Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Color: Black
Medium: Watercolor
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.C.E.d)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Dove Diptych" Black and White Diptych Painting, Watercolor on Board, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Annika Connor is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Primarily known as a Contemporary Romantic painter, her work uses strong symbolism and passionate imagery to ignite the imagination. ...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paint, Board
Megalopolis Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hannukah at Valley Forge
By Greg Harlin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Hannukah at Valley Forge
Category
20th Century Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Night Time Rooftops with Water Tanks"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right
Sotheby's New York
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration
Rackham...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Still Life
Located in Provincetown, MA
Xavier Gonzalez was born in Almeria, Spain, and lived in Argentina and Mexico before emigrating to the United States in 1925. He was known for expressive murals and for theatrical, c...
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20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Thread
By Ed Touchette
Located in Gloucester, MA
Ed Touchette (b. 1948) is inspired by a love of architecture and public spaces to make paintings which express joyful wonder at our built environment — ol...
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2010s Bauhaus Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Lykas, The Songs of Bilitis
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and Chinese ink on paper, signed and dated (upper right), 10cm x 17cm (30cm x 38cm framed).
George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes...
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1910s Art Nouveau Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
Etoile du Soir
Located in Florham Park, NJ
House of Bernard
Founded 1905. Paris, France.
Watercolor over pencil.
Some with gold or silver leaf highlights
Coats, 1923. Evening dresses, 1926.
French fashion has influenc...
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1920s Academic Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
MAY PIANO, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Lady composing at her piano. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Car Museum, " a Watercolor signed by Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Car Museum" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front of a gleaming car with other automobile memorabilia with exquisite attention to reflections, ligh...
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1990s Photorealist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude Picnic Virgin Islands
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best known for his rural life & desert landscapes and World War II sc...
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1960s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Rainstorm Sunset
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
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American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Antique silhouette of children, reverse painted on glass
Located in Harkstead, GB
A charming silhouette of a group of children ambling along. So much character is expressed through the minimal monochrome depiction.
English or American School, 19th Century
A silhouette...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Glass
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Composition
By Julius Hubler
Located in Buffalo, NY
Julius Hubler, American artist. Deans scholar; State University Iowa graduate scholar, 1944; Arthur W. Dow scholar Columbia University, 1947; distinguished se...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Four Arthurian Stained Glass Window Designs For Mercersburg Academy Chapel, PA
By Florence and Walter Camm
Located in London, GB
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Florence and Walter Camm
Series of Four Art...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.C.E.c)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Stryker Family Coat-of-Arms"
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic armorial Stryker coat-of-arms in watercolour & gouache w/ eglomise mat
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 6 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 15"H x 12"W
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20th Century Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Postcard Depicting A Farmer With His Three-Pronged Pitchfork
Located in Stockholm, SE
Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946) Sweden
Postcard Depicting A Farmer With His Three-Pronged Pitchfork
watercolor on a postcard
dimensions: 14 cm x 9 cm (5.51 x 3.54 inches)
frame: 22.5 c...
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1920s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'The Fire of my Soul'
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
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1980s Surrealist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
"Persepective", Pigments Watercolor Acrylic Paper Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "Perspective", this artwork created by Frank Girard, utilizes pigments, Chinese ink, watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils on 400g/m2 neutral white paper. It remains unfr...
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2010s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Pigment
Fading Light, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Just before dark on a warm summer night best describes this painting. Featuring a dark almost silhouette of trees and a cross in the foreground with some dark foreboding clouds in th...
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2010s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Polo Match c1930s Gouache Signed (LL)
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic art deco gouache by Sue (LL) depicting four polo players in blue & yellow jerseys on a tobacco ground colour
Image Sz: 12"H x 14 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 19 1/2"H x 22 1/2"W
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1930s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Green Fields, Rosie. Phipps, Original Landscape Painting, Affordable Artwork
By Rosie Phipps
Located in Deddington, GB
Rosie Phipps
Green Fields
Original Landscape Painting
Water Colour Paint, Gouache and Pastel on Paper
Image Size: H 10cm x W 25cm
Mounted Size: H 18.5cm x W 34.5cm
Framed Size: H 23c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Cylcops 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper
Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woodland Stems On Dark, Jo Haran, Contemporary Floral Art, Original Artwork
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Woodland Stems on Dark by Jo Haran [2021]
original
Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso.
