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Period: 20th Century
Medium: Graphite
"Original Joseph Stella Drawing" - 20th Century Portrait Pencil Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil sketch by famed American Modernist Joseph Stella, who burst on to the American scene at the epochal Armory Show of 1913 and whose work is today in the collections of every m...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a Young Male, Graphite on paper sketch, 20th Century English Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 (26 x 22 cm)
Mounted
Drawing was at the heart of all of his artistic practice. A friend once recalled an anecdote that out on a walk he ...
Category
20th Century English School Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Boy, Pastel Drawing, 20th Century English
Located in London, GB
Pastel and graphite on paper
Image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm)
Mounted
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as Joh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Pastel, Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.156
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.156 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.156 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
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1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.155
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.155 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.155 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
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1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.154
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.154 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.154 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.030
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.030 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.030 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.086
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.086 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.086 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled Portrait , 1973 by David Manzur
Graphite on paper
10.7 x 8 inches
Unframed
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He was born in Neira, Caldas, and completed his early studies at the School of Fine Arts in ...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Unsigned
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
Category
1940s Impressionist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Watercolor
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
Category
1920s American Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
untitled (Woman and Cat)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite on paper
Category
20th Century Surrealist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the s...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the s...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Self Portrait, Graphite Sketch 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches (31 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This is a wonderful self portrait that captures the artist as she stares, unafraid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.063
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.063 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.063 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and painting...
Category
1970s Contemporary Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
Category
1960s Renaissance Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Mending, Graphite Portrait, 20th Century Modern British, Signed Artwork
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed lower right
Image size: 17 x 21 inches (43.25 x 53.25 cm)
Contemporary frame
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of Jam...
Category
20th Century English School Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Graphite on paper, 1915
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 909b, the stamp faded from blue to brown (see photo)
Provenance:
Neffe-D...
Category
1910s Impressionist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (Renaissance Male Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
Category
1960s Renaissance Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
IMD Suparta - 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Saraswati with Garuda Bird
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour and ink study of the Hindu Goddess Saraswati with a Garuda Bird. Saraswati is presented in a traditional sense with four arms, eac...
Category
20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Procter (1886-1935) - 1995 Graphite Drawing, Man in Uniform
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine graphite study of a gentleman in uniform. There is a smaller sketch in the upper right corner in preparation for the more accomplished study to the center of the page. Signed ...
Category
20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Sketch of a Man in Uniform
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful sketch of a man in military uniform. The artist practises the details of the man's mouth and jawline to the upper left of the paper before completing the larger sketch o...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Sketch of A Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A piercing study of a woman with an intense stare. The artist captures the woman from lower angle with her gaze staring down at the viewer giving her a strong, defiant aura. Signed t...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Women with Beaded Necklace
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite study depicting a woman with short cropped hair in a 1920's fashion wearing a beaded necklace. There are to sketched to the right side of the page practising the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating graphite study of a middle aged woman with short cropped hair. The artist depicts the women from lower angle to best captures her strong features and distant gaze. Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Procter (1886-1935) - 1925 Graphite Drawing, A Distant Look
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful study of a woman looking into the distance. There is a small sketch to the upper left where the artist has [practised the woman's eyes before doing a finer sketch to the...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Study of a Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite sketch if a woman with neatly pinned hair. The artist's proprietary sketch can be scene to the right, which the artist has used to create the much finer portrait ...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed on reverse
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
Ernest Proctor
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of a scientist, Ernest was educated at Bootham Friends' School in York and then came to Newlyn in 1907 to study with Stanhope Forbes. He quickly become recognized as the best student of the School. He acted as Assistant to Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes...
Category
20th Century Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Old Jewish Shtetl Rabbi Charcoal Judaica Drawing World War II Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurycy Trębacz (1861 – 1941) was one of the most popular Jewish painters in Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his paintings were lost in the Holocaust, but a r...
Category
1930s Expressionist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL KAZ
Located in Portland, ME
Zorach, William (American 1887-1966). PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL KAZ. Pencil on paper, 1956. Inscribed and signed by Zorach as follows: "Nat Kaz / William Zorach / Sept 19 1920 / Feb 19, ...
Category
1950s Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study of a woman in repose - Russian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on cream wove paper, 9 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (235 x 200 mm). Overall toning with multiple spots of white discoloration throughout, and a spray of foxing across the image area on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Portrait of Alfred Hardiman, Graphite Sketch, Signed and Dated 1925
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated
Image size: 18 x 12 1/2 inches (46 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
The sitter for this portrait, Alfred Hardiman, was an English sculptor. Hardiman and Lyon were friends and met when they both attended the British School at Rome in the early 1920s.
