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Period: 1950s
'Hidden Cove, Big Sur', California, Society of Western Artists, Who Was Who
By Nat Levy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century Impressionist-style watercolor on Arches paper showing a misty view of turquoise waves rolling into a secluded rocky cove in Big Sur, California
Signed lower right 'Nat Levy' (American, 1896-1984), titled 'Little River' and painted circa 1955.
A notable California watercolorist...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
The Medieval Bridge at Aylesford in the County of Kent, English River Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicate watercolor view of the Bridge at Aylesford over the River Medway in the English county of Kent.
Signed lower left "Frank Sherwin", (English,...
Category
Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Casbah
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century French gouache and watercolor of peaceful and serene scene of North African Casbah, circa 1950. Signature and title lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
French Landscape - Provence Square
By Siemion
Located in Houston, TX
Bold and bright watercolor of a female figure walking her dog on a sunny day on a street corner in Provence, France by artist Siemion, circa 1950. Signed lower left.
Original one-...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bridge Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Line drawing with modern artistic touch of a bridge in red graphite by artist Ulrich Franke circa 1960.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Rural Outskirts
Located in Houston, TX
Warmly hued watercolor of rust colored homes and buildings dotting a rural landscape by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950. Signed lower right.
Stéphane Magnard was the pain...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Argau
By Alfred Siegris
Located in Houston, TX
Joyful watercolor landscape of a strip of trees dotted with fall colored foliage by artist Alfred Siegris (1892-1960), circa 1950. Signed lower right.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor Landscape Painting - View of Venice
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful watercolor painting of a sunlit view of the Venice canals through a stone archway by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Estate Gate
Located in Houston, TX
Enchanting mid-century French watercolor of estate gate with slate roof, 1956.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archi...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Trader's Market
Located in Houston, TX
Vivid and bright watercolor of merchants gathered to trade cloth by French artist Stéphane Magnard, circa 1950. Magnard was the resident artist in Madagascar then a French possessio...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Côtes de l'Estérel
Located in Houston, TX
Remarkable and vivid watercolor of the rocky red cliffs of the Esterel overlooking the emerald colored French Riviera coast by French artist Stephane Magnard (1917-2010), 1955.
Ori...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jardins du Luxembourg, Paris
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage French watercolor in a playful and colorful take on the famed Luxembourg Gardens of Paris by artist Madeleine Scali (1911-2000), circa 1960.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Watercolor - Seaside Village
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful watercolor of a Madagascar African fishing village by Stéphane Magnard, resident artist to the former French colony from 1950 to 1953.
Original artwork on paper displ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Industrial Landscape'
By Wesley Wright
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage French Watercolor Seascape - Rocky Coastline
Located in Houston, TX
Striking watercolor seascape of a rocky inlet circling an island lush with dense foliage by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper disp...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage French Watercolor - The Cavalcade
Located in Houston, TX
Captivating watercolor of a procession of people following a park path using a multitude of bright hues, circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Pencil Drawing - The Hay Harvest
Located in Houston, TX
Boldly lined pencil drawing of farm workers harvesting and bailing hay by French artist Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Heidelberg Bridge
Located in Houston, TX
Brightly rendered watercolor of the Karl Theodor bridge located in Heidelberg, Germany, 1950. Signed lower left, artist unknown.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
The Wonders of Life on Earth
Earth South...
Category
American Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Gouache
Industrial Steel Plant at Night Port Talbot - Mid-Century - like L. S. Lowry
Located in Miami, FL
A moody night scene of Great Britain's largest and polluted steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales. L. S. Lowry is the best known artist of Britain's industrial scenes of the 20th century but there were others which include this somber work by female artist and illustrator Nan Youngman OBE. Signed and dated lower left. Framed under glass . Framed size 21 x 28 .
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Nancy Mayhew Youngman OBE, (28 June 1906 – 17 April 1995), was an English painter and educationalist. Youngman is remembered primarily as a painter, but from before the war to the mid-1960s she was an influential figure in art education, as a teacher, an author and an impressively efficient organizer of exhibitions.
Nan Youngman was born in Maidstone in 1906 to John Henry Youngman – a partner in the corn merchants Bradley, Taylor, and Youngman – and his wife, Adelaide Edith (Bida), née Marshall. She attended Wycombe Abbey School and then the Slade School of Art (1924–27), where she was taught by Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks.
After she left the Slade, Youngman went on to study for an art teacher's diploma at the London Day Training College. There she was taught by Marion Richardson, who introduced her to Roger Fry and awakened her interest in children's art. From 1929 until 1944 she divided her time between painting and teaching; she lectured for the London County Council, gave practical art classes for schoolteachers and taught part-time. The organization of exhibitions became an important part of her strategy for increasing children's awareness of art.
Throughout the 1930s, Youngman showed at the Wertheim Gallery and with the London Group.
The death of her friend the artist Felicia Browne in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 altered Youngman's political outlook. She joined the left-wing Artists' International Association (AIA) and organised Browne's memorial exhibition.[2] AIA group shows became a focus for her painting, though politics never entered her own work. It was Nan Youngman who in 1939 famously asked a workman in from the Whitechapel High Street to open the AIA's exhibition "Art for All".
In 1944 Youngman became art adviser to Cambridgeshire under Henry Morris.
Nan Youngman became chairman of the Society for Education through Art in 1945 and published her ideas in articles for Athene (the SEA journal), the New Era in Home and School and the Education Journal. Through the SEA she initiated a remarkable series of exhibitions of contemporary art for sale...
Category
English School 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
Primorje
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Primorje. Original pencil on paper, 1958.
Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan is a painter, conceptual artist and a performer from Serbia. He transformed his artwork during his life – at the...
