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Medium: Illustration Board
'After School', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, PAFA
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) and painted circa 1935.
This early twentieth-century painter, lithographer, muralist, author, poet and ill...
Category
1930s Art Deco Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
'South-Western Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, WPA, Odessa
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Todros Geller' (Russian-American, 1889-1949) and dated 1937
An elegant and painterly, southwestern landscape painted when the artist was 48 years old.
Born in Vinnytsia, now in the Ukraine, Todros Geller first studied in Odessa before moving to Canada. He continued his studies in Montreal (1906) and, subsequently, at the Art Institute of Chicago with George Bellows and John Norton. Geller exhibited widely and with success including, from 1925, at the Chicago Art Institute as well as at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1939), the New York World's Fair (1939) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1941) in addition to other national institutions.
Geller was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards and his work may be found in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a member of professional associations including the Artist's Union, the Artist's Congress and the Chicago Society of Artists, which he also served as president. During the the 1930's, Geller was an active participant in the Federal Art Project (WPA) in Illinois and his large-scale murals and stained glass windows may be found in Chicago and Detroit as well as Tel-Aviv. We are pleased to offer this elegant, South-Western landscape painted when the artist was 45.
Reference:
Todros Geller Archives, Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago; Sparks, Esther. "A Biographical Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 1808-1945." Diss., Northwestern University, 1971, p. 390; Yochim, Louise Dunn. Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists. Chicago: 1979, pp. 28, 44, 238; Mavigliano, George J. and Richard A. Lawson. The Federal Art Project in Illinois 1935-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990, p. 120; Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003, p. 155. Chicago Modern...
Category
1930s Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Cafe', Woman Artist, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Berkeley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marie Pascal' (French-American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990.
Exhibited: Gallery Concord, December 1991.
Marie Pascal studied at the École Nationale Sup...
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1990s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Imaginary Geometric City. Second half of the 20th century
Located in Firenze, IT
Imaginary Geometric City.
Date: Second half of the 20th century
Medium: Gouache on cardboard
Dimensions: H 63 cm x W 48 cm approx.
Description: A network of soft shapes and wa...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Cardboard
'Old Reliable', Early American Modernist, Jalopy, Model T Ford Flatbed Truck
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An American School watercolor showing an old Ford Model T flatbed truck backed up to a barn in a rural landscape.
A well-composed work paint...
Category
1920s Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Pretty In Pink - Three Original Artworks, Framed, 5.75" x 8.5", Dress Paintings
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This is a set of three original artworks on board combining delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The outcome offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, with a flowing pink draped grace...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board, Pencil
'Navajo Family', Santa Fe, Modernism, Corcoran, Whitney, PAFA, AIC, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...
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1940s Art Deco Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Watercolor
'After School', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, PAFA
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) and painted circa 1935.
This early twentieth-century painter, lithographer, muralist, author, poet and ill...
Category
1930s Art Deco Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
Owl, Circa 1970 - Op Art-Inspired Geometric Composition
Located in Firenze, IT
Owl, Circa 1970 - Op Art-Inspired Geometric Composition
Date: Approximately 1970
Medium: Gouache on cardboard with embossed stamp
Dimensions: H 64 cm x W 49 cm approx.
A stylized o...
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Late 20th Century Op Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Cardboard
Harem: Sexy Nude Girl Illustration for Playboy. First Black Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Playboy Magazine ran this joke cartoon illustration in color on page 43 for the October 1960 edition.
Signed lower right.
The work is executed on a heavy Whatman Illustration board....
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1960s American Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil, Gouache
My 80's Heart "Token 7" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, blue, orange
Located in Jersey City, NJ
My 80's Heart "Token 7" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, blue, wood, orange
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Panel, Wood Panel, Illustration Board, Graphite
'Stonehenge at Sunset', Royal Academy, RSBA, Benezit, Wiltshire, Druid, Celtic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880.
This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Moreno Torricelli - Juventus Football Legend, UEFA Champions League 1995-96
Located in Firenze, IT
Moreno Torricelli - Juventus Football Legend, UEFA Champions League 1995-96 - Determination
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 ...
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1990s Post-Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Charcoal, Illustration Board, Carbon Pencil
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Category
1940s American Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
'Nymph with a Centaur', French School, Academic, Greek Mythological Grisaille
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur interrupting the playing of his pan pipes to cast a speculative eye towards a dancing nymph. Datin...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
'Navajo Family', Santa Fe, Modernism, Corcoran, Whitney, PAFA, AIC, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...
Category
1940s Art Deco Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Watercolor
Pretty In Pink - Three Original Artworks, Framed, 5.75" x 8.5", Dress Paintings
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This is a set of three original artworks on board combining delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The outcome offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, with a flowing pink draped grace...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board, Pencil
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa /// Philip Pearlstein Pencil Drawing Figurative
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022)
Title: "Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa"
*Signed and dated by Pearlstein in pencil lower left
Year: 1970
Medium: Original Graphite Pen...
Category
1970s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Board, Illustration Board
1996: Angelo Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper in the Net, Champion of the UEFA.
