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Still-life Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
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Rose and Agapanthus
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rose and Agapanthus' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Crimson Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a realistic rendering of Saucer Magnolias in bloom. The crimson globes of the flower display a wonderful contrast of bulbous shapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Intervention 2. 2012, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Intervention 2. 2012, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Garden Goblet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"There were several things that drew me to this Calla Lily in a garden full of lilies," says artist Jinny Tomozy. The flower's structure appears to resemble a g...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Springtime Floral Bouquet
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel, circa 20th century
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
'Still Life with Tiger Lily', Paris, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Louvre
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Fiona C. Goldbacher - 20th Century Watercolour, Pink Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating watercolour painting with pastel details by the artist Fiona Goldbacher, depicting a still life scene of pink flowers. Signed to the lower left-hand corner. Presented i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Amaryllis Study no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Amaryllis Study no. 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sweet Gum (Contemporary Still Life, Graphic Hand-Painted Leaf on Paper)
By Joy Taylor
Located in Hudson, NY
"Sweet Gum" painted by Joy Taylor in 2022
28 x 22 inches, 37 x 29 inches framed
acrylic on paper
Custom Frame with White Wood Molding, Window Mat and Tru Vu AR Glass
Joy Taylor’s paintings transform botany into a personal vision. Her recent series on canvas, playfully titled the “Boo-K” paintings, defy traditional still life depictions that often seek to tame and order the objects of the world. On the contrary, Taylor’s subjects are never still. Her floral forms have the crisp, clean qualities of cut paper; sharp, decisive lines slice through blocks of pure pigment to create defined edges of leaves, vines and blossoms. The colors are constructed as well as the form. Her exuberant palette of oranges, blues, magenta and green echo the complimentary colors favored by the Fauvists. Color is an element in and of itself in her work. This balance of sparkling color and form is irrepressible, at times disconcerting and even dangerous in its boldness.
In a series of original paintings on paper, Joy pairs down the form by focusing on a single bloom or leaf.
As a specimen under a microscope, Taylor dives into the crevices and details of each leaflet on this bright green Sweet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Clivia
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Clivia' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lily Quartet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Many flowers bloom from one bush and form clusters that are set up for dynamic compositions. Artist Jinny Tomozy presents four blossoming Calla Lilies in a harm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled Tree 1, realist ballpoint pen still life drawing, 2021
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist, painter and curator. She was educated at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the New York Academy of Art...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Abstract Still Life with Bouquet and Teapot in Watercolor on Paper
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Still Life with Bouquet and Teapot in Watercolor on Paper
Colorful still life with flowers and a teapot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A tall, brig...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Garden Views #4, Fiddlehead Fern with Dragonfly
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Crayon, Pastel, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Easy, Black Background Calligraphy Painting on Paper, Word Art, Sky Blue, Grey
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Easy" is a hand-painted ink painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. The hand-drawn render is reminiscent and inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Camellia Study no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia Study no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Late March - Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent vessels are suspended upon the surface of the water in this surreal landscape entitled "Cloud Lake". This landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smallest water droplet. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75 inches.
Christina Haglid
Cloud Lake
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CMH053
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Three Bottles II: Abstract Cubist Style Morandi Bottle Still Life Pencil Drawing
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
“Three Morandi Bottles II” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2022
G...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
No. 5 with Shallot, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith presents a culinary still life painted in the realist tradition. "My mom gave my wife and me several cast iron skillets...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled Tree 3, realist ballpoint pen still life drawing, 2021
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist, painter and curator. She was educated at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the New York Academy of Art, where she received her MFA. She lives and works in New York City. She has taught privately, and in several institutions including the Castle...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Garden Clippings no. 4
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Garden Clippings no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Camellia Study no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia Study no. 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Clippings no. 3
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Garden Clippings no. 3' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original art deco tea and coffee pot design by Erte, Romain de Tirtoff
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Romain de Tirtoff, called ERTE (Russian/French, 1892-1990)
Tasse a Café et Bol a The
Ink, gold paint and watercolour with pencil
Inscribed with detai...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Arthur Wardle - Convolvulus - British watercolour on linen
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR WARDLE
(1864-1949)
Convolvulus
Signed
Watercolour and bodycolour on linen
21 by 13.5 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 ¼ in.
(frame size 34.5 by 27 cm., 13 ½ by 10 ½ in.)
