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Medium: Graphite
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Graphite
$3,125
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Male Nude, Back View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Male Nude, Back View
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on pale blue/grey artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.75 x 12 inches
provenance...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Silent Wing, Great Horned Owl
Located in Burlingame, CA
From her studio in Carmel by the Sea, Manchester draws inspiration from flight and the poetry of the natural world. Her recent Conté and pastel drawings, “Silent Wing, Great Horned O...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Graphite, Pastel
Countably Infinite. Abstract mixed media painting on Awagami paper
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Traces of lived experiences appear in On Hansen's works, exploring the possibilities of formal abstraction and seeking an organic experience between space and time through painting and photography.
“There is no longer a single idea that explains everything, but rather an infinity of essences that give meaning to an infinity of objects. The world stops, but it also lights up.” - Albert Camus...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Washi Paper, Graphite
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
Located in New York, NY
Walter Darby Bannard
Ammersee #2, 1975
Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper
Signed, titled and dated lower recto
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...
Category
1970s Color-Field Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
First Floor Biogram
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : First Floor Biogram
Materials : Acrylic, gouache, oil pastel, marker, charcoal, graphite, and conté crayon on paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 24 x 18 x .1 in.
Description : ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Permanent Marker, Oil Pastel, Paint, Graphite, Watercolor, Temper...
$599 Sale Price
51% Off
"White Square"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Burgoyne Diller (1906 – 1965).
Born in New York City in 1906, Burgoyne Diller began drawing when he was stri...
Category
1960s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
Dandelion Pair, Fine Graphite Botanical Artwork on Black Paper
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Single Feather
Located in Burlingame, CA
From her studio in Carmel by the Sea, Manchester draws inspiration from flight and the poetry of the natural world. Her recent Conté and pastel drawings, “Singular Feather,” is portr...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Pastel, Graphite
Chapter Fine Focus - Contemporary Pencil Drawing Moths on Braid of Hair, 2017
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary pencil drawing by Francine Fox of two meticulously detailed moths on a knotted braid of hair is inspired by the mystical animal and natural world. At 6 x 4 inches, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
After Raphael (1483-1520) - 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Madonna of the Fish
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and precise study of Raphael's *Madonna of the Fish* (1513) in graphite. Affixed to a blue paper backing. Unsigned. On laid paper.
Category
19th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
William Henry Ladd - Early 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Woman in Profile
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed. Presented in a black frame and floating mount. On paper.
Category
20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Surrounding Water XV
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cuban, b. 1974
Antonio Espinosa is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary artist born in Manzanillo, Cuba in 1974. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (University of Arts of Cu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Jeanne-marie Barbey (1876-1960), Trees in Winter, Brown ink wash
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeanne-Marie BARBEY (1876-1960)
Trees in winter
Brown ink wash and graphite pencil on paper
Signed lower right
26 x 20 cm
frame 46 x 40 cm
Born Louise Jeanne Marie Barbée in 1876 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
1960s American Pop Art hyperrealist drawing Lucky Strike
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking pop art drawing, dating from the 1960s, featuring lettering and a packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Pop art as art movement emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 196...
Category
1960s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study of a Standing Male Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Drawing of a Standing Male Nude by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed figure study drawing of a standing male nu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed on reverse
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
Ernest Proctor
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of a scientist, Ernest was educated at Bootham Friends' School in York and then came to Newlyn in 1907 to study with Stanhope Forbes. He quickly become recognized as the best student of the School. He acted as Assistant to Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes...
Category
20th Century Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Paysage by Paulémile Pissarro, circa 1934 - graphite on paper
Located in London, GB
ARTWORK SOLD UNFRAMED
Paysage by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower middle, Paulémile-Pissarro-
Executed circa 1934...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
French Money, unique signed drawing with collage Pop artist Larry Rivers, Framed
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
French Money, ca. 1966
Original graphite drawing with collage
Boldly signed in graphite pencil in the center of this collage.
Larry Rivers original, unique drawing with ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Synthesized musical harp, poetic abstraction, blue and garnet canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Dandelion, Fine Graphite Botanical Artwork on Black Paper
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Mid 20th Century, Wales, Caernarfon Castle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wales: Caernarfon Castle
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower right, inscribed and signed to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image 9.5 ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Theater and stage forms, red, blue, and yellow, Bauhaus on canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Vogue Magazine Illustration Turn of the Century - Woman Illustrator
By Helen Dryden
Located in Miami, FL
Early in the artist's career most likely for Vogue Magazine. Signed lower left. Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1...
