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Medium: Paint
Abstracted Still Life with Flowers
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted still life by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No frame. Image size: 20"H x 14"W.
L...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized in 1950s by Albert Fernand-Renault.
Watercolour and ink on paper. Hand-signed.
Good condition with diffused foxing and a cutting at the top left margi...
Category
1950s Modern Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cafe, Madrid
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Bag Lady
By Vera Barnett
Located in Dallas, TX
This is Vera Barnett's study for her painting "Bag Lady" from her series of paintings that she calls "Classical Plastique."
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Petite Treat, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"My wife has been baking pecan pies for the holiday season," shares artist Dwight Smith," which inspired me to paint the still life. I love the warm colors of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'L'Oreal No. 3, Troyes', French Village, National Watercolor Society, Fashion
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #3'.
Born in Troyes, France in 1946, Evelyne Brigeois grew up in the town of Nimes, east of Paris. She subsequently lived and painted in Germany, England and Spain before moving to the United States in her late twenties. Settling in Idaho, she began a forty-year career as a fine artist, exhibiting widely and with success including, regularly, at both Boise's Art in the Park and Art and Roses Festival. Evelyne Brigeois was also the recipient of numerous national and international awards including from the National Watercolor Society, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan...
Category
1980s Photorealist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Orange flowers at Tuileries Garden. Paris 2010. Watercolor on paper, 24x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tuilerie Garden. Paris. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 24x50 cm
Abstract flowers in orange color
Ingrida Irbe (1969)
Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga
Education:
1980. – 1987. J. Roze...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
British School c.1930 Gouache - Blue Irises by the Window
Located in Corsham, GB
A stunning early to mid-20th century still life study of blue irises on a windowsill. Completed in delicate gouache, this subtle floral composition is a charming snapshot of domestic...
Category
Early 20th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"MY OUT-OF-REACH GARDEN", abstract watercolor, memory, flowers, stars, textile
Located in Toronto, Ontario
MY OUT-OF-REACH GARDEN is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30", and is a structured composition in tones of blue, violet, rose, gold and green. Bordering on abstraction and representation, there appear to be sheets of paper, a desk, and yet surrounded by flowers, patterns and textiles it becomes a larger scene, a collection of memories.
From Fleur Thesmar – "When you cannot return to a place you love, your memory invents the place for you. Apparent forms are suddenly unrecognizable, a reconstructed memory of a far-away place. Wrapped in patterns, grids and cloth, lights and stars shine as if from a mirror. Throughout are organic, fantastic shapes of flowers."
Having moved her family from France to America, artist Fleur Thesmar closely observed the changes in her world – from the seemingly obvious such as surrounding landscapes, the light of day and weather, the flowers, trees and shorelines – to the smaller less obvious shifts, such as how one behaves in a new world, in a new home, how one cherishes certain belongings and certain memories.
Her artistic practice is borne out of that close observation and shift in perspective, and has led to a number of successful gallery shows in the U.S. and internationally. Fleur Thesmar has shown at Beacon Gallery in Boston MA, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Old West Museum, Cheyenne WY, Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont MA, and Salon Ile-de-France 2020, Bourg-La-Reine, France. Her work is on permanent display at the Tower Hill Botanic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
W. G. Roberts - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Still Life with Rose Hips
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant still life scene depicting rose hips amongst a variety of vessels, including a jug, soup mug, and fiasco bottle. Well presented in a slim wooden frame. The watercolour was ...
Category
20th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Spring Bouquet XIV
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece is part of my spring bouquet series. It is my interpretation of spring flowers, done in a loose, watercolor style. This piece is on heavyweight pap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
English School 19th Century Watercolour - Bee Orchid
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash-line mount. On paper.
Category
19th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Spring Bouquet IX
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece is my interpretation of a spring bouquet of flowers, done in a loose, wet-on-wet, watercolour style.
About the Artist
Karin Johannesso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Still Life with Pot-Belly Stove', California, Paris, Louvre, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended t...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Bat Flower / botanical watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sophisticated contemporary floral botanical watercolor of a Bat Flower crated by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic floral series is at once modern, f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fast Eddies, 1996
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fast Eddies, 1996' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 15 inches a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fallen Sky, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A realistic still-life watercolor of an egg and blue cups by artist Dwight Smith. "This painting is composed of found objects from around our home," says Dwight. "The color of the small paper cups...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Latin American Women w/ Calla Lilies Original Watercolor by Sabine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Latin American Women w/ Calla Lilies Original Watercolor by Sabine
A beautiful original watercolor of three Latin American women (Peruvian / Bolivian) with Calla Lilies.
