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Period: Early 20th Century
1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of Le Canal at Peronne Cléry
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a canal scene by Henri Clamen. There is a location annotation to the back of the paper. The painting is not signed but was acquired ...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
French Watercolor Painting - Bay of Cannes
By Gaston Coursaget
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful watercolor and pencil painting of sailboats in the bay of Cannes by French artist Gaston Coursaget, 1927. Signed lower left.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a wh...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
An Impressionist Mediterranean Garden in Summer. Gouache & Watercolor on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French watercolour of a Mediterranean garden. The painting is signed bottom right, Songa, and is presented under a hand coloured custom mount in a plain wood frame under glass. This is one of a pair of paintings the other is also available in our store on 1stdibs.
A charming representation of a garden in early summer. A line of majestic Cyprus trees...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
St Eriksbron Seen From Stadshagen, Stockholm, 1908
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting painting by Arvid Jacobsson (Jacobson)(1881–1966), executed in 1908, offers a captivating view of St. Eriksbron as seen from Stadshagen on Kungsholmen. Jacobsson has ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Autumn landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
36 x 55 x 1.5 cm
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, 20th century American modern watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, c. 1916
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed lower right
21 x 30 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". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Orientalist Cairo Market Street Scene, Middle Eastern Bazaar
By Leonid Gechtoff
Located in Surfside, FL
In original period wormwood frame. Leonid Gechtoff was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then a part of Imperial Russia, in 1883, He received his art school training in Russia, where he proba...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Landscape, France (Abstraction)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on cream laid paper. Signed by the artist, inscribed "Paris" and dated in lower right in ink.
Framed dimension overall 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches.
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Barns Buildings at Ruds Säteri, Värmland, Sweden, 1900
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner (1880-1944) Sweden
Barns Buildings at Ruds Säteri, 1900
watercolor on paper
unframed 21.5 x 31 cm (8.46 x 12.2 inches)
framed 22 x 40 cm (8.66 x 15.75 inches)
...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude Figures on the Beach
Located in Astoria, NY
Josef Foshko (Russian, 1891-1971), Nude Figures on the Beach, Watercolor on Paper, signed lower left, giltwood frame. 15" H x 20.25" W; frame: 25.25" H x 31.5" W. Provenance: From a ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Quiet Contemplation: Rural Serenity in Hagborg's Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
The artwork we present is a rare watercolor by the distinguished Swedish artist August Hagborg, painted in the later part of his career between 1910 and 1920. This watercolour is a departure from Hagborg's often-seen beach scenes with mussel pickers and instead offers a glimpse into a serene, pastoral moment. The scene is set against a timber house, with a man and a woman standing alongside, their gazes directed away from the viewer, which invites contemplation about the story behind their distant stares.
Watercolors by Hagborg are rare, making this piece particularly special. Its fine details suggest a mastery of the medium, likely honed over the years of his extensive career. A written letter from Göteborgs Konstmuseum, dated to the 1940s, suggests a later date for this piece.
August Hagborg, born on May 26, 1852, in Gothenburg and passed away on April 30, 1921, in Paris, was a renowned figure in the art world. His education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1871 to 1874 placed him among peers who would rise to prominence, such as Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. Moving to Paris in the fall of 1875, Hagborg initially painted within the costume genre before finding his niche in coastal landscapes that garnered him accolades and recognition.
Hagborg's success was punctuated by his 1879 painting...
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Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of old Lausanne by Ch. François Villermet - Work on paper 31x48 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 64 x 1 cm
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
"Surging Seas, Whitehead, " Sears Gallagher, realist, watercolor, Monhegan
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Painter and etcher Sears Gallagher was born in Boston in 1869. Gallagher studied in Boston with Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott in the 1880s as well as at the Parisian Académie Julian in ...
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Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, Early 20th Century Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, c. 1916
Watercolor and graphite on paper
21 x 29 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...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Charles Burchfield Preparatory Sketch, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)
Untitled (Preparatory Drawing for Skyscape), Early 20th Century
Pencil on paper
12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.
Inscribed: blue / white / blue / RV
Born in Ashtab...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of Paris, Ducks at the Pond
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a park in a city, probably Paris, by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artists atelier with other sig...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour, Village and Bridge by a River, Dinard
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a French village and stone bridge by a river by Henri Clamen. The painting is dated, 1939, and titled, 'Dinard' to the back of the...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Landscape - Watercolor on Paper by H- Vergere-Sarrat - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original artwork realized by the French artist Henry Verger-Sarrat in the first decades of the XX Century.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower left corner...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Pastel on Paper by Pierre Segogne - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful pastel drawing on cream-colored paper, realized by the artist Pierre Segogne.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner.
The state of preservation is very good...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of a Church
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a church by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artists ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Charentonneau
By M. Balastié
Located in Houston, TX
Serene watercolor of a figure headed down a winding path leading to a small farmstead in the distance by M. Balastié, 1925. Titled, "Charentonneau", dated and signed lower left.
