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Still-life Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Tea with Sushi, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An earthenware teapot and a piece of Unagi sushi rest on a warm wood table, balanced against a soft gray backdrop. A wash of su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Yoga / Arms
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Yoga / Arms' a highly collectable original watercolor 19.5 x 27.5 inches with the images being 16 x 20 inches. The watercolor painting is by Internationally acclaimed American Reali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Autumn still-life with feathers and robin's nest
Located in Brecon, Powys
'Autumn still-life with feathers and robin's nest'
These are feathers and a robin's nest collected from artist's garden in autumn.
Watercolour on hot pressed paper (to facilitate f...
Category
2010s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Evidence of Life, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Living in Florida where it is hot and humid, I always get excited when the calendar turns to autumn with the remote promise of cooler weather," jokes artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary watercolor photorealist car closeup painting reflection signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Cadillac" is an original watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. It reatures a shiny yellow car with its doors open sitting on a suburb...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Orange Envelope, Watercolor and pencil realist still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
untitled (Still Life with Apples and Vase of Flowers)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
[recto];untitled (Sketches for Still
Unsigned
9 1/2 x 12 inches (24.2 x 30.6 cm.)
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
David Morrison, Wind-Up Bird No. 5, hyperrealist color pencil animal drawing
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison has extended his brand of hyperrealism to the artificial, capturing the intricate lithography that decorates his collection of vintage Kohler wind-up birds. His drawin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Tonal Study For Parrot Tulips, Saco River Valley
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderfully detailed tonal study by contemporary American artist James Aponovich (b. 1948). Born in Nashua, NH, Aponovich lives in New Hampshire and has become very well known nati...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Birch Fragment No. 1, photorealist colored pencil nature drawing
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and also by working f...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"Afternoon Daisies" - Modernist Still Life Original in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Afternoon Daisies," Modernist Still Life Original in Watercolor on Paper
Still life watercolor by C. Borda (American, 20th C.) A beautiful vase filled with daisies in calming, neutr...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary still life watercolor fruit oranges small colorful signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Three Oranges" is an original watercolor by Michael Boyle. It depicts three oranges sitting on a table with a yellow and green tablecloth. The artist...
Category
1990s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Corn Field 2, gray photorealist graphite still life drawing, 2019
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts seamlessly from branch to pebb...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Backyard Bench - original watercolor 1974-2016
Located in Burlingame, CA
Backyard Bench - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Car Wash - original unique watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Car Wash - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intagli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Stars with Ocean No. 4 - Night Time Water Landscape with Stars, Original Artwork
Located in Chicago, IL
The delicate hand of artist Christina Haglid is apparent in this small watercolor simply titled Stars and Ocean, No 4. The exquisite detail begs the viewer to come in for a closer l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"Still Life" Abstract Drawing 20" x 12" inch by Nazli Madkour
Located in Culver City, CA
"Still Life" Abstract Drawing 20" x 12" inch by Nazli Madkour
Madkour was born on 25 February 1949 in Cairo, Egypt.
She has held solo exhibitions since 1982 in many galleries in Egypt and elsewhere, and her works are held in collections including those of the Egyptian Modern...
Category
20th Century Abstract Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sycamore Series 6, photorealist colored pencil drawing of wood branch, 2003
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison challenges the idea of what is cherished in nature by celebrating the beauty of the over-looked and the imperfect. Found broken branches, a peeling sycamore tree, bug-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Branch Study No. 21, Original Minimalist Botanical Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Boston, MA
Branch Study No. 21, Original Minimalist Botanical Watercolor Painting, 2020
16" x 20" (HxW) Watercolor on Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
A minimalist watercolor painting by artist Elizabeth Becker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (cacti)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks gradu...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Canopy, Trees Emerging from a Vase, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Tree roots emerge from a vase to create a forest of trees in Christina Haglid's "Canopy". 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.
Christina Haglid
Canopy
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
21.75h x 18w in framed
CMH033
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
Willow - Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper with Single Bud Vase and Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
A single bud vase, a willow tree seeming to grow inside a confined vessel, all appearing to float upon a sea of moving water are the subjects of Christ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Gentle Winter - Geometric Organic Nature Scene, Watercolor & Gouache, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Rosa Bianca, green and purple abstract pastel fruit portrait, 2018
Located in New York, NY
A produce portraitist, Daisy Craddock's abstract oil pastel diptychs capture the skin and flesh of her subjects. Daisy Craddock examines her fruits and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Firewood Series No. 3, hyperrealist nature still life, colored pencil drawing
Located in New York, NY
In "Firewood Series No. 3," David Morrison uses colored pencils to capture the finest details of a frayed and peeling piece of birch wood. With his careful and methodical handling of...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Tail Feathers / botanical watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tail Feathers' is a stunning botanical watercolor in warm rust, red and cream, created by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic and sophisticated floral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Still life - Drawing by Serge Fotisnky - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an artwork realized by Serge Fotinsky in 1947.
