Late 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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...

Watercolor of a pink rose with a stem on laid paper by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Presented in a double mat in a modern silver frame. Signed "Barbara Gibson" and dated "1989" in ...

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...

Signed lower left, 'Sam Colburn' for Samuel Colburn (American, 1909-1993) and dated 1982. A powerful, late work by this well-listed American regionalis...

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,...

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)...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a cyclamen blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Debora...

Gouache and tea on masking tape Signed and dated, l.l. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Born in New York City and educated at the Maryland Institute C...

Colorful still life with calla lilies and a potted plant against a dynamic background of swirling colors by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Le...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy ...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a light pink garden rose, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Ameri...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of lavender roses, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist...

Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of red gladiolas, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943)...

Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of Peruvian lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...

Charming still life of a teapot and fan with bright orange persimmons against a backdrop of bold watercolor color fields by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed lower left. Acq...

Whimsical still life of various shells, fruit, and bottles, including a wine bottle with a label stating the artist's name and crude self-portrait, by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (...

Detailed watercolor of a Santa Fe southwest style living room, full of vibrant Navajo patterned textiles, by unknown artist "West" (American, 20th Cen...

Still life with vase and watermelon by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed "Les Anderson" lower right...

John Urbain, Belgian/American (1920 - 2009) - Orange, Pear and Lemon, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on paper, signed in pencil, Size: 11.5 x 16.5 in. (29.21 x 4...

Flowers in a vase paper/pastel, 70x54 cm

Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 19868; additionally titled, verso, 'Hydra, the Cherries'. A view of a townhouse window on the Greek island of Hydra showing a sunlit row of jars filled with freshly preserved cherries basking in the Aegean sun. 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 Watercolor Society, The Salem Academy Fine Arts Center and the Louisiana Watercolor Society among others. Her work was frequently featured in national publications including 'U.S. Art' and 'American Artist'. Her style combines a precise and delicate realism with a close observation of light- often with with strongly contrasting shadow. Her talent for serene and lyrical composition distinguishes her landscapes and townscapes of her favorite subjects, the Greek Islands, Venice and rural France. We are pleased to offer this intimate view of a sunlit window on the island of Hydra in the Greek Aegean.

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...

The drawings and paintings of David Edward Byrd are legendary. If you were producing a Broadway play or top Rock and Roll concert in the 1970's, David Byrd was the artist you wanted to create the imagery. He created for Broadway the classic art for, Godspell, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar to mention only a few. For the Rock and Roll industry David created all of the iconic artwork for the Fillmore East including their classic and highly valued posters and programs. The Who's "Tommy" art was David's as was The Rolling Stones 1969 World tour artwork, and the 1969 Jimi Hendrix American concert tour, along with the very first version of the art for the original 1969 Woodstock Music Festival poster...

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...

Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind" Beautiful and highly detailed illustration of a pink rose on a complex matrix background by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Titled "Georgia on My Mind" lower left. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"H x 18.25"W on a 25"H x 20"W Mat. The artist takes many days creating the hand drawn matrix background of circles and line. Ben Black was born in Boston, he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art 1947. He served in World War 2. He was an art director at one of Boston's leading advertising firms, later opened his own studio where his works were included in The New Yorker Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, establishing himself as a leading American Illustrator. He had many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and his work is collected throughout the world. Originally known for his clowns, he created a limited edition series of plates for Royal Daulton as well as clown figurines...

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...

Signed lower right "Sally Mack" (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. Painted on Arches paper. A vibrant, Post-Impressionist still-life showing branches of cherry-blossom...

A substantial and vibrant watercolor still-life showing a loose group of pink and red dog-roses informally arranged in an ivory-field, satsuma vase, set on a floral-pattern tableclot...

Still Life with card 1989, paper, watercolor, 75,5x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – l...

Visually bright and dynamic work by expressive California artist Bengston. Colors are crisp and the oversize sheet and size mays for strong visual impact in a room. Newly framed in...

Roses. 1983, watercolor on paper, 75x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – learning at Liep...

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 ...

"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing, circa 1995, is by Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and unsigned. Noted "Emilio Sanchez Foundation" on verso. EMILIO SANCHEZ (1...

Still life with a lemon 1980s, paper, watercolor, 75,5x55,5 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 19...

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...

A unique hand-painted lithograph of a colorful Bouquet of Flowers by Wayne Ensrud, American (1934). Quiet Sunday (Blue) Wayne Ensrud, American (1934) Date: 1980 Hand-Painted Lithogra...

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...

Pastel with dazzling colors (Orange and red flowers, hues of greens and different shades of blue in the background) of fiery flowers blooming by the water. Signed "June Ziegler" lowe...

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...

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...

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 –...

Still life with tray. 1980's, watercolor on paper, 75x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 –...

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 ...

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...

Mug on a tray. 1970s, paper, watercolor, 76x55 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – learning ...

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...

Homage to Morandi Watercolor, c. 1990 Signed lower right: Sloane An important exhibition size watercolor by the artist. Acquired by the Cleveland Clinic, de-accessed in 2021 Conditio...

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...

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...

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)

"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...

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)

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...