Late 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Still life with bread 1983, watercolor on paper, 75, 5 x 55, 5 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 –...

Mushrooms with a basket. 1978, watercolor on paper, 75x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 ...

Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of yellow roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Amer...

Three seashells, each depicted on their own individual pastel color background and with fine detail, by Gary Ermoloff (American, b. 1949). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Ermoloff pieces. Presented in a new blue-grey mat with foamcore backing. Paper size: 17.75"H x 23.75"W Gary Ermoloff (American b. 1949) attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he received his BA in Fashion Illustration. He is a former member of AIGA and a former Board Member...

Still life with plums. 1985, watercolor on paper, 74x55 cm (bilateral) Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1...

Black mug with apples. 1971, watercolor on paper, 72,5x54 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Sec...

Yellow flowers. 1980s watercolor on paper, 75, 5 x 55 cm Signed lower right corner : J. Spriņģis Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at A...

Gorgeous, bright still life of apples on mat board by Virginia Hughins (American, 1923-2004). Unsigned and unframed. From collection of her works. Image size: 13"H x 19.5"W. Virgin...

Artist: Gary van der Steur, American Title: Typewriter (Original Illustration for Playgirl Magazine) Year: 1975 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 24 in. x 19 in. (60.9...

Crab. 1971, watercolor on paper, 63x69,3 cm Underwater world Janis Brekte (1920.15.VIII – 1985.27.XII) Janis Brekte his first artistic education got in drawing courses of K. Brence...

A happy and bright floral painting with artist-painted frame by Irish artist Amanda Watt. Anthurium Amanda Watt, Irish (1960) Date: 1991 Acrylic on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 48 x 60 i...

"Flowers" is a watercolor artwork created on paper in 1994, with dimensions of 40x30 cm. The painting showcases a vibrant and colorful depiction of various flowers, capturing the beauty and delicacy of these natural elements. Oskars Berzins (1940) Born on September 20, 1940 Education 1970 graduated from Art academy of Latvia Graphics department. Diploma work-holiday poster...

Rosehip. Oil on cardboard, 23x27,5 cm

Mountain ash. 1989. Paper, watercolor, 61x70 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and s...

Autumn flowers. 1974, paper, pastel, 25x37 cm "Autumn Flowers" is a pastel artwork by Eduards Metuzals that celebrates the beauty of autumn through a vibrant depiction of flowers. T...

"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...

Stunning pastel work by Paula Humphris a Cornish artist more well known now for her pottery. Signed and dated 1985. Very evocative of the Art Deco Period. very pretty ! Image size ...

"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...

Softly-colored oil pastel abstraction of a single book falling from a full bookcase, as if a slow-motion scene from a dream, by Pollasson, c. 1990. Original artwork on paper display...

"White Eggplant on Red Table" is a color pencil drawing on paper by artist Emilio Sanchez. The drawing is to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower right. There is an Emilio...

(Photographed behind the glass of the frame, so please pardon reflections.) As you can see from the receipt, this fine drawing was originally purchased for $3,500 on Julia Row in New Orleans. A New Orleans legend, Franklin Adams moved to the city in 1958 to teach painting and drawing at Newcomb College. Over the following years, he applied his wide-ranging talents to architecture, set design, logo design and other diverse projects. He was good friends with Mignon Faget...

Artist: Lou Fink Title: Wood Edge Year: 1976 Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)

Black and yellow abstract charcoal drawing by Houston artist Paul Forsythe. The piece features an abstract, organic shape floating against a white background. Currently hung in a lig...

Artist: Lou Fink, American (1925 - 1980) Title: Inca Year: 1976 Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm)

Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm

Black and white abstract charcoal drawing by Houston artist Paul Forsythe. The work features a large, abstract, organic shape in the upper right corner of the composition. Currently ...

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...

Artist: Richard Stenhouse, American (1944 - ) Title: Adjustable Wrench Year: circa 1970 Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 16.5 x 17 in. (...

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...

Artist: Lou Fink, American (1925 - 1980) Title: Condor Year: 1976 Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76.2 cm x 50.8 cm)

Artist: Lou Fink, American (1925 - 1980) Title: Three White Swans Year: 1976 Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 30 in. x 20 in. (76.2 cm x 50.8 cm)

Ella's Quilt by Roy Wilce Oil Pastel on Paper, still life in vibrant warm colors image 28x36", framed 42x50" *Shipping cost includes the custom packing required to transport fine ar...

"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing by artist Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower left. "Emilio Sanchez Found...

Flowers and pixel design. Sealed on the back with design studio name and number 268 We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alc...

"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...

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...

Flowers's Composition is an original painting in watercolor on paper by Leo Guida in 1971. The state of preservation is good.. On the lower right margin hand-signed and dated. On ...

Still life with east carafe. 1981, watercolor on paper, 75, 5 x 55, 5 cm with small paper defect Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at A...

Fruits. Watercolor on paper, 74, 5 x 55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – learning at Liep...

Composition. May 27. 1992, watercolor on paper, 73x48 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – le...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of brightly colored freesia, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Ameri...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink begonias blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California art...

Still Life with eelpout. 1979, watercolor on paper, 75x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 ...

Books with yellow flowers. 1980's, watercolor on paper, 73x54 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1...

Mushrooms. 1980's, watercolor on paper, 54x75 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – learning a...

Vibrant kitchen still life by Aptos, California artist Virginia J. Hughins (American, 1923-2004), circa 1970. Signed "Hughins" lower right. Unframed...

Still life with pears. 1979, watercolor on paper, 74x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – ...

Still life with fruits. 1970's, watercolor on paper, 77x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930...

Blue flowers. Lamp (double-sided) . 1991, watercolor on paper, 73x53 cm With edge defects Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute ...

Abstract composition 1994, paper, watercolor, 75x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – lea...

Two lemons and jug 1980s, paper, watercolor, 75,5x56 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – le...

"Chevrolet Grille" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the grille of a highly-polished Chevrolet car. This painting displays McCombs' exquisite attention to...

Adela Smith Lintelmann, American (1902 - 1996) - Still Life with Flowers and Copper Platter, Medium: Pastel on Paper, Size: 19.5 in. x 25 in. (49.53 cm x 63.5 cm), Frame Size: 30 x ...

The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...

The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...

Flower. Paper, pastel 33x27 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monume...

"Car Museum" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front of a gleaming car with other automobile memorabilia with exquisite attention to reflections, ligh...

"Shield, Kiowa, Central Plains c. 1850" is an watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It is an illustration of a painted shield from the Kiowa Native America...