Signed in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nola Armstrong - 20th Century Watercolour, Phlox
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed. Presented in a light wooden frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Colorful Expressionist Still Life with Watermelon and Pears
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor still life with colorful expressionist pink and purple hues, of a bright table with watermelon, pears, and flowers on heavy paper by Monterey artist Les Anderson (Am...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nor Cal
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Nor Cal, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 20 x 18 inches and 29 x 27 inches professionally fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"SECRET GARDEN 2", watercolor, flowers, foliage, sky, sparkling, patterns, stars
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SECRET GARDEN 2 is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". It is custom framed with anti-UV and anti-glare glas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
A suspiciously Low Tide, 2021
Located in Burlingame, CA
'A Suspiciously Low Tide, 2001', the original painting is 20 x 40 inches and the outer dimensions of the frame is 30 x 50 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excell...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mobile Home with Honda - original watercolor, 1974
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mobile Home with Honda - watercolor is 9 3/4 x 21 1/4 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent.
James Torlakson, an international...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Paragon Park, 1997
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Paragon park, 1997' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 10 inches ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid 20th Century British Cubist watercolour drawing by John Sutton
By John Sutton
Located in London, GB
JOHN SUTTON
(20th Century)
Still Life with Fruit
Signed, inscribed and dated: 10/5/42
Watercolour, chalks and pen and ink, unframed
25 by 31.5 cm., 10 by 12 ½ in.
(mount size 40 ...
Category
1940s Cubist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Juniper Skyway - Trees and Ocean Scene, Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, 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 Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Vintage Harvest and Candle Still Life
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor still-life of a bountiful harvest of fruits and vegetables on a bright purple tablecloth with a single tall candle by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 192...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Still Life with Roses and Coffee Set in Watercolor on Paper
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Still Life with Roses and Coffee Set in Watercolor on Paper
Colorful still life with flowers and a coffee pot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A brig...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Camellia no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camelia no.2' original watercolor painted in 2021 in beautiful shades of pink and green from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over 40 years....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Circulus VI. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Paul Rossi
Located in Brecon, Powys
Amazing, fantastical images pepper the entire painting. It for all the world looks like a piece of Wedgwood porcelain has come to life and the characters are playing in a new reality...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
April still life with speckled wood butterfly
Located in Brecon, Powys
'April still life with speckled wood butterfly'. watercolour. 15" x 21" mounted on card 18" x 24". Looking at the colours of early spring: petals and flowers from my garden as spring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Seeds Sown, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this realist still life watercolor, artist Dwight Smith focused on the warm contrast of the bright red apple and wooden spools against the dramatic gradien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Madame F.C. Byrne (1789-1876) - Mid 19th Century Watercolour, Alstroemeria
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Acquired with other signed works by the same hand. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St. Briac, France - watercolor, matted in archival sleeve
Located in Burlingame, CA
St. Briac, France watercolor created by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb creates watercolors with graphite on paper, as a method of personal journaling his travels, both personal and professional. The series of watercolors depicts places where the artist visits, and captures the essence of the place and its atmosphere. This work is 9 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches and is matted in an archival museum mat with an outer dimension of 15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches. And it comes in a crystal clear archival storage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Red Begonia - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of red begonia, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943). ...
Category
1980s American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Yellow Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of yellow roses, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943)...
Category
1980s American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
White Irises / botanical watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'White Irises' is a sophisticated subdued, ivory-cream with warm brown to bronze still life flower composition. The botanical watercolor created b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Of Pure Heart, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An original culinary-themed still life created in the realist tradition. "I got the urge to paint golden delicious apples, so my wife and I picked up some at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hot Pink Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of hot pink roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Am...
Category
1980s American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"TWO ROSES", watercolor, flowers, petals, rose, pink, green leaves, beauty, love
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TWO ROSES is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22", and is a striking composition in tones of rose, pink, gold and green. It's a courageous work of art, seemingly a reflection or a symmetry but of course they are two distinct, complex flowers.