Image size: H:64 cm x W:47.3 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:67 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0.01cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris x Richelieu Shell Pearl Box c1950s Advertising Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 13"H x 20"W
Category
1950s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris x Richelieu c1950s Advertising Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 13"H x 20"W
Category
1950s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cars Under Expressway
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY, Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
James Joshua Guthrie - The Sower, Early 20th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
JAMES JOSHUA GUTHRIE
(1874-1952)
The Sower
Signed with monogram l.r., inscribed with title l.c.
Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink
21 by 15.5 cm., 8 ¼ by 6 in.
(frame size 39.5 by 33 cm., 15 ½ by 13 in.
Provenanace:
Pickford Waller...
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Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woman with black torso - Contemporary watercolor painting on paper, War diaries
Located in Warsaw, PL
DANYLO MOVCHAN
In 2000 he graduated from Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Fine Arts, Artwork restoration department. During 2000-2006 he studied in Lviv National Academy of Arts, at the department of sacral art...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Night Under Expressway
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY, Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Waterfall, mid-century watercolor landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Waterfall, 1956
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
35.5 x 27.25 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Russian iconostasis - Contemporary watercolor painting on paper, War diaries
Located in Warsaw, PL
DANYLO MOVCHAN
In 2000 he graduated from Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Fine Arts, Artwork restoration department. During 2000-2006 he studied in Lviv National Academy of Arts, at the department of sacral art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Veiled Series L, Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Veiled Series XXX, Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Veiled Series X , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Original 1930s Painting Fortune Cover Proposal. Industrial Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original 1930s Painting Fortune Cover Proposal. Industrial Modern American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Steel Mill
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1945
13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Veiled Series LX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Horses in a Pasture
Located in Austin, TX
By Tom Shefelman
13" x 19" Watercolor on Paper
Category
20th Century Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Binder, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Farm/Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Binder, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
18 x 24 inches
24.25 x 30 inches, framed
"Being a city boy I had no experience with farm machinery, but knew well the dangers of mowing machines, corn huskers and the like. Having a little experience with horses, I could appreciate the risks in driving them." - Out in Brecksville, Frank Wilcox
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...
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1920s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cadets Football Game
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
14 1/4 X 1...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ancient Persian Miniature - Original China Ink and Watercolour - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Persian Miniature is an original China Ink and Watercolour realized by an artist of 19th Century.
Good condition for a little brown ...
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19th Century Old Masters Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Robert mapplethorpe portrait, Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Mapplethorpe Portrait, by Manuel Santelices
Watercolor on paper
Image size: 15 in. H x 10.5 in. W
Unframed
2022
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
NEWS: A printed copy of this magazine is included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibition, “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s”
Antonio Petruccelli...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral Blue Watercolor Painting by M. Godier
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely blue watercolor painting is by M. Godier, France (20th Century). The artwork is signed in the bottom right corner. The composition features an unusual representation of t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Santas Feet At Midnight
New Yorker c...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Boat in the lake in windy weather, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
40.3 x 49 x 3.5 cm
Category
Early 1900s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sunrise
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Watercolour of a farmyard with dappled shade. Signed and dated.
Category
1930s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rough Weather at Blatchington Pulling in the Fishing Nets on the English Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Drypoint etching rawing of a coastal scene with figures drawing a net or boat form the sea by Sir Francis (Frank) Job Short (British, 1857 - 1945)
Sir Frank Short, Royal Academy*, was a printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public.
Signed "Frank Short" lower right with monogram in the print "S within a shield"
Titled lower left "Rough Weather at Blatchington"
Lower left "Trial Proof"
Image, 8.5"H x 10.88"W
Mat, 16"H x 20"W x 0.13
Professionally cleaned and ph nuetral washed by our paper conservator. (new images posting)
Francis Job Short was born on 19 June 1857 in Britain, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer.
He was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connection with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. In 1883 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the South Kensington School of Art*, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred...
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1870s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Gouache, Rag Paper
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Proposal. American Mid Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Proposal. American Mid Century Industrial
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
92
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1945
13 X 10 3/4 inches (sight)
Framed...
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1940s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Beach Umbrella"
By Peter Max
Located in Warren, NJ
Frame: 16.5 x 15.5 x 1
Picture: 6 x 4.5
Picture in excellent condition
Frame has one big scratch and the rest is minor wear
Category
1980s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
JAPAN ISSUE
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936
14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight)
Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower left
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Horseman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Horseman is an original drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Monogrammed in the lower left margin and numbered edition above , 33.
Fre...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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