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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1970s
Blue Tides Abstract
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor and pastel multimedia painting of blue tides with brown, orange, and yellow between by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unfram...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Aspen in Fall, 1970s Vintage Autumn Landscape Watercolor
By Lewis Suzuki
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant 1970's vintage autumn watercolor landscape scene of an aspen tree with fall foliage by Lewis Suzuki (American, 1920-2016). Artist's signatu...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Watercolor
Seated Nude Figure
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Gestural watercolor of a colorful seated nude figure by California artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed and dated "Doris Warner, 5/71" on ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Vintage Watercolor Landscape -- Falling Water, Peaceful Forest Stream
By Don Kitz
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene, beautifully executed watercolor, using a wide spectrum of color with a delicate and subtle hand, by Don Kitz (American, 1939-2019), c.1970. Feel the peace and serenity of thi...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Leda and the Swan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reuben Nakian
Title: Leda and the Swan
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.l.
Size: 14 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: 23 x 25....
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
William Jacobs "Urban Scene", original pastel on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Urban Scene" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is a pastel on paper created in 1970. The artwork is signed in pencil by the artist and...
Category
American Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
#45
By Alexandre Hogue
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#45
Ink on paper, 1970
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of a series of drawings, all made in 1970, which stemmed from Hogue's interest in Persian calligraphy. H...
Category
Abstract 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Perfume Bottles
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Graphite on paper.
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Ar...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
PLUM NELLIE - BEAR HUG
By Robert Reed
Located in Portland, ME
Reed, Robert (American, 1938-2014). PLUM NELLIE, BEAR HUG. Mixed media on paper, 1979. Titled, signed, dated, and further inscribed in the margin below the image. 22 1/2 x 34 1/2 inc...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Harbor View London Bridge, Lake Havasu City Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor of London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, a landscape of boats in the harbor by Bernard Epstein (Polish/American, 1910-2003). Presented in a blue wooden frame. Signed "Bernard Epstein" lower right. Image: 17.5"H x 23.5"W.
Bernard Epstein was born in Grodno Poland in 1910. He came to Worcester MA in 1921, where he studied art at the Worcester Art Museum School. He pursued his art studies in Boston, graduating with a B.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Boston University. He continued his art studies in New York, where he attended the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York City, studying under the tutelage of Leon Kroll and Herbert Barnett. (2)
He was the Art supervisor for the Uxbridge Public Schools for over 30 years, retiring in 1970 to pursue his interest in watercolors, oils and pottery. He opened an art gallery and pottery shop in North Eastham, MA that he operated for 26 years, retiring in 1996. (3)
For over 50 years Mr. Epstein painted in his favorite haunts: Gloucester, Worcester, Provincetown and Lower Cape in MA; Old Orchard Beach...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper, c. 1971
Unsigned
Provenance: From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition i...
Category
Abstract 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Young Owl)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Although we use the word 'pencil' fo...
Category
American Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled
By Norman Bluhm
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Provenance: Norman Bluhm to current owner
Trained as an architect under Mies van der Rohe, Norman Bluhm created paintings with an abiding sense of structure, balance, and compositio...
Category
Abstract 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink
Red Dahlia Garden Landscape
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Cheerful floral landscape of a garden in bloom by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"H x 15"L.
Doris Ann Warner began ...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Vintage Still Life -- Woodstove & Bouquet
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming watercolor still-life of a cozy interior with a woodstove and bouquet of bright flowers by California artist Virginia Hughins (Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-200...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated.
From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's
They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them some have a stylized American flag.
Carmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.” In the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.
Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001. A monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64
Ford Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65
Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sam Maitin Mixed Media Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sam Maitin: 1928-2004. Listed American artist associated with Philadelphia. He has had auction prices over $2100 with much higher prices at galleries. It is...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Surrealist Latin American Mixed Media - Woman In Green Pants With Ship
Located in Surfside, FL
Armando Villagran lived from 1945 to 1995 in Mexico. He was a self-taught artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. He has been considered by Mexican ar...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Young Woman Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Young Woman 1971
Size: 17x13.5 framed 24x20x1
Rosenborg began the study of painting in 1929 at the School Art League, American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and studied privately with Henriette Reiss from 1930 to 1933. Ralph Rosenborg won a scholarship while still in high school to Saturday art classes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. After classes ended, he continued to study privately with his teacher there, Henriette Reiss, who provided not only exacting technical training, but broad-based instruction in music, literature, and art history. More significantly, Reiss had worked with Kandinsky earlier in her career and introduced her young protege to the vast arena of vanguard European ideas.
