 x 21 1/2 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Moissonneurs à Blarimon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Moissonneurs à Blarimon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
26.4 x 37 cm (10 ³/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo.
Executed in 1931
Th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Olive Tree Behind the Stone Wall
Located in London, GB
'The Olive Tree Behind the Stone Wall', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$489 Sale Price
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Figures - Original Pencil on Paper - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original modern drawing in pencil on paper realized by an anonymous Italian artist in 1930s.
Sheet dimension:34 x 25.5
good conditions except for the folding line in the middle of the paper.
The artwork represents two figures reading...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, 1932
Watercolor on board
Signed and dated lower right
15.25 x 21 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," 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 as 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...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blue Ships
By Tom Lewis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 14 x 21 inches unframed sheet, 24 x 30 inches framed, signed and dated lower right
About the Artist:
Born in 1909, Tom E. Lewis studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Beyond that training, Lewis was largely self-taught as an artist. He began watercolor painting during the late 1920s and focused on scenes of California. Lewis was an active organizer of the arts and exhibitor and aided the formation of the Progressive Painters of Southern California. Prior to World War II, the Treasury Section of Fine Arts awarded two commissions to Lewis, the first completed in 1938 for the Hayward California Post Office and the second completed in 1941 for the El Dorado County California District Attorney’s Office...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Boats in the Harbour - Seaside Maritime
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Boats in the Harbour, circa 1938
Technique: Original...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge)" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturne
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1939-1940
Signed lower left
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Exhibited
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Deco ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mediterranean Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Mediterranean Landscape', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of Prov...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$653 Sale Price
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"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
“New York at Night”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso.
Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
'California Landscape', Royal Danish Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "E Hansen" for Ejnar Hansen (American, 1884-1965) and dated 1936.
Ejnar Hansen studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Art before moving to the United States in 1914 and settling in Pasadena in 1924. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher at the Chouinard School, the Otis Art Institute, the John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts.
He exhibited widely and with success, including in Denmark and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the 1939 World's Fair and at the Cincinnati Museum. Ejnar was a member of the Academy of Western Painters, the Los Angeles Art Association, the California Art Club, the California Watercolor Society, Pasadena Society of Artists and the Foundation for Western Art. Ejnar Hansen's works may be found in numerous public and private collections including LACMA, the Pasadena Art Institute and the San Diego Fine Art Society.
Reference:
Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 484; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1449; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 2, p. 371; Revyen, Chicago 23.12.1916; 17.2.1917; 8.12.1917; 2.2.1918; 16.3.1918; Vore Herrer, okt. 1918; Internat. Studio, juli 1920; Ekstrabl. 14.2.1921 (G. Nygaard); Tidens Kvinder, maj 1934; Fr. Graae: Fra Sydhavsøerne, 1934, 133-45; Art Digest, aug. 1937, dec. 1944, maj 1945; Da. Tid., Chicago 3.9.1937; Arts and Arch., apr. 1938; P. Uttenreitter: Olaf Rude...
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Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
$1,137 Sale Price
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Vibrant Mountain Road Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mountain road in vibrant tones, a watercolor landscape painting by Eva Ellen Dean (American, 1871-1954). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Eva Dean" lower left. Image si...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Laid Paper
The Port - Original Drawing in Pen by Herta Hausmann - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
The Port is an original drawing in pen realized by H. Hausmann in around 1930.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions but aged and small foxing near the lower-left angle that doesn't...
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Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne, circa 1930-40
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long inf...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
Flood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 10 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
Located in New York, NY
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)
"NYC Park Scene"
Pencil on paper
Sight: 5 x 7-1/8 inches
Signed l...
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American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
On the Hunt - Early 20th Century Figurative Drawing with Dogs
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative ink and wash drawing of beagles and a terrier leading the hunter to the quarry by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic black and bro...
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American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$375 Sale Price
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Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore.
