Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Nathaniel Dirk, 'Cape Ann Harbor View', vintage watercolor on watercolor paper, 1948. A fine, spontaneous rendering, with fresh, undiminished colors, in very good condition; the arti...

Cubist Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches condition: very good and ready to...

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...

Work on paper Brown wooden frame with glass pane 51.7 x 41 x 1.5 cm

Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 14 inches (height) x 10 inches (width) Signed: Yes Condition: Sound condition, with some minor signs of foxing visible Provenance: Privat...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on card, unframed painting: 18 x 22 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: very good a...

French watercolor mingles old world charm with impressionistic street view and colorful shop fronts, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold b...

Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Town and sea View with Sunlit Trees Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (height) x ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - City Island, Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 20.5 in. x 13.5 in. (52.07 cm x 34.29 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's rendering o...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine House (33), Year: circa 1959, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 11 in. (38.1 cm x 27.94 cm), Description: Looking up at a three-...

French Landscape by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15 x 16.75 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and soun...

French Landscape by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 8 x 10 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound co...

Abu Bakar Ibrahim (1925-1977) - original watercolour. Malaysian village scene with farmer riding an oxen drawn cart. To the background sits a traditional Mal...

"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...

Tall French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper , unframed size: 18.5 x 12.5 inches condition: very good and r...

Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) Title: Fulton Street (P5.31) Year: 1961 Medium: Watercolor on Paper Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm)

Shower at Head of Valley, c. 1950 Watercolor on paper 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...

Richly-hued oil pastel drawing of boats docked in a European harbor by artist E. Bachmann, 1955. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pla...

Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7 inches (height) x 9.75 inches (width) Signed: Yes Condition: Sound condition Provenance: Private collection Description: This watercol...

"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance Arthur Dove (1880-1946) "Barns" 5 x 7 inches Watercolor on paper, 19...

Serene watercolor landscape painting of river valley by French artist Tae, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bo...

Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 10 inches (height) x 14 inches (width) Signed: No Condition: Sound condition, with some minor marks around where the mounting sits. Prove...

Lovely pastoral landscape of beautiful spring blossoms lining a quiet country lane by Jay Simm (American, 20th Century), c. 1960s. The delicate light pink flowers of the orchard in b...

Le Quai des Strasbourg Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour, ink on paper, mounted in a card frame inscribed verso card frame: 14 x 17 inches painting: 9 x 12 inches...

Signed lower center, 'Geo Marzan' and painted circa 1965. Panoramic sunset view of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, with numerous fishing vessels and pleasure boats, and Victoria Peak risin...

NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) New York City Skyline 14 x 21 1/2 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1...

Born in Boston in 1928, painter Laurence P. Sisson lived most of his life in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Sisson studied at the Worcester Art Museum School, Yale Summer School and was the...

WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed original brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1950. WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES is an original watercolor brush and ink on paper, hand signed in ink pen by African-American artist, teacher, and printmaker Ronald Joseph (1910--1992) Artwork depicts an abstract landscape, is in good condition, paper tape remaining on reverse side edges, mounted in an archival acid-free mat, unframed. Artwork paper size - 18 x 21.5 in. Year created - c. 1950 About the artist - Ronald Joseph (1910 -1992) was born on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies In 1910. When he was very young, his mother decided to move to the United States but she could not afford to take him with her. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Joseph, a childless couple who were friends of Joseph’s mother, adopted him. Afterwards, the Joseph family moved to the Island of Dominica, where they stayed for ten years. In 1921, his foster parents also decided to come to the United States. In New York, Joseph met his mother but remained living with his foster parents. In 1926 Ronald Joseph received a scholarship for the Ethical Culture School, were he spent two and half years of his high school period. At this time he obtained an art scholarship through Dr. Henry Fritz, with whom he became acquainted through his art teacher in public school. Joseph was taken into the Saturday art class, where he was the only black participant. An artistic prodigy, Ronald Joseph had his student works shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ronald Joseph graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1929. He was honored as “the most promising” young artist in New York City’s schools. He began his study at Pratt Institute in 1931 and graduated in 1934. During the 1930s and 1940s, Joseph participated in many exhibitions of African-American art, the Works Progress Administration mural project, and the Harlem Artists Guild. Ronald Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the declaration of World War II and was posted as a member of the ground crew in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Michigan. At the end of the war in 1945, he received his G. I. Bill of Rights scholarship. In 1948, he was presented with the Rosenwald Fellowship. The funds allowed him to live and work abroad – first in Peru for two years, then in Paris. Joseph used the G.I. bill to study in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. He described this period of his life as being “independent of economy”. His work from these travels is largely undocumented; according to Rosenwald scholar, Daniel Schulman, many pieces of art are undated or simply dated “1948-1952”. After this period he came back to New York without money and work and indicated this as period of hardship. Ronald Joseph left the U.S. in 1956, disappointed in the unreceptiveness of the art world to his work with mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he felt guilty for having left the U.S. during a period when blacks were struggling for their civil rights; on the other, he felt “lucky” to have been able to live and work in place where he did not feel discrimination as intensely. He emigrated to Belgium and later settled permanently in Brussels. Ronald Joseph was married to Claire Joseph and they had a son, Robin Joseph. In 1989 Joseph returned to the United States after an absence of thirty-three years to attend the Lehman College exhibition and symposium and to renew his old friendships. Afterward, he returned to Brussels where he continued to work as a painter, living there for the remainder of his life. Ronald Joseph started his artistic career in Harlem, New York City at the Harlem Community Arts Center, where he was one of the youngest pupils. Joseph studied lithography and other printmaking techniques with Riva Helfond, who taught him many aspects of the process based on simple techniques, including how to operate the press, and how to prepare the stones. Helfond played a significant role as a teacher of lithography at the Harlem Art Center. Joseph produced his first lithographs under her supervision, and this was at a time when she was just beginning to learn the medium herself. At the Harlem Community Arts Center Joseph met Robert Blackburn, who was his classmate. In 1937 Ronald Joseph depicted Blackburn, in one of his most famous works, that is now located at The Metropolitan Museum collection. Experimenting with lithography and etching, as well as woodblock and silkscreen printing, Joseph explored the techniques of printmaking alongside his friend Robert Blackburn. Joseph described the Harlem Art Center as a “healthy and lively” place, where he had made wonderful friends. In the late thirties, he also served as a teacher at the Harlem Community Arts Center. There Joseph met younger artist Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight. They formed a friendship, where they enjoyed conversations and visiting museums together. Both Joseph and Knight would hire Lawrence to pose for them. Jacob Lawrence considered Ronald Joseph to be a very intellectual artist. In the 1930s, Joseph became chairman of the Harlem Artists Guild and represented it in Washington with Stuart Davis and Hugo Gellert. Ronald Joseph was also a participant in the mural section of WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940). Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by Picasso, Braque and other European artists while most of his contemporaries focused on social realism. By 1943, he was hailed by art historian James Porter as New York’s “foremost Negro abstractionist painter”. His pastels and gouaches from the late forties and early fifties showed a highly structured abstraction combined with a studied spontaneity. Ronald Joseph’s finely tuned abstractions often incorporated representational elements along with apparently “purer” forms. He described this aspect of his work in these terms: “It’s not abstract and abstract at the same time. It’s pure creation.” His works from the 1950s employed both still life and landscape as pretexts for masterly exercises in nearly abstract pictorial construction related to cubism and fauvism. During World War II, Joseph was drafted. After the war he formed “a kind of a group” with Robert Blackburn, Charles White, Larry Potter, and Reginald Gammon...

Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings. Jean-Ray...

Artist: Yohanan Simon (1905-1976) Title: Landscape Medium: Gouache on paper laid to card Date: 1962 Signature: Signed and dated in Hebrew Paper Size: 16.75 x 21 inches Frame Size: 24...

Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame. The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy. The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west: the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia . Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - City Street and City Buildings Study (41), Year: 1953, Medium: Two-Sided Watercolor and Pencil Drawing, Size: 12.5 in. x 13.5 in. (31.75...

Hubert Finney (1905 – 1991) Blitz Site with St Paul's Cathedral Charcoal, coloured pencil and pastel 35 x 52 cm A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney stu...

Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting by the American artist, James Milton Sessions. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. The landscape is of a Novia Scotia pastoral landscape. Here you see horses grazing and two men fishing nearby. The watercolor is in excellent original condition and is beautifully double matted and framed in a thin gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurement 16 by 18.25 inches. James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator. He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico. Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country. Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945. In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper. Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...

Double-sided mid century watercolor of Pleasure Point Cove, Monterey Bay by listed artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). On verso is a beautiful botanical watercolor study....

Signed lower right, "M. Backman"; additionally signed verso, titled 'Corporation Yard' and painted circa 1960. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success...

Swimmer is an artwork realized  by Isidore Pils in the Mid 20th Century. China ink drawing. In good conditions. Hand-Signed.

We acquired a series of paintings from Claude Muncaster's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Claude Munca...

"Anchored" by Camille Meriot (French 1887-1975) signed and dated 63' crayon drawing on paper paper : 6.5 x 8.75 inches Fine original French Impressionist painting by the well lis...

This lovely watercolor, circa 1950, combines soft colors and impressionistic brushstrokes to provide a peaceful view of the rolling countryside. The emerald green line of trees leads...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Volcano and Arch, Taormina, 1961 Watercolor on scintilla paper Signed and dated upper right 11 x 11 inches "My last year in art schoo...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 46 x 56 x 1.3 cm

Inscribed verso, 'Gisela Embree' and Titled 'Rain'. Born in Germany in 1927, Gisela Embree immigrated to the United States in 1948. She began to study Chinese brush painting in 1975, and it became her artistic focus for the rest of her life. Embree studied art both in the United States and in China, and was a member of Gallery Saratoga and El Gatito Gallery, in Los Gatos...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Hut (P4.2), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), Description: Surrounded by trees and ...

Garden Blossom Tree by Louise Alix, French 1950's Impressionist gouache on artist paper, unframed painting: 14.5 x 12.5 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this ar...

"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...

Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Mountainous Landscape Scene Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (height) x...

Title: "Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Village with a Castle" Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: To be provided S...

Signed lower right, 'W C Watts' for William Clothier Watts (American, 1869-1961), titled verso 'Water Pagent (sic), Burma' and painted circa 1930. A characteristically kaleidoscopic work by Watts showing a view of brightly caparisoned boats and gaily-dressed participants in a traditional Burmese Water ceremony. Watts began painting early and, by the age of 18, he had exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he also studied under Thomas Anshutz and Robert Vonnoh...

To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller"; you can also search for other drawings by this artist. V A Hards...

Bright and airy watercolor of a figure in a small tropical village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displaye...

Masterful watercolor of a cathedral's spire seen through ancient streets, c.1960. Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve ...

Paris: Street Cafe Society by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed Sheet:: 9.75 x 12.5...

William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...

This artwork titled "Landscape with House, California" is a watercolor on paper by California artist Ralph Ledesma, 1910-1993. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...

Mid 20th Century drawing study on paper of a Provencale landscape by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Possibly an atelier sketch for the painting Landschap te St ...

Belgium. Gent - A Morning Market by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed and inscribed front lower right corner, inscribed and signed to the back watercolour painting on artist's ...

Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Courtyard with Stone Buildings and Garden Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (heig...

Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed and dated 47 From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947 watercolour painting on paper, unframed measu...

A delicate watercolor view of the Bridge at Aylesford over the River Medway in the English county of Kent. Signed lower left "Frank Sherwin", (English,...