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Style: American 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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Untitled (Sunset with Hands)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Louisa Chase
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Late 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Untitled (Study for The Aerialists)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Study for The Aerialists)
Graphite on paper, 1932
Signed lower right in pencil: "John Steuart Curry"
Dated: 1932 in pencil
Exhibited:
Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC (la...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1955
Signed in ink, dated and titled in pencil (see photos)
Condition: 1'' repaired tear left edge, along with other minor tears.
Tape stains from previous matting visible in the four corners
Image/Sheet size: 19 3/8 x 15 5/8 inches
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend and
patron of Longstreet
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show.
In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia De...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
"Family at the Beach"
27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Mixed media on paper, c. ...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Untitled (Cars)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Cars), 1940, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 18 1/2 inches, ...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Man In The Moon Drawing by O. Casio
Located in Larchmont, NY
O. Casio
Untitled (Moon Man), c. 20th Century
Mixed media on paper
Sight: 10 x 13 1/4 in.
Framed: 16 x 20 in.
Signed lower right: O. Casio
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20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
1962 Rubenesque Nude Pastel, titled "Black Flemish Leather"
Located in Larchmont, NY
Flemish Black Leather, 1962
Pastel on paper
16 x 18 in.
Framed: 21 1/2 x 23 3/4 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Inscribed verso
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
Located in Surfside, FL
Reclining Nude.Early modernist line drawing, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting, signed with initials, framed. (size includes frame). Work is reminisce...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (Industrial Street)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed
Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project
Graphite, charcoal and wash on tracing paper, c. 1930-1940
Signed upper left and lower left (see both photos)
Created while the artist was l...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Famous Raincoat
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Gino Hollander Portrait of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gino Hollander: 1924-2015. Well listed American artist with Auction results over $14,000. He lived in California, Colorado, and Spain. This fabulous mixed media measures 11 1/4 inche...
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1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal and colored chalks with white highlights on tan laid paper, c. 1948
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower right
(see photo)
A masterpiece dr...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
A folio from the artist's sketchbook. Done while the artist was in Florida.
Conditio...
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1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Strong Champagne . Humorous interior fantasy w red sofa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on toned archival paper suitable for framing under glass . The artist has signed and dated the work on the bottom right.
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Mid-Century, Black & White Portrait of a Young Man by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959, black & white, ink on paper portrait of a young man by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicag...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid Century Self Portrait of the Original Drawing on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of the Artist by the Artist Original Charcoal Drawing on Paper 1960
Excellent detailed original drawing of the artist by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A realistic dep...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree and a Northern Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Ch...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Volcano and Arch, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, Mid Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Volcano and Arch, Taormina, 1961
Watercolor on scintilla paper
Signed and dated upper right
11 x 11 inches
"My last year in art schoo...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, c. 1934
A beautiful Provincetown beach scene, included in the catalogue raisonne.
Please see Babcoc...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
A ca 1954 Watercolor & Ink Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Forest Scene, Study in Yellow by artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 charming watercolor forest scene; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canad...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen, Watercolor, Paper
An Interior Scene, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 charming watercolor interior scene; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Can...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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 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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Rose
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Paper
Rainstorm Sunset
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
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American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Watercolor on Paper Study of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor of a football scrimmage at Notre Dame, by artist Francis Chapin. This was a study for a painting he created for the University in 1954. The original painting ...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
"New York from the Ferry" John Marin, American Modernism Watercolor, Cityscape
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
John Marin
New York from the Ferry, 1914
Signed and dated lower right
Watercolor and graphite on paper
11 x 12 3/4 inches
Provenance:
An American Place, New York
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Christie's, New York, March 16, 1990, Lot 278
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, American Paintings, Drawings, & Sculpture, October 2, 2014, Lot 10
A major figure in early twentieth-century modernism, John Marin captured the colliding energies of the American urban scene and the vibrant contrasts of natural elements in the coastal landscape of Maine and other countryside locales. As one of the premier watercolorists of his era, Marin developed a light, spontaneous style ideally suited to conveying the freshness and flux of city and country experience -- his watercolors are often considered to match in strength those created by Winslow Homer in previous century. At the same time, Marin's sensitivity to mass, form, color, and line and their dynamic interchanges provided a precedent for the Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1950s.
Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, to a family of European descent. After studying mechanical drawing and mathematics for half a year at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New York, Marin worked as a draftsman for several architects. It was not until he was almost thirty years old that he began to study art. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1899 to 1901, and at the Art Students League in New York from 1901 to 1903, where his teachers were William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent Dumond. While Marin was attending the League, the radical ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow were being disseminated and had an impact on the direction Marin would soon take in his art.
