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Period: Early 20th Century
Landscape - Watercolor - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized by an unknown artist of the 19th Century. Hand-signed on the lower right, the signature is illegible. The state o...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Train Station, " Max Kuehne, Industrial City Scene, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Max Kuehne (1880 - 1968) Train Station, circa 1910 Watercolor on paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany on November 7, 1880. During his adolescence the family immigrated to America and settled in Flushing, New York. As a young man, Max was active in rowing events, bicycle racing, swimming and sailing. After experimenting with various occupations, Kuehne decided to study art, which led him to William Merritt Chase's famous school in New York; he was trained by Chase himself, then by Kenneth Hayes Miller. Chase was at the peak of his career, and his portraits were especially in demand. Kuehne would have profited from Chase's invaluable lessons in technique, as well as his inspirational personality. Miller, only four years older than Kuehne, was another of the many artists to benefit from Chase's teachings. Even though Miller still would have been under the spell of Chase upon Kuehne's arrival, he was already experimenting with an aestheticism that went beyond Chase's realism and virtuosity of the brush. Later Miller developed a style dependent upon volumetric figures that recall Italian Renaissance prototypes. Kuehne moved from Miller to Robert Henri in 1909. Rockwell Kent, who also studied under Chase, Miller, and Henri, expressed what he felt were their respective contributions: "As Chase had taught us to use our eyes, and Henri to enlist our hearts, Miller called on us to use our heads." (Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955, p. 83). Henri prompted Kuehne to search out the unvarnished realities of urban living; a notable portion of Henri's stylistic formula was incorporated into his work. Having received such a thorough foundation in art, Kuehne spent a year in Europe's major art museums to study techniques of the old masters. His son Richard named Ernest Lawson as one of Max Kuehne's European traveling companions. In 1911 Kuehne moved to New York where he maintained a studio and painted everyday scenes around him, using the rather Manet-like, dark palette of Henri. A trip to Gloucester during the following summer engendered a brighter palette. In the words of Gallatin (1924, p. 60), during that summer Kuehne "executed some of his most successful pictures, paintings full of sunlight . . . revealing the fact that he was becoming a colorist of considerable distinction." Kuehne was away in England the year of the Armory Show (1913), where he worked on powerful, painterly seascapes on the rocky shores of Cornwall. Possibly inspired by Henri - who had discovered Madrid in 1900 then took classes there in 1906, 1908 and 1912 - Kuehne visited Spain in 1914; in all, he would spend three years there, maintaining a studio in Granada. He developed his own impressionism and a greater simplicity while in Spain, under the influence of the brilliant Mediterranean light. George Bellows convinced Kuehne to spend the summer of 1919 in Rockport, Maine (near Camden). The influence of Bellows was more than casual; he would have intensified Kuehne's commitment to paint life "in the raw" around him. After another brief trip to Spain in 1920, Kuehne went to the other Rockport (Cape Ann, Massachusetts) where he was accepted as a member of the vigorous art colony, spearheaded by Aldro T. Hibbard. Rockport's picturesque ambiance fulfilled the needs of an artist-sailor: as a writer in the Gloucester Daily Times explained, "Max Kuehne came to Rockport to paint, but he stayed to sail." The 1920s was a boom decade for Cape Ann, as it was for the rest of the nation. Kuehne's studio in Rockport was formerly occupied by Jonas Lie. Kuehne spent the summer of 1923 in Paris, where in July, André Breton started a brawl as the curtain went up on a play by his rival Tristan Tzara; the event signified the demise of the Dada movement. Kuehne could not relate to this avant-garde art but was apparently influenced by more traditional painters — the Fauves, Nabis, and painters such as Bonnard. Gallatin perceived a looser handling and more brilliant color in the pictures Kuehne brought back to the States in the fall. In 1926, Kuehne won the First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, and he re-exhibited there, for example, in 1937 (Before the Wind). Besides painting, Kuehne did sculpture, decorative screens, and furniture work with carved and gilded molding. In addition, he designed and carved his own frames, and John Taylor Adams encouraged Kuehne to execute etchings. Through his talents in all these media he was able to survive the Depression, and during the 1940s and 1950s these activities almost eclipsed his easel painting. In later years, Kuehne's landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cézanne and Bonnard, and his style changed radically. Max Kuehne died in 1968. He exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and in various New York City galleries. Kuehne's works are in the following public collections: the Detroit Institute of Arts (Marine Headland), the Whitney Museum (Diamond Hill...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand. Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920". Unframed. Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W. Right corner has a crease from being bent. Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin. In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910). In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor. In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland. His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board

