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Period: 1930s
"ritorno dalla pesca" Acquarello cm. 22 x 29 1930 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Grey,blue,Britany,Harbor,Nord France,Sea
Life in Brittany Harbor Douarnenez
Blue and gray colors of the sea of northern France
Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974)
He...
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Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s WPA Era Watercolor Painting of Horses in a Southwest Landscape
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
Immerse yourself in the beauty of the American Southwest with this stunning vintage painting by renowned artist Lloyd Moylan (1893–1963). This masterful watercolor and gouache on pap...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Located in New York, NY
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
"Bathers"
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed lower le...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Post Office, New York
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Post Office, New York
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Marbella Gallery, Robert Hallowell (1886-1939), No. 64
Provenance:...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine 1930's, Depiction of a Boxing Match
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930's, Depiction of a Boxing Match by Francis Chapin. This dynamic drawing captures overlapping human forms rendered in expressive, gestural lines. There is a clear sense of ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pastel
Posing Nude - Original Drawing in pencil by George-Henri Tribout - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nude is an original drawing in pencil realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1930s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a Creamy colored Passepartout.
Stamp of artist's atelier on t...
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Dancer - Pencil Drawing on Paper - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Dancer is a drawing in Sanguina on paper realized by Anonymous Artist of the 20th Century.
In good condition, except for small folding.
Sheet dimension: 31 x 17.5
The artwork repr...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
New England Landscape, Watercolor by Allen Tucker
By Allen Tucker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Allen Tucker, American (1866 - 1939)
Title: New England Landscape
Year: 1936
Medium: Watercolor, signed and dated
Size: 19 in. x 28 in. (...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Perplexed Gentleman
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
13 1/4 X 8 ...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Moors, Yorkshire, UK /// British Antique Landscape Watercolor England Country
By Harry George Theaker
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Harry George Theaker (English, 1873-1954)
Title: "Moors, Yorkshire, UK"
*No signature found
Circa: 1935
Medium: Original Watercolor on watercolor paper
Sheet size: 9.75" x 13.75"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Corsham, UK. "GAC" and "H.G. Theaker" pencil inscribed upper left and center on verso.
Biography:
Born January-March 1873 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. He was the son of George Theaker (1835-1902, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire), headmaster (principal) of the School of Art in Burslem from 1869-94 and designer for pottery. His younger brother, Charles Edmund (1875-1903) was an apprentice designer modeller and then a teacher at the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem around 1900.
Harry George was an apprentice pottery decorator and then a teacher. He settled in London c.1900-05 and was in charge of design at the Polytechnic in Regent Street from about 1906 onwards, where he also taught courses in 'modelling from design'. Theaker remained at the Polytechnic and is listed in prospectuses as headmaster (principal) between 1931-2 and 1937-38.
Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. Amongst the books he illustrated are 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Sir Thomas Ingoldsby, London, 1911; 'Children's Stories from 'The Arabian Nights', by Rose Yeatman Woolf, 1914 (and later editions); 'The Adventures of Don Quixote', c.1920 and 1929; 'Gulliver's Travels', 1928; 'The Water Babies', 1930; 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 1930; 'Stories of King Arthur', 1925 and 'Long, long ago: stories from the classics' both retold by Blanche Winder, the latter probably in the 1930s (see National Art Library catalogue...
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Victorian 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Good Old Bon Master Gets Over The 3rd Fence At The Maryland Hunt Club" 1931
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 15"W
Mat Sz: 16 5/8"H x 20 5/8"W
Paul Desmond Brown (American; 1893-1958)
c1931
"Good Old Bon Master Gets Over the 3rd" Fence at the "Maryland Hunt Club" Dated: 1...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Man's Wife
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 31.00" x 23.75"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed. Signed and inscribed 'To Steve Kovac/sincerely/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
Proven...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
High Pastures, Cattle Round Up, Wyoming, 20th Century Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
High Pastures, Cattle Round Up, Wyoming, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inche...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Marie Palmer-Smith - 1930s British Original Graphic Design for Advertising
Located in London, GB
MARIE PALMER-SMITH
(1899-1997)
Fabric Inspirations
Signed and inscribed with title; bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse
Gouache on pen and ink on tinted paper
Unframed in mo...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Corkscrew Willows with Stairs - Hand Colored Drypoint Etching California Adobe
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and detailed etching by Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964). At the edge of an old Adobe building, a staircase leads to the second floor. The stucco on the walls of the building is cracked, revealing the stonework below. Next to the building is a garden with Corkscrew Willow trees. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California.
Signed in plate, lower left.