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Angelo Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper in the Net, Champion of the UEFA Champions League
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 19...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board, Paper
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Fox amidst the Hay Bales on Misty Morning in a Field in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Fox amidst the Hay Bales on a Misty Morning in a Field in the English Countryside, by British Artist Andrew Hutchinson
Art measures 22 x 10 inches
F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Foam Board, Illustration Board
'The Thief from François Villon's Christmas', San Francisco Bay Area Illustrator
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
Displayed in an original card mat decorated by the artist. Signed lower right, in pencil, 'J. M. Phillips' and titled, lower left, ''The Thief' - from Francois Villon's Christmas'. Mat dimensions: 16 x 13 inches.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Jean Turner Art Academy and, later, under Alfred Owles...
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1960s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest.
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest, Icon of Modern Myths
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017) ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th century Italian figurative landscape of a traditional wheat field harvest scene, by S. Frosini (Italian, 20th Century). This figurative landscape in gouache depicts in gre...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Church Interior
By Ray Quigley
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.
Category
1950s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Ink
1996: Angelo Peruzzi, Juventus Goalkeeper, Champion of UEFA Champions League
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Gianluca Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper, Champion of the UEFA Champions League
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albiss...
Category
1990s Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Illustration Board, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
Johnny Carson for His Debut Appearance on "The Tonight Show"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Center Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Johhny Carson on `The Tonight Show...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Abstract geometric composition with hints of the female body.
Located in Firenze, IT
Abstract geometric composition with hints of the female body
Date: Circa 1970
Medium: Tempera on thick cardboard
Dimensions: H 64 cm x W 50 cm approx.
Description: This abstract geo...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
Sydney, Australia, from Darling Point
By Brett Hilder
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicate watercolor landscape showing a panoramic view of Australia's capital city looking towards Sydney Harbor Bridge from this desirable eastern sub...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
'San Francisco from Marin', Seattle, SAM, Frye Museum, Golden Gate, Sausalito
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jess Cauthorn' (American, 1923-2005), painted circa 1960.
A respected fine artist art teacher who transformed the art-school scene...
Category
1960s Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Nightie Night - 5.25" x 9.25", Original Artwork, White, Beige, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A tone on tone texture is built up in the background through the use of paint ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
19th C. Newspaper Illustration of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury 1898
Located in Soquel, CA
Historical late 19th century portrait of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury of San Francisco y Richard Langtry Partington (American, ...
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1890s American Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Illustration Board
Mid Century Horse in Winter Landscape
By William Ernest Smyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century watercolor painting of a horse in winter with a barn in the background by Ernest Smythe (American/England 1881-1950). Signed "ERNEST SMYTHE" in lower left corner. Presented in a tan mat with a wood frame and glass. Image size: 25"H x 19.75"W
As William Ernest Smyth, he was born at 13 Commercial Road, Ipswich on 9 April 1874 but was not baptised at St Michael's, Ipswich until 23 October 1885, when his birth date is given as 17 February 1874, youngest son of artist Thomas Smythe...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
'South-Western Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, WPA, Odessa
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Todros Geller' (Russian-American, 1889-1949) and dated 1937
An elegant and painterly, southwestern landscape painted when the artist was 48 years old.
Born in Vinnytsia, now in the Ukraine, Todros Geller first studied in Odessa before moving to Canada. He continued his studies in Montreal (1906) and, subsequently, at the Art Institute of Chicago with George Bellows and John Norton. Geller exhibited widely and with success including, from 1925, at the Chicago Art Institute as well as at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1939), the New York World's Fair (1939) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1941) in addition to other national institutions.
Geller was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards and his work may be found in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a member of professional associations including the Artist's Union, the Artist's Congress and the Chicago Society of Artists, which he also served as president. During the the 1930's, Geller was an active participant in the Federal Art Project (WPA) in Illinois and his large-scale murals and stained glass windows may be found in Chicago and Detroit as well as Tel-Aviv. We are pleased to offer this elegant, South-Western landscape painted when the artist was 45.
Reference:
Todros Geller Archives, Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago; Sparks, Esther. "A Biographical Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 1808-1945." Diss., Northwestern University, 1971, p. 390; Yochim, Louise Dunn. Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists. Chicago: 1979, pp. 28, 44, 238; Mavigliano, George J. and Richard A. Lawson. The Federal Art Project in Illinois 1935-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990, p. 120; Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003, p. 155. Chicago Modern...
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1930s Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Life Among the Clouds', Hookah, Persian, Indian, Sufi, Hashish
By Keith Halonen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Keith Halonen" (American, b. 1946), dated 1969, and titled lower left, "Life Among the Clouds".
Richly patterned, ink figurative showing a man lounging on the f...
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1960s Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
'Childhood', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Titled, verso, 'Childhood', signed with artist's Paris address and dated 1926.
This early twentieth-century...
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1920s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Watercolor, Gouache
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Exquisitely detailed 1888 watercolor of The Nailsmith Houses, a historical building in Rattenberg, A...
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1880s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
'Alpine Landscape in Piedmont', Munich School Professor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hans Blum' (German, 1858-1942) and painted circa 1911.
Provenance: Exhibited, 'Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft', München 1911 ('Anniversary Exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative'). Label verso.