Ralph Rosenborg exhibited his artworks since as a teenager when he made dress patterns...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Country Squire
Located in Bristol, CT
Original advert watercolour c1970s artwork commissioned by J Chipp Clothiers of East 44th St in Nyc & painted by D. Lemon depicting a country squire on h...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'U.S.S. Love', Swimming with Mermaids, Merman
By Roberta Loach
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Roberta Loach' and dated '79'; additionally signed verso and dated.
An enigmatic and whimsical drawing of a young woman in swimming costume and cap preparing to...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"Untitled #3" - Large Scale Pastel Geometric Color Field Abstract
By Renee Harwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale abstract composition in pastel with bold geometric color-fields in in red, navy blue, green, with yellow and orange accents by Renee Harwin (Austrian, b. 1924). Tag on verso with artist info. "Renee Harwin Untitled Pastel #3 30 1/4" x 44 1/2"" is written in pencil on verso. Presented in a white plexiglass frame with plexiglass covering. Image size: 29.75"H x 44"W
As a young Viennese woman, Renee Harwin found her artistic development interrupted by Hitler's arrival to her city. Soon after, Renee and her family left and moved to the United States. Harwin says that while "one can drawn his or her own conclusions from my work, I believe that the tremendous impact of change from Nazism to free America has left deep impressions on me that are played out on these canvases."
Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and San Francisco Art Institute instructor Jack...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Colorful Abstracted Tree
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstracted tree with hues of red, blue, and green by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed.
Doris Ann Warner began as an Abstract Ex...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Pen & Ink - Two Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Enchanting pen and ink drawing in black of two sturdy trees edging a small pond by artist A. Martin, 1972. Signed and dated lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a wh...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen, Ink
New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated.
From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's
They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them some have a stylized American flag.
Carmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.” In the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.
Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001. A monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64
Ford Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65
Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, Eagle
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Here an eagle, a majestic bird-of-pr...
Category
American Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Self Portrait' original pastel and graphite drawing signed by Sandra Sweeney
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Following in line with artists before her, like Rembrandt and van Gogh, Sandra Sweeny here presents a self portrait. The image is direct but subtle in its handling of materials, but ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Pastel
Sem Titulo
Located in Wiscasett, ME
"Sem Titulo" gouache on paper. Illustrated in Barsotti's book page 146. The full sheet size listed in the catalogue is 21cm x 30cm. The specialty frame incorporates a mat cut up t...
Category
Abstract 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beethoven, Pastel on Paper Portrait by Alton Tobey
By Alton Tobey
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alton Tobey
Tite: Beethoven
Year: 1974
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 35.5 x 41 in. (90.17 x 104.14 cm)
Frame Size: 40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.44 cm)
Category
Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Paul Jenkins. "Untitled" is an abstract, watercolor and ink on paper executed in a lush primarily palette with black ink printed images in the foreground by contemporar...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Garden Entrance Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Verdant watercolor landscape with architectural elements of archways leading to a lush garden by California artist Virginia Hughins (Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-2004)....
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated.
From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's
They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them.
Carmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.” In the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.
Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001. A monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64
Ford Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65
Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated.
From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's
They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them some have a stylized American flag.
Carmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.” In the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.
Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001. A monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64
Ford Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65
Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
'Apples and Cherry Blossoms', Modernist Still Life
By Sally Mack
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Sally Mack" (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. Painted on Arches paper.
A vibrant, Post-Impressionist still-life showing branches of cherry-blossom...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated.
From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's
They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them some have a stylized American flag.
Carmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.” In the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.
Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001. A monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64
Ford Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65
Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008
Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
(Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape) Untitled
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil and hand numbered lithograph on fine French Arches paper.
Jerusalem Landscape.
Avigdor Arikha (April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian.
Avigdor Arikha (originally Victor Długacz) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Radauti, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine). His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria, where his father died. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of the International Red Cross.
Arikha immigrated to Palestine in 1944, together with his sister. Until 1948, he lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In 1948 he was severely wounded in Israel's War of Independence. From 1946 to 1949, he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. In 1949 he won a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he learned the fresco technique. From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 until his death to the American poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had two daughters.
In the late 1950s, Arikha established himself as an abstract painter, but he eventually came to think of abstraction as a dead end. In 1965 he stopped painting and began drawing, only from life, treating all subjects in a single sitting. He engaged in drawing and printmaking only for the next eight years. In 1973, he resumed painting and became "perhaps the best painter from life in the last decades of the 20th century", as he was hailed in an obituary in Economist magazine.
