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Period: Early 20th Century
Le Vieux Monsieur - Drawing by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Vieux Monsieur is a drawing realized by Hermann Paul.
Hand Signed and titled on the lower left corner.
Good condition except some ripples on the yellowed paper.
René Georges He...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Early Twentieth Century Impressionist Pastel Landscape of Canal, Leydon Holland
Located in ludlow, GB
Early Twentieth Century Impressionist Pastel Drawing of a Landscape depicting a Canal, Landscape and Buildings at Leydon Holland.
A wonderful Oil pastel drawing by the artist Terr...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Free Thinking - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Free Thinking is a modern artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper. Hand signed on the left margin.
Good c...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Boats off Concarneau, France, Early 20th Century Seascape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Boats off Concarneau, France, c. 1910-11
Unsigned
Watercolor on paper
12.5 in. h. x 8.5 in. w.
22 in. h. x 18 in. w., as framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Secretary in the Subway - Pencil drawing - circa 1913
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Secretary in the Subway
Original pencil and color pencils drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Good conditio...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th century.
In very good condition
The ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3" is an original ink and watercolor piece on cream paper by Abraham Walkowitz. The artist signed the piece in the lower center. The drawing depicts Isadora ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Woman - Drawing by François Guiget - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a drawing realized by François Guiget in the Early-20th Century.
Charcoal white lead and watercolor.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's.
During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities.
Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sailboats in the Harbor, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully detailed early 20th century figurative landscape watercolor of sailboats docked on a bustling shore, surrounded by other boats, birds and men at work with carts, by Hudson Valley New York artist Frederick Leo Hunter (American, 1858-1943). The tall boats tower over two small figures, who wade into the water beside the vessels. In the background, a lighthouse and the hint of a skyline can be seen on the distant shore.
Signed "F. Leo Hunter" lower right.
Displayed in a gold mat and slender giltwood frame carved with a beautiful floral motif.
Image size: 7.5"H x 12"W.
Known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Advertising Sketch - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Advertising sketch is an original watercolored china ink drawing realized by Gabriele Galantara, the state of preservation of the artwork is good.
The artworks represent an advertis...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Projet de Fleurs - Fauvist Flowers Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work flowers in red and blues with green foliage against a yellow and white stripped background.
Dimensions:
Framed: 25"x20"
Unframed: 18"x13"
Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'.
And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF).
Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez.
Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours y Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
set of 2
watercolour on paper, unframed
top painting : 4.5 x 7 inches, signed bottom right
bottom painting: 4....
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
set of 2
watercolour on paper, unframed
left painting : 5.75 x 5 inches, signed bottom left
right painting: 5....
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a man, ink on beige paper, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf Schlichter (1890-1955)
Portrait of a man
Ink on beige paper
Signed
44 x 31 cm
small damages on the edges
Rudolf Schlichter was born in Calw i...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Sketch Of Nude Man - Drawing - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch Of Nude Man is an original drawing in pencil realized by Emile Rouff in Early 20th Century .
In good condition with some cut and foxing.
The artwo...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Colonial Dames
By Clark Hobart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CLARK HOBART (1868 – 1948)
COLONIAL DAMES Monotype signed and titled in pencil
Hobart was an early 20 c. California painter. He was on the forefront ...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
The Dance - Drawing - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a pencil drawing realized in 1920 and attributed to Augusto Monari.
Good condition, no signature.
Mounted on a grey cardboard passpartout ( 23.5x18.5).
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Children's Book Illustrator - Mother Goose, Children and Flowers
Located in Miami, FL
Mother Goose is a French fairy tale and later of English nursery rhyme. In this illustration, we see an oversized Goose in a yellow bonnet elevated on a step and engaging with an attentively curious young girl and young boy. Large vases of flowers frame them. Titled in pencil center bottom: "Goosey, Goosey Gander. Where do you wander? Signed Margaret Evans Price...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Vultures - Charcoal Drawing by Renato Brozzi - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful charcoal drawing depicting a flock of vultures taking flight.
