Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals.
Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp.
Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation.
Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133).
Two Wood Ducks...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
"Daisies #2"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jugs and Pan Kitchen Table French Still Life Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 18 x 14.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and s...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th Century French Painting Pink Poppies and Ferns In China Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 16.75 x 15 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Études Botaniques #20
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
Botanical in India ink on handmade deckled edge watercolor paper.
11 1/4 x 17
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, India Ink
Untitled (Floral Still Life)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Floral Still Life), ca. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed lower left, 10 x 13 inches (i...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cubist Still Life Gouache Painting by A Derek Ching
Located in Atlanta, GA
A. Derek Ching (American, 20th Century) created this stunning, colorful cubist still life gouache on paper painting. With lovely fall colors, this subtle still-life composition featu...
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Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful watercolor still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ont...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Untitled (Study of Classical Drapery)
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on paper, study of a classical drapery by artist Jan Matulka. The image is drawn on the back of a typewritten, folded sheet of stationery, from Dyer, Hudson & Co., New Yo...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful watercolor still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ont...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canad...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
'Still Life, Jade and Gold', Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins (American, 1930-2021) and dated 1957.
Millicent Tomkins began painting at a young age and, as a child, was award...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
“Still Life with White Roses”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor by Jessie Harris Bone Charman. Signed lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Under glass. Beautifully matted and framed. Overall framed mea...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Dancing Animal Critters on a Top Hat, Bear, Frog, Owl, Crane Bird, Bee, Snail
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...
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1980s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Untitled (Still Life, Interior)
Located in Chicago, IL
A detailed ink on paper drawing of a still-life in an interior by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chi...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Wartime Still Life Watercolor by Important British Ceramic Pottery Sculptor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
James Tower.
English ( b.1919 - d.1988 ).
Still Life of Flowers in a Jug and a Plate of Fruit.
Watercolor & ink.
Image size 15.4 inches x 13 inches ( 39cm x 33cm ).
Frame size 22.2 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Family of Flowers
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Wartime Still Life Watercolor by Important British Ceramic Pottery Sculptor 1944
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
James Tower.
English ( b.1919 - d.1988 ).
Still Life of Flowers in a Jug and a Bowl of Apples, 1944
Watercolor & ink. Signed & dated.
Image size 11.4 inches x 13.2 inches ( 29cm x 3...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
20th Century Modern British Red still life by Bernard Myers in pastel
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A really striking but calm still life painting by the Modern British artist Bernard Myers.
Bernard Myers is a Modern British artist who deserves to be better known. His work succe...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Mid Century Modern British 'What's the Time?' by British German Kapp, 1975
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
What’s the Time?
Pen and crayon, tondo
Signed and dated ‘Kapp 75’ (in the centre)
8.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Wartime Still Life Watercolor by Important British Ceramic Pottery Sculptor 1945
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
James Tower.
English ( b.1919 - d.1988 ).
Still Life of Cut Flowers in a Pottery Jug, 1945
Watercolor & ink. Signed & dated.
Image size 13.2 inches x 10 inches ( 33.5cm x 25.5cm ).
...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
20th Century Modern British Blue still life by Bernard Myers in pastel
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A really striking but calm still life painting by the Modern British artist Bernard Myers.
Bernard Myers is a Modern British artist who deserves to be better known. His work succe...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Still Life with Egg Beater
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by artist Jan Matulka.
A leading Modernist, Jan Matulka was born in Prague Czechoslovakia in 1890. He studied...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Modern British ink pen on paper work of a rose by Edmond Xavier Kapp
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Rose in bottle
Ink pen
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘For Paby, no7 out of 7 Kapp. 59’ (lower edge)
11 x 8.1/4 in. (28 x 21 cm.)
Edmond Kapp ...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Modern British ink pen on paper work of Isaac Stern by Edmond Xavier Kapp
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Isaac Stern at work
Inkpen
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Isaac Stern at work Kapp 51’ (lower right)
17.1/8 x 13.7/8 in. (43.3 x 35.3 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Alberto Morrocco 'Tomatoes', gouache on board, Scottish
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Alberto Morrocco OBE RSA RSW RP RGI LLD DUNIV
(Scottish, 1919 – 1998)
Tomatoes
gouache on board
11 x 15. ¾in. (28 x 40cm.)
Provenance: Alberto Morrocco Studio Sale, Dundee
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Gouache
Still Life with Alarm Clock and Mandolin
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by artist Jan Matulka.
A leading Modernist, Jan Matulka was born in Prague Czechoslovakia in 1890. He studied...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Still Life with Profile and Hanger
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by artist Jan Matulka.
A leading Modernist, Jan Matulka was born in Prague Czechoslovakia in 1890. He studied...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Still Life with Hammer, Palette and Chopper
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by artist Jan Matulka.
