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Period: Late 20th Century
Volcano by Michele Zalopany black and white large scale landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
Executed in black, grey and brown, this monumental charcoal and pastel painting conveys the mythic drama and beauty of an active volcano. Rising in the shape of a wide, low cone, the...
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
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Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
New Zealand
By Toni Onley
Located in Westmount, QC
Toni (Norman) Onley, Canadian, 1928 – 2004
Watercolour, 1980
11 1/2 x 15 in (sight)
signed, titled and dated across bottom
framed
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Courtship, British Couple walking in a landscape in Edwardian dress
Located in Woodbury, CT
John Strickland Goodall
John Strickland Goodall was born in Heacham, Norfolk on 7 June 1908. He was the son of a famous heart specialist whose boasted seven generations of medics, a...
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Victorian Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Cathédrale Saint Pierre, Geneva" by Jacques Tornare - Watercolor 33x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame
Total size with frame 69x88 cm
Jacques Tornare is a contemporary artist born in Switzerland and watercolor specialist.
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with House
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with House" 1973 is a watercolor on paper by American artist Rachel Bentley, 1894-1991. It is signed and dated at the lower righ...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Carmel Mission Basilica
By Jeanne A. Ocker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Carmel Mission Basilica" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Jeanne Ocker, born 1922. It is signed and dated at the...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Boats, Cascais, Portugal
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original watercolor by Dwight Baird, titled Boats, Cascais, Portugal, captures a serene and picturesque scene of fishing boats in the port of Cascais. Painted on museum board an...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
(Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape) Untitled
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
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Surrealist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$3,880 Sale Price
70% Off
English Watercolor Landscape - Garden Nook with Birdbath
Located in Houston, TX
Landscape watercolor painting of a small garden nook featuring a birdbath and trees in the background by English artist Joan Powell, circa 1990. Displayed on a white mat with a golde...
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Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bonny Doon Coastal Landscape
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor landscape of Northern California coastal mountain town Bonnie Doon by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Unsi...
Category
American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Welsh Sheepdog And Shepherd Herding Sheep A Mountain Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Malcolm Edwards.
Welsh ( b.1934 ).
Welsh Sheepdog, Shepherd & Sheep.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 8.9 inches x 19.7 inches ( 22.5cm x 50cm ).
Frame size 16.7 inches x ...
Category
Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Sun Jingyuan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing artwork in mixed media on cardboard, realized by Sun Jingyuan in 1970s.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet di...
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Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Sunflowers and Horses in Field, 20th Century Landscape Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Sunflowers in Field
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
12.5. ...
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Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The First Day At School In Rural Wales Framed Welsh Cultural Pastel Artwork
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
To School In Llanfihangel. (First Day At School).
Pastel On Paper.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 21.7 inches x 29.6 inches ( 55cm x 75cm ).
Frame...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sandy Hook Farmhouse Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm landscape by Dessie Wilcox (American, b. 1948). Signed with date and location in the lower left corner ("Dessie Wilcox '94 / Sandy Hook, Conn."). Presented in a deep wood frame ...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lake landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
California Coast with Cypress Tree
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: California Coast with Cypress
Year: c.1980
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 16 x 18.75 inches
paper: 16...
Category
American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Eagle Rock', Woman Artist, Los Angeles, California, Ashland Art Center
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'L. L. Rahm' for Laura Rahm (American, 20th century); accompanied by old exhibition label.
Matted dimensions: 14.25 x .25 x 11.75 inches.
Laura Rahm has exhibite...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
Untitled I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled I" 1998 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left by the artist. The artwork size is 14 x 17 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
7 Jeff Goodman Drawings
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Jeff Goodman (b. 1941)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1973 (all)
Country of origin; materials: American; graphite on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): various si...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - Seascape after Edouard Doigneau
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily. Lively watercolor of boats at the s...
Category
Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Gazebo
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Gazebo" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is signed and dated at the middle right corner by the artist. The image size is 14 x 17 inches, framed is 22.75 x 25.5 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past, especially the daily life in San Francisco Chinatown. No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions. Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision.
For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets. He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century California. Less well-known were his representations of the many places historically linked to the Chinese of the state and the West. To this day, few in America know about Chinese work in the fisheries, in the early wine industry, in 19th century urban industry, and in the colorful cultural life of San Francisco in the years before the Great Earthquake. At a time when most Americans thought Chinese Americans had just been laundrymen, houseboys, or Charlie Chan, characters they saw on television.
As a visual historian, he connected us with the past, but foremost he was an artist. He presented appealing scenes for the visitor to San Francisco who wanted a visual memento. He mastered Western...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape" 1975, is a watercolor on paper by Latvian artist Paul Duskins, 1928-1996. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork ...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Oil Painting by Roy Perry "A Dorset Lane"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Roy Perry "A Dorset Lane" 1935 -1993 Painter of East Anglian landscape and coastal views. Gold medal winner and member at the Royal Institute. Patrons include the Ki...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
“Work Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a sailboat with a trailing dory heading out to sea. Attributed to the hand of Alexander Yaron. Signed lower right and dated 1980. Condition is excellent. Under glass. The artwork is matted and housed in a rounded front edge solid oak wood frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 34 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida gentleman.