Designed by Brozzi, a renewed italian sculptor and engraver, in the first decades of 20th century.
Good condit...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Personnage, Modern Crayon Drawing by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 -1957) - Personnage, Medium: Crayon on Paper, initaled lower right in pencil, Size: 8 x 3 in. (20.32 x 7.62 cm), Frame Size: 11.25 x 6.5 inches, Descr...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Souvenirs Du Pays Natal - Original China Ink Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1920s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Souvenirs du Pays Natal is an original artwork realized by the great Surrealist artist Jean Cocteau in 1922.
China ink on cardboard.
Titled in the center of the composition "Souven...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Family Suggestions - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Family Suggestions is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In g...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Therese
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990)
Title: Therese
Year: Circa 1935
Medium: Gouache on paper
Paper size: 14.5 x 10.5 inches
Signature: Signed lower right ...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,600
The Poetry - Vintage Offset Print on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Poetry is a vintage offset print h on paper, realized by unknown artist in the early 20th Century.
In this artwork there is a poetry "il s'eteignit humblement, sans un bruit, so...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Offset
Crest Mill Rochdale large 1906 architectural drawing for Sir Philip Sidney Stott
Located in London, GB
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Category
Realist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing in pencil by Carl Bertold - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an original drawing in pencil realized by Carl Bertold in 1929.
Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
Good conditions on aged p...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 6 x 7.5 inches, framed size is 12.5 x 13.65 inches. Custom framed in a gold frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A 1926 Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree & Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 12" x 9". Archivally matted to 14" x 16".
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in F...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Seated Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Signed, zoom on the pictures please.
Created at the height of the Munka (“Work”) circle’s activity, Seated Woman marks a critical moment in Ernő Schubert’s artistic trajectory—from...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Magazine Paper
Singer Actress Eva Tanguqy - Mexican Artist, Mexican Writer
Located in Miami, FL
Eva Tanguqy-A Strange Request, New York Evening World newspaper and Puck magazine interior (two works), 1910s
India ink and blue pencil on heavyweight paper
16-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (4...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Color Pencil
Three Setters on Point
By Edmund Henry Osthaus
Located in Missouri, MO
Three Setters on Point
Edmund Henry Osthaus (German, 1858-1928)
Watercolor on Paper
Signed Lower Right
18 x 27 inches
24.5 x 33.5 inches with frame
Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Edmu...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Early 20th Century figurative drawing by French Fauvist artist Andre Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
Personnage de Theatre
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
13.3/4 x 11.1/8 in. (35 x 28.3 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 S...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Decima Moore - Actress & Suffragette Edwardian drawing female artist
By Maria Cowell nee Sayer
Located in Hagley, England
A fine, circa 1907, Edwardian pencil / charcoal drawing. Executed by Maria Cowell nee Sayer, it depicts a portrait of Decima Moore - an actress and Suffragette. A very striking and f...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Fleurs et Papillons - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor & Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red and butterflies in blues, yellows, black and white. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design.
Dimensions:
Framed: 17"x27"
Unframed: 10"x20"
Provenance:
Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier
Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001
SF Fall Show
Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'.
And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF).
Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez.
Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
August Ludwig Schmitt (1882-1936) - Pastel, Abstract Stained Glass III
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a contemporary white frame. On paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Female drawing - Original pencil drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Female drawing
Original drawing
Signed with the stamp of the artist
On paper 16 x 10 cm (c. 6.2 x 3.93 in)
Good condition, the paper slightly yellowish
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$1,312 Sale Price
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Giolitti- Harlequin - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Giolitti - Harlequin is a modern artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper. Hand signed on the left margin.
...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Figure - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for aged ma...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Modern Orange, Brown, Yellow, and Black Geometric Abstract Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern orange, brown, yellow, and black geometric abstract composition by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 35.5 in. x W 33.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Watercolor of the Oak Tree by Allen Tucker
By Allen Tucker
Located in Hudson, NY
Landscape watercolor by Allen Tucker of an oak tree. This piece, along with several others, was gifted to Una Brage, a friend of the artist in the 1930s.