Original drawing in pencil.
Signature lower right.
20 x 27 cm.
Good conditions escept ...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
David Morrison, Stick Series No. 14, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, 2015
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
White Emblem Orchid / botanical watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
White Emblem Orchid featured in a sophisticated monochromatic grey indigo botanical watercolor crated by artist Adrienne Sherman. Her poetic floral series is at once modern, fresh an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Passion Flower
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bronze warm sophisticated Passion Flower botanical watercolor crated by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic floral series is at once modern, fresh and contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Steam - Nasturtium Flower Encased in a Paper Lantern on Wayward Seas, Watercolor
Located in Chicago, IL
"Steam", by Christina Haglid, is a small, exquisite watercolor. A single nasturtium is suspended inside a paper lantern, floating on turbulent water, the steam escaping from the lantern propelling it forward. The fragility of the environment has always played an important role in Haglid's work. As a child growing up on the East Coast, the ever changing seaside landscapes intrigued her. This fragile balance between nature and her subject matter is as delicate as a paper lantern floating on the ocean.
Christina Haglid
Steam, 2019
watercolor and gouache on paper
8h x 9w in
18.75h x 19w in framed
CMH034
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 which will return to its purpose during the day. My intention is to not show the failure because I imagine all these objects make it through to better times. Allegories of survival. Someone comes by and finds the paper crane, the rowboat owners return and see their boat undisturbed, and the slide during the day brings joy.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Tiny Sanctuaries", Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC [solo exhibition]
2004 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Small to Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 “Art of the 20th Century” NY Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, NY, NY
“Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Group Fusion” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 "Small & Mighty II" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Christina Haglid, New Work and Amy Lowry-Poole, Bugs and Buds" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 “Small & Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Views II” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Maleri” Galleri Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden
“1987 – 1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction” David Beitzel Gallery, NY, NY
“On and Off the Wall, Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 “Small Works” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL., Special Recognition Award
1994 “Unknown Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
“15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1993 “Graduate Summer Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Graduate Thesis Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI
1992 “Word of Mouth” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 “Drawing: A Covert and Private Affair” West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Senior Exhibition” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 “Fiber Exhibition” Fox Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
David Morrison, Sycamore Series No. 3, hyperrealist colored pencil drawing, 2003
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
David Morrison, Sycamore Series No. 5, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, 2003
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Pelargonium #3, Floral, Richard de Bas paper, realism, botanical
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor on handmade Richard de Bas "fleurs" paper
Agnes Murray has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public collections.
Ms. Murray is a p...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Stick Series No. 4, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, still life, 2015
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yes abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Rainbow Shell - Watercolor of a Tiny Rainbow Colored Shell on a Blue Background
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rainbow", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a tiny sea shell painted on a blue starry background. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Suzanne Tourte - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Pencil Drawing realized by Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979).
Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Flowers - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Hav...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Still Life - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an Ink and tempera drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white envelope.
Titled on the lower right corner, another s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
One Potato - Tiny Original Still Life Painting of a Potato on Deckled Edge Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
"One Potato", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a potato. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy white mat. The piece is framed in a white wood frame with a heavy white mat measuring 14h x 10.5w inches.
Christina Haglid
One Potato
watercolor and gouache on paper
4.50h x 2.50w in
11.43h x 6.35w cm
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 which will return to its purpose during the day. My intention is to not show the failure because I imagine all these objects make it through to better times. Allegories of survival. Someone comes by and finds the paper crane, the rowboat owners return and see their boat undisturbed, and the slide during the day brings joy.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Tiny Sanctuaries", Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC [solo exhibition]
2004 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Small to Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 “Art of the 20th Century” NY Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, NY, NY
“Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Group Fusion” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 "Small & Mighty II" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Christina Haglid, New Work and Amy Lowry-Poole, Bugs and Buds" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 “Small & Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Views II” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Maleri” Galleri Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden
“1987 – 1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction” David Beitzel Gallery, NY, NY
“On and Off the Wall, Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 “Small Works” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL., Special Recognition Award
1994 “Unknown Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
“15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1993 “Graduate Summer Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Graduate Thesis Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI
1992 “Word of Mouth” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 “Drawing: A Covert and Private Affair” West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Senior Exhibition” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 “Fiber Exhibition” Fox Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Blue Thumbergia, Botanical in Watercolor and Gouache, Matted and Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid
Blue Thunbergia
watercolor on paper
7.25h x 4.50w in
16.75h x 13.75w in framed
CMH008
Christina Haglid
Artist's Statement
I used to write a lot of poetry, and it has shaped the narrative process in my artwork. Now painting has replaced writing. Objects in the painting are considered like words placed on a page. I use flowers, manipulated objects, and architecture together in compositions to symbolize the subtle conversations and interactions between them. They are placed in imaginary landscapes that are inspired by actual places and travels.
