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Period: 1930s
Modern American Industrial Drawing Factory Graphite Framed Black and White
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic industrial drawing dated 1935, which depicts the former Plymouth Motor Company's Powerhouse in Buffalo, NY.
Housed in a contemporary frame presentation this unique work ...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Tyrannus, Early 20th Century painting of a dog, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949)
Tyrannus, c. 1935
Watercolor and pen and ink on paper
Signed lower right
7.5 x 9.5 inches
16 x 18 inches, framed
William Sommer is seen as a ke...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Cricket: Defending the Wicket, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Defending the Wicket
Airbrush and pen
13 x 13 cm
c.1930
Signed to the bottom right
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Bri...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
"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 ...
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American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Vanity Fair
Illustration proposal, c 1930’s
18 X 13 3/4 inches (sight)
...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
UNTITLED (THREE PEOPLE ON A PARK BENCH)
Located in Portland, ME
Ashton, Ethel V. UNTITLED. Pastel on paper, circa 1930. Unsigned, but
with the estate stamp, verso, as is typical for similar works by her.
The image shows an African-American coupl...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
War Machine — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (War Machine)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with marg...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields
By Samuel Bolton Colburn
Located in Denver, CO
This original watercolor painting by acclaimed American artist Samuel Bolton Colburn captures a quiet farmstead nestled in a mountain valley. Rendered with Colburn’s signature contro...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Smithfield Cattle Show, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Smithfield Cattle Show
Airbrush and gouache
26 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustra...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker
Located in New York, NY
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker. Sight size: 18 x 23 1/4 inches. Estate stamped verso.
This drawing is the study for a large oil we ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
Located in Gavere, BE
Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
This exceptionally beautiful charcoal drawing sits in a brand new frame, and sealed under the authenti...
Category
Italian School 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Painter
41 ½ x 36 3/4 inches (sight)
Gouache on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower rig...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Moroccan - Original Pencil and Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan is an original pencil and china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the ...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Estes Park Colorado American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Painting, WPA 1930s
By James Russell Sherman
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s watercolor and ink painting of Estes Park, Colorado, by American artist James Russell Sherman (1906-1989). This captivating work features a detailed view of storefronts...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour on paper
Located in London, GB
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and inscribed lower left, Paulémile - Pissarro -...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cathedral
New Yorker cover proposa...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Massalia, Return From Fishing, Watercolor
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Massalia, Back from fishing.
Watercolor signed and dated 1933.
Paper laminated on cardboard.
Signature to be identified.
Water stain at the top left, sun exposure, foxing and ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm.
Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
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Abstract Geometric 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Sergey CHEKHONIN (1878 – 1936), theater poster project
Located in Paris, FR
Serge Tchekhonine was a Russian artist who studied applied drawing, ceramics, and pottery in St. Petersburg. He settled in France in 1928, gaining attention for his finely crafted ce...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a boy, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of a boy
Signed lower left
Pastel on paper
28 x 23 cm
Framed : 63 x58 cm
Guirand de Scévola is particularly renowned for his...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cubist Woman Study Black Pencil Drawing by Wouyart
Located in Atlanta, GA
This interesting seated woman pencil study is by French artist Wouyart (20th Century). This unique representation captures the model's expression through trace lines and shadows that...
Category
Cubist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Early 20th Century Abstract Collage by New York Artist
By Byron Browne
Located in Beachwood, OH
Byron Browne (American, 1907-1961)
Abstract Collage, 1933
Collage, charcoal and ink on paper
Signed and dated lower middle
16 x 19.5 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Byron Browne was a...
Category
Abstract 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
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...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Untitled Senza Titolo, Italian Futurism, Drawing
Located in London, GB
MINO DELLE SITE 1914-1996
[Domenico Delle Site]
Lecce 1914-1996 Rome (Italian)
Title: Untitled Senza Titolo, 1935
Technique: Signed and Dated Crayon...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
people on the bar terrace spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Bar - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 11x13cm.
Frame measures 35x37 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas, Manuel Hugué, Isidre Nonell...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
Category
Romantic 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study For "The Land Of Enchantment"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image Dimensions: Image 9" x 19"
Sheet Dimensions: 15" x 20.25"
Medium: Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper laid to board
This is an unsigned study for the 38" H x 75" W oil pain...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Graphite
In the Art Gallery, Early 20th Century Watercolor, Women Viewing Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jules Andre Smith (American, 1880-1959)
In the Art Gallery, 1936
Watercolor and pen and ink
Signed Andre Smith, 1936 lower right
10.75 x 8.5 inches
20.25 x 17.25 inches, framed
Jule...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Xmas Gifts, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Xmas Gifts
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illu...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
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American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Studies of Man with Arms Raised
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister.
From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s.
Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...