...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Alfred Henry Hart (1866-1953) - Framed Watercolour, A Street in Chipping Camden
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate watercolour study of a street in Chipping Campden by Alfred Henry Hart. Well presented in a wash-line mount and gilt effect frame. Signed to the lower right. On watercolou...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage English Watercolor - Fareham Creek
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful one-of-a-kind watercolor and gouache painting of boats docked along the glassy waters of Fareham creek located in England, circa 1910. Titled lower right.
Original artwo...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
CASTLE ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HILL McKAY (1875-1941)
ARCH ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA c. 1925-30
Watercolor, signed lower right. Sheet 14 x 18 inches.. Additional full sheet study on verso.. Generally good c...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage French Watercolor Seascape - Cape Fréhel, Brittany, France
Located in Houston, TX
Mesmerizing watercolor of towering rock formations along Cape Fréhel in Brittany, France by S. Lefevre Goux, circa 1920. A peninsula located in the Côtes-d'Armor in northern Brittany...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Pencil Drawing of Tree
Located in Houston, TX
French pencil drawing of tree, circa 1920. The artist's perspective lends a sense of upward movement to this piece, as the tree's branches seem t...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Vintage french art - The Animated Towpath In Normandy - oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Very good overall Conditions, oil on canvas framed. Signed lower left.
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Jean Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949, ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Ocean Liner and Sailboats in Holland - Original Gouache & Watercolor painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Myer BOGGS (1855-1926)
Ocean Liner and Sailboats in Holland
Original Gouache & Watercolor painting
Signed bottom left
On paper 35 x 53 cm (c. 14 x 20 in) at view
Presented in...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Pierre Le Boeuff (fl.1899-1920) - Early 20C Watercolour, Street View, Bergues
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour painting with gouache details, depicting a street scene in the Northern French commune of Bergues. Signed to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a golden ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Watercolor Impressionist Landscape, The City of Rouen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An early 20th Century drawing and watercolour view of the city and riverscape at Rouen by French artist Georges Planes. The work is signed and dated bottom right in red ink. There is...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
“View of Bay of Naples”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original gouache on archival paper of a group of figures on an overlook viewing the Bay of Naples by the Italian artist, Maria Ada Gianni...
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Academic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape #II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape II
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Watercolor
Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Abstract Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Edward Pryne - 1928 Watercolour, The Convent Grounds
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study depicting figures gathering on the sunlit grounds of a convent. The morning set beams through the wrought iron gate and casts a warmth over the figures...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$262 Sale Price
20% Off
'Evening Fishing', Sunset River Landscape, Chicago Society of Artists, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'.
Bearing old framing label: Ferguson Art Shop, Flint, Mi...
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Tonalist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Alfred Thomas Fisher (b.1861) - Watercolour, Meandering River
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with a fluted cove. On paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$272 Sale Price
20% Off
View of Sankt Moritz - Watercolor on paper by H. B. Wieland - 1900/1920
By Hans Beat Wieland
Located in Roma, IT
Rare and finely painted view of Saint Moritz, watercolor on paper realized by Hans Beatus Wieland between 1890 and 1920.
Very good conditions.
Wieland was...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bridge on the River - Charcoal and Pencil by E.-L. Minet - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
Bridge on the River is a beautiful drawing in pencil and charcoal realized by the French painter Emile-Louis Minet in 1919. The state of preservation is very good, except for a small...
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Naturalistic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
The Road To Cliff Fowey Cornwall Lamorna Valley Colony Cornish Plein Air Art
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Stanley Horace Gardiner.
English ( b.1887 - d.1952 ).
The Road To Cliff, Nr Fowey, Cornwall 1926.
Watercolor.
Signed & Dated 1926 Lower Left.
Image size 13.4 inches x 11.4 inches ( 3...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Boats at Low Tide", Early 20th Century Coastal Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic early 20th century seascape of small boats on the shore by Melvena M. Wade, pioneer California watercolor artist (Canadian/America...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Autumn Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century landscape watercolor by E. Camren (American, 19th-20th Century). This 1908 landscape features a grassy meadow dotted with autumn trees and small houses i...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Colon [Panama]
Located in New York, NY
Reynolds Beal painted this watercolor entitled “Colon” [Panama] in the spring of 1923. The paper size of this painting is 7 x 10" (17.7 x 25.3 cm). It is signed, titled, and dated ...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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Coastal Landscape
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
A painter who has lived amid and loved the subject matter of his art, Jorgensen’s pictures of the Yosemite Valley and the Missions of California are monuments of early art in this co...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Alpine Landscape in Piedmont', Munich School Professor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hans Blum' (German, 1858-1942) and painted circa 1911.
Provenance: Exhibited, 'Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft', München 1911 ('Anniversary Exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative'). Label verso.
Hans Blum studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Ludwig von Löfftz and Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger. He first worked as a portraitist in Nuremberg but later turned to genre painting, which he often carried out in the style of plein-air painting. Blum exhibited his Italian alpine...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
$2,112 Sale Price
35% Off
The Border - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Border is an original watercolor drawing on paper, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower, illegible.