From Fleur Thesmar – "Standing on top of each other like mystic roses...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Gladiolas - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink gladiolas, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American,...
Category
1980s American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Same Shit
By Burak Ata
Located in Kansas City, MO
Burak Ata
Title: Same Shit
Year: 2017
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 25 x 25 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist
Burak Ata was born in Istanbul in 1989. He graduated fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fresh Air, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"An original watercolor that gives homage to a time when grandma or mom baked desserts and cooled them by fresh air," says Dwight. "The windowsill in this pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Girasoli nel Giardino
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Here are late summer sunflowers, girasoli, growing in a garden that also produces fresh seasonal vegetables for us locals. Sunflowers are always smiling, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Palmistry Readings / watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Palmistry Readings' a highly collectable original watercolor 17 3/4 x 21 1/2 inch painting by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. Currently unframed however ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mysteries of Purple & Green, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Purple and green are two of my favorite colors and wisteria is the perfect subject! I squirted paint directly onto the paper to make a lovely, saturated wash. When dry I developed the piece intuitively. I finished with tinted gouache to highlight the lovely light behind the wisteria. I'm very pleased with the mood of this piece.
About the Artist
Melissa is passionate about color. She finds it to be the most significant form of inspiration to paint. Speaking on influences in her work, Melissa says, “Sometimes it’s an idea that I can’t get out of my head, or a color that I just MUST paint!” She particularly enjoys painting leaves, and the changing colors of Oregon foliage are visible in her work. In 2001, Melissa began teaching art classes, which has allowed her to view her own artwork in a new way. “The information that flows in a class is awesome,” she says. Melissa is constantly learning from the students in her classes, and is more conscious of what it means to be an artistic role model.
Words that describe this painting: wisteria,flowers,watercolor painting,watercolor floral,floral,purple,green,purple and green,nature,floral painting,, impressionism, flora, representational, watercolor painting, green, purple, purple
Mysteries of Purple & Green
Melissa Gannon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Splendor, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is my kind of garden; in full bloom, and crammed with a splendid variety of pretty things. The subject matter delights me not only because I love gardens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Objects - Drawing by Enotrio Pugliese - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Objects is a drawing in watercolor and tempera on paper realized by Enotrio Pugliese in the 1960s.
Hand-signed by the artist o...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Phantom Fireworks - original watercolor painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Phantom Fireworks - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photoreal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Early 20th C French Watercolor, botanical flowers from an University collection
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dinan, France - watercolor, matted in archival sleeve
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dinan, France watercolor created by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb creates watercolors with graphite on paper, as a method of personal journaling his travels, both personal and professional. The series of watercolors depicts places where the artist visits, and captures the essence of the place and its atmosphere. This work is 7 x 10 inches and is matted in an archival museum mat with an outer dimension of 12 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches. And it comes in a crystal clear archival storage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Brick Light - Geometric Organic Scene, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid
Brick Light
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
17.25h x 14.25w x 0.75d in
43.81h x 36.20w x 1.91d cm
CMH060
Artist's S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
A. Dorothy Cohen (1887-1960) - Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Flower Vase
Located in Corsham, GB
A lovely watercolour painting with graphite by the British artist A. Dorothy Cohen, depicting a floral still life composition. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. Well-presented i...
Category
20th Century Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Purple Coast Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic and vibrant coastal watercolor painting by California artist Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Richard Parker - The Aquatic Life at Sea / Life of Pi
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bengal Tiger watercolor inspired by the novel The Life of Pi's, whose main character, Richard Parker — the tiger who is the epitome of beauty, power, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Plum Branches and Flowers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plum Branches and Flowers
watercolor on wove paper, 1985
Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner
From the artist's 1985 sketchbook
Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy.
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches
Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter
1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS
The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows.
O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.”
Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.”
“The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.”
When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.”
O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.”
Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes.
As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor Still Life with Red Candle and Plant
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor still life with plant, fruit and a red candle by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paint Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paint still-life drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Paint still-life drawings and watercolors available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 20th Century is especially popular. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Gary Bukovnik, Dwight Smith, Deborah Eddy, and Les Anderson. Not every interior allows for large Paint still-life drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 11.5 inches across are also available Prices for still-life drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $215 and tops out at $435, while the average work can sell for $329.