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Period: 1930s
'Age 9', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, Corcoran
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) as a full-page illustration for the book 'The Buttermilk Tree', circa 1935. A rare example of a fully-developed pen, ink and gou...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid- 20th Century WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week – b/w
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
I...
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American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Daphne and Chloe - Lithograph by Pierre Bonnard - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Daphne and Chloe is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper by Pierre Bonnard in 1930s.
Not signed, as issued.
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
Autograph Letter with Sketch - China Ink by Hans Erni - 1938
By Hans Erni
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter Signed with Original Sketch by Hans Erni to Nesto Jacometti. October 26th, 1938. Signed "ton Erni".
One page, double-sided. On ivory colored paper with black paper ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$720 Sale Price
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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
$1,320 Sale Price
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Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore.
Located in Storrs, CT
Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore. c. 1937. Ink and watercolor on 'Castle Linen Tolli & Harvey LD London' countermarked paper. 7 1/8 x 13 1/2 (sheet 12 1/2 x 16 1/4). Good condition, apart from small professionally repaired paper losses at the corners, from previous hinges. Dedicated 'To my friend Harold James Bailey E.B.' and annotated 'To wish you a glad glow of happiness for Christmas and the New Year'. From the collection of the famous Blampied scholar and collector, Harold J. Bailey, who wrote an article, 'Edmund Blampied: Artist and Philosopher' in the Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1937). Housed in a 15 1/2 x 21 1/2-inch Whistler style gold wood frame.
In the left rear section is a Martello or Conway tower, built as a fortiffiction. A Jersey Round Tower Coastal towers stand all along the coast of the island. The British built 22 round towers, one similar square tower, and eight Martello towers towards the end of the 18th Century and in the early to mid-19th Century, but now only 24 remain, including seven of the Martellos.
Vraic is a seaweed found in the Channel Islands. The main use of vraic is for spreading over potato fields during the winter. It is then ploughed into the soil before the potatoes are planted in late winter and spring. Vraic was traditionally gathered by horse and cart in Grouville Bay and St Ouen's Bay, and in smaller quantities at Le Hocq and Havre des Pas. The practice continues using...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$2,500 Sale Price
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Piano Lesson on a Snowing Day - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
Piano Lesson on a Snowing Day
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom right
c. 1930
On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Running Race, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Running Race
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 British art...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Hats, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Hats
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, illustrator...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
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
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...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
$1,393 Sale Price
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Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Outdoor Market WPA sketch
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
David Margolis (b.1911). Outdoor Market, ca. 1935. Charcoal on paper, image measures 7 x 9.5 inches. Framed measurement 13 x 15.5 inches. Signed lower right.
David Margolis (Septem...
Category
Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
'Hamam Rigba'. Oil sketch on cardboard. Signed and titled on back.
Located in Paris, FR
'Hamam Rigba'. Oil sketch on cardboard. Signed and titled on the back.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
Jules...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Male Nude
By M. Lambert
Located in Houston, TX
French pencil drawing of a nude male statue with bronze casting to leg by artist M. Lambert, circa 1930. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on pap...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
'Jeune Femme Assise', Paris, Charlottenborg, Danish Post Impressionist, Benezit
By Carl Fischer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, in graphite, 'Carl Fischer' (Danish, 1887-1962) and created created 1935. Watermarked 'Ingres Van Gelder Zonen' along right edge.
Carl Fischer first studied under Viggo Johansen...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
UNTITLED - SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GERHARD MARCKS (1889 1981)
(SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA) 1933. Graphite on wove paper, signed,
dated, 14 ¼” x 7”. Sheet 15” x 10”. S...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
$595 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century Watercolor of Marrakech Scene, Cleveland School Artist
By John Teyral
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Teyral (American, 1912-1999)
Marrakech, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed, dated and titled upper right
12 x 14 inches
19 x 21.5 inches, framed
John Teyral was one of Cleveland'...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Town
Located in Roma, IT
Original drawing by Ardengo Soffici.
Reference: Published in "Il Selvaggio", n. 7/8, p. 45, in 1935.
Catalog "Mino Maccari e l'avventura del Selvaggio", Colle Val d'Elsa 1998, n. 27,...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Detailed harbor landscape by Ernest Clegg (British, 1976-1954). The Whitehall Building towers over the sce...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,480 Sale Price
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Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, 1932
Watercolor on board
Signed and dated lower right
15.25 x 21 inches
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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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
On the Hunt - Early 20th Century Figurative Drawing with Dogs
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative ink and wash drawing of beagles and a terrier leading the hunter to the quarry by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic black and bro...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$375 Sale Price
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Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, image measures 7 x 9.5 inches on a sheet measuring 11 x 15...
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American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Art Deco Thistles Still Life Watercolor Painting by Marie Benoit-Levy
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marie Benoit-Levy (France, 20th Century).
This lovely watercolor on Arches Vellum paper painting features still-life with thistles and a blue water pot, an academic design by Marie B...
