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Period: Early 20th Century
Soldier - Original Drawing in Pencil by Jacques Hirtz - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldier is an original drawing in pencil artwork applied on paper realized by Jacques Hirtz
Artist's stamp on the lower right.
Sheet dimension: 41.5 x 28.5
The state of preservat...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Portrait - Original Ink Drawing on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by anonymous artist in the 1920s.
The signature of the artist is unreadable on the lower right.
Original penc...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Woman with a Child - Original Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with a child is a beautiful artwork realized by an artist of the 20th century.
Pencil drawing on brown paper. In very good condition except for a fold on the lower right corne...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Man On Postcard - Original China Ink Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man On Postcard is a black and white drawing realized in the half of the XX century.
The drawing is glued on a postcard destined for Herrn Paul Strecker 59 av de saxe Paris 7 th.
S...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Girl with Bird and Violets
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Calendar illustration; publisher: (The Gray Lithograph Company), 1902;
Also used as the The Equitable Life Insurance Cale...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Gouache
Schoolchild - Original Pencil Drawing by French Artist Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Schoolchild is an original artwork realized in the XX Century by a French artist.
Original drawing realized with different kind of pencil on water-marked paper.
Mint conditions. ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
After William Cossens Way (1833-1905) - Watercolour, Spanish Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
Bears initials of William Cossens Way to the lower left. On paper laid to card .
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Portrait of a 1920s Woman by Mystery American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Sight: 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
Framed: 24 1/2 x 20 1/4 x 1 2/3 in.
Signed lower right
Inscribed verso
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel, Charcoal
Head of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
Karl Parsons
English 1884 - 1934
Head of a Young Woman
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated '(19)07' lower left
Image size: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (16 x 21.5 cm)
Contemporary Pre-Raphaelite style frame
One of Britain's leading stained glass designers during the early decades of the 20th century, Karl Parsons drew portraits invariably for pleasure rather than commissions, throughout his life, and it is in these that one sees most clearly the influence of some of the artists whom he most admired, notably Botticelli, Rossetti and Burne-Jones.
Though harkening back to these illustrious forebears, both technically and compositionally, this portrait also epitomises the type of portraiture that was fashionable in British high society at the start of the 20th century. Karl Parson's technique here, with delicate shading and strong outlines, is certainly comparable to Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's graphic style. It is clear that Parsons took delight in demonstrating his skill at sculpting human forms through gentle shading.
Karl Parsons was an English stained glass artist associated with the arts and craft movement. Parsons was born in Peckham in Surrey in 1884, the 12th child of Arthur William Parsons...
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Pre-Raphaelite Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Figurino di moda femminile italiano francese Anni Venti
Located in Florence, IT
Il figurino di moda è firmato in basso a destra ESacchetti. Raffigura una donna in piedi, con le mani sui fianchi, che indossa uno spezzato con giacca e gonna larga, e un evidente co...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Tempera, Cardboard
Studious Girl Reading a Book - Women's Education - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The work represents a carefully rendered and meticulously observed environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood from a woman's perspective. Initialed in cartouche lower right
literature: "The Silver Pencil", Hardy, Harper's Monthly, June 1912, pg. 22
Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine.
Education
Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh.[2] She then began study with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.
New Woman
As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became “increasingly vocal and confident” in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer “New Woman”.[4] Artists "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman...
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Academic Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
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 ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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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...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Gertrude Demain Hammond (1862-1953) - Watercolour, Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A softly rendered watercolour portrait of a your girl by British painter and illustrator Gertrude Demain Hammond (1862-1953). Well-presented in a decorative gilt-effect frame with a ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
20th century portrait oil painting female subject dark background signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of the Artist's Mother-in-Law" is an original pastel drawing by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This drawing depicts an elderly woman in beige clothing...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
Joseph W. Topham Vinall (1873-1953) ARCA, FRSA - Watercolour, After The Catch
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour depicting two fishermen relaxing in a seaside cabin after a day at sea. The elder of the two lights his pipe and the younger man looks on. Well presented in ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Early 20th Century Watercolour - Scruffy Young Lad
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming full length watercolour portrait of a young boy, scruffily dressed with crumpled trousers and unlaced shoes. the carries a satchel over his shoulder and scratches his head...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Vittorio Marusso (b.1867) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Venetian Girls
Located in Corsham, GB
A very finely executed early 20th Century double portrait of two pretty young Venetian women wearing colourful shawls with soft smiles. The hazy softness of the skin and hair is typi...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
20th Century Oil - Farm At Provarma
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating watercolour portrait depicts a young man with a haunting stare. The artist captures the man with exceptional attention to detail around the face, leaving the edges o...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil
Kurt Haase Jastrow (1885-1958) - 1916 Watercolour, Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating watercolour portrait depicts a young man with a haunting stare. The artist captures the man with exceptional attention to detail around the face, leaving the edges o...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Early 20th Century Watercolour - Traditional Street Vendors
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour painting with gouache details, depicting traditional street vendors with their baskets. Well-presented in a washline card mount ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Rabbi (Study), Etching on Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
Early Modernist Judaica, Etching on Paper.