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Post-War 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys, 1930s art deco poster design
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys
Gouache and collage
46 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil Tanks, Alameda Street, Los Angeles, c. 1930-33, watercolor on paper, 14 ¼ x 21 ¼ inches (image), inscribed verso: “watercolor by Ruth Zimmerman 1912 – 1968 / Practice work for sc...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000)
"Streetscape"
14 x 20 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1939
Signed l...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Miss Personality' Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Miss Personality", American Art Works original art for a calendar.
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Bullfighting Scene Gouache on paper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Bullfighting Scene
Artist: Roberto Domingo
Technique: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 7 x 10 in (14 x 17.3 in with frame)
Period: 1930s
Style: Spanish Impressionism with Post-Impressionist influence
Condition: Framed in a classic wooden frame
Theme: Bullfighting scene
Description of the Artwork
"Bullfighting Scene" by Roberto Domingo is a vibrant and dynamic depiction of a typical moment in a bullring. The composition captures the drama and intensity of the moment, with a mounted picador on a striking white horse as the centerpiece, flanked by a matador and assistants preparing for the spectacle. The artwork radiates energy through swift and loose brushstrokes, imbuing the scene with movement and vitality.
Domingo’s style emphasizes visual synthesis, focusing on color and form rather than meticulous detail to convey the atmosphere of the bullfighting arena. Warm tones dominate, with vibrant yellows and reds contrasting against the grays and whites of the horse and costumes, creating a captivating chromatic interplay.
The classic frame adds sobriety and balance to the piece, further highlighting the expressive power of the gouache.
Biography of the Artist
Roberto Domingo Fallola (1883-1956), born in Paris, was a renowned painter and illustrator of Spanish descent. The son of the celebrated bullfighting painter Vicente Domingo, he inherited a passion for bullfights and became one of the leading exponents of bullfighting art...
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Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Louis Icart, French, 1888-1950 Ladies in a Carriage Pastel on Paper
By Louis Icart
Located in Dallas, TX
Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950). Ladies in a carriage. Pastel on Paper.
20-5/8 x 18-1/2 inches (52.3 x 47.0 cm).
Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950).
Ladies in a carriage.
Pastel on ...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Academic Study (Archer)
Located in London, GB
Jean Durand, (French 1894-1977) Academic Study (Centaur), c.1930s, Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower right), 32cm x 48cm (63cm x 46cm framed.) The picture is framed behind museu...
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Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Place Pigalle
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Place Pigalle', oil and gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Pigalle is well known to tourists who want to experience "Paris by night". It is home to some of Paris' most famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge which was immortalised by artist Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec's studio was here as was Picasso's, Vincent Van Gogh's and that of Andre Breton. In 1928 Josephine Baker opened her first nightclub next door to Breton's apartment. It is certainly a historical landmark of Paris and well known to so many visitors of this beautiful city. Génin painted Paris and Parisians and this is another one of his charming works among many held by this gallery. Please feel free to peruse them all on this platform. In good overall condition. Newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
Waldorf Astoria Art Deco Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Charles Perry Weimer employs thin black horizontal lines that intersect with thin black vertical lines. The result is a triumph of design w...
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Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
"Creation Benevent" Watercolour by E. Maury
Located in Bristol, CT
Stylish watercolour by E. Maury signed (LL) featuring two c1930s dapper gents strolling on the beach in smart French blue attire
Art Sz: 17 1/2"H x 11 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 18 1/2"H x 13...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Art Deco Vogue Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco "Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," accompanied by corresponding issue of Vogue magazine...
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Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two Old Pecan Trees, Early 20th Century Landscape, 1st Place May Show Winner
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Two Old Pecan Trees, 1932
Watercolor on paper mounted on board
Signed lower right
21 x 28.25 inches
27 x 35.25 inches, as framed
Exhibited: 1932 May Show (1st Place) Cleveland Museum of Art; Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and His Contemporaries, 2001 Cleveland Artist's Foundation.
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 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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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
2 STUDIES FOR REVOLUTION II (Grosvenor School Color Linocut)
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (British 1872-1951)
STUDIES FOR THE COLOR LINOCUT REVOLUTION II, 1931
Pencil on thin wove paper. Unsigned. Consists of two 3 inch square pencil drawings on one sheet of thin wove paper 10 x 7 3/8 inches. Preliminary studies for Power's Grosvenor School...
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Futurist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Trio of Nudes
By A. Delamaire
Located in Houston, TX
Nude trio in distinct poses sketched in charcoal by French artist A. Delamaire, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standa...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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Expressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
A 1930s Drawing of a Woman Seated at a Lunch Counter by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s charcoal on paper drawing of a woman seated at a lunch counter by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 10 3/4" x 14". Archivally matted to 20" x 16". Provenance: Estate ...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Paul Brown Color Lithograph "The Water - Aintree" from The Grand National
Located in Bristol, CT
Paul Brown (New York/ Minnesota; 1893 – 1958)
The Water – Aintree, 1931
Color lithograph on paper
Signed to lower right margin; signed in plate
Print Sz: 9 3/4"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 1...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Man - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is a Colored lithograph realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
Good conditions.
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
New York City Skyline
14 x 21 1/2 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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