Alexander A. Yaron was born in Estonia in 1910, lived in China and the Philippines before moving to the United States in the 1950’s. He lived in New York as well as in Anaheim, California where he has a working studio. An autodidact and a versatile commercial artist, Alexander Yaron applied his talent in portraiture, photography, interior design, advertising, layout and illustration. His best known projects were illustrated art...
Category
American Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,480 Sale Price
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Mary Fedden 1970 watercolour Moonlight at Cappadocia Modern British Art
By Mary Fedden
Located in London, GB
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Mary Fedden (1915-2012)
Moonlight at Cappadocia
Watercolour
18 x 13 cm
Signed and dated lower left
Lonely Planet...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Bridges of the Tiber - Original Oil Paste by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Bridges of the Tiber is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s.
Original colored oily pastels on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on th...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Mount Washington Farmhouse, Watercolor Landscape with Barn
Located in Soquel, CA
Scenic countryside landscape of a barn and cows in front of Mount Washington by Mark Henthorn (American, 1943-2018), 1980.
Signed and dated "Henthorn '80" lower left.
Displayed in rustic wood frame.
Image size, 12"H x 16"L.
Mark Henthorn was an American painter with a love of nature and strong respect for light. His work depicts a mood of peace and serenity seen in the spaciousness of the Western landscape. He spent over thirty years as an award-winning architect and illustrator. His art has been displayed in galleries in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and in the Port Townsend...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
State of Grace
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: State of Grace
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
Size, ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Tower Bridge, London - Abstracted Urban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic pastel drawing of Tower Bridge in London by Allie William "Bill" Skelton (American, 1942-1986). Signed and dated in pencil by the artist in the lower right corner. Unframed.
Allie William “Bill” Skelton (American, 1942-1986) was a painter and sculptor active in San Francisco who was involved in the gay art...
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Expressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
The Tiber - Original Oil Pastels by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The River is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s.
Original colored oil pastels on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right co...
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Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Tropical Dream - Original Handsigned Watercolor, Gouache and Ink Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice Genis
Tropical Dream
Original watercolor, gouache and ink painting
Handsigned in ink
On paper, 33 x 26,5 cm (c. 12,9 x 10,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Fauvist Watercolor Landscape with Weeping Willow Tree
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid, imaginative colors whirl and swirl together to form this whimsical Fauvist abstracted landscape watercolor, featuring a beautiful weeping willow tree...
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Fauvist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sailboats on the edge of a Cyclades island in the Aegean Sea
By Konstantinos Sofianopoulos
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
48.5 x 58 x 2 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Watercolor - Charming Path of Enchantment through the Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Captivating watercolor painting of a small foot path edged by a dense forest and leading to a sunlit clearing by artist Wilheim Kloden, circa 1990.
Original artwork on paper displa...
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Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Roman Bridges on the Tiber - Original Ol Pastel by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Bridges on the Tiber is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s.
Original colored oil pastels on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on t...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker
By Eldon Dedini
Located in Soquel, CA
Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker
An original watercolor illustration for The New Yorker...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape of Provence in France - Late 20th Century Watercolour by Muriel Archer
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Wintry Landscape, Landscapes Watercolor by Ari Gradus
By Ari Gradus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Wintry Landscape, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor, signed, Size: 15 in. x 20 in. (38.1 cm x 50.8 cm), Frame Size: 2...
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Folk Art Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Earl Scwaiger's Barn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Earl Scwaiger's Barn" c.1980 is a watercolor on paper by American artist W. Ralph Murray, 1932-2009. It is signed at the lower righ...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sans Souci - 21 century Figurative Watercolor painting, Architecture, Realistic
Located in Warsaw, PL
WŁODZIMIERZ KARCZMARZYK (born in 1930) Painter and an architect. He studied at KUL in Lublin, Academy of Fine Arts and University of Technology in Warsaw. Long-term professor of draw...
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Other Art Style Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Watercolor - Viridescent Garden
Located in Houston, TX
Soothing French watercolor of a figure working in a large lush garden hued in a soft green by artist Francois Kamel, 1971.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a...
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Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Trees, Large Psychedelic Watercolor Painting by Richard Karwoski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trees
Richard C. Karwoski, American (1938–1993)
Date: 1984
Watercolor on Canvas, signed
Size: 50 x 67 in. (127 x 170.18 cm)
Category
Abstract Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Canvas
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstracted Mountain Range Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor painting of abstracted mountains by Aptos, California artist Virginia J. Hughins (American, 1923-2004), circa 1970. Unsigned and unframed. Image size, 16"H x 20"L...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Reading on the Park Bench
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative watercolor of a figure reading outside a doorway by California Watercolor artist G. Robinson (American, 20th Century). Signed "G Robinson...
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American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Peaceful Valley', Country Landscape, National Veterans Creative Arts Festival
By Albert Blaisdell
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Albert Blaisdell' and painted circa 1975.