Hardiman won a London County Council Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912, and three years later joined the Royal Academy School. After a period as an engineer's draughtsman in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardiman resumed his studies and in 1920 was awarded the British Prix de Rome scholarship, spending two years at the British School at Rome. There he developed his style, a blend of naturalism and classicism influenced by Roman and Etruscan art and early fifth century Greek sculpture.
Hardiman's best-known (but also most controversial) work is the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall in London. More universally admired are the heraldic lions flanking the main entrance to the City Hall, Norwich, a work which fully epitomises his style. He was appointed consultant sculptor to the building, having worked with one of the architects, Stephen Rowland Pierce, on the Haig Memorial. Hardiman also carved three large stone figures for the outside of the council chamber, and worked with other sculptors on the project including James Woodford and Eric Aumonier.
Hardiman was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1936 and a full Academician in 1944. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938 and the following year received their silver medal for his statue of Haig. In 1946 he won a gold medal for his bronze fountain figure for the New Council House, College Green, Bristol, which however was never erected.
In 1918 he married Violet, daughter of Herbert Clifton White, of London, and had two daughters. He died at Stoke Poges on 17th April 1949.
Robert Lyon...
Category
1920s Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Brigette Kelly, Signed Graphite Sketch, Modern British 1942
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Entitled and dated 'Nov 1942' verso
Image size: 7 x 10 inches (17.75 x 25.5 cm)
Period gilt frame
This is a delicate portrait of Brigitte Kell...
Category
1940s Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait Study, 20th Century Graphite Artwork, Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (19 x 25cm)
Contemporary frame
A characterful portrait of a woman in profile. The artist has captured much of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Sheila', Pacific Grove Art Association Exhibit, Woman Artist, LACMA, PAFA, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
By Virginia Conroy Dedini (American, 1922-2006). Titled on exhibition label, 'Sheila' and created circa 1965.
Exhibited:
Pacific Grove Museum of Natu...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite, Mica
Chelsea, Graphite Portrait, English School 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, initialled and dated 1960
Image size: 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm)
Handmade frame
Category
1960s English School Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm)
Original frame
Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art.
Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists.
Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection.
Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Heroin
Located in Wien, 9
Karl Anton Fleck's portraits captivate through reduction to the essential, as well as distortion and the use of details and symbols. The striking stroke creates clear contours and th...
Category
1980s Contemporary Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Oleta's Hat', Carmel Art Association Exhibit, California Woman Artist, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Conroy' for Virginia Conroy (American, 1922-2006) and dated 1985.
Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, 1983 (on original backing...
Category
1980s Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Out of Hokkaido', Carmel Art Association Exhibit, Japanese portrait, Kimono
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
By Virginia Conroy Dedini (American, 1922-2006). Titled lower left, 'Mitsuko ''Okaido Born''' and dated August 1976.
Exhibited:
Carmel Art Associati...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Miss Twisty: Back to the City - Mid-Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Miss Twisty is a story of a young girl who leaves the big city to spend time in the country. The book is filled with insight and humor. This work is a deftly rendered black-and-wh...
Category
1940s Academic Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed.
Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina.
Biography
One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine.
In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education.
In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced:
...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4]
After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6]
Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems.
From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics.
In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
Category
1920s Conceptual Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Vogue Magazine Illustration Turn of the Century - Woman Illustrator
By Helen Dryden
Located in Miami, FL
Early in the artist's career most likely for Vogue Magazine. Signed lower left. Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1...
Category
1910s Academic Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Gouache, India Ink
Surprised Woman with Cactus 1920s Female Illustrator
By Susan Flint
Located in Miami, FL
The postman's delivery of a limp cactus creates a big emotional response the female recipient. Most likely an interior illustration for a newsstand magazine. Signed lower right Sus...
Category
1930s American Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Profil aux étoiles ". original drawing by Jean Cocteau certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Original drawing certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
black ink on paper from 1930-1932 .
dedicated to Germaine Krull (photographer ) .
signed Jean Cocteau and with the star .
Category
1920s Art Deco Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a Woman Sitting in Profile
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (26.5 x 36 cm)
Mounted
A fine pencil drawing and a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait.
Category
1930s Modern Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
THE ENDURING SPIRIT NEW YORK
Located in Aventura, FL
Original graphite, watercolor on paper. Hand signed top left front by Richard Lindner. Artwork size 14 x 12.25 inches. Frame size approx 22.75 x 20.75 inches.