Category
Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Assisi - 20th Century, Drawing on prepared card by Ben Nicholson
Located in London, GB
Pencil on artist's prepared card
Inscribed verso 'Assisi / Oct 8-55 / Ben Nicholson'
Blind stamped 'REEVES BRISTOL BOARD' (upper right)
Nicholson's work in Italy, although closely related to the central concerns of his art, is a special category in his oeuvre, which demonstrates his appreciation of Italian architecture and landscape. He visited Italy...
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Gold Dredgers" Sacramento, Watercolor by Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wayne Thiebaud, American (1920 - )
Title: "Gold Dredger" Sacramento
Year: circa 1956
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Signature: Signed and titled in pencil
Image Size: 9 x 20.5 ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Dong Kingman (American 1911-2000)
"Old Mission Station" c. 1950
watercolor on paper
Signed
*Fully illustrated in the book "Dong Kingman, Portraits of Cities"
Sheet Size: 22 x 30 inches
Framed Size: 32.5 x 40.5 inches
The following obituary is from Dong Kingman Jr., son of the artist.
DONG KINGMAN (1911-2000)
Dong Kingman, the world-renowned artist and teacher, died in his sleep on May 12, 2000 at age 89 in his home in Manhattan. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
Long acknowledged as an American watercolor master, he has received an extraordinary number of awards and honors throughout his 70-year career in the arts. Included are two Guggenheim fellowships in 1942 and 1943; the San Francisco Art Association First Purchase Prize, 1936; Audubon Artist Medal of Honor, 1946; Philadelphia Watercolor Club Joseph Pennel Memorial Medal, 1950; Metropolitan Museum of Art Award, and the National Academy Design 150th Anniversary Gold Medal Award, 1975.
In 1987, the American Watercolor Society awarded Dong Kingman its highest honor, the Dolphin Medal, "for having made outstanding contributions to art especially to that of watercolor."
His work is represented in the permanent collections of 50 museums and universities, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Des Moines Art Center, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Brooklyn Museum and Hirshhorn Museum.
Born in Oakland, California in 1911 of Chinese descent, Kingman moved to Hong Kong at age five. He studied art and calligraphy in his formative years at the Lingnan School. The painting master Szeto Wai had recently studied art in Paris and took a keen interest in young Dongs precocious talents. He taught him both Chinese classical and French Impressionist styles of painting. Kingman returned home to Oakland when he was 18 at the height of the Depression. He worked as a newsboy and dishwasher to make ends meet.
When he was employed as a houseboy for the Drew family in San Francisco, he painted every spare moment. In a year, he created enough pictures to have a one-man show at the Art Center. It attracted the attention of San Francisco art critics who raved about Kingmans unique style. Wrote Junius Cravens of the San Francisco News: "That young Chinese artist is showing 20 of the freshest and most satisfying watercolors that have been seen hereabouts in many a day Kingman already has developed that universal quality which may place a sincere artist work above the limitations of either racial characteristics or schools. Kingmans art belongs to the world at large today." Dong Kingman became an overnight success.
From 1936 to 1941, he was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style." His two Guggenheim fellowships enabled him to travel the country painting American scenes. His first one-man show in New York at Midtown Galleries in 1942 was well received in the media, including Time, Newsweek, the New Yorker and American Artist. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco held a major exhibit of his watercolors in 1945.
In 1951, Midtown presented a 10-year retrospective of his work. Time Magazine wrote, "At age 40, Kingman is one of the worlds best watercolorists." Other retrospectives, including Corcoran in Washington,D.C. an d Witte Memorial Museum in San Antonio, were held for the artist. Kingman moved to Wildenstein (1958-1969) where he had successful exhibits in New York, London and Paris. Hammer Galleries exhibited his paintings in the 70s, and then the artist expanded his venues to the West Coast and Far East.
During World War II, he served with the OSS in Washington, D.C. where he was a cartographer. After his honorable discharge, Kingman moved to Brooklyn Heights from San Francisco when he became a guest lecturer and then art instructor at Columbia University (1946-1958). Hunter College also appointed him instructor in watercolors and Chinese Art (1948-1953). His teaching career continued with the Famous Artists School, Westport, CT in 1953, joining such distinguished artists on the faculty as Will Barnet, Stuart Davis, Norman Rockwell and Ben Shahn.
He also became a teaching member for 40 years for the Hewitt Painting Workshops, which conducts worldwide painting tours. He taught at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, was a member of its board, and received an honorary doctorate from the Academy.
In 1954, the U.S. Department of State invited Kingman to go on a cultural exchange program tour around the world to give exhibitions and lectures and to meet local artists. When he came home, he presented the State Department with a 40-foot long report on a scroll, which later appeared in LIFE Magazine.
One of Kingman's most treasured experiences was his invitation by the Ministry of Culture of the Peoples Republic of China to exhibit in that country in 1981. He was the first American artist to be accorded a one-man show since diplomatic relations resumed. More than 100,000 visitors attended his exhibitions in Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou and the retrospective received critical acclaim from the Chinese press. Noted the China Daily Mail, "Just as the master painters of the Song Dynasty roamed about mountain and stream to capture the rhythm of nature, Dong Kingman traveled the world capturing the dynamism of modern lifefamiliar scenes have been transformed into a vibrant new vision of life through color schemes with rhythms that play over the entire surface of the picture. The wind swept skies which enliven his watercolors remind us of the pleinairism of the French Impressionists."
Kingman, who has been fascinated with movies since seeing his first film "The Thief of Baghdad...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Saddle Back Light"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper by the American artist, Norman MacLeish. Signed lower right and dated 1955. Condition: good. There is a brown watercolor dash in the right sky. It is not a foxi...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hollywood Boulevard: Grauman's Chinese Theater
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California.
“Hollywood Boulevard: Grauman's Chinese Theater...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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