Category
1910s Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Gouache
Thunderbolts - Contemporary Drawing Lightning Snowflake Branches Pattern, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing in ink, colored pencil and graphite on archival Fabriano Artistico Paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with yellow, teal ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Cloud (red)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein.
Always working with graphite and charcoal, Robbie Cornelissen’s limited palette emphasises the stark sombre nature of his metaphysical drawings, The Undertow is his sixth solo exhibition at Art Mûr. At the centre of the exhibition hovers Terra Nova, a dark and desolate world parallel to our own. Robbie Cornelissen’s drawings, such as The Space of Absence and Thriller, seem to pull from the stop motion’s frames. Other images, made especially for The Undertow isolate key fragments; the cloud, mounds and timeless dwellings, Cornelissen’s signature technical interest.
In addition to his methodical approach, Cornelissen uses the written word, scrawling and erasing terms repeatedly, in English, French, and German, these fastidious markings and exact translations leave a trace and a glitch on paper and screen. Much of his existing work includes words and phrases like “tribunal,” “myself when I am real” and “the need to disappear.” Do they identify what forms, systems and sentiments that are, or could be present? Or do they warn of what is to come?
Suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body, Cornelissen’s clouds extend down to the surface, looming over Earth and Terra Nova. But are they harmless clouds, or associated with nuclear explosions? And is that the ash, dust, pollution and detritus of these invented places, the remnants of an unsustainable society, a dream factory? Or the promise of life anew? In weather forecasting, or aeromancy, the presence of clouds can promise darkness and gloom, but they can also bring cleansing.
The ominous aura of the grid, an applied system and structure used by many, including draughtsmen, architects, urban planners, designers and artists to organise and sometimes classify information, is a recurring element in his work. The grid can be observed from a distant bird’s eye view, or close up, allowing Cornelissen’s large format drawings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Graphite
A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm)
Framed
This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Single Bottle IX: Abstract Morandi Bottle Still Life Pencil Drawing, Framed
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
“Single Morandi Bottle IX” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2022
G...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Morgan O'Hara, Photographers in Anna Sui’s Runway Presentation, Drawing, Feb 2000
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Red Bird Reef - Strong Woman Portrait NYC Subway Map Red Coral Reef, 2017
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary portrait of a woman in watercolor and graphite painting on a digital pigment print, an intricate depiction on the woman's skin delicately details a NYC subway ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite, Digital Pigment
Duck, Duck!---Geese! - Farm Children looking at Geese
Located in Miami, FL
signed in orange along lower right of image
Illustration for Women's World magazine, published October, 1937
Condition is good. 4.5 inch, unobtrusive vertical crease running from top down into center of image
Maginel Wright Enright Barney was the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the illustrator of several children''s books, including those of L. Frank Baum...
Category
1930s Feminist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Cabeza nuclear. From the series The memory of narcissus. Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of works stems from the reflection on the value attributed to objects (metals and precious stones), established culturally and historically by society. By means of the tw...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Canvas, Graphite
Untitled III, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the top right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H ...
Category
1980s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
"Admired"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
1940s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study of the Apollo Belvedere, Graphite Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (35 x 66 cm)
This is most likely to be a drawing from an Academy student, executed as part of their academic training. The academic ...
Category
19th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Horses in Landscape, Late 20th Century Watercolor by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Horses in Landscape
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signed lowe...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
Apparitions - Four Nude Women Posing, Graphite Drawing, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
Apparitions
graphite on paper
9h x 12w in
17.25h x 20.25w in framed
22.86h x 30.48w cm
JAB001
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and my subje...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled, Drawing of an Empty Bed & Crib and "I Love You Bunny" on the Wall
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
Untitled, 2023
graphite on paper
5.50h x 5w in
12h x 11.5w in framed
13.97h x 12.70w cm
JAB002
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and my subj...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
The Surrounding Water XII
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cuban, b. 1974
Antonio Espinosa is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary artist born in Manzanillo, Cuba in 1974. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (University of Arts of Cu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Blue Springs Semi Upper Level
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle
Title : Blue Springs Semi Upper Level
Materials : Colored pencil, marker, tempera, gouache, stickers, tape, glitter glue, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, graphite...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...