Located in Storrs, CT
Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore. c. 1937. Ink and watercolor on 'Castle Linen Tolli & Harvey LD London' countermarked paper. 7 1/8 x 13 1/2 (sheet 12 1/2 x 16 1/4). Good condition, apart from small professionally repaired paper losses at the corners, from previous hinges. Dedicated 'To my friend Harold James Bailey E.B.' and annotated 'To wish you a glad glow of happiness for Christmas and the New Year'. From the collection of the famous Blampied scholar and collector, Harold J. Bailey, who wrote an article, 'Edmund Blampied: Artist and Philosopher' in the Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1937). Housed in a 15 1/2 x 21 1/2-inch Whistler style gold wood frame.
In the left rear section is a Martello or Conway tower, built as a fortiffiction. A Jersey Round Tower Coastal towers stand all along the coast of the island. The British built 22 round towers, one similar square tower, and eight Martello towers towards the end of the 18th Century and in the early to mid-19th Century, but now only 24 remain, including seven of the Martellos.
Vraic is a seaweed found in the Channel Islands. The main use of vraic is for spreading over potato fields during the winter. It is then ploughed into the soil before the potatoes are planted in late winter and spring. Vraic was traditionally gathered by horse and cart in Grouville Bay and St Ouen's Bay, and in smaller quantities at Le Hocq and Havre des Pas. The practice continues using...
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Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
$2,500 Sale Price
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"Approaching Storm", Mid-1930s California Rainstorm Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-1930's watercolor landscape of a vast valley with a rainstorm far in the distance by California artist Leslie Bruner Wulff (American, 1890-1968). The atmosphere and fee...
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American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era Eden Parks Drive
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no...
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American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Sur la rivière (Marne)" - On the River Marne - Hand Colored Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sur la rivière (Marne)" - On the River Marne - Hand Colored Lithograph
Serene depiction of a house along the Marne River by unknown artist "Charlot." This piece was commissioned and printed by Camilla Lucas Publishing in New York. A two-story house with a red roof sits on the bank of the river. Lush trees line the banks, some of which are depicted with orange-brown leaves, indicating that autumn has arrived. The color in this piece was added by hand.
Titled "Sur la riviere (Marne)" in the lower left corner.
Signed "Charlot" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a wood frame with a double mat.
Frame size: 20"W x 16"W
Image size: 11.5"H x 9"W
In 1928, Hungarian-born Sidney Zoltan Lucas founded "Camilla Lucas Publishing" which encompassed a wholesale art publishing house and a retail art gallery. This business was both wholesale and retail and dealt in reproductions of antique, modern, and contemporary prints. It also sold original art including etchings, lithographs, and paintings. Starting in the 1930's and continuing into the 1950's, Sydney Lucas traveled to Europe periodically and contracted with French and Flemish artists to publish their work under the banner of the "Paris Etching Society."
During his career, Sydney published many thousands of images. He brought art into the homes of people at all levels of income through his etchings, serigraphs, woodblock prints, restrikes and reproductions. The various subjects included Redouté and Prevost Flowers, Barraband and Gould Birds, Piranesi, French Landscapes, Urban Scenes, Women, Children, Animals, Hunting and much more.
Later on in the 1950s, Sydney and his wife Phyllis Lucas became the first North American publishers of original signed, limited edition lithographs by the famous surrealist artist Salvador Dali. They worked directly with Mr. Dali over several years and the three created such fine images that in 1985 the Lucas’ Collection of limited edition lithographs from Salvador Dali’s paintings were displayed alongside his original paintings at the Salvador Dali Museum...
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Impressionist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$372 Sale Price
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Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Hammering Nails
39 x 50 ½ inches
Gouache on paper c. 19...
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American Realist 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
View of Saint-Médard Church Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
A 'View of Saint-Médard Church, Paris', gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). As viewed from the Rue Mouffetard, the church, which dates from the mid-1400s, continues ...
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1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
$2,632 Sale Price
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Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Francis Chapin was one of the most celebrated painters in Chicago during his lifetime. When he was a young art student, Valley House founder, Donald Vogel, painted with "Chape" on th...
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American Modern 1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
