1970s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Clean, high contrast landscape by Santa Cruz artist Gerry Bartlett (American, 1952-2012). A long wave breaks at the shore nearest to the viewer, with the remnants of a pier in the sh...

Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 14x22 Frame Size: 22x31 Medium: Magic Marker, Crayola, Pen and Ink "Cotton Farm" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time. The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves: John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas. At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin. From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the floor to sweep." While helping out on his grandparents' farm, Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station. During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith. His art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat. There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of works of art by black artists...

Looking Down Morning Side Yellow, Brown, and Burgundy Figurative Pastel of View of New York City Street from Window Created by William Clutz in 1978 28" X 22 1/2" inch pastel on pape...

Gussow, Alan. THREE TREES. Watercolor on paper, 1974. Titled, dated, and signed, all in pencil, in the margin below the image. 4 1/2 x 6 inches (image), 9 ...

You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting depicting a hang-glider sailing over a beautiful color landscape Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American ...

Signed lower right, 'M. Alderson' and painted in 1977. A substantial, Modernist watercolor cityscape showing a view from the window of a high-rise down towards a San Francisco neigh...

Artist: Patricia Tobacco Forrester, American (1940 - 2011) Title: Double-Spear Lily Medium: Watercolor Diptych on Paper, signed Image Siz...