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'Barn with Boat Dock, ' by Unknown, Ink and Watercolor Painting

c. 20th

This framed 26.5" x 16.25" watercolor painting by artist P. Krewer depicts a rocky coastal landscape in Maine. In the foreground are several rock clusters on the coastal edge in mult...

This framed 14.25" x 17" watercolor by British artist Joseph Fred-Percy Rendell features a quiet landscape of rolling hills among a cluster of dense white clouds in a summer blue sky...

This 17.38" x 21.38" watercolor painting by Mary Howard represents a snow capped mountain and waterscape. Howard utilizes a limited color palette of only blues, creating a unified co...

This 15" x 22" watercolor on paper painting by Lisa Miceli depicts an imaginative abstracted landscape. This painting is part of the "latticeWorks Series."...

Beautiful watercolor of boats next to a dock with tall trees in the background by Mike Strouth (American, 20th Century). Signed "Strouth" lower ri...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

Robert Freiman "Boats at Harbor" Original Watercolor C.1970 Dimensions 16" wide x 12" high The period frame measures 26" wide x 22" high Signed in the lower right corner Good vin...

C. 20th Century Justin Faivre " House on the docks " Done in Watercolor