Arikha painted directly from the subject in natural light only, using no preliminary drawing, finishing a painting, pastel, print, ink, or drawing in one session. His profound knowledge of art techniques and masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by this principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush painting. It was a principle he shared with his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson, to whose "instant décisif" it was analogous.
He never drew from memory or photographs, aiming to depict the truth of what lay before his eyes at that moment. He is noted for his portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered realistically and spontaneously. In their radi...
Category
Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Seated Nude with 'X'" original conté drawing by Sandra Sweeney
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Nude with 'X'" is a conté crayon drawing on paper by the American artist Sandra Sweeney (1947 - 2017). The figure study captures an intimate and candid moment: In the image, ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Paper
(Scottish Rockscape) Untitled
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Scottish Rockscape)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Horn...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Cafe Tabac, Montmartre”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a Montmartre neighborhood by the well known French artist, Urbain Huchet.
Cafe Tabac is located in the foreground on the corner with the striped red awning. Circa 1975. Signed lower right. In very good original condition. Framed in one inch wide mahogany frame. Overall measurements 20 by 23.5 inches.
Urbain Huchet was born in Rennes on April 28, 1930.
After studying law and owning a textile factory for four years, he decided in 1960 to devote himself entirely to painting.
Mr. Huchet spent his first three years as an artist in Pont-Aven, following in the footsteps of Gauguin and Emile Bernard, both of whom influenced him a great deal. He does many paintings of the landscape and the typical people this region. His love of the Brittany coast and the sea can always be seen in his work.
After moving to Paris in 1963, his love of adventure and travel led him to spend time painting and writing in Europe, the Middle East, and South America, where he produced many paintings of the Indian markets and the great scenery. He made 14 trips of more than 4 months each, from Mexico to Brazil via Peru, Central America and the Caribbean Islands. In addition to the paintings, he has written a book about these beautiful countries. A luxurious portfolio of paintings of Egypt...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled (My Mother and Her Sister as Children), State II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (My Mother and Her Sister as Children), State II
Year: 1973
Medium: Pencil on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Good...
Category
Photorealist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Original 1971 Fillmore East Art program cover pencil drawing Rock and Roll
Located in Southampton, NY
For Rock and Roll art collectors this is one incredible work of art. It is the original 1971 drawing for Bill Graham's Fillmore East program cover art created by Rock and Roll and Broadway superstar artist David Byrd. framed size 22x17". I have included in this listing an image of an actual program cover for reference purposes, it is not part of the sale.
David Byrd created some of the most memorable Classic Theatre and Rock and Roll images from the 1960s and 70s. This is the first time that this rare original one of a kind drawing has been available for sale since it was first created over 40 years ago. This is the actual drawing that was presented for approval of the final artwork. David created ALL of the Art for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, including their Program covers and Rock posters, the art for Jimi Hendrix’s first Fillmore East appearance, The Rolling Stones 1969 World Tour art, The Who’s Performance of Tommy at the New York Metropolitan Opera House and The Fillmore, and The Grateful Dead Swell Dance Concert to name only a few. He also created the poster art for the original location of the 1969 Woodstock music festival . His memorable images were also used for classic Broadway shows like Godspell, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar to mention only a few. These museum quality drawings are rarely made available for sale, they are not only wonderful rare works of art, but are truly historically important works in the field of Theatre and Rock and Roll collecting. It has been framed with archival double matting.
David Byrd's poster art is in many museum collections, including : The Louvre, in Paris, Victoria & Albert in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
We have included an image featuring some of the memorable art David Byrd has created for the Rock and Roll industry and classic Broadway shows. A large coffee table book is in the final edit and getting ready to go to press of the art of David Byrd titled "Poster Child...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Pencil
Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy Opera Calynx and Tarara from "Utopia Limited"
Located in Bristol, CT
Colourful scene from the Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy opera "Utopia Limited" featuring Calynx, the vice-chamberlain & Tarara, the public exploder
Watercolour...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' original pastel drawing signed by Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
The Fishing Boat
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract fishing boat by California artist Virginia Hughins (Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-2004). Signed "Hughins" lower right. Unframed. 9.5"H x 11.5"L.