A watercolor and cartoon artist, Albert Blaisdell began his career in art after being wounded in combat in the Palau I...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wharf, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Wharf, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower left, Image Size: 20 x 27.5 inches, Size: 26 x 33.5 in. (...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Docked Gondolas, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Docked Gondolas, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower right, Size: 19 x 24.5 in. (4...
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Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gemeentehuis Breukelen, The Dutch House, Brooklyn, Breukelen
Located in Cotignac, FR
Dutch Watercolour classical building portrait by Tineke Goedhart. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and resigned, dated and located on t...
Category
Romantic Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Farmhouse, Modern Watercolor on paper by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Farmhouse, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right, Size: 19.5 x 27 in. (49.53 x...
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Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Seascape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is a China Ink Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white paper.
No signature, dated on the lower right corner.
Reynol...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Leo Guida in 1972.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Concrete Plant
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: The concrete Plant
Year: c.1970
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 11.25 x...
Category
American Impressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Kenneth Rowntree: 'Abstract Australian Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Rowntree
Abstract Australian Landscape
Watercolour
27.5 x 33cm
Signed (top left) and dated ‘Kenneth Rowntree ’85’
Provenance: Anderson & Garland Studio sale of Kenneth Rowntree lot 263 Tuesday 8 September 2009
For biographical details and other works by Rowntree click here.
Rowntree visited Australia in 1984/85. In this painting he picks up various vignettes from the Australian landscape in six separate blocks. Two relate to the sky, with almost-unbroken blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, three relate to desert areas, with a whole array of different textures, and one is a luscious green. In one of the desert scenes he has picked out two road signs, in typical Rowntree fashion, reducing them to their simplest form. In her essay Kenneth Rowntree: A Strange Simplicity (published in Kenneth Rowntree A Centenary Exhibition Published by Moore-Gwyn Fine Art and Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, on behalf of the artist’s estate, on the occasion of the centenary of Kenneth Rowntree’s birth) Alexandra Harris makes reference to this painting noting:
"Later, in 1986, just when the young David Hockney was collaging the signs and road-markings of Route 138 in Pearblossom Highway, Rowntree was in Australia painting yellow diamond-shaped road-signs as bright icons in open country. Wherever he went, Rowntree captured both the unfamiliarity of places and their relationship to things he knew. Heading into the Australian outback, he painted a road-sign as he would paint a rail signal at Clare in Suffolk or nautical markers at Swansea."
Hockney’s 1986 Pearblossom Highway may be seen in the Getty and it is worth noting that Rowntree was in fact painting the yellow sign in 1985, so a year before Hockney.
Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997)
Rowntree was born in Scarborough and educated in York where his father managed the local department store. Young Kenneth’s work was displayed there and his first major commission arose from an advertisement at the store. After the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he studied at the Slade School, meeting Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden and then moving to north Essex to work with them as members of the group of Great Bardfield Artists.
Between 1940 and 1943 he was one of the team of over 60 artists engaged by the War Artists Advisory Committee for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, to record the face of England and Wales before wartime action – or development – changed it for ever. Rowntree’s keen sense of design, and fascination with the quirky and the vernacular made him an ideal candidate to interpret our built heritage’s more unusual aspects.
In 1951 he painted murals in the Lion and Unicorn pavilion for the Festival of Britain, he decorated the route of the Queen’s Coronation procession (some of the works being acquired by Her Majesty).
During a teaching job at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he was driven, perhaps by his experiences recording Britain, to record the decorated barges that belonged to the Oxford Colleges. These wooden Victorian ceremonial barges had belonged to the London livery companies, but were acquired in their later life by the Colleges to be used as changing rooms and clubhouses for the College boat clubs – depending on the size of the barge rowing eights were stored on board too. Part way through painting one of them Rowntree thought his drawing incorrect until he realised that it was the boat that was moving. It was in fact sinking. These days the Colleges have modern (but unromantic) boat houses; a handful of the barges remain – restored – in private hands.
In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle (latterly part of the University), which as British art schools went was one of the most progressive. The Master of Painting was the abstract constructionist Victor Passmore...
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Abstract Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Cactus, Pyramid, and Rainbow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original oil pastel on archival paper by the American artist, Tom Rickers. San Francisco school. Abstract with Signed and dated lower right 1977. Condition is ex...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
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“Two Points of View” Original Pastel Drawing, 1997
Located in Soquel, CA
“Two Points of View” Original Pastel Drawing, c. 1997
This pastel drawing shows the artist’s command of perspective in landscape and architecture. An impressive lodge stands strong ...
Category
American Realist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977
Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker
14 × 11 1/4 inches
Boldly signed in black marker o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Lake Mead Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
Lively watercolor painting of a woman enjoying the lakeside.
Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-sized frame. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Purple & Yellow Modern Urban Abstract
By Carl E. Schwartz
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern and bright urban abstract in yellow & purple by Carl E. Schwartz (American, 1935-2014), c.1970s. Signed "Schwartz" lower right. Presented in a silver metal frame. Image size: ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