Port in Saint Tropez - Watercolour and Ink - Polish Ecole de Paris
Located in London, GB
MELA MUTER 1876-1967 (Maria Melania Muter) Warsaw 1876 - 1967 Paris (Polish) Title: Port in Saint Tropez, 1920 Technique: Signed Watercolour and Ink on Thick Textured Card Size: ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Untitled (Trees)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor on paper by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1916. This work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been authenticated by the Bur...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Monhegan Island, Maine, " Edward Dufner, American Impressionism Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) Monhegan Island, Maine Watercolor on paper Sight 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' and 'dark', Edward Dufner was one of the first students of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy to earn an Albright Scholarship to study painting in New York. In Buffalo, he had exchanged odd job work for drawing lessons from architect Charles Sumner. He also earned money as an illustrator of a German-language newspaper, and in 1890 took lessons from George Bridgman at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. In 1893, using his scholarship, Dufner moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied with Henry Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and privately with James McNeill Whistler. Verification of this relationship, which has been debated by art scholars, comes from researcher Nancy Turk who located at the Smithsonian Institution two 1927 interviews given by Dufner. Turk wrote that Dufner "talks in detail about Whistler, about how he prepared his canvasas and about numerous pieces he painted. . . A great read, the interview puts to bed" the ongoing confusion about whether or not he studied with Whistler. During his time in France, Dufner summered in the south at Le Pouleu with artists Richard Emil Miller...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Sir Lancelot and Elaine Arthurian Stained Glass Window Design For TW Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios that had not been seen for decades. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller". Further designs will be listed in due course, please send us a message if you would like to see them. Florence Camm (1874-1960) Sir Lancelot...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sunset Along the Front Range, Colorado, 1900s Traditional Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning, original signed landscape painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) captures the breathtaking beauty of a Colorado sunset along the Front Range, near Denver. The...
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Hudson River School Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

King's College Cambridge River Cam 1920s Art Deco Jazz Age watercolour art
Located in London, GB
Anonymous King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground 51x63.5cm Watercolour c. 1920s A fine, and large, view of King's College. The...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

F. Vincent - Framed 1900 Watercolour, Riverside Church
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour landscape by artist F. Vincent, depicting a church by the riverside. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a elaborate shabby chic cream frame, with decorative...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

TW Camm Valley of the Shadow of... Stained Glass Window Design Wrekin College UK
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Rocher St Michel D'Aiguilhe
By Albert Rutherston
Located in London, GB
ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS (1881-1953) Rocher St Michel D’Aiguilhe Signed and dated l.l.: Albert R 1914 Watercolour and bodycolour Framed 35.5 by 25 c...
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Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Noel Leaver Original Watercolor, circa 1920's, Orientalist Subject
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Watercolor by British artist Noel Leaver (1889-1951). Beautiful Orientalist subject in excellent condition - framed. Measures: 11" H x 15" W. Frame: 19 3/4...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint

Charles Harrington (1865-1943) - Framed 1925 Watercolour, Inquisitive Cattle
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 20th century watercolour depicting inquisitive cattle grazing by the river. The pastoral landscape looks luscious and green, situated behind a long manor farm...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Eizo Kato 1926 Japanese Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eizo Kato: 1906-1972. Well listed Japanese artist with auction records for watercolors over $8500. This is a magnificent tropical scene, probably in Japan or another pacific island. ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

John Wilson Hepple (1886-1939) - 1920 Watercolour, Riverscape with Mountains
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and delicate watercolour painting by John Wilson Hepple (1886-1939), depicting a rocky river scene with mountains in the distance. Signed and date...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

