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Art Subject: Nature
Rome The Tiber - Drawing by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Rome The Tiber is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s.
Original colored oily pastels on paper.
Hand ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Lungotevere - Original Oil Pastel by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lungotevere 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 left m...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
The Tiber in Rome - Original Artwork by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Sky Above Rome 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...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Along the Bridge - Original Oil Pastels by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Along the Bridge 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 l...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Bathers - Original Oil Pastels by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Bathers is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the Second half of 20th Century.
Original oil pastels on paper.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Composition - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Sun Jingyuan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing in mixed media on cardboard, realized by Sun Jingyuan in 1970s.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimension: 54.5 x ...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Landscape - Original Drawing - 1960s
By André Ragot
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape "Eolie Island" in an original artwork in watercolor realized by the French artist André Ragot ( 1894-1971).
Hand-signed by the artist on the low...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mountain Landscape - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1984
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sheet dimension: 14.8 x 23.4...
Category
1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing in Pencil on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. With a second drawing of a landscape on the rear.
The State of preservation is...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
untitled
Located in Westmount, QC
David Blackwood, Canadian, 1941-2022
Untitled
watercolour on paper
22 x 28 in
signed and dated 1981 lower right
framed
Category
Early 2000s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pencil drawing on canvas of a birch tree
Located in Oostende, BE
Pencil drawing on canvas of a birch tree
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas
The Village - Charcoal Drawing by Jean Chapin - Early 1900
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
The village is a charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the early XX century.
Signature stamp of the artist on the lower right margin. The drawing is detached from a notebook....
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Wooden Huts - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1986
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Wooden Huts is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1986 by Armin Guther.
The artwork is hand-signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the lower-right.
In excellent condition...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alpine Landscape - White Chalk on Brown Paper by M.H. Yvert - Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Landscape is an original artwork realized in the second half of the XIX century by Marie Hector Yvert.
Original pencil and white chalk on brown pap...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Thira VII Rooftops
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper
Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Col...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Grey Day Grauer Tag - Landscape Cow Germany
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 22" [1922] in the lower left image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Grauer Tag” [Grey Day] in the lower l...
Category
1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Figures in a Meadow
By William Brock
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in St. John’s Wood, London in 1874, landscape and animal painter William Brock studied at the Royal Academy and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Brock exhibited at the Royal Acade...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sweet Seasons, Original Signed Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Sweet Seasons, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting, 2020
10" x 10" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
An estuary depicted in a lovely light b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil seascape drawing black and white signed
By Bill Teeple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Full Moon & Clouds #4" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed in the lower right corner of the mat. This small image of a the moon over the water is surrounded by a large white mat, isolating this intimate work so that it may be viewed on its own.
Art size: 2" x 1 1/4"
Frame size: 14" x 11"
"I am the Director of Iowa Contemporary Art (ICON) and Bill Teeple Fine Art, in Fairfield. I have been serious about making art for 50 years, with a degree in art from the University of California at Berkeley. I have taught art in Fairfield for the past 15 years."
In the ’70s, Bill and his artist partner Lynn Durham were living in California. Their fantasy/fairy art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Contemporary Pencil Drawing on Paper - Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny
Located in Vilnius, LT
This year, the artist spent four months in residence in Paris, immersing himself in the vibrant legacy of French art. During this period, they traveled extensively, visiting places t...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Color Pencil
Forest in Laski - XXI Century, Contemporary Pastel Drawing, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
Maka Cielecka
Graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Worked in Canada and in the Netherlands as a graphic artist. In the mid-90s she began her extensive travels, including t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
'On The Beach Sanibel Island' Original Watercolor Signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'On The Beach Sanibel Island' original watercolor signed and dated by David Barnett
David Barnett an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has bee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Tree by Pond Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor landscape of a tree by the pond by Aptos, California artist Virginia Hughins (American, 1923-2004). Unsigned and unframed. Image size, 14.25"H x 19.75"L.
Hughin...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
L. Drayton - 19th Century Watercolour, Shepherd & Loggers in the Lakes
Located in Corsham, GB
Scenic landscape in watercolour. Hill Shepherd and loggers labouring in the lakes. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.
Category
19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Crossroads A-38, " Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Crossroads A-38" by Jan Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. The work is framed and matted with an off-white acid-free mat board. It is signed in the lower right corner and titled in the lower left, both in pencil. The landscape drawing shows a country road starting in the lower left and heading off into a grove of trees in the center. Vivid green grass frames the lower right, offsetting the dark green and red of the trees, while the expansive blue sky takes up the top third of the image.
Art size: 16" x 20"
Frame size: 30" x 26"
A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply with her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers.
Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture.
Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting.
Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her.
With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Old Barn
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Old Barn" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back. The i...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pigment
Country House in the Snow - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
High contrast landscape of a farm in winter by Dessie Wilcox (American, b. 1948). Signed and dated "Dessie Wilcox '94" in the lower right corner. Presen...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Afternoon Walk" Original Watercolor On Paper, Pencil-Signed by Artist
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Afternoon Walk" is an Original Watercolor On Paper by Paul Scarborough. It measures approximately 13 x 15 inches with frame and matting. The painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Coastal Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Coastal Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Serene watercolor of a coastal scene by an unknown artist named Stow. Signed "Stow" in the lower right corner. Presented in a rose mat. No f...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Sunlit Willow, " Hendricks A. Hallett, watercolor, trees, stream, ca 1890-1900
By Hendricks A. Hallett
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Hendricks Hallett studied in Antwerp and Paris. Best known for marine scenes and shorescapes of Boston Harbor, he also painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and on Mount Desert Island...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pigment
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pigment, Paper
Dark Sky III
Located in Santa Fe, NM
13x22" image size monotype, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board, paper size total 22x30".
