1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Sketch of Cat View is an original drawing in pen realized by Helène Neveur in 1980. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes ...

Nudes is an original drawing realized by Leo Guida in the 1980s. Drawing in pen and Charcoal. Good conditions. Included a Passepartout: 60 x 40 cm Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensi...

Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind" Beautiful and highly detailed illustration of a pink rose on a complex matrix background by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Titled "Georgia on My Mind" lower left. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"H x 18.25"W on a 25"H x 20"W Mat. The artist takes many days creating the hand drawn matrix background of circles and line. Ben Black was born in Boston, he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art 1947. He served in World War 2. He was an art director at one of Boston's leading advertising firms, later opened his own studio where his works were included in The New Yorker Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, establishing himself as a leading American Illustrator. He had many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and his work is collected throughout the world. Originally known for his clowns, he created a limited edition series of plates for Royal Daulton as well as clown figurines...

The Colosus of Rhodes is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper by realized in 1989. In very good conditions. This artwork of art represents the lower limbs of a statu...

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Seated Man Year: 1980 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 9 x 11.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed by the artist PETER MAX (1937- ) P...

Nel Giardino is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera and w...

Signals is an original artwork realized in 1984 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original lithograph on cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower left in pen...

Two Into One (Passage Series) John Hardy, American (1923–2014) Date: 1982 Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 39 x 27 in. (99.06 x 68.58 cm)

The Reader is an original modern artwork realized the 1980s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pencil and watercolor drawing on Ivory paper. H...

Burton Silverman Untitled Portrait, 1980 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 14 x 10 1/2 inches Burton Silverman been painting and exhibiting as a fine artist for over...

Theatre with Signals is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1986 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempe...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Man in Wheelchair, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Wearing a long ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Couple - III, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz's rend...

Bathers is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the Second half of 20th Century. Original oil pastels on paper. ...

Modern abstract black ink line drawing of a seated female nude. The work features a loose rendering of a single woman sitting on her heels and looking off in the distance. Signed and dated in front lower right corner. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Frank Dolejska...

Landscape is an original artwork realized in 1980 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera on ivory-colored card...

Sketch is an original artwork realized in 1984 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original pencil and blue pen drawing on ivory-colored paper, included a c...

Artist: Rodney Alan Greenblat, American (1960 - ) Title: Intrepid Year: 1989 Medium: Gouache and Color Pencil on paper, signed Size: 10 in. x 16 in. (25.4 cm x 40.64 cm) Frame S...

Nude Study is an original drawing in pencil on ivory paper, realized by Debora Sinibaldi in 1985. In good condition with some folding along the margins and some small stains. Sheet...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Rabbi with Student, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Reading togeth...

Artist: D. Burton, American Title: Tutti Frutti Year: 1988 Medium: Watercolor and Mixed Media on Paper, signed and dated in pencil Size: 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)

A striking large-scale abstract watercolor painting by contemporary American artist Virginia Maitland (b. 1947), created in 1980. Known for her expressive use of color and dynamic co...

"Landscape" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 14.8 x 23.4...

Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil on paper realized in 1987 by Emile Deschler. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Fiddler - IX, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Holding the fiddle c...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Older Woman, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Her hair wrapped to h...

Schnurr has an art studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo shows were at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in Long Island City, both in 2014; in 2011 she was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art...

Nude Study is an original drawing in brownish charcoal on ivory paper, realized by Debora Sinibaldi in 1985. In good condition with some folding along the margins and some small sta...

Portrait is an original modern artwork realized the 1980s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original charcoal and watercolor drawing on Ivory paper. H...

Portrait is an original modern artwork realized the 1970s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pen drawing on Ivory paper. Hand-signed in pen by...

The Doctor is an original modern artwork realized the 1980s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pen drawing on Ivory paper. Hand-signed in penc...

Nude Study is an original drawing in brownish charcoal on ivory paper, realized by Debora Sinibaldi in 1985. In good condition with some folding along the margins and some small sta...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Hasidic Men Reading, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Gathered toge...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Fiddler - VI, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Holding the fi...

Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Red Square, Green Square, Year: 1981, Medium: Gouache on Paper on Fabriano Cotton Paper, signed, and dated in pencil, Image Size: 18 x 25.5...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Dancing Couple - I, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz'...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Two Men, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz's intimate portrait of two men conversing...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XV, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mo...

Berlin is an original colored watercolor realized in 1986 by Armin Guther. Good conditions. Includes passepartout (50 x 60 cm). The artwork is hand-signed and dated on the lower ri...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Trumpeter - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ir...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Horn Player - III, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz's...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Man in Sombrero - III, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Weari...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Mother and Child - III, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Holding he...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Clarinet Player, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Nude - III, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: This thoughtful ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XIV, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description:...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Three Women, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Posing alo...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - IV, Year: 1985, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mo...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Rabbi with Book - III, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitti...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Trombone Player, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Holding the...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Native American Man - I, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Wearing h...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Double Bass Player - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Although hi...

Portrait is an original artwork in mixed media realized by Italian artist Mino Maccari in 1985 ca. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower up, with his designs on the rear side. In ...

Woman With Fish is a colored artwork realized by Atelier Bernard Lelong (as written on the higher-margin) during the 1980s. Mixed colored watercolor o...

This original watercolor by Dwight Baird, drawn on location at the Port of Gomera on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, captures the charm of several fishing boats resting in the harbor...

Charming really well drawn and painted watercolor of what looks to be possibly a Vietnamese village. A farmer is walking his ducks along the road and seems to have them all in a row....

To see our other Modern British Art and works by the architect Louis Osman, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Louis Osman FRIBA (1914-1996) Christmas Card, Byford Court, 1985 22 x 31cm Gouache and ink on paper This characterful card was sent by Louis Osman and his wife Dilys, whom he had married in 1940. Written and painted in 1985, it features an ink sketch and gouache painting of the porch entrance to Byford Court, with handwritten notes about the house's significance. Osman moved to Byford Court in 1976, following a brief brush with bankruptcy. Osman attended the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Slade School of Art, and became a Donaldson Medallist of RIBA in 1935. In the late 1930s he took part in the British Museum and British School of Archaeology expeditions to Syria. After war service he worked in London designing buildings, furniture, tapestries, and glass including work in Westminster Abbey, Lincoln, Ely, Exeter and Lichfield Cathedrals. He also did work for the National Trust at Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch. Before moving to Byford Court, Osman and his wife lived at Canons Ashby House in Northamptonshire. Whilst there, they made the crown used at the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales. In 1976, they also made the gold enamelled casket holding the Magna Carta...

Plum Branches and Flowers watercolor on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy. Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter 1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows. O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.” Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.” “The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.” When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.” O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.” Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes. As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...

Memories is a watercolor painting on paper by Italian artist Lucio Pozzi. The paper is signed by the artist himself, and the work is currently housed at Hal Bromm Gallery.