All the paintings are watercolor and gouache on stonehendge paper, and they are made up almost entirely of individual brushstrokes.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Joseph Stella Flower Study
Located in Norwood, NJ
Joseph Stella (1877-1946, American, Italian) "Flower Study". Crayon and pencil on paper. Signed lower left. Image 6 7/8” x 4 /34”. Framed 12 1/2” x 10”. Gallery label Beadleston Gallery N.Y. N.Y.
Joseph Stella (American, June 13, 1877–November 5, 1946) was a Futurist painter known for his association with the American Precisionism movement and his works depicting industrial America. Stella was born in Lucano, Italy. In 1896, he relocated to New York, NY, to study medicine. After becoming interested in art, Stella left his medical studies and began to study art at the Art Students League of New York. While there, he studied under William Merritt Chase. During this time, Stella's early works featured a Rembrandt style...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
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
Herony II
Located in Chicago, IL
Sylvia Beckman, b. 1938, Detroit, MI
Education
University of Michigan, School of Arch. & Design
University of Wisconsin, Botany
Private apprenticeship in stone sculpture, bronze, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Eastern Bluebird
Located in Columbia, MO
Hannah Reeves
Eastern Bluebird
2024
13 x 11 framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Photographic Paper, Acrylic
Korean Hanging Scroll of Bamboo, Prunus, and Orchids
Located in Chicago, IL
This Korean hanging scroll from the mid-20th century honors traditional calligraphy painting with delicate detail and a refined composition, thought to inspire clear and concise thinking. Expressing the beauty and resilience of nature’s flora, ink calligraphy artists traditionally select plants and flowers as the subjects of their works, each chosen for its auspicious meaning, literary resonance, or scholarly virtue.
This particular example depicts a quiet natural landscape of three plants growing side-by-side along a rocky hill. Strong bamboo stalks sway above a branch of delicate prunus branches, while elegant orchids blossom in the foreground. Each painted by a different artist, these sacred plants represent the cycle of the seasons: the plum blossom for winter, the orchid for spring, and the bamboo for summer. Brushed with black ink for a monochromatic expression, the painting relies on value rather than color to convey depth and texture within this simple setting. The collaborative painting is contrasted by a beautiful blue silk brocade border woven with a repeating pattern of blossoms and vines.
Each plant is signed individually in ink along with the artist’s seal.
Painting has been remounted. Includes a wooden scroll...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Paper, Ink
Throw of flowers, nasturtiums
Located in PARIS, FR
Blanche ODIN
Troyes 1865 - Bagnères-de-Bigorre 1957
Throw of flowers, nasturtiums
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
25 x 16.5 cm sheet
37 x 30.5 cm frame
Category
Late 19th Century French School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Janus, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, 2 Bud Vases with Purple Flowers
Located in Chicago, IL
Two bud vases seemingly defy gravity as they teeter upon a watery surface in Christina Haglid's "Janus". This meticulously detailed watercolor invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Intricate 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.
Christina Haglid
Janus
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
21.75h x 18w framed
CMH031
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
Plant Study
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870-1952)
Plant Study
Pencil and gouache on gray paper, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (14.9 x 20 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: AMR Jul 28.
Provenance
The ar...
Category
19th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Terracotta Hu Figurine, China
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Terracotta Hu Figurine, China
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Terracotta Siren, Greek, c. 550-500 BCE
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Terracotta Siren, Greek, c. 550-500 BCE
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Clay Vessel, Minoan
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Clay Vessel, Minoan
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Rare Unknown Dinner Plate
By Robert Arneson
Located in Morton Grove, IL
mixed media on paper
image size: 17 X 25
framed size: 28 X 34
Provenance-
Originally purchased from the Candy Store. It is from the Cherie and Ron Petersen collection and exhibited in 1989 in an exhibition "Collectors Choice, Drawings Paintings and Prints from the collection of Cherie and Ron Petersen".
Bio-
Born in Benicia, California in 1930, Robert Arneson was encouraged by his father to draw. He became a proficient draftsman early in life and drew cartoons for a local newspaper as a teenager. After Arneson studied art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland he taught in a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics. He went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in 1958. Arneson became head of the ceramics department at the University of California at Davis in 1962 and became a full professor of art in 1973.
Arneson was greatly influenced by the expressionist work of fellow Californian Peter Voulkos, who had studied Pablo Picasso’s works...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
“Roses and Pansies”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor and gouache on heavy card stock of a spring bouquet composed of mainly roses and pansies. Unsigned. Circa 1915. Original gold painted wood frame. Under...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
W. A. Martin - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Still Life with Ceramic Jug
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed lower left. Well-presented in a gilt frame with card mount. On watercolour paper.
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
What Lies (Framed)
By Paul Pitsker
Located in Fairfield, CT
"My watercolor paintings depict narrative dilemmas, light-hearted vignettes, or staged existential dramas on a microcosmic scale, as they might be seen through a shallow focus lens. ...
Category
2010s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Dew Drops" - pastel drawing, landscape, bunny, animal, grass, green, flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 22 by 22 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Canvas, Oil Pastel
