1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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...

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...

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...

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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....

View of the Brooklyn Bridge at night. Oil pastel on archival paper by the American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Condition: exc...

WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed original brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1950. WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES is an original watercolor brush and ink on paper, hand signed in ink pen by African-American artist, teacher, and printmaker Ronald Joseph (1910--1992) Artwork depicts an abstract landscape, is in good condition, paper tape remaining on reverse side edges, mounted in an archival acid-free mat, unframed. Artwork paper size - 18 x 21.5 in. Year created - c. 1950 About the artist - Ronald Joseph (1910 -1992) was born on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies In 1910. When he was very young, his mother decided to move to the United States but she could not afford to take him with her. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Joseph, a childless couple who were friends of Joseph’s mother, adopted him. Afterwards, the Joseph family moved to the Island of Dominica, where they stayed for ten years. In 1921, his foster parents also decided to come to the United States. In New York, Joseph met his mother but remained living with his foster parents. In 1926 Ronald Joseph received a scholarship for the Ethical Culture School, were he spent two and half years of his high school period. At this time he obtained an art scholarship through Dr. Henry Fritz, with whom he became acquainted through his art teacher in public school. Joseph was taken into the Saturday art class, where he was the only black participant. An artistic prodigy, Ronald Joseph had his student works shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ronald Joseph graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1929. He was honored as “the most promising” young artist in New York City’s schools. He began his study at Pratt Institute in 1931 and graduated in 1934. During the 1930s and 1940s, Joseph participated in many exhibitions of African-American art, the Works Progress Administration mural project, and the Harlem Artists Guild. Ronald Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the declaration of World War II and was posted as a member of the ground crew in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Michigan. At the end of the war in 1945, he received his G. I. Bill of Rights scholarship. In 1948, he was presented with the Rosenwald Fellowship. The funds allowed him to live and work abroad – first in Peru for two years, then in Paris. Joseph used the G.I. bill to study in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. He described this period of his life as being “independent of economy”. His work from these travels is largely undocumented; according to Rosenwald scholar, Daniel Schulman, many pieces of art are undated or simply dated “1948-1952”. After this period he came back to New York without money and work and indicated this as period of hardship. Ronald Joseph left the U.S. in 1956, disappointed in the unreceptiveness of the art world to his work with mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he felt guilty for having left the U.S. during a period when blacks were struggling for their civil rights; on the other, he felt “lucky” to have been able to live and work in place where he did not feel discrimination as intensely. He emigrated to Belgium and later settled permanently in Brussels. Ronald Joseph was married to Claire Joseph and they had a son, Robin Joseph. In 1989 Joseph returned to the United States after an absence of thirty-three years to attend the Lehman College exhibition and symposium and to renew his old friendships. Afterward, he returned to Brussels where he continued to work as a painter, living there for the remainder of his life. Ronald Joseph started his artistic career in Harlem, New York City at the Harlem Community Arts Center, where he was one of the youngest pupils. Joseph studied lithography and other printmaking techniques with Riva Helfond, who taught him many aspects of the process based on simple techniques, including how to operate the press, and how to prepare the stones. Helfond played a significant role as a teacher of lithography at the Harlem Art Center. Joseph produced his first lithographs under her supervision, and this was at a time when she was just beginning to learn the medium herself. At the Harlem Community Arts Center Joseph met Robert Blackburn, who was his classmate. In 1937 Ronald Joseph depicted Blackburn, in one of his most famous works, that is now located at The Metropolitan Museum collection. Experimenting with lithography and etching, as well as woodblock and silkscreen printing, Joseph explored the techniques of printmaking alongside his friend Robert Blackburn. Joseph described the Harlem Art Center as a “healthy and lively” place, where he had made wonderful friends. In the late thirties, he also served as a teacher at the Harlem Community Arts Center. There Joseph met younger artist Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight. They formed a friendship, where they enjoyed conversations and visiting museums together. Both Joseph and Knight would hire Lawrence to pose for them. Jacob Lawrence considered Ronald Joseph to be a very intellectual artist. In the 1930s, Joseph became chairman of the Harlem Artists Guild and represented it in Washington with Stuart Davis and Hugo Gellert. Ronald Joseph was also a participant in the mural section of WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940). Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by Picasso, Braque and other European artists while most of his contemporaries focused on social realism. By 1943, he was hailed by art historian James Porter as New York’s “foremost Negro abstractionist painter”. His pastels and gouaches from the late forties and early fifties showed a highly structured abstraction combined with a studied spontaneity. Ronald Joseph’s finely tuned abstractions often incorporated representational elements along with apparently “purer” forms. He described this aspect of his work in these terms: “It’s not abstract and abstract at the same time. It’s pure creation.” His works from the 1950s employed both still life and landscape as pretexts for masterly exercises in nearly abstract pictorial construction related to cubism and fauvism. During World War II, Joseph was drafted. After the war he formed “a kind of a group” with Robert Blackburn, Charles White, Larry Potter, and Reginald Gammon...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Seaside (76), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm), Description: Populated with rocks and tide po...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Nissequogue, Long Island (64), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 10.5 in. x 22 in. (26.67 cm x 55.88 cm), Description: Eve Netherco...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Woodstock (77), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's serene depict...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - House (46), Year: circa 1959, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm), Description: Looking toward the white hou...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Beach Dunes (P2.58), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10.5 x 14.5 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), De...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rocky Seascape (P1.14), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Looking out onto t...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Forest (P2.65), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10 x 12 inches, Size: 11 x 13.5 in. (27.94 x 34.29 cm), Descript...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Wooded Landscape (P3.1), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 23.5 in. (45.72 x 59.69 cm), Description: Peering out in...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Beach Landscape (P2.66), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10.5 x 14 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Two Trees (P2.38), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 14 x 21 inches, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Descript...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Nissequogue (Hecate's Garden), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 13 in. x 20 in. (33.02 cm x 50.8 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott'...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Bronx (P5.32), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 11 x 22 in. (27.94 x 55.88 cm), Description: Looking out over the park,...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Alley Pond park (P6.9), Year: 1952, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm), Description: Reflecting onto t...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Pines (P5.33), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 21.5 in. (38.1 x 54.61 cm), Description: Scattered over the rollin...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rocks and Lighthouse (P4.34), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14.5 x 21 in. (36.83 x 53.34 cm), Description: Crashing ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Surf Bald Head Cliff (P4.26), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 21 in. (35.56 x 53.34 cm), Description: Viewed from...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Hamptons (P4.19), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12 x 19.5 in. (30.48 x 49.53 cm), Description: Focusing on two blue ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Aimhi Lodge (P5.4), Year: 1951, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 22 in. (39.37 x 55.88 cm), Description: Peering through the...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Hampton Bays (P6.63), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Covering almost thre...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Bronx Park (P4.28), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13.5 x 21 in. (34.29 x 53.34 cm), Description: A unique watercolor...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vermont (P4.29), Year: circa 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 21 in. (35.56 x 53.34 cm), Description: Leading up to the ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Allen Pond Park (P6.12), Year: 1953, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's...