Marin left for Europe in 1905. The next five years, which he spent abroad, were of tremendous importance to his career. He became a significant figure in the expatriate community in Paris, frequenting the Dôme, a café that served as a meeting place for artists and writers. While in Europe, Marin visited the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and, despite his claims that he had been indifferent to the Paris art world, he undoubtedly became aware of the art of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. The works Marin created in Europe most strongly reflect the influence of James McNeill Whistler, especially the pastels he rendered in Venice.
In the summer of 1909, Marin met Alfred Stieglitz in Paris. In February of the next year, Marin's work was shown along with that of Alfred Maurer at Stieglitz's gallery, 291. After returning to America in the following year, Marin became one of the most consistent members of Stieglitz's inner circle, showing at all three of his galleries -- 291, The Intimate Gallery, and An American Place. After 1910, Marin developed the routine that he would follow for the rest of his life, creating paintings, drawings, and prints in New York City and surrounding areas during the winter, and in the summer, traveling to the country, where he focused on the particular characteristics of the regions that he visited. He worked mainly in watercolor until 1928, when he began also to use oil.
Marin never became purely abstract. He formulated a unique style melding influences of the art of the French Fauves, Cézanne, Matisse, and the French Cubists with a personal style of luminescent colors, agile brushwork, and a simultaneously delicate and strong handling. In city views, he used broken lines, a light touch, fluid color, and rhythmic compositions to convey what he described as the "great forces at work." He expressed the warring of the great and the small through relationships between masses. As he said, he sought to express the "pull forces" of the modern urban scene. Often portraying the new tall buildings of New York seen...
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1910s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Untitled-053 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt regularly used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career.
Untitled (1963)
Pastel on paper
24" x 19"
Signed an...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Watercolor & Ink on Paper Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Cahpin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954, watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A ca. 1954, drawing of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, Am. Legion)
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful study for an American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, American Legion) by Elaine Jeanne Glickman (Ginsburg), created at Ferry Hall in Lake Fore...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor
1964 San Francisco Construction Site Large Gouache and Pastel Landscape
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Tractor at Work
6-10-64
Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper
36"x32 1/2" Unframed
Signed and dated lower right in crayon
Very Good Condition - Minor wear consistent with ...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
M...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
A Pair of Mid-Century, Pen & Ink Interior Drawings by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of delightful, Mid-Century interior scenes in pen & ink 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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Ink
Abstract Composition
By Julius Hubler
Located in Buffalo, NY
Julius Hubler, American artist. Deans scholar; State University Iowa graduate scholar, 1944; Arthur W. Dow scholar Columbia University, 1947; distinguished se...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Villa Giardino, 20th Century Charcoal Drawing by Cleveland School Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Villa Giardino
Charcoal on paper
Signed and titled verso
17.75 x 12.5 inches
A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was pa...
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20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes
17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938
Signed A. Ross lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
Trees Over the Vineyard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trees Over the Vineyard
Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1930
Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo)
Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches
Condition: Excellent
Illustrated: Marbell...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Mural Study
By Edgar Ewing
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, period mural study of an interior by artist Edgar Ewing.
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on Paper
Signed Lower Right
Framed by Bark
Affixed to the back are original gold lame fabric swatches.
This drawing is available, along with two other original costume drawings from BIRDIE by Miles White, another of Conrad Birdie and one of Chita Rivera.
Miles White, a leading Broadway and Hollywood costume designer for decades. created costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA CAROUSEL, BYE BYE BIRDIE and many others.
In film he worked on "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Greatest Show on Earth." He designed Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the Ice Capades for many years.
Miles was a close friend for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings.
BYE BYE BIRDIE is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Watercolor “Steel Rocks” Palm Springs, California; Roy H. Collins 1929
Located in Baltimore, MD
Roy Huse Collins was a Midwestern artist associated with Chicago and Minnesota. Born in Saint Paul in 1884, he exhibited often at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) during the 1920’s and 30’s. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1925 and 1931. Collins was a painter and illustrator until he died in 1949.
This watercolor includes (on the back) the original exhibition label from the AIC in 1929. The work is titled “Steel Rocks...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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 American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Staten Island
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island
Watercolor on paper, c. 1928
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left
Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches
Titled on verso
Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude Picnic Virgin Islands
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best known for his rural life & desert landscapes and World War II sc...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
American Modern drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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