Good condition.
The artwork...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paris Cityscape - Original Pencil on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pros Cityscape is an original pencil drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the early 20th Century.
In good conditions except for some small cutaways on margins.
Not signed.
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Early Modern Watercolor Impressionist Landscape with Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Early 20th century landscape watercolor painting of an open field with trees done in an impressionistic style. Signed "H.G." in the lower right corner. Hung in a gold frame.
Dimensio...
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Naturalistic Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Glacier by Rudolf Reschreiter - Gouache on paper 35x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Gouache work on paper
New natural wooden Frame
Total size with frame is 52,5 x 67,5 cm
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$536 Sale Price
71% Off
“Summertime”
Located in Southampton, NY
Great example of the the artistic excellence of William J. Kayla and his mastery of the watercolor. Circa 1925. Signed lower left. Condition is very go...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,400 Sale Price
25% Off
Circus Lot at Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Circus Lot at Toledo, c. 1920
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 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...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Schooners, Fowey Harbour, Cornwall”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor on archival paper by the British artist, Eyres Simmons. Signed lower left. The scene is of Fowey Harbour in Cornwall, England with schooners moored in harbor. ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Cityscape - Charcoal Drawing by Jean Chapin - Early 1900
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the XX century.
Signature stamp of the artist on the lower right margin. The drawing is detached from a notebook.
The ar...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
PROVINCETOWN HOUSES
Located in Portland, ME
Cadmus, Egbert (American, 1868-1939). PROVINCETOWN HOUSES. Watercolor on heavy paper. Signed in watercolor, lower left. The scene depicts a dune with a group of houses beyond, and then, further away, the water. 18 x 22 1/8. inches (sheet). A small loss to the paper at the left edge, else in excellent condition.
Egbert Cadmus is remembered as the father of Paul Cadmus, though he had a distinguished career in his own right. There is a portrait of Paul by Egbert dated 1926, and we've seen other Provincetown drawings dated 1927, so apparently the family summered there for several seasons. In 1931 Egbert Cadmus moved to Lyme Connecticut...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Clifford John E. after Clarkson Stanfield - 1920 Watercolour, The Dogana
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour copy of the original painting by the artist Clarkson Stanfield. The scene shows a dynamic view of the Punta della Dogana from the water, with large numbers of boat...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor Antiquities Ruins
Located in Houston, TX
Pleasing watercolor of antiquities ruins, circa 1920. Artist unknown.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-sized frame. Archiva...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Low Country
Located in Houston, TX
Bucolic watercolor landscape of a unpaved road rounding past hay fields, two rabbits graze nearby by artist Evelyn Coombe, 1906. Signed and dated lower left.
Original one-of-a-kind ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Vintage French Watercolor - Red Vines
Located in Houston, TX
Eye catching watercolor of bright flowering vines covering a towering column along the serene Riviera, circa 1920.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat ...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Vintage French Landscape Drawing - Villiers Saint Paul
By Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart
Located in Houston, TX
Skillful pencil landscape drawing of travelers on the road bordering the small town of Villers-Saint-Paul north of Paris,France by artist Diogène Ulysse N. Maillart (1840-1926), 1908...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Homewards, Evening.
Located in Storrs, CT
Pencil drawing. Study for the drypoint of the same title, Appleby 20. 7 1/2 x 5 3/ (available on 1st dibs). Signed Blampied lower left.
Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Edmund Blampied was a painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor. Born in 1886 to a family of three boys in St. Martin, Jersey, Blampied became interested in drawing at an early age. After visiting the studio of John Helier Lander in 1899, Blampied decided to make a career as an artist. In 1903 he went to London to attend Lambeth Art School, where he studied etching under Walter Seymour.
In 1905, he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. In that year he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court School of Photo-engraving and Lithography.
In 1912 he left the Chronicle and established his own studio. He earned a living by illustrating novels and short stories.
In 1913, he had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. The following year he married Marianne Van Abbé.
During the 1920's, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. During the 1920s Blampied became a member of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers and exhibited in London to critical acclaim. He produced a folio of comic drawings in the 1930s which was published in New York in 1934 and another that was published in London in 1936. The Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum published a mongraph on his work. His London exhibitions were highly successful.
In 1938, he moved to Bulwarks, St.Aubin in Jersey, but at the onset of the Occupation, had to relocate to Route Orange, St. Brelade. remained there throughout World War II during the German Occupation, despite the fact that his wife was Jewish. During the Occupation he designed bank...
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Modern Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Carbon Pencil
Clifford Ellis Collage I Abstract watercolour gouache Mid-Century landscape
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of paintings from Clifford and Rosemary Ellis's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller."
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Abstract Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
John Keeley RBSA (1849-1930) - Framed Watercolour, A Valley Farm North Wales
Located in Corsham, GB
An expansive watercolour scene by British artist John Keeley. Well presented in a glazed, dark oak frame. Signed lower right. Signed and inscribed on the reverse. On paper.
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Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
