1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil and pastel realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foregroun...

An excellent watercolour study depicting an early 20th-century harbour with sailing boats and crooked houses. Inscribed with the location on the reverse. With the artist's stamp to t...

"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Homenaje a Servando IX', 1986 drawing, mixed media, lithograph on paper 18.6 x 14.1 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.) ID: VAL-3G1986-09"

Work on paper Dimensions of the passepartout: 40.6 x 29.5cm

Genre: Israeli Subject: People Medium: Print Surface: Paper Country: Israel Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 13" Ben-Zion Shechter artist, illustrator Ben-Zion Shechter, artist, illustrato...

"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Homenaje a Servando XXV', 1986 drawing, mixed media, lithograph on paper 18.6 x 14.1 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.) ID: VAL-3G1986-25"

"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Homenaje a Servando XXIV', 1986 drawing, mixed media, lithograph on paper 18.6 x 14.1 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.) ID: VAL-3G1986-24"

"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Homenaje a Servando VIII', 1986 drawing, mixed media, lithograph on paper 18.6 x 14.1 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.) ID: VAL-3G1986-08"

"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Homenaje a Servando VI', 1986 drawing, mixed media, lithograph on paper 18.6 x 14.1 in. (47 x 35.6 cm.) ID: VAL-3G1986-06"

Boy Nude is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Good condition on a white cardboard, one margin with tear type notepad. Monogram...

Frame: 16.5 x 15.5 x 1 Picture: 6 x 4.5 Picture in excellent condition Frame is in “fair” condition

Abstract Still Life with Fruit in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Several pieces of fruit appear to be sitting on a table with a purple cloth. The scene is highly abstracted, straddling the line between impressionism and non-representational. The background is brightly colored, adding vibrancy to the scene. Signed on verso and acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Paper size: 14"H x 20"W Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson(American, 1928-2009) owned and operated the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan...

Teens at the beach is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The three boys are represent...

Richard Haas Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany (View II), 1980 Pastel drawing on paper Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 1980; bears RDA (Readers Digest...

Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper Bright and colorful abstracted figural painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Bra...

Unique work made from handprinting and printed collage on paper.

Nun in the Shadows - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper A dark abstracted portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is abst...

Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male portrait...

Children, Playing,,illustrations, children's room,Toys, airplane Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007) Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated fro...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist depicts a delicate...

A strikingly sized and engaging three-quarter length portrait of a refined woman in an elegant green dress and pearls with her two beloved dogs on her lap. The artist has signed ille...

Pastel green, blue, gray, and white abstract surrealist drawing by artist T. Moore. The piece depicts a floating book with wings against a lush and serene landscape with a distinct o...

Signed lower right, 'Michael Schlichting' (American, born 1954) and painted circa 1980. A substantial watercolor and gouache collage showing the turbulent breaking of a wave as it approaches a rocky shoreline. A dramatic and animated work by this signature member of the American Watercolor Society and Vice-President of the National Watercolor Society...

Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003) Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981 Oil on paper 16 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures. This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world. But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive. Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian. The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male portrait...

Forest edge at winter. 1983. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm Winter landscape Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at stud...

Northern Europe Landscape is a Watercolor realized by Armin Guther in the 1986. Good conditions, including a white cardboard passe-partout (30 x 26 cm). Hand-signed and dated on th...

Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper Brightly colored Dry Pastel abstract landscape by Aleah Koury (American, b. 1959). ...

Confrontation is an original Drawing in Pencil artwork realized by Antony Roland. Good conditions. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced com...

Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Women, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches; 31.5 x 41 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or...

A unique hand-painted lithograph of a colorful Bouquet of Flowers by Wayne Ensrud, American (1934). Quiet Sunday (Blue) Wayne Ensrud, American (1934) Date: 1980 Hand-Painted Lithogra...

Frame: 16.5 x 15.5 x 1 Picture: 6 x 4.5 Picture in excellent condition Frame has one big scratch and the rest is minor wear

Abstract Still Life with Roses and Coffee Set in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with flowers and a coffee pot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A brig...

An original mixed media painting of a portrait and still life images by Israeli artist, Michael Eisemann. The artwork is hand-signed and dated in ink...

Landscape is a Watercolor drawing realized by Armin Guther in 1986. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner. Good conditions, including a white cardboard passe-partout (40...

Jack Scott "#3" c. 1980 Cross-hatch, charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Unsigned Now available for purchase, this is one of fifteen 40"x30" cross-h...

Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...

Oil stick on paper titled "Barn Side with Sliding Doors" by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) of a grey wooden barn with two windows as well as two r...

The Men is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist de...

The boy at the sea is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh a...

River bay. 1987. Oil on cardboard, 44x58 cm Summer landscape by the river Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foreground the figure is de...

Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper Bold abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two rectangles of color sit vertically, with gray-pu...

Abstract Still Life with Bouquet and Teapot in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with flowers and a teapot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A tall, brig...

Jack Scott "#25" 1981 Interwoven, cross-hatch, charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Signed and dated in pencil on reverse Now available for purchase,...

Landscape is a drawing in watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1989. Hand-Signed and dated. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through soft strokes with harmonious cong...

View of Henningsvaer Lofoten is an Original Watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1986. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (50x40 cm). Hand-signed and dated on...

The Running Man is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The ...

LARRY HOROWITZ (American b. 1956) "Purple Mountains," 1988, pastel on paper Hand signed and dated L/R, "Horowitz '88," Dimensions sight 19 1/2" x 23", framed, 26 1/2" x 30 1/2". Larry Horowitz is an American landscape painter. He was born in 1956 in New York City and graduated from SUNY Purchase and immediately won the prestigious and coveted position as apprentice to Wolf Kahn. Horowitz's work captures the beauty of the American landscape with expert use of texture and color that invites imagination and discovery. Although he paints en plein air, he has a firm grounding in abstract expressionism through his education with former students from the Bauhaus and Hans Hofmann school. He has combined both points of view to develop his unique language. His work follows in the tradition of great Modernist American landscape painters Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keefe and Charles Burchfield but with a more modern, Fauvist color palette. He was included in the show "In the Country, By the Sea" at Madelyn Jordan Gallery along with David Kimball Anderson, Stanley Boxer, Byron Browne, Derek Buckner, Richard Diebenkorn, Larry Kelsey, Gary Komarin, and Susan Wides. Horowitz has also shown at Images Gallery along with Gary Bukovnik, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Horowitz, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Don Nice, Philip Pearlstein, Joseph Raffael, Hunt Slonem, Carol Summers and Neil Welliver. Horowitz has exhibited extensively both in the US and Canada and is included in numerous private, corporate and public collections. LARRY HOROWITZ Born in 1956 in New York City EDUCATION 1971-76 Private study with Maxim Bugzester, New York, NY 1974 Art Students League, New York, NY 1974-78 B.F.A., State University of New York, Purchase, NY ART FAIRS 2019 Art New York Pier 94 presented by Art Miami, New York, NY 2017 Art Market SF, San Francisco, CA 2017 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA 2015 Art Silicon Valley, CA 2014 Boston International Art Fair, Boston, MA ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2022 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY 2022 Hagan Fine Art, Charleston, SC 2021 Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2021 Trinity Galleries, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada ​2020 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2020 Lorimer Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada 2019 Eisenhauer Gallery, Edgartown, MA 2018 Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC 2016 Art Gallery at the Rockefeller Park Preserve, Pleasantville, NY 2015 Newbury Fine Art, Boston, MA ​2015 Chandon Winery Gallery, Yountville, CA 2013 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX 2011 Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA 2010 Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2010 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2010 Aerie Art Gallery, Rehoboth Beach...

Man walking on the beach is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower ri...

Artist: Kenjilo (Kenji) Nanao – Japanese/American (1929-2013) Title: Untitled – Watercolor with collage Date: 1989 Medium: Watercolor with collage Image size: 39.5 x 38 inches Sheet ...

Jack Scott "#14" 1981 Interwoven, continuous line, charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Signed and dated in pencil on reverse Now available for purchase, this is one of fifte...

Jack Scott "#27" 1981 Interwoven, cross-hatch charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Signed and dated in pencil on reverse Now available for purchase, this is one of fifteen 40"...

Abstract Still Life with Bouquets and Fruit in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with two bouquets of flowers by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A tall, b...

A unique hand-painted lithograph of a colorful Bouquet of Flowers by Wayne Ensrud, American (1934). Quiet Sunday (Yellow) Wayne Ensrud, American (1934) Date: 1980 Hand-Painted Lithog...

The color harmony on paper. stamp singed lower right Pinajian. Archived numbered 1580

Violet Chocolate Vase is a drawing in watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1969. Monogrammed on the lower. Good conditions, aged margins. The artwork is represented through harm...