A leading Modernist, Jan Matulka was born in Prague Czechoslovakia in 1890. He studied...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, 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...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful Modernist, still-life painting of fruit by New Jersey artist Israel Winarsky. This work comes from the estate of the2,500 artist. Image is double-sided. There is a wate...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Polish Jewish Pencil Drawing Modernist Landscape
Located in Surfside, FL
Jehudith Sobel (1924-2012 ) Polish/Jewish artist (also known as Judyta Sobel)
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow, Poland in 1924. After Word War II she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland from 1947-1950, where she studied with the famous Abstract Constructivist, Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Stefan Wegner from whom she learned the principles of Modern Art as per the European Cubists. She was also part of the First Exhibit of Modern Art in Krakow in 1948/1949. From Poland she emigrated to Israel, where she exhibited and was collected by the major art museums of Israel including the Museum of Modern Art at Haifa.
In 1956, Sobel came to New York on a scholarship and before that she lived in France for two years. Same year she received the First Prize at the Exhibition in the Saks Gallery...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Eucalyptus Leaves/Bolinas (exhibited at the Denver Art Museum and U of T Museum)
By Joe Brainard
Located in New York, NY
Joe Brainard
Eucalyptus Leaves/Bolinas, 1971
Collage on thin board (with original labels from Fischbach Gallery, The Denver Art Museum and University...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers), 1963, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original painting on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
(Modern Still Life) Untitled, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 14 x 12 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers), 1963, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original painting on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
(Abstract Landscape) Untitled, 1965, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1965. Paper Size: 11 x 14 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s graduate studies...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
(Abstract Still Life) Untitled, 1965, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1965. Paper Size: 11 x 14 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s graduate studies...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
(Abstract Still Life with Chessboard) Untitled, 1964, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original painting on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches (oval). Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergra...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
(Abstract Still Life) Untitled, 1964, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original painting on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 10 x 9 inches (oval). Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergrad...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
"Green Secret", watercolor and ink on paper
Located in THOMERY, FR
This work is part of the artist's Les Naturenales series which celebrates the contemplation of nature through sensual artworks on paper.
The background of the work, realized on water...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Still Life
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cubist black & white graphite drawing of fruit by artist Illinois and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky.
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Flowers - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an artwork realized by an unknown in the early mid-20th Century.
Ink, pastel and watercolor on cardboard.
11 x 10 cm ; 30 x 29 cm.
Good condition!
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Navy Blue Color on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Compass Rose and Flower design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number 397
We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio ba...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
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 ...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Still Life - Drawing by Serge Fotisnky - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an artwork realized by Serge Fotinsky in 1947.
Drawing in pencil.
Pad signature lower left.
Good conditions except for some yellowing ...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Flowers Still Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 20 ½ x 16 inches unframe...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Modernist Vibrant Watercolor Painting of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees, living on New York's Lower East Side. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's 1902 book Spirit of the Ghetto. Epstein used the money from the commission to move to Paris.
Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England.
In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures The Rock Drill.
Between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, numerous works by Epstein were exhibited in Blackpool. Adam, Consummatum Est, Jacob and the Angel and Genesis, and other works, were initially displayed in an old drapery shop surrounded by red velvet curtains. The crowds were ushered in at the cost of a shilling by a barker on the street. After a small tour of American fun fairs, the works were returned to Blackpool and were exhibited in the anatomical curiosities section of Louis Tussaud's waxworks.
Bronze portrait sculpture formed one of Epstein's staple products, and perhaps the best known. These sculptures were often executed with roughly textured surfaces, expressively manipulating small surface planes and facial details. Some fine examples are in the National Portrait Gallery. He completed a bust of Winston Churchill...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Flower Bouquet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 ½ inches unframed sheet, 15 x 12 ½ inches framed, signed lower left
About the Artist:
Nan Watson...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Hyacinth watercolor by Jessie Bone Charman
Located in Hudson, NY
American artist Jessie Bone Charman (1895-1986) was known for her expressive still-life paintings, landscapes and marine scenes, as well as her abstract watercolors.
The framed dim...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Pink & Black Color on Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
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...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Paper
Blanche Grambs, (Shell Fish: Lobster, Crab, and Shrimp)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
This ink drawing with a lobster, crab, and a shrimp, was probably for a cookbook; the sheet is cut in a free-form, modernist...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
British 20th Century still life of apples on a green background by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007)
Still life on green
Signed ‘B Myers’ (lower left)
Pastel on paper
19.1/4 x 27 in. (49 x 68.7 cm.)
Bernard Myers studied for two years at St Mart...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
Flowers - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a Color 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 Havr...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker, Paper
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized by Albert Fernand-Renault in the early 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
Stamped signed.
Good Conditions with diffused foxing.
The artwork is realized ...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blanche Grambs, (Cooking Still Life: Bread, Olives, Potato, Mushrooms)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This drawing was probably for a magazine, perhaps House and Garden or House Beautiful. It is signed and dated in pencil on the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
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