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Michael Crawley - Framed 20th Century Watercolour, Autumn Morning

20th Century

A wonderful sporting scene in watercolour, depicting Manifold shoot on peg, waiting for the curling duck over the River Hamps. The watercolour has been signed by Crawley to the lower...

A bright palette is coupled with decisive watercolour brush strokes to render a peaceful autumnal landscape. The artwork is signed in the bottom le...

An accomplished watercolour scene depicting a stream running through a country landscape. The artist has captured the scene in fine watercolour detail, highlighting the autumnal colo...

A fine watercolour painting by British artist Ralph William Bardill, depicting a winter woodland near Bettws-y-Coed. Delicate brushstrokes and a thoughtful use of colour clearly high...

The idyllic atmosphere of this country 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 (Winter Road)” is a quiet country scene depicting a road leading into the distance either going to or coming from a local farm. The snow does not particularly seem fresh suggesting a melt and the coming of spring. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservator 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...

Medium: Watercolor Painting Size: 14 x 21 inches Frame Size: 23 x 29 inches Signature: Signed Artist: Carol Barany (1935- ) About Artist: Carol Barany, an American artist, known fo...

Vintage watercolor painting features a landscape view in calm, minimal palette. The original art piece was professionally framed with double matting; it is signed by the artist in...

"Meadow," an original watercolor on paper by William Verdult, is a piece for the true collector. The artist's genius reflects a fiery artistic approach that inspires unexplored feeli...