More about this artist:
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history.
Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman, but it was not until around 1904, when he was 38, that Tucker became a full-time painter, leaving architecture behind. Many of his early canvases were classically Impressionistic with poplar trees resembling those of Van Gogh and haystacks and corn shocks...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Maxwell Armfield - 20th Century British Theatrical watercolour
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS.
(British 1882-1972)
Costume Design for Geranos
Signed l.l.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD, inscribed u.l.: Costume, PHEONIX CEREMONY/ IAN (?) VALO as DAVID, and further i...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Train - Original China Ink by Henri-Paul Pecquieraux - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The train is an original modern artwork realized by Henri-Paul Pecqueriaux in the early 20th Century.
China ink drawing.
Han signed by the artist.
Mint conditions (a stain in the ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Man - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Man is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Good conditions except for being aged.
The artwork is represent...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis
Philae (verso)
Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902
Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902
Note:
The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dam at Genetin - Impressionist Oil, Winter Riverscape by Armand Guillaumin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This simply stunning piece de...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Launois (1898-1942)
Opium smokers, Indochina
Stamp of the artit's estate on the lower right
Black ink on paper
22.5 x 30.5 cm
Framed : 38 x 46 cm
This beautiful drawing, a fine example of Jean Launois' particular art, dates from the artist's stay in Indochina, from which he brought a group of works. An exhibition devoted to this Indochinese period of the artist's production was held at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables d'Olonne in 1998.
About the artist :
Of Vendée origin, Jean Launois very quickly showed a sure talent for drawing and was encouraged in this by his parents. He trained with his fellow Vendeans Charles Milcendeau and Auguste Lepère and then entered the Académie Jullian in Paris.
Enrolled in the First World War in 1916, he continued to draw at the front, and produced numerous portraits of soldiers...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Trees and Sun
Located in New York, NY
Trees and Sun
1927
Color pastels on ivory wove paper
10.375 x 7.25 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
Contemporary Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Study of female nude and a couple - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Study of female nude and a couple
Original pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Good condition, paper...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Composition with Reading Girl by an Unknown Artist, Ink on Paper, Dated 1922
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unknown Swedish Artist
Composition with Reading Girl
inkl on paper
indistinctly signed and dated Eric Eric SON? 1922
frame included
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$805 Sale Price
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Il Kaiser - Original China Ink/ Tempera by Gabriele Galantara - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
Il Kaiser is an original drawing in China ink and tempera on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions.
This artwotk presents on the back som...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, Early 20th Century European Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, 1925
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 24 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
L’entrée d’un village animé de paysans en Artois
By Leon Lhermitte
Located in PARIS, FR
1905
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
Signed lower left “L. Lhermitte”
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Theater : Sarah Bernhardt with Flowers - Original Watercolor, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Clairin
Sarah Bernhardt with Flowers
Original watercolor with tempera
Signed bottom right
On paper 47 x 25 cm at view (c. 19 x 10 in)
Presente...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Two studies of a woman, 1921 charcoal drawing, signed
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
Two studies of a woman, 1921
charcoal on grey paper
signed and dated 24 10 (19)21 on the bottom right
39.5 x 24 cm
A varnish stain in the lower middle of t...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Art Nouveau Illustration Women and Children in the Woods
Located in Miami, FL
Complex Art Nouveau patterns intertwined with gracefull figures define this work by American Artist and illustrator, teacher and lecturer Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Signed in cartouc...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Board
Composition No. 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition No. 12
Gouache on paper, c. 1926
Signed lower right: “Urban Weis” (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 16 5/8 x 10 5/8"
Frame: 21 1/2 x 15 5/8"
Provenance: Dudensing G...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figures - Original Pencil by Paul Hermann - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing artwork realized in France by Paul Hermann (1879 - 1969).
Two drawings on one sheet, on the rear are study of figures and the front two elderly meetin...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The King - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
The king is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions.
This artwotk presents o...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century.
Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Pastel
$250 Sale Price
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