Artwork is in ov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
Denver Broncos John Elway NFL Football Illustration; Original Art
By Jack Davis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1990
Medium: Ink and Conte Crayon over Graphite on Board
Dimensions: 10.00" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
John Elway, from the middle part of his career, when he was throwing to the Three Amigos...
Category
1990s Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Crayon, Board, Graphite
Chevaliers de la Table Ronde
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Original graphite drawing by Jean Cocteau . dated 1941 .
Category
1940s Art Deco Graphite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Young Lady in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Young Lady in Profile (Dorothy Gibson)
Graphite on paper, c. 1915
Signed lower right (see photo).
The sitter for this drawing, along with a huge number of Harrison Fisher’s works, is the model, turned actress, Miss Dorothy Winifred Gibson (1889-1946).
She was one of the lucky ones who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. There is an in depth biographical sketch available on Wiki.
"Dorothy Winifred Gibson (1889-1946) is arguably one of the most fascinating women of the twentieth century. Her story is more than deserving of its own film or TV show and yet, if it was to ever appear on the screen, it would be in serious danger of being criticised as ‘too unbelievable’ or ‘farfetched’. But believe me, readers, everything I am about to tell you about Dorothy Gibson is true...
Early Life
Dorothy Winifred Gibson (originally Dorothy Winifred Brown, before her father died when she was three years old and her mother remarried), was born in New Jersey on 17 May 1889. Between 1906 and 1911 (aged 17-22), she appeared on stage as a singer and dancer in a number of theatre and vaudeville productions, and in 1909 she began modelling for Harrison Fisher, a famous commercial artist. Dorothy soon became Fisher’s favourite muse, and her image was seen regularly on postcards, merchandising products and even on the covers of magazines like Cosmopolitan. During this time, Dorothy met and married a pharmacist named George Henry Battier Jr, but the couple soon separated and were divorced by 1913.
As early as 1911, Dorothy began appearing in movies, starting out as an extra but soon taking the leading roles in a series of films by Éclair Studios. Praised for her natural acting style and comedic flair, she was a huge hit – and arguably the first actress to be promoted as a star in her own right.
Surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic
On 17 March 1912, after starring in a string of movies, Dorothy and her mother, Pauline, took a trip to Europe – but after a few weeks Dorothy was called back to America by the studio to start working on a new series of films. Dorothy and her mother were in Paris when they booked their tickets on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, and boarded at Cherbourg on 10th April.
On the night the ship sank, Dorothy had ‘spent a pleasant Sunday evening playing bridge with a couple of friendly New York bankers’ (her words, in an interview with the New York Dramatic Mirror). Despite the request of a steward for them to finish, they carried on with their game and it was not until about 11:40pm that Dorothy returned to the stateroom she shared with her mother. It was at that point that she felt ‘a long drawn, sickening crunch’ and, while not exactly alarmed, she decided nonetheless to investigate. Quickly noticing that the deck was ‘lopsided’, she rushed back to her room to fetch her mother, and the pair returned to the boat deck. Dorothy and her mother escaped from the ship on the first lifeboat launched (number 7), and given how quiet it was on the boat deck at the time, she asked her bridge partners to join them.
However, events took a turn for the worst when a hole was found in the bottom of the lifeboat, causing icy cold water to rush in and almost flood the boat. Luckily, though, Dorothy explained, ‘this was remedied by volunteer contributions from the lingerie of the women and the garments of men.’
It is hard for us now to imagine the terrors of that night – and the emotional damage it caused to those who survived. After the event, Dorothy told the Moving Picture World, ‘I will never forget the terrible cry that rang out from people who were thrown into the sea and others who were afraid for their loved ones.’ Unbelievably, though, Dorothy was to re-enact the experience a mere five days after it happened, when she starred in the first film about the disaster. It was a silent movie, called Saved From The Titanic, and was actually hugely successful and the first of many hit films about the sinking. In the movie, Dorothy even wore the same clothes she had been wearing when the ship sank – a white silk dress underneath a cardigan and polo coat.
Shortly after the release of Saved from the Titanic Dorothy gave up acting.
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Graphite on paper
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Original frame
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August 6, 1934
Signed in pencil, u.r.; Also titled and dated in pencil, l.r.
Graphite on paper
10.25 x 14.5 inches, sheet
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Located in London, GB
Karl Parsons
English 1884 - 1934
Head of a Young Woman
Graphite on paper
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