Arthur Wardle was bo...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Shackleton - Camellia, pencil and watercolour by British Symbolist
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC
(1872-1933)
Camellia, Kew
Signed, extensively inscribed and dated ‘98
Pencil and watercolour
Framed
33.5 by 27 cm., 13 ¾...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Mary Brown - 20th Century Gouache, Still Life with Snowdrops
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate gouache painting with watercolour by the artist Mary Brown, depicting dainty flowers, including snowdrops. Signed to the lower margin. Well-prese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Fletcher J Mercer (1861-1922) - Signed Watercolour, Watercolour Study
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting watercolour still life of two butterflies gently gliding towards the bright read flowers. Well presented in a card mount and gilt frame. Signed to the lower right. On ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Clippings no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Garden Clippings no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Homage to Chanel No. 5 - #2 (4" x 5.8", Perfume Art, Black, White, Yellow, Pink)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Homage to the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. Textured collage elements add visual interest to this mixed media work on heavy art board. Delicate detail compliments the loose brush work...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Abstract Still Life with Bouquets and Fruit in Watercolor on Paper
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Still Life with Bouquets and Fruit in Watercolor on Paper
Colorful still life with two bouquets of flowers by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A tall, b...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Single Bottle IX: Abstract Morandi Bottle Still Life Pencil Drawing, Framed
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
“Single Morandi Bottle IX” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2022
G...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Blooming Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy displays a budding aloe vera with a realistic approach. The contrast in color and shape of the flower in comparison to the rest of the succu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moody Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy captures the drama of light and shadow on blooming Magnolias. She renders the flowers with a realistic approach, carefully detailing the del...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original art deco Erte design of a tea and coffee set and a sugar bowl
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Romain de Tirtoff, called ERTE (Russian/French, 1892-1990)
Service a The et Café: Thaiere, Eau du lait et Sucrier
Ink, gold paint and watercolour
Inscri...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Garden Views #3, Tulip with Butterfly
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Handmade Paper, Conté, Graphite, Crayon
Flowers and sun drawing signed & dated in Versailles monograph Pop art landscape
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
Jeff Koons
(Untitled) Flowers and Sun, 2009
Original (unique) drawing done in silver marker on endpaper
Boldly signed and dated in silver marker undern...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker, Board, Mixed Media, Offset
Still life with brushes. 1960s. Paper, watercolor, 32x39 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with brushes. Paper, watercolor, 32x39 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her st...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Another Man's Treasure, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a bouquet of red and yellow roses in realistic detail. "Sometimes one's discarded items become another's cherished findings, as wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Violet Chocolate Vase - Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1969
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Violet Chocolate Vase is a drawing in watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1969.
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions, aged margins.
The artwork is represented through harm...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still life. Watercolour and ink
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
'Still life’
By George William Bissill
Medium - Watercolour and ink
Signed - Yes
Size - 240mm x 195mm
Date - Circa 1920
Condition - very good. 9 out of 10.
Colour of picture may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor.
George William Bissill 1896 – 1973 was a British miner, painter, and furniture designer. Bissill's paintings are held in a number of important public collections, including the Tate Gallery, National Museum of Northern Ireland and the Manchester Art Gallery. Bissill was known for his landscapes and figurative paintings in oil, watercolour and woodcuts.
George Bissill...
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Rainbow Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In realism, artist Jinny Tomozy presents a view of flourishing succulents. "What intrigues me about succulent plants are the abstract forms they create," shares...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Mandolin and Wine
Located in Long Island City, NY
A painting of instruments and flowers by Charles Cobelle. This piece features bright, almost neon colors and bears his signature in the lower right front corner.
Size: 22 x 28 in. (...
Category
1950s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Succulent Stars, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a birds-eye view of growing succulents. She draws inspiration from the bright spectrum of color and contrasting shapes and textures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Lily, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The sculptural forms of a Calla Lily are so fluid and smooth, like the forms on the human figure," says artist Jinny Tomozy. She presents a closer view of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Layers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Layers of various flowers, buds, and leaves crash into each other, creating a wonderful divergence of garden layers. Artist Jinny T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
With a Side of Ketchup, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith presents a still life of an order of french fries with a bucket of tomatoes by the side. A realistic rendering o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pencils and Pens
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pencils and Pens
Graphite on paper, 1987
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 13 5/16 x 10 11/16 inches
Rickey, a noted kine...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
1970s British watercolour of Rusting Cars by Ian Hay
Located in London, GB
IAN HAY
(Born 1940)
Cars Rusting
Signed l.r.: Ian Hay; bears title and dated 1973 on exhibition label on the backboard
Watercolour and gouache
Framed
44 by 88 cm., 17 ¼ by 34 ¾ in...
Category
1970s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Single Bottle II: Abstract Cubist Style Morandi Bottle Still Life Pencil Drawing
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
“Single Morandi Bottle II” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2022
G...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual paper is 7.5 X 5.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
1950s Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Cloud Lake - Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent vessels are suspended upon the surface of the water in this surreal landscape entitled "Cloud Lake". This landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smallest water droplet. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75 inches.
Christina Haglid
Cloud Lake
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CMH053
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Franco Matania (1922-2006)-Signed 20th Century Watercolour, Cherry Blossom Vase
Located in Corsham, GB
Cherry blossom and bluebells are captured with whimsical conviction in this fine study of a vase of flowers. The artwork is signed in the bottom right-hand corner, and is well presen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nest, Highly Detailed Surreal Botanical, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
This surreal landscape comes from the inner sanctum of artist Christina Haglid. Two paper orbs combine and reveal a portal to another dimension. The artist invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Meticulous in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75.
Christina Haglid
Nest, 2020
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CMH051
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Still Life with Watermelons and Cantaloupes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Watermelons and Cantaloupes" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. I...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Wine and Fruit 4
Located in Long Island City, NY
A still-life painting of wine and fruit by Charles Cobelle. This piece features more muted and neutral colors than his other works and bears his signature in the lower right front co...
Category
1950s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic
Still Life with Knife
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Knife" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the low...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Purple Iris Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943). Signed lower center. Attributed to De...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
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Stephen Namara On Sale
Van Extergem
Marie Palmer Smith
Liz Rodgers
Luo Yanan On Sale
Richard Stenhouse
Boite Bouteilles
Horse Paintings British School
Dior Black And Blue Dress
Horses For Sale
John Albright
Oil Paintings Of Animals By African Artists
Vintage French Garden Sign
Era Drew
French Bathers Painting
Pet Cat