Autumn is an original is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1958. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of...

"Landscape" is a drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 15 x 23.5 cm. The ar...

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...

V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012) Design for Modernist Fisherman's Hut Watercolour on wove Signed and dated March 1956 and stamped for Brixton School of Building. 77x55cm Hards w...

Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The World We Live In Birds of Paradise Life Magazine Illustration ...

Italy. Paper, mixed media, 33х24 сm

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Signed lower right, 'Gunter Schulz-Ilhefeldt' (German, 1912-1966) and dated 1950. An elegant, modernist coastal scene showing a substantial stone-built breakwater at low tide juxtap...

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...

The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...

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In the yard. 1950. Pastel on paper, 65x49,5 cm

Lakeside. 1959, oil on cardboard, 36x49,5 cm Summer landscape by the lake Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints ...

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We acquired a series of paintings from Claude Muncaster's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Claude Munca...

Fall (P6.8) Eve Nethercott American (1925–2015) Date: 1951 Watercolor on Paper Size: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)

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...

A captivating midcentury cityscape titled "Denver Skyline", this original 1950s watercolor and graphite painting offers a rare industrial-era view of lower downtown Denver, Colorado....

In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves. 10 x 7.25 inches, artwork 19.75 x 17.25 inch...

"Sunset" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by anonymous artist of the XX century. date in 1951, hand-signed not readable. The state of preservation of the artw...

Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Cond...

Delightful watercolour by the noted illustrator Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964) & dated 1952 depicting an English country house & gardens Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 16"W Frame Sz: 15 1/2...

'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...

"Yellow Flower" is an original watercolor on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature in the lower center. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4" art 14 1/2" x 17 1/2" frame Born in 1...

British, 1954, Manner of John Nash (1893-1977) Woodland scene with a body of water Watercolour and graphite on paper, mounted to card Signed indistinctly and dated lower left 34.1 x...

This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American! Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink. Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...