Category
Academic 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 10 x 15 inches. Signed lower left. Good condition with no d...
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American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Provence
Located in Houston, TX
Classic etching of Provence by French artist E. Roux-Fabre, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-sized frame. Archi...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
“New York at Night”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso.
Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
"Tugboat at Dock" Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship, New York Docks
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh
Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937
Signed lower right
Watercolor and pencil on paper
13 3/4 x 20 inches
Housed in a Lowy frame.
Provenance:
Sotheby'...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
She Gets Her Way (Couple with Vase)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Costume sketch for ballet "Don Quixote" , * 1931, paper, mixed media, 21x15.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Romans Suta
Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously.
Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism.
A member of the Riga Artists' Group (1920-1924) and the Riga Graphic Artists' Society. Painter of still lifes and figural compositions. After the first experiments in Modernism, he turned to a more realistic manner of representation. The initiator and developer of a national constructive style, especially in interior design; the founder of Baltars creative workshop for porcelain painting (1924-1928); a designer and painter at Kuznetsov...
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Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-P...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Abduction
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel (modern), 1932
62.00 cm. x 46.50 cm. 24.41 in. x 18.31 in. (paper)
Charcoal drawing enhanced with pastel
A charcoal drawing on one of art history's major themes. Here, the...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$7,208
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
Category
American Realist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Man Trimming Tree
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 5/8 x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but no...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Grandmother - Original Pencil Drawing by Giuseppe Mazzullo - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Original pencil drawing by Giuseppe Mazzullo. a contemporary wooden frame is included.
Good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork i...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$1,126 Sale Price
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Scenography contract opera theater. * 1930s, paper, mixed technique, 15x24cm
Located in Riga, LV
Romans Suta
Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously.
Painter, graphic artist, decorative a...
Category
Abstract 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Cyril Farey Architectural perspective drawing Design for Bank of India Aden
By Cyril Farey
Located in London, GB
Cyril A. Farey (1888-1954)
National Bank of India, Aden
Watercolour
17.5×33.5cm (6.8×13.1 inches)
Biographical details and other works by Cyril Farey can be found here.
In 1839 Ade...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers Still Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$3,621 Sale Price
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Cullinan Runs In Front Of Shaun Goilin While Leading Evolution Off Course Grand
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
Over The Wing - Seraglio Virginia Gold Cup 1931
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
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1935 tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Harold E...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$585 Sale Price
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Woman at Rest - Original Charcoal Drawing by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman at Rest is an original artwork realized by Emmanuel Gondouin (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) in 1930s.
This charcoal drawing is a study for the graphic collection entitled "...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French Art Deco Original Gouache Illustration Drawing by Raymonde Hacker
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Art Deco illustrative drawing, hand painted in ink and gouache on blue laid paper. The design includes a collection of fashion accessories, handbags, gloves, hats, and perfu...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1934 tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Harold E...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$585 Sale Price
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Courtyard in Provence
Located in London, GB
'Courtyard in Provence', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a tree...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$383 Sale Price
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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...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled: 1930s Drawing Of A Seated Woman
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified Artist, "Untitled: 1930s Drawing of a Seated Woman", Signed Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper, 21 x 13.88, Early 20th Century, 1936
Colors: Black and White
*Unknown Artist signature...
Category
Academic 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Music Hall Pathos, Cubist Mixed Media Painting by Benjamin Benno 1938
Located in Long Island City, NY
Music Hall Pathos by Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1938
Gouache and Colored ink on paper, signed and dated lower left
Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm)
Frame Size: 23....
Category
Cubist 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
View of Saint-Médard Church Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
A 'View of Saint-Médard Church, Paris', gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). As viewed from the Rue Mouffetard, the church, which dates from the mid-1400s, continues ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,674 Sale Price
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Erotic - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
On the back the stamp of the collection by Comtesse Anna Laetitia...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$450 Sale Price
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Study of lion - Original Pencil Drawing by Wilhelm Lorenz - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Study of lion is a beautiful original drawing on ivory-colored paper realized in 1932 by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, also known as Willi Lorenz.
Hand-signed on the lower left...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$270 Sale Price
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Hilltop Cows, Zermatt, 1935, circa - Drawing by Stanley Spencer, Farming + Rural
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Painter of imaginative and religious subjects, of landscapes and occasional portraits. Born 30 June 1891 at Cookham, Berkshire, brother of Gilbert Spencer. Studied at the Maidenhead ...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of Miss Bachelard
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Black wooden frame with glass pane
53 x 35 x 1.5 cm
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne, circa 1930-40
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long inf...
Category
American Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Francis Chapin was one of the most celebrated painters in Chicago during his lifetime. When he was a young art student, Valley House founder, Donald Vogel, painted with "Chape" on th...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The circus - Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1937
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Circus is an original watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1937.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, winner the Feltrinelli...
Category
Modern 1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$450 Sale Price
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