Paper size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W
Mat size: 10"H x 12"W
Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964) graduated from Polytechnic High School, L.A. and later studied at U.C.L.A. Art School and at the Cannon Art School. Artists Paul Lauritz and Anna A. Hills of Laguna Beach were her first art teachers. She continued her study of art at the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Europe.
Some of her earliest work was in designing. Many pages of her fine pen work drawings appeared in Los Angeles newspapers, illustrating the fashions of the day, not only in clothes but in furniture and other things. Then for a time she did her work in New York City and later with the Ladies Home Journal in Philadelphia.
One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California.
From the Mexican border to Death Valley she roamed, meeting and painting portraits of such characters as Death Valley Scotty, Shoshone Johnny, the ancient Indian who supposedly saw the first white man come to Death Valley, Emanuel A. Speegle, "The Last of the 49'ers" (over 90 years of age) and others.
Orpha was active in keeping alive the memory of one historical event in particular, the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga ending the Mexican War...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
"Sculpture Model" Abstract American Drawing Modernism Mid 20th Century Cubism
Located in New York, NY
"Sculpture Model" Abstract American Drawing Modernism Mid 20th Century Cubism
Charles Biederman (American, 1906-2004)
Sculpture Model
Ink and gouache on Arches paper
Sight: 18 x 1...
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Abstract 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Nude after Michelangelo - Mixed Media by Luigi Russolo - 1933/34
Located in Roma, IT
Nude after Michelangelo is an artwork realized by Luigi Russolo, 1933/34.
Mixed Media on Paper.
Good conditions.
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (Portogruaro, 30 April 1885 - Laveno-...
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Futurist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Conditi...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Eros - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Eros is a pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s.
Good conditions with slight folding.
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s charco...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Steel Workers
Textile design
19 1/4 X ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Signs of the Zodiac - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemini is a modern artwork realized by Jacques Villon in 1937.
China ink drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Vintage frame included in this rare artwork...
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
A Fine 1930s Modern Drawing of a Figure Study Sketch Class, Artists at Easels
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Depicting an Artist's Sketch Class and a Seated Young Male Mode by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An excep...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The Wedding
Colliers published, June 17, 1933
17 1/4 X 11 1/2 inches (sight)
Framed 23 1/4 X 17 1/2 inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
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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American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Lock Ness" Lake Watercolor Landscape on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lock Ness" Lake Watercolor Landscape on Paper
Expansive landscape of Loch Ness by R.C. Lees (Scottish). The viewer looks out over Lock Ness, from a high vantage point. There is a l...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$520 Sale Price
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The Discussion - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Discussion is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1930s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
In good condition, excep...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male Nude Model)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Dancing Motion.
Located in New York, NY
Drawing, 1938. Signed and dated with the artist cypher. Paper size 7 9/16 x 6 1/4" (19.3 x 15.8 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, wa...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemi - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemini is an original modern artwork realized by Jacques Villon in 1937.
China ink drawing.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Vintage fram...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male, Torso)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, 1930s Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Model (Torso) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execut...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of a Baby
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Violet Oakley (1896-1961).
Portrait of a Baby, ca. 1930.
Conte crayon and pencil on laid paper, sheet measuring 11 x 14 inches.
Framed measurement: 13.5 x 16.5 inches.
Signed low...
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Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) A landscape, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
A Landscape
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
22.5 x 30.5cm
In good condition
Framed: 37.5 x 46 cm
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877– 1950). Painter of wat...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
Graphite on paper, 1938
Initialed "B" by the artist lower right corner
Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison fo...
Category
Abstract 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Landscape with buildings and trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with buildings and trees
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 1...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Last Fence Maryland Hunt Cup 1932
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Elliot
17 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches
Gouache on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
27 x 46 in...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Nude of Dancing Nymph - Original Pencil Drawing by Nan Borazzo - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Dancing Nymph is an original drawing in black and color pencil on ivory paper, made by Nan Borazzo (1905 -?), An artist active during the 20th ce...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Knitting - Pencil Drawing by Ildebrando Urbani Del Fabretto - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Knitting is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1932 by Ildebrando Urbani Del Fabretto.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation of t...
Category
Contemporary 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Study on a Mouse - Drawing by Augusto Monari - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Study on a Mouse is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in 1935.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Embracing the Death - Ink by Adolf Reinhold Hallman - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Embracing the Death is original black China ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hallman arou...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Quick Change
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change
Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931
Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau
Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
British Modernist Vibrant Watercolor Painting of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees, living on New York's Lower East Side. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's 1902 book Spirit of the Ghetto. Epstein used the money from the commission to move to Paris.
Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England.
In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures The Rock Drill.
Between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, numerous works by Epstein were exhibited in Blackpool. Adam, Consummatum Est, Jacob and the Angel and Genesis, and other works, were initially displayed in an old drapery shop surrounded by red velvet curtains. The crowds were ushered in at the cost of a shilling by a barker on the street. After a small tour of American fun fairs, the works were returned to Blackpool and were exhibited in the anatomical curiosities section of Louis Tussaud's waxworks.
Bronze portrait sculpture formed one of Epstein's staple products, and perhaps the best known. These sculptures were often executed with roughly textured surfaces, expressively manipulating small surface planes and facial details. Some fine examples are in the National Portrait Gallery. He completed a bust of Winston Churchill...
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Animal Illustrations" Allan Rohan Crite, 2 Ink Drawings African American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Allan Rohan Crite
Animal Illustrations
Signed lower left
Pen and ink on paper
23 1/2 x 16 inches
Brought up in Boston, Crite received his art training al the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Harvard University Extension School in 1968. He worked for most of his life as an illustrator in the Planning Department of the Boston Naval Shipyards, retiring in 1976, but continued to paint at the same time. His work has been widely exhibited and well received in Boston, where a square is named after him. Crite's early paintings depict the daily life of Boston's African-American community, a community that was to be transformed in the following decade by urban renewal and housing projects.
In his later paintings, magic-realist visions in which a black Virgin and Child ride on public transportation or float above the city streets, Crite used a bright palette rather than the more somber tones of his "neighborhood paintings...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930's, Study of a Boxing Match
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930's, Expressive charcoal drawing depicting a dynamic boxing scene. The sketch captures the energy and motion of two fighters in the ring, with a referee or spectator in the...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Flower Shop - China Ink Drawing and Watercolor - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
"Flower Shop" is an original china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by Katerina Wilczynski in 1934.
In excellent conditions.
Containe...
Category
Contemporary 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"TWO MALLARDS" FLYING DUCKS FRAMED 23.25 X 27.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Weston Benson
(1862-1951)
Massachusetts
Image Size: 15.5 x 15.5
Frame Size: 23.25 x 27.25
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Dated 1930
"Two Mallards
Biography
Frank Weston Benson (1862...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Moroccan Female Players - Original Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan female players is an original blue china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt, in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Sta...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$332 Sale Price
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Nearing the Peaks, Early 20th Century Mountainous Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Nearing the Peaks, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (Octo...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Roma - Castel Sant'Angelo - Original Pencil by Angelo Rossi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Roma - Castel Sant'Angelo is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by Angelo Rossi (1881-1967), in 1930.
Hand-signed on the lower ri...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Vintage Pen & Ink Sketch - Close Couple
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage pen & ink line drawing of a couple posing for the artist on a sofa by French artist and film director Jean-Charles Lauthe, circa 1930.
Original ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Early Portrait of a French Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic portrait of a french woman with a styled hair cut. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection.
Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite
MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern
Located in New York, NY
MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern. Signed with a "Ramstonev" stamp lower right.
RAMSTONEV Cooperative Art Project (1937-1939). In the late 1930s, Charles Ramsey became close friends with Charles Evans and Louis Stone. He persuaded them to join him teaching his New Hope summer classes in non-objective painting. Soon, a history-making collaboration began. In 1937, meeting in Evans' studio at the rear of Cryer's Hardware store on Main Street in New Hope, a decision was made to establish the Co-Operative Painting Project. They were intrigued by the cooperative ad-lib process by which jazz musicians created their music. Believing this to be the quintessential American contribution to music, they theorized that a similar result might be obtainable with art, a "visual jam session." This particlarly fascinated Ramsey, who was a jazz buff and had a large collection of jazz records.
The objective was to jointly collaborate in the creation of a painting as well as applying collective criticism during its creation. By creating forward movement by general consent, they believed they could produce a higher level of beauty. By consensus it was decided that subject matter would be non-objective. Up to eight people would participate and stop when the painting "felt" finished by common agreement.
These co-operative works were done in several different mediums- the majority in pastel, but some in watercolor, gouache, graphite or cut paper collage. On occasion, the group would create a series, as opposed to a single work, created in steps by three or four artists. One of the occasional participants was famed New Hope poet, Stanley Kunitz. These series could range in number from four to sixteen paintings in each. The first of a series would be very basic and the last a fully finished work.
In the scope of importance among the New Hope Modernist...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mother and Child with Goldfish
By Peggy Dodds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl.
A charming large work that is exquisitely framed.
Peggy Dodds Williams
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Category
Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
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