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Style: American Modern
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely completed during the artist's trip to Mexico in 1944 after rec...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, early 20th century watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 19.5 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...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
“Rocky Mountain Meadow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a Rocky Mountain Meadow by the well known American artist, Werner Drewes. Signed lower right. Titled and dated 1956 on verso of sheet. Con...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,800 Sale Price
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A Vivid, Expansive Watercolor of Mexico, Summer Landscape with Country Villa
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vivid, Expansive Watercolor of Mexico, "Summer Landscape with Country Villa" by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely depicts a picturesque country estate near ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
A Compelling Landscape of Morocco with Standing Shrouded Figure by Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, Mid-Century Modern Landscape of Morocco with Standing Shrouded Figure by Andre Delfau (Fr./Am. 1914-2000). Gouache on paper, dating circa 1948.
Artwork size: 5 x 2 3/...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
"Through the Trees" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Through the Trees" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Excellent Provenance
Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
"Through the Trees"
5 x 7
Watercolor on paper, 1938
Singed lower center
Framed: 1...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Cliffs at Paramé, France, 20th century seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs at Paramé, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 17.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. I am proud to present an original watercolour painting by the artist which dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a father who became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard.
He career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian, bringing her to France for the first time. The French were appreciative of her paintings and talent and Loïs Mailou Jones was thrilled at the country’s racial tolerance, so different from her reality in the United States.
She summered in France annually from 1945 to 1953, sharing studio with her lifelong friend Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France.
It was during one of these sojourns that the lovely work presented here was created.
Our painting depicts the village of Tourettes sur Loup, just north of Nice, in the Provence Cote d'Azur region, about 14 miles from Cabris.
Please note its similarities with her painting "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées" in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her portrayal of the picturesque village nestled in a valley evokes landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne, a stylistic influence she acknowledged.
Over the course of the following 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France.At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris...
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Mid-19th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of the famed fishing village (and renowned surfing locale) of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, this vivid waterco...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
Lull in Summer Rain
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York;
DC Moore Gallery, New York;
Private collection, Ireland, until 2012
Exhibitions
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Charles Burchfield Paintings, 19...
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1910s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
With the artist's original presentation (Frame and matting)
Two similar titles were exhibited in The ...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Watercolor Painting American Modern Impressionist Landscape Framed 1940 colorful
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Lakeside Picnic, c. 1940s–50s
Watercolor on paper
Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W
Presented in a contemporary gold frame with archival mat
Brimming with light an...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965)
Hydrangeas, circa 1950
Mixed media on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey
Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021
Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art.
The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot.
But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience.
But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed.
In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Crayon
1941 Watercolor of Chicago's Old Town, Titled "Wells & Eugenie" by Albert Rudin
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful 1941 watercolor of Chicago's Old Town neighborhood that features an old car, titled "Wells & Eugenie" by Albert Rudin. Image size: 11 1/2" x 15 1/2". Framed size: 18"...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Beachside Village, Maine, 20th century landscape watercolor, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Beachside Village, Maine
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
10 x 14 inches
17.75 x 21.75 inches, framed
A major painter of American ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
A Vibrant Modern Watercolor, "Garden in a City Park" by Noted Artist Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Modern Watercolor, "Garden in a City Park" by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Painted in the 1960s, most likely depicting a city garden in Europe, Mexico o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in the proto-pop art style Davis is celebrated for, 1938, signed to lower right, framed. Image: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches. Frame by Bark: 18 1/2 x 22 inches.
LITERATURE: A, Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis, A Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. 2, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. II, p. 632, no. 1232, illustrated.
EXHIBITIONS: ACA Galleries, New York American Artists' Congress: Group Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Dec. 3-16, 1939 (SDAB I, 12/3/39, p. 129). Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh, Stuart Davis, Mar. 3-16, 1946. Coleman Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 5 Prodigal Sons: Former Philadelphia Artists: Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Julian Levi, Charles Sheeler, Oct 4 - 30, 1947 (pamphlet), no. 12.
PROVENANCE: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowles, New York, Apr. 3, 1956; thence by descent, Private Collection, New York.
NOTES: According to the Catalogue Raissonne, "the title 'Street Signs' is recorded in the artist's account books...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache, Pencil
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Steel Workers
Textile design
19 1/4 X ...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Board
1930s WPA Era Graphite Drawing, American Modern City Scene of Houses on Hill, CO
Located in Denver, CO
Graphite on paper drawing by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), circa 1935, featuring a modernist cityscape of houses on a hill in Colorado. This artwork, created during the 1930s ...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Canyon with Bridge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gordena Parker Jackson (1900 - 1993), Canyon with Bridge, 1939, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 17 ½ x 13 inches (sight), inscription verso reads: “Watercolor Competition Show / Washington D. C. 1940 [or 1941] F. W. A.”