La Porte Saint Martin, Paris
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A waterclolor and gouache painting depicting a traditional Parisian street scne on paper by French artist Eugene Galien-Laloue. Presented in an appropriate frame and signed in the lo...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left. - Paper slightly darkened About the artwork Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death. The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea. A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body. About the artist As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting. From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
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Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Canal in Norfolk Broads /// Antique British Watercolor Boat Ship River Villlage
By F. Denner Smith
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: F. Denner Smith (English, fl. 1901-1908) Title: "Canal in Norfolk Broads" *Signed by Smith lower right Circa: 1905 Medium: Original Gouache/Watercolor Painting on paper Framing: Not framed, but beautifully matted with hand decorated archival French matting...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis Philae (verso) Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902 Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902 Note: The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Paris Hotel de Ville , Watercolor signed Signed E. Galien Laloue, circa 1920
Located in Paris, FR
View of Paris: The Hotel de Ville banks and the statue of Etienne Marcel under Snow Watercolor Signed E. Galien Laloue, circa 1910-1920 Appraisal by Mr Noé Willer. (Will figurate in...
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Academic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Bedford Park, LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Watercolour, Town Scene, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Bedford Park by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 24.5 x 38 cm (9 ⅝ x 15 inches) Signed, inscribed and dated lower left, Bedford Park 1928 Ludovic Rodo Painted ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Plage Normande (Normandy Beach)
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower center Provenance: Atelier of the artist Notes: A typical Normandy beach scene, perhaps near Deauville or Trouville.
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

L'Escalier, Watercolor Painting by Guy Dollian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Guy Dollian (1887 - 1964) Title: L'Escalier Date: 1926 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left Image Size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches Frame Size: 27 x 19.5 inches
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Landscape by Lesser Ury - Pastel on paper
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Landscape by Lesser Ury (1861-1931) Pastel on paper 50 x 70 cm (19 ³/₄ x 27 ¹/₂ inches) Signed lower left Executed in 1...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Brimscombe Hill - Early 20th Century Cotswold Group Watercolour by H A Payne
By Henry Arthur Payne, RWS
Located in London, GB
HENRY ARTHUR PAYNE, RWS (1868-1940) Evening, Brimscombe Hill Signed and indistinctly dated l.l..: HENRY A PAYNE Watercolour Framed 20.5 by 24.5 cm.; 8 by 9 ...
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Pre-Raphaelite Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting Beautiful river landscape. The river flows through a mountain forest setting. Watercolor dimensions 23" wide x 16" high The ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, early 20th century landscape watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, c. 1925 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 15 x 20 inches 20.75 x 25.75 inches, framed 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...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