Raising the wreck of the steamer Flushing at Hampton Roads, Virginia
Located in Middletown, NY
Likely a study for an illustration for Harper's Weekly, for which Wiser was a Civil War-era illustrator, focusing on shipwrecks and battles occurring along the mid-Atlantic coast.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Study for Sculpture"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Burgoyne Diller (1906 – 1965).
Born in New York City in 1906, Burgoyne Diller began drawing when he was stri...
Category
1960s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
GVW 92, 000
By Ken Ragsdale
Located in New York, NY
28"x34" (graphite and charcoal on paper)
available unframed
From the series: "The Hundred Acre Wood"
Ragsdale’s process begins with sketches of places and things from his past...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
$2,000
Viviendo con Van Gogh (Living with Van Gogh)
Located in Atlanta, GA
This graphite drawing on paper is in excellent condition and and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The size dimensions do not include the frame.
Alvar pays homage to one o...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Rebecca Octavia Dorothy Nash, Victorian Graphite Drawings
By Joseph Nash
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, inscribed on original backing
Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (16.5 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This is a delightful graphite drawing by the artist Joseph Nash that depict...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Requiem of Regret" (2024) By Brian Serway, Original Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"Requiem of Regret" (2024) by Brian Serway is an original handmade drawing made with water soluble graphite on board. This piece depicts a wolf standing on a rock peak looking out ov...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Graphite
Nashville is an Enigma, mixed media painting by renowned female artist, signed
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986
Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline
Hand ...
Category
1980s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
Cholly (Portrait of Man in Mixed Media and Collage with Floral Theme by Ransome)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Cholly" — small portrait of man in mixed media and collage with floral theme in pink, yellow and green
2023
graphite, acrylic and collage on panel
8 x 8 x 2 inches, unframed
Piece c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Untitled (Līnea Study), 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Original work by Mary Early. Graphite, wax crayon, and sumi ink on Arches paper, 12.25 x 16".
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on ight cardboard
Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W
Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in
Signed and dated in th...
Category
1980s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Cardboard
Geometric synthesis, emotional abstraction, lines and spots, stage
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906-1985
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 x 10 inches
Unframed
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James St...
Category
20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Barrilete 2
Located in New York, NY
Barrilete 2, 2015
Ferrite and graphite on paper
9.80h x 7.90w in
Unframed
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Paco Rabanne Models" (SIGNED) Original Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Fab original fashion graphite pencil drawing by iconic designer Paco Rabanne (1934-2023) depicting two glam futuristic creations
Art Sz: 9-3/4"H x 7-3/4"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 14"W
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Category
1960s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Geometric Woman's Portrait - Rare Signed Graphite Drawing on Paper 1962
Located in Soquel, CA
Geometric Woman's Portrait - Rare Signed Graphite Drawing on Paper 1962
Beautiful, soft original drawing by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A realistic depiction of a short-haired woman, her large lips parted into a soft smile. She's surrounded in geometric shapes offering a wonderful juxtaposition to the natural curves of her face and hair.
Signed in pencil, "Eugene Hawkins '62"
Presented in a new black mat.
Mat size: 20"H x 16"W
Paper size: 18.5"H x 14.5"W
Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933) is a BIPOC artist known for his detailed portraiture and printmaking. He is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, and his work was exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art. He spent the majority of his life working and exhibiting in Southern California. His work frequently touches upon socio-political subjects, making strong statements about the world. The California African American Museum features Eugene Hawkins's work in the Permanent Collection. Exhibition: 2017
Paperworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection focuses on works on paper produced from 1950-2000 and includes figurative, impressionistic, and abstract styles. The exhibition showcases the radically diverse range of works on paper created by African American and other artists over the last two centuries, and includes drawings, prints, paintings, and collages by Edward Mitchell Bannister...
Category
1960s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$1,400 Sale Price
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Suitor with Voyeur
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Carruthers is a brilliant mix of George Tooker and Fernando Botero but with unexpected charm.
"The Suitor with Voyeur", A variation of this concept was done in oil twenty years later. "The Venus of Ponte Vedra...
Category
1970s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Braids
Located in Columbia, MO
Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
$1,080
Tree and Sky, photorealist graphite landscape drawing, 2022
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly’s laborious method of toning her paper serves as the starting point for her intricate compositions. She begins by covering the entire sheet with up to eight smooth, unmod...
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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