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
Léonard Tsugouharu FoujitaFujita Tsuguharu?, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniqu...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Récolte des Pommes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Mixed media on paper
Located in London, GB
Récolte des Pommes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Mixed media on paper, laid on board
44.5 x 55 cm (17 ½ x 21 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana 1906
This work ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed). The work is framed behind UV glass and stepped gilded frame.
Bortnyik was a painter and graphi...
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Bauhaus Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
Disegno figurativo toscano del novecento autoritratto maschile su carta
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, matita e penna su carta, è firmato a metà sulla destra G. Ceracchini, in grafia corsiva.
è un autoritratto dell'artista, come si può notare confrontandolo con le foto e l...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pen, Pencil
Jeune fille aux cheveux roulés - Drawing on Paper Modern art, 1920
By Jean Crotti
Located in New York, NY
Jean Crotti
Jeune fille aux cheveux roulés (Girl with rolled-up hair), ca. 1920
Pencil on paper
17 9/10 × 12 3/5 in 45.5 × 32 cm
Condition: Excellent condition.
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
The beauty of the sitter can determine the value of the painting. A charming and lovely sitter is the subject of this work and the reason why the work is so special. This precious...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
"Contemplation"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Circus girl reclining
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated center right, Seam down center where two sheets attached is original. Some slight surface smudging outside figure area .
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro - Sketch
Located in London, GB
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20 cm (10 x 7⁷/₈ inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucie...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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 start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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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 start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, 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...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Angle Playing Harp with Circled by Doves, Cherubs - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., A.S.W.A. (fl.1913-1950) She was a female illustrator and artist who painted fantastic scenes of fairies and Angles and Doves floating in celestial space. Blackmore exhibited at the RBA, and also at RA, RI, RHA, Ridley Art Club, Carfax Gallery, Royal Glasgow Institute...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Translucent Boy, 20th Century British Artist, Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 6 x 7 inches (15.25 x 17.75 cm)
Mounted
Peter Gardner
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art between 193...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
Country Life
By Stuart Davis
Located in Miami, FL
Early work when Stuart Davis was an illustrator.
Christie's, New York
Catalogue Raisonné
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American Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil
Japanese Children in Traditional Dress Playing Shamisen - Woman Artist
Located in Miami, FL
East meets West in this charming illustration where a female American Illustrator paints a scene of two jovial Japanese youths in a semi-Japanese style. Clara Miller Burd was a brilliant female illustrator trained in the academic tradition. This work shows her deep mastery of how to render form properly. The way she captures the expression the two children is spot on.
Signed lower right.
Burd was an American stained glass designer, and children's book, and magazine cover illustrator. She was a resident of Montclair, NJ and there is a gallery sticker on the back for a gallery in Montclair.
Framed under glass 17 x 22 1/2".
After returning from France, Burd worked as a stained glass designer at the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Art Deco Handsome Couple in Garden Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Handsome couple in a bucolic setting rendered masterfully with post-impressionistic brushstrokes. Watercolor, and pencil, wash on heavy paper, Signed and dated lower left .
Framed ...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pencil
Fisherman and Family on Boat
Located in Miami, FL
Walt Lauderback like Dean Cornwell represents the pinnacle of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Based on the signature, this watercolor of a family with dog on boat appears ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Woman in the Garden
By Stuart Travis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1907-1910
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Stuart Travis did many early Vogue magazine covers. Signed with an address on ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Board
Two Men Zwei Männer - Monogrammed India Ink Drawing German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
CONRAD FELIXMÜLLER 1897 - 1977
Dresden 1897 - 1977 Berlin (German)
Title: Two Men Zwei Männer, 1919
Technique: Monogrammed India Ink Drawing on thin JW Zanders Laid Paper
Paper ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
First Mate, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 25.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, July 7 1928
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Winnie and the Copperhead” Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Published in the Saturday Evening Post dated 11-18 1922 page 107 for the "Winnie and the Copperhead” story written by Bertram Atkey
Signed and dated lower left
Arthur William Brown...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of Berthe Lipchitz - Modern Portrait Pencil Drawing - Amedeo Modigliani
By Amedeo Modigliani
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pencil on paper portrait drawing by Italian artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani. The portrait is of Berthe Lipchitz who was the wife of Modigliani's friend, the sculptor Jacques...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), 1925
Located in London, GB
Suzanne Fabry
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), c.1925
Charcoal on paper
22 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
signed SUZANNE FABRY (lower right)
Brussels-bor...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Self-portrait
Located in Roma, RM
Gino Severini (Cortona 1883 - Paris 1966), Self-Portrait
Pencil drawing on paper 25 x 21 cm signed Io G. Severini lower right.
Bibliography: Gino Severini before and after the work...
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Cubist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Head Study, 1930
By John Sloan
Located in Missouri, MO
Head Study, 1930
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Signed Lower Right
10.5" x 9" Unframed
19" x 16.5" Framed
Born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, John Sloan became one o...
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Ashcan School Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Woman With Red Poppies
By Philip Boileau
Located in New York, NY
Woman With Red Poppies, 1905, by Philip Boileau (1863-1917)
Pastel on paper
35 ½ × 22 ¾ inches unframed (90.17 x 57.785 cm)
Signed, dated, and inscribed...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