La Celle les Bordes by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Post-Impressionist watercolour
Located in London, GB
La Celle les Bordes by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 35 x 25 cm (13 3⁄4 x 9 7⁄8 inches) Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo Inscribed and dated lower right, La ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Willard Ayers Nash Original Abstract Charcoal Drawing, Early 20th-Century Modern
By Willard Ayer Nash
Located in Denver, CO
This original charcoal drawing on paper by influential American modernist Willard Ayers Nash (1898–1942) is a powerful example of early 20th-century abstraction rooted in the Santa Fe...
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Abstract Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Watercolor Painting by William Zorach, Titled "Redwoods, Yosemite Valley", 1920
Located in New York, NY
William Zorach, 1887-1966 Redwoods, Yosemite Valley, 1920 Watercolor and pencil 15 ¾ x 13 ⅜ inches Signed (at lower right): William Zorach WZorach-7 Provenance: Estate of William Zorach Exhibited: William Zorach, 1887-1996, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Feb. 10 – March 14, 1998. William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1889, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1893. Settling in Cleveland with his parents, he worked as a lithographer from 1902- 1908, making enough money to study painting with Henry G. Keller at the School of Art. In 1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study in La Palette, where he was encouraged to develop his own unique style rather than adhere to traditional teachings. Zorach once said, “I began to be conscious of the various modern influences that were invading the art world…I was disturbed and confused, and yet I felt that I was a very young man entering a new age. The forces creating modern art seemed more alive to me than anything I had known or anything being done in America.” 1 Together with his wife Marguerite, William Zorach produced a number of Cubist- style paintings for the American Armory Show of 1913, and the Forum Exhibition in New York in 1916. Around 1917, Zorach followed the lead of cubist artist Pablo Picasso and began experimenting with wood and stone carvings. By 1922, he devoted himself entirely to sculpture, and like Picasso, became fascinated in “primitive art”—the ritual objects and sculpture pieces of Oceanic, Native American and African tribes. Zorach’s work developed in its use of block-like forms with progressive suppression of detail—drawing elements from sources as disparate as the contemporary cubist and modernist movements, and combining them with forms seen in early African sculpture. Though the forms of his sculpture were often abstract, Zorach primarily focused upon a traditional subject matter, producing such well-known sculptures as Young Girl, now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Mother and Child, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, William Zorach is known as one of the earliest and most influential American artists dedicated to direct carving. Zorach also made an impression as a teacher and writer, facilitating a major change in the aesthetic philosophy and technique of sculpture in the United States. During the summers from 1913 to 1922, Zorach and his wife Marguerite painted...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

19th Century 1925 California Coast Marine Landscape Watercolor, Rocks & Waves
Located in Denver, CO
American Impressionist California coastal watercolor painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942), circa 1925. This stunning piece captures the beauty of the coastline with vibran...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Cottage by the Sea" - Framed 19th-Century Antique Watercolor Seascape Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lovely original watercolor of a cottage by the sea, showing a fisherman draping his nets over the porch rail to dry. I would guess this to be earl...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Rouen
Located in New York, NY
"Rouen" is a watercolor by Frank- Will , it is extremely large in size and from an important place in the history of France. This is where the tower of Joan of Arc is located and wh...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919
By Marius Bauer
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Marius Bauer (1867-1932) ‘Devotie in de Woestijn’ (Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919) Signed lower right and titled lower left Watercolour on paper, H...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Piccadilly Circus by Fortunino Matania
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fortunino Matania 1881-1963 Italian Piccadilly Circus Signed “Matania” (center, on bus) Watercolor and gouache on paper This exceptional watercolor and gouache composition by fam...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century, Cleveland
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 20 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...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Landscape - Charcoal Drawing on Paper by R. Santerne-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful original drawing on paper realized by Robert Santerne between the 1930s and 1940s. Stamped on the rear "Atelier R.Santerne" Aged conditions with repaired r...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Project for a new mobility in Venice
Located in Roma, RM
Virgilio Marchi (Livorno 1895 – Rome 1960), Project for a new mobility in Venice Pencil and charcoal drawing 35 x 27 cm signed lower left. Provenance...
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Futurist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Belveze du Razes - Neo-Impressionist Pointillist Oil, Landscape by Achille Lauge
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning pointillist landscape oil on panel by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The work depicts a path leading to the small village of Belveze du Razes in the South of France on a bright spring day. To the left are white blossom trees in bloom and the houses of the village can be seen in the distance. Signature: Signed and dated 1909 lower left Dimensions: Framed: 28"x36" Unframed: 21"x29" Provenance: We kindly thank Mme. Nicole Tamburini for allowing us to state that the work is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of the artist which she is currently preparing. A certificate of authenticity from Mme. Tamburini is available upon request. Achille Laugé...
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Pointillist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Canvas

A Sailing Ship at the Port
Located in Miami, FL
Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965) A Sailing Ship at the Port, 1909 Watercolor on cardboard Signed lower right 'A. Walkowitz', in pencil '1909' Dimensions: 33.5 x 56 cm Born: Tyumen, Ru...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Étang de Cernay by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Étang de Cernay by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Watercolour and pencil on paper 24.5 x 35.5 cm (9 ⅝ x 13 ⅝ inches) Inscribed and dated lower right, Étang de Cernay 12 Aug 05 ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Vintage French Pen & ink Drawing - French Courtyard
Located in Houston, TX
Playful pen and ink line drawing of a small garden courtyard by artist Jean Charles Lauthe, circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed o...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper, Pen