Gordena Parker Jackson was a California painter, graphic artist, craftsperson, and designer. A native of Pleasanton, Jackson studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts and lived much of her life in the Bay Area. In 1925, she married fellow artist Frederic Osman Jackson...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Scene, New York City by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Dynamic 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Lower Manhattan, New York City by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). The image is watercolor, pastel and c...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Brookdale, New Jersey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brookdale, New Jersey
Graphite on paper, 1922
Signed with the artist's initials l.l., and dated 1922 (see photo)
Annotated "Brookdale" front and back of sheet
Condition: Excellent
Ar...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Play Ball
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
12 x 8 inches (sight)
Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches
Gouache on board
Estate sticker verso
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Board
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work.
Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9
A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
1930s Watercolor of a Chicago Rail Yard by Notable Chicago Artist Tunis Ponsen
By Tunis Ponsen
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s Watercolor titled "Chicago Rail Yard" by important Chicago/Michigan artist Tunis Ponsen. Image size: 10 1/2" x 15 1/2". Framed size: 18" x 23 1/2". This watercolor comes...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Watercolor of Village Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Watercolor of Village Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Depicting a tropical hillside village of terracotta rooftops nestled beside a...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, Early 20th Century East Coast Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 19.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
Gouache and watercolor on paper, c. 1950
Signed with the estate stamp signature lower left (see photo)
This is a preliminary study for a large exhibition painting...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
'San Francisco', Mid-century California Modernist, SFMOMA, Whitney Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant expressionist watercolor showing a view of San Francisco and the bay contrasted against a semi-abstracted colorist background.
Signed lower right, 'Provenzano' for Sam Pr...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
A Colorful, Door County, Wis. Harbor Scene by Noted Chicago Artist Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Great Lakes Harbor Scene by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. This charming watercolor, completed in the early 1950's, depicts a wonderfu...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Modern Painting American interior table scape Framed Red Stripe B&W
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Still Life with Striped Wall
Acrylic on panel
Framed dimensions: 24 in. H × 26 in. W
Contemporary black frame
Dorothy Rivo’s Still Life with Striped Wall distills the s...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Snow in the Forest, 1945
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 23.75 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook C...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
'Industrial Landscape'
By Wesley Wright
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
John Marin (1870-1953)
Brooklyn Bridge
7 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches
Graphite on paper
Signed lower right, c. 1...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
1930s WPA Era Watercolor Painting of Horses in a Southwest Landscape
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
Immerse yourself in the beauty of the American Southwest with this stunning vintage painting by renowned artist Lloyd Moylan (1893–1963). This masterful watercolor and gouache on pap...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache
John Lear Male Nude American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Gay Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
John Brock Lear, Jr., an American Modernist artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the D...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
William Sanderson, Fascists
Located in New York, NY
Latvia-born William Sanderson became a contributor to the New Yorker and New Masses magazines during the 1930s. He was drafted into the Army during World Wa...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
A ca. 1940s Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a City Scene by Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1940s graphite on paper mural study of a Chicago city scene by notable Modern artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Artwork size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4". Archivally matted to 18" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue El at 8th Street
13 x 18 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Koi, golden fish, pastel drawing water, nature, abstract reflection
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1983-84 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
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2010s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Watercolor of Doylestown, PA by Ranulph Bye
Located in New York, NY
Ranulph Bye (American, 1916-2003)
Rocks and Trees (Doylestown, PA), 1958
Watercolor on paper
14 x 21 in.
Framed: 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.
Signed bottom: Ranulph...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
An Exquisite Mid-Century Watercolor of Rome, ca. 1960 by Artist George Yelich
Located in Chicago, IL
An exquisite blue-toned, Mid-Century watercolor, titled "Rome", ca. 1960 by Chicago artist George Yelich. The watercolor depicts the Foro Traiano; Trajan Column, and Churches of San...
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1960s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A 1926 Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree & Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 12" x 9". Archivally matted to 14" x 16".
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in F...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
"Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism, 20 x 14 inches. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1938. Signed...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Belleville, NJ
Located in London, GB
The Modernist painter Oscar Bluemner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1867. As a young man, he followed in the architectural careers of his father and grandfather. In the early 1880s...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
1930s Cheerful Watercolor of a Chicago Street Scene by Constantine Pougialis
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s cheerful & colorful watercolor depicting a Chicago Street scene by artist Constantine Pougialis. Image size: 15" x 22". Painting bears its original frame, which measures 21...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
By Fred Nagler
Located in Dallas, TX
Fred Nagler was born in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first studied wood carving. From 1914 to 1917, he studied at The Art Students League of New York, where his prof...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp lower right
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue Elevated
19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed an...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Mid Century Inspired Blue & Green Toned Neighborhood Aerial Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century inspired aerial landscape pastel drawing by contemporary artist R. Michael Wommack. The work features a birds eye view of a planned neighborhood at night with glowing swi...
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2010s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves, " Watercolor & Gouache on Paper signed by Doris Lee
By Doris Lee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves" is an original watercolor and gouache painting on paper by Doris Lee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts boats and other objects on a f...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Green Landscape, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, circa 1926
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Green Landscape" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted landscape painting. The 17.5" x 23.5" watercolor and ink on paper is signed...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Maples in Autumn Foliage
By John Marin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John Marin’s long and prolific career is best marked by his fervent love of painting and abiding belief that art must relate to lived experiences. His best work strikes a delicate ba...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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