Hughins was a...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstracted Mountain Range Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor painting of abstracted mountains by Aptos, California artist Virginia J. Hughins (American, 1923-2004), circa 1970. Unsigned and unframed. Image size, 16"H x 20"L...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Kitchen Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant kitchen still life by Aptos, California artist Virginia J. Hughins (American, 1923-2004), circa 1970. Signed "Hughins" lower right. Unframed...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Summer Camp Gathering
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor that harkens to summer camp memories by Aptos, California artist Virginia J. Hughins (American, 1923-2004), circa 1970 Signed "Hughins...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Green Abstract
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract with green and black swirling together by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 9"H x 12"W. Purchased from the es...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rooftops (Framed 1970's New York Cityscape Landscape Drawing by William Clutz)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstracted New York City landscape drawing of urban rooftops and tree tops
"Rooftops", created by William Clutz in 1977
30 x 20 inches, charcoal and pastel on paper
33 x 25 inches in light wood frame
This framed pastel on paper was made in 1977 by William Clutz. It features an abstracted depiction of New York City rooftops as seen from a high window. Of particular note is the artist's technique with pastel; a wonderful texture and motion is created by closely woven striated lines. Sunlight reflects off brown rooftops and peaking green tree tops. The charcoal and pastel drawing is framed in a natural light wood frame with non-reflective glass and wire backing for installation.
About the Artist:
Renowned as the “impressionist of the contemporary metropolis”, William Clutz uses the city, in its entirety, as his subject. Pedestrians crossing streets become stars of the stage; the hustle and bustle of traffic and surrounding buildings are the chorus; each play their part in the overall composition. Lighting and color shift this observation of the everyday into a remarkable wonder. “It is surely Clutz”, wrote Gerrit Henry in Art News, 1979, “an artist who has rejected the niceties of representation in favor of the quintessence.” The young artist moved to New York City in 1955 and just four years later had his first solo exhibit at the Condon Riley Gallery. Clutz went on to show in major uptown galleries such as David Herbert, where, notably in 1962 he received a NYTimes review titled, Return of the Figure. That same year, his role in the revival of figuration was further solidified with inclusion in the MoMA group show, Recent Painting USA, The Figure. This was a pivotal turning point from which emerged a 50-year exhibiting career.
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Born: Gettysburg, PA 1933
Mercersburg, PA 1933-1951
New York City 1955-1996
Education
Painting: Thomas Danaher(WPA artist) 1944-51
Mercersburg Academy, PA 1947...
Category
Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Charcoal, Archival Paper
"Sacred" Angel Abstract Figurative Portrait with Snake, Bird, and Fish Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully executed watercolor painting by Joanna Ballard that depicts a nude angel standing over a resting figure. The composition includes many diverse hues that range in opacity....
Category
Abstract 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Eglise Saint-Pierre”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a Montmartre neighborhood by the well known French artist, Urbain Huchet. In the background is the Eglise Saint-Pierre or Church of Saint Peter. It is build on the original site of the Abbey of Montmartre built in the 12th century. Circa 1975. Signed lower left . In very good original to excellent condition. Framed in one inch wide mahogany frame. Overall measurements 20 by 23.5 inches.
Urbain Huchet was born in Rennes on April 28, 1930.
After studying law and owning a textile factory for four years, he decided in 1960 to devote himself entirely to painting.
Mr. Huchet spent his first three years as an artist in Pont-Aven, following in the footsteps of Gauguin and Emile Bernard, both of whom influenced him a great deal. He does many paintings of the landscape and the typical people this region. His love of the Brittany coast and the sea can always be seen in his work.
After moving to Paris in 1963, his love of adventure and travel led him to spend time painting and writing in Europe, the Middle East, and South America, where he produced many paintings of the Indian markets and the great scenery. He made 14 trips of more than 4 months each, from Mexico to Brazil via Peru, Central America and the Caribbean Islands. In addition to the paintings, he has written a book about these beautiful countries. A luxurious portfolio of paintings of Egypt...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled (Male Nude with Hands on Waist)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now...
Category
Realist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
'Mother and Child', Bolivian-American Modernist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Norha Beltran (Bolivian-American, 20th century). Accompanied by old label from Hourian Gallery, San Francisco and with comprehensive artist bi...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
Liza Minnelli
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Graphite on HMP Paper.
Provenance: The Estate of The Artists; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Thaddeus Ropac; Private Collection NYC.
Image rights: The purchaser is a...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Ocean Path Through Sand Dunes - Florida Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape of a path to the ocean through sand dunes by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in the lower right corner. On verso is written "Gift painted...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil and hand numbered lithograph on fine French Arches paper.
Jerusalem Landscape.
Avigdor Arikha (April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Isra...
Category
Modern 1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
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