Hans Blum studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Ludwig von Löfftz and Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger. He first worked as a portraitist in Nuremberg but later turned to genre painting, which he often carried out in the style of plein-air painting. Blum exhibited his Italian alpine...
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1910s Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing "
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3"x3" silver wood frame 9.75"x10.75"
Unsigned came from artist's ...
Category
1990s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
Untitled (Double-sided ink on board)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Double-sided work
Dated: 1951 recto; 1968 verso
Signed on both sides
Robert Miller Gallery, New York Cheim & Read, New York Art Advisory Services, Inc., New York, Current Owner
Category
Late 20th Century Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Whimsical Illustration Skiing Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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1930s Naturalistic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
'Harvest Time', Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, London Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Hammond' for Horace Murray Hammond (British, circa 1879-1966) and dated 1921.
A luminously painted, bucolic view of harvest time in England with the lilac of the evening casting a soft light over the contented horses and loaded hay-cart, as the harvesters come to the end of their day's labors.
Son of the noted landscape painter, Robert John Hammond, Horace Hammond was born and raised in Warwickshire. In 1927, he moved, first to Worcestershire and then to London. Over the course of a long and successful career, Hammond exhibited widely, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at London's Royal Academy, among numerous other locations. A well-listed painter...
Category
1930s Academic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Vancouver Girl', Young Woman with Bobbed Copper Hair, AIC, Paris, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920.
George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...
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1920s Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Illustration Board
Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
America's greatest female illustrator draws a heartwarming picture of a mother putting to bed her child. Motherly love towards their children is the artist's most iconic theme. This ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Whimsical Illustration "Snow" Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country Snow Shoes signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by ...
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1930s American Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Whimsical Fishing Illustration Cartoon 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist...
Category
1930s American Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Nude Playboy Cartoon, First African American Illustrator Elmer Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first and top black commercial artist in the USA for decades.
In "Grandma," we see a deeply conceptual work, with the blank canvas as the main point of the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Light Envelope with Tape, realist watercolor and pencil still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Whimsical Illustration Hiking Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
1945 Broadway Show, "State of the Union"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board and Cardstock
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the 1945 Broadway show...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - Mad Magazine -Table for How Many Restaurant
Located in Miami, FL
"Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" is one of Al Jaffee's signature series. This work was a double-page work that appeared on pages 60 - 61 in Mad Magazine in 1968. Although this w...
Category
1960s Conceptual Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing II"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing II"
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3.5"x2.5" silver wood frame 10.5"x10.5"
Unsigned came from arti...
Category
1990s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
Santa Claus Sexy Playboy Cartoon First African American Illustrator, Elmer Simms
Located in Miami, FL
Santa has a quickie with Mom.
Elmer Simms Campbell was the first African American Illustrator to work for major newsstand magazines.
Published December, 1963
Signed in pencil lower...
Category
1960s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
"Man, How Did They Know Me?" Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man, How Did They Know Me?" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features a few abstract portraits...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Star Time"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter 1911-2004) for the DuMont Network`s `Star Time`, broadcast from their NYC flagship station WABD (now WNYC). The hour series ran on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. from September 5, 1950 to February 27, 1951. Depicted from left to right: Benny Goodman...
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1950s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"The Mood, " Portrait Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Mood" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a double portrait--one man in vibr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Freelance, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Freelance" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts an artist walking through an abstracted wo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Sleeping In, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1954
Category
1950s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
'Cafe', Woman Artist, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Berkeley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marie Pascal' (French-American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990.
Exhibited: Gallery Concord, December 1991.
Marie Pascal studied at the École Nationale Sup...
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1990s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Nero's Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s American Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Illustration Board, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 20.00" x 28.50;" Framed 32.50" x 41.25"
Cover Art for Unidentified Title
Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait, which was the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication that merged the world of pin-up and burlesque with the envelope pushing film culture emerging from Hollywood before enforcement of the notorious Hays code put an end to overt expressions of sexuality or immorality on screen. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist's hand as seen. Beautifully framed and matted behind glass in a handsome gallery frame and ready to hang.
Verna Hillie was a Monograph Pictures star who appeared in The Marx brothers comedy "Duck Soup...
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1930s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Apocalypse, Catastrophic Destruction of the World, Surrealism - Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Apocalypse in 1962? At the height of the Cold War, Life Magazine commissions an illustration that describes the world's end by means other than a nuclear war with Russia. Richard Erdoes brilliantly illustrates the work with his highly stylized painting technique. My favorite part of the work is on the left side showing a group of people packed together as they fall into oblivion. A clear reference would be Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment "
Once Again the World Ends." Illustration published in Life Magazine, Feb. 9, 1962
Signed in lower right image.
Unframed
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,[1] to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.[2] After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,[3] He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
Category
1960s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Illustration Board
Three Versions Caricatures of Shirley Booth as NBC's "Hazel"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen & Ink, (2) Color Comps on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned, Lower Left and Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 14.00" x 9.50."
Includes two different color versions in watercolor on board, preliminary sketch. Includes original copies of the magazine.
(3) Versions Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Shirley Booth...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
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