Jeanne-marie Barbey (1876-1960), Trees in Winter, Brown ink wash
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeanne-Marie BARBEY (1876-1960) Trees in winter Brown ink wash and graphite pencil on paper Signed lower right 26 x 20 cm frame 46 x 40 cm Born Louise Jeanne Marie Barbée in 1876 in...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Fairies among the Lily Pads - Female Illustrator Fantasy
Located in Miami, FL
A turn-of-the-century fantasy illustration by female illustrator May Audubon Post features a charming fairy with expanded wings resting on Lilly s...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Quebec City, Fauve Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful Fauve Landscape with blocky areas of punchy bold reds and yellows. This was done the same year of the Armory Show in which both William Zor...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Roman Ruins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine watercolor painting of Roman ruins attributed to American artist Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950). Smith was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and after attending Brown Universit...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Watercolor of the Oak Tree by Allen Tucker
Located in Hudson, NY
Landscape watercolor by Allen Tucker of an oak tree. This piece, along with several others, was gifted to Una Brage, a friend of the artist in the 1930s. More about this artist: Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman, but it was not until around 1904, when he was 38, that Tucker became a full-time painter, leaving architecture behind. Many of his early canvases were classically Impressionistic with poplar trees resembling those of Van Gogh and haystacks and corn shocks...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

sailboat on water painting early 20th century marine ocean sea boats waves cloud
By C.S. Jones
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sailboat" is a maritime watercolor on prepared board by American artist C.S. Jones, signed in the lower right. The watercolor depicts a seascape...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Firemen Textile design, c. 1929 19 1/4 ...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Board

View from the Charles River in Boston 1927
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5125 Antique charcoal drawing of a landscape as viewed from the Charles River in Boston from 1827 Signed J.G.Berry
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

Venice
Located in New York, NY
Singed (at lower left): Jane Peterson
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Provence : the Shepherds' refuge - Original Ink Drawing, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
André LHOTE (1885-1962) Provence: the shepherds' refuge, c. 1925 Original drawing in brown ink Signed in the bottom right corner On paper 16 x 26 cm at sight Presented in a lacquere...
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Cubist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

New York Street Movement and Figure - Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
This work by John Marin depicts an image of lower Manhattan which was Marin's more iconic subject matter. The work has a stellar provenance as well. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries Richard York Gallery ACA Galleries...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Country Cottage houses
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. Provenance: Family of the artist. Frame and glass options available. Shipping included for all Continental USA, Asia and Europe. The fr...
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French School Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Clay, Watercolor

Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 22.5 x 27.75 inches 27.75 x 34.5 inches, framed 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...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

'Landscape' by Joseph Fred-Perry Rendell, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 14.25" x 17" watercolor by British artist Joseph Fred-Percy Rendell features a quiet landscape of rolling hills among a cluster of dense white clouds in a summer blue sky...
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Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cypresses, Villa D'Este, Tivoli, Early 20th Century English Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed and dated '1912' bottom right Image size: 21 x 14 inches (53.25 x 35.5 cm) Original frame Exhibitions The Fine Arts Society Ernest Arthur Rowe Rowe was a watercolourist specialising in garden scenes. He spent his career responding to the Victorian love of formal gardens with his meticulous paintings of the grounds of the country’s finest historic houses. Ernest Arthur Rowe was born in West Ham, which was then in Essex. He trained first as a lithographer and, in 1884, began studying at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours where he won a President’s Medal in 1885. Initially, Rowe painted landscapes in general, but by the 1890s he was specialising in gardens. During that decade, he joined the London Sketch...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Frederick Edward J Goff (1855-1931) - Framed Watercolour, Winchester
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely painted autumnal study of Winchester Cathedral by the listed and highly collected British artist Frederick Edward Joseph Goff (1855-1931). Presented in a beautiful bird's-ey...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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