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Dark Sky II
Located in Santa Fe, NM
13x22" image size monotype, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board, paper size total 22x30".
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Dark Sky I
Located in Santa Fe, NM
13x22" image size monotype, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board, paper size total 22x30".
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Nightfall, Original Landscape Drawing, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A stunning, colorful Texas sunset.
Keywords: Landscape & Nature
Artist Biography:
Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Laurence Forbin - Ils Paissent
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed composition on paper
Category
2010s Barbizon School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Farewell Ave in Winter (Milwaukee, WI), " Watercolor on Paper by Julia Taylor
By Julia Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farewell Ave in Winter" an original watercolor by Julia Taylor. This artwork shows a winter scene on Farwell Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the end of the street one can see the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary landscape pastel farm house pastoral scene grass trees field signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Normandy Farmhouse" is an original pastel drawing signed by Michael DeFrancesco. It depicts a red-roofed barn in a wide farm landscape.
6 1/2" x 19 1/4" art
13" x 26" frame
"As I progress in my painting, I hope to say more with less ... to leave the obvious vague ... and to paint only that which is essential ... this is my goal as an artist."
Michael Defrancesco received his Fine Arts degree from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. While at the Academy, he was fortunate to have studied under some wonderful instructors such as Bill Parks, Vern Stake, Eugene Hall, Fred Berger, and the renowned watercolorist Irving Shapiro...
Category
1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary colorful Pastel Groomed Garden Landscape flowers trees sky signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"In The Beginning 5" is an original pastel drawing by Victoria Ryan. It depicts lush gardens with flower beds and tree nurseries. The sunlight casts beautiful blue shadows and the sk...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Contemporary landscape pastel rural pastoral scene grass trees field signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Summer Fields Near Dijon" is an original pastel drawing by Michael DeFrancesco. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece depicts an expansive field under a bright blue sky.
17" x 25 1/2" art
27 1/2" x 36" frame
"As I progress in my painting, I hope to say more with less ... to leave the obvious vague ... and to paint only that which is essential ... this is my goal as an artist."
Michael Defrancesco received his Fine Arts degree from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. While at the Academy, he was fortunate to have studied under some wonderful instructors such as Bill Parks, Vern Stake, Eugene Hall, Fred Berger, and the renowned watercolorist Irving Shapiro...
Category
1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Thunder
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A powerful storm was rolling in from west Texas when I captured this image with my camera. I painted it a few years later. The original artwork is matted and frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Under the Snow
Located in Paris, IDF
White pen on grey paper
Size without passe-partout: 23 x 17 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Cattle Pond
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening.
Keywords: Landscape
Artist Biography:
Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil seascape drawing black and white signed
By Bill Teeple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Christ #5" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed in the lower right corner of the mat. This small image of a moon glowing through the clouds over the water is surrounded by a large white mat, isolating this intimate work so that it may be viewed on its own.
Art size: 2 1/4" x 1 1/4"
Frame size: 14" x 11"
"I am the Director of Iowa Contemporary Art (ICON) and Bill Teeple Fine Art, in Fairfield. I have been serious about making art for 50 years, with a degree in art from the University of California at Berkeley. I have taught art in Fairfield for the past 15 years."
In the ’70s, Bill and his artist partner Lynn Durham were living in California. Their fantasy/fairy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Pastel #2), Pastel with Ducks
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Estate of the artist, until 2018
Exhibitions
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, The Art of John Pierce Barnes (1893–1954), June 28–August 30, 2009.
A native ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape mountain grass river scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bosque del Apache, NM" is an original pastel drawing on rag paper signed by the artist Peggy Leonard. It depicts an expansive desert landscape underneath a blue sky.
21 1/2" x 29 ...
Category
1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
Ocean's Jewels, Framed Original Impressionist Seascape Pastel Painting on Paper
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Ocean's Jewels, Framed Original Contemporary Impressionist Seascape Painting, 2021
12" x 24" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
15.5" x 27.5" x 1" (HxWxD) Overall Framed Dimensions
Hand-signed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
It's Easier Said Than Done
Located in Bozeman, MT
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture.
He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Northern Island, March 31st, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Titled lower left. Signed lower right: S. Headley Van Campen
Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oil paintings are painted with the confident brushwork of a watercolorist, achieving bold i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Watercolor
Michael Crawley (b.1938) - 20th Century Watercolour, Farmyard Scene, Derbyshire
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful traditional farmyard scene with cows and a farmhand by the English artist Michael Crawley. Completed in Crawley's typical watercolour style. Well presented in an ornate ...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Art by Qui Shui - Near Far
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Kui Shui is a Chinese artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Shenzhen, China. Over the years, he researched the combination of animal spirit and image spirit to fin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
L'Étang Rivon (Forêt de Rambouillet) by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel
Located in London, GB
L' Étang Rivon (Forêt de Rambouillet) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and ...
Materials
Pastel
Ghost Ranch Encantado 1
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Wolf Lake I-8, " Desert Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake I-8" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. The signature is in the lower right and the title is in the lower left, both of which are in graphite pencil. The work is framed and matted with cream-colored acid-free mat board and museum glass. The drawing depicts a landscape in oranges, greens and blues and evokes a farm field just after harvest.
Art size: 22" x 22"
Frame size: 36.5" x 36.5"
A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life, and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply to her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers.
Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture.
Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting.
Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her.
With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
20th century conte landscape drawing sepia barn outdoor sketch pastoral signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Barn Near Big Cedar Lake #781" is an original sepia conte crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The drawing depicts an old barn surrounded by wooden fencing. The fence cuts di...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
