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Style: American Modern
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s. 9 x 12 inches. Tempera on paper, c. 1936. Authenticated and signed ...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Egg Tempera

George Vander Sluis Oil Stick Landscape – Barn with Red Sliding Doors, 20th C.
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original work on paper, Barn Side with Sliding Doors, is a masterful example of mid-20th century American modernist landscape art by acclaimed artist and educator George Vander Sluis...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Paper

Seated Couple
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inspiration (Seated Couple) Graphite on paper, c. 1967 Signed twice in pencil by the artist on recto (see photos) Condition: Excellent Image size: 13 x 16 inches Note: Although not t...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

"Big Bend #5" Modern Abstract Mixed Media Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Mixed Media work of a Texas national park called Big Bend. The work consists of a landscape photograph with color pencil drawing around the photograph that continues the landscape. T...
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1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Photographic Paper, Color Pencil

Untitled-055 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt frequently used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career. Untitled (1972) Pastel on paper 25" x 20" Signed a...
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1670s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Untitled (Cadillac Automobile Show)
By Evelyn Harper
Located in New York, NY
Evelyn Harper, "Untitled: Cadillac Automobile Show" , Mixed Media on Illustration Board, 15 x 10, Mid-20th Century, 1948 Colors: Black and White A 15 x 10 Black and White Illustrat...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Pen

Nude Pencil Drawing pair of Portraits
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Nude Pencil Drawing pair of Portraits Pencil and pastel on paper, unsigned from the artist portfolio. George Kenneth Hartwell painter and illustrator was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Pencil

Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude Match stick and ink drawing, c. 1925 Signed with the estate stamp B Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches Created at the Kakoon Arts Klu...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA.)
By E. Ambrose Webster
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA) Graphite on paper, 1931 Signed with the artist's initial "W" lower right corner (see photo)...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Untitled
Located in London, GB
In ‘Untitled’ 1932, Walkowitz crafts a memorable image. Tessellating lines are centred on the page and form geometric shapes. Faint pencil marking reveal the artists forward planning...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Pencil

Three Graces
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Graces Pentel marker on paper, 1965 Signed and dated by the artist lower left (see photo) Part of a series of 100 drawings, this number 97 (annotated lower right corner) Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 20 x 15 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist Martha A. French Trust Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty. After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker

1930s Modernist Line Drawing: Native American on Horse, Pinto, Black Ink Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1933 black-and-white line drawing titled "Pinto" by renowned New Mexico modernist artist Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) captures a striking Native American figure wearing a feathered bonnet headdress, riding horseback. Rendered in fine ink on vellum, this drawing reflects Hiler’s signature style with clean, fluid lines that embody the modernist movement. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower right corner, adding authenticity and value. Custom framing options are available to enhance this timeless piece. About the Artist: Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he developed an early interest in art. He studied at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design as a child, before pursuing further education at several renowned institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Paris. Hiler lived in Paris from 1919 to 1934, supporting himself as a jazz musician while continuing his artistic endeavors. After relocating to San Francisco in 1934, Hiler became involved with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), where he painted murals in the Aquatic Park...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40 Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters. As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan. A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930's and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940's punctuated his career. In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit. Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields
By Samuel Bolton Colburn
Located in Denver, CO
This original watercolor painting by acclaimed American artist Samuel Bolton Colburn captures a quiet farmstead nestled in a mountain valley. Rendered with Colburn’s signature contro...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Art Week 22 X 17 inches Gouache on board, c. 19...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

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. 1940 Signed lower left Provenance: Estate of the artist. The drawing will ship from the home of Mr. Gropper's grandson. Bio Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society's ills. In 1919 Gropper established a reputation as a political cartoonist working for the New York Tribune. His blunt, forceful style attracted the attention of other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left-wing New Masses to mainstream Vanity Fair. Like many social realist artists of the 1930s, Gropper supported liberal political causes, depicting subjects such as the plight of migrant laborers and striking factory workers. In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Hat in the Ring, Fashion themed pastel on archival paper with shoes, mirror
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Modern Abstract Watercolor Blue Cross Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract watercolor painting with blue and grey tones. The artist sketched out crosses within the blue abstract landscape. The piece is signed by the artist. It is framed in a silver metal frame with a white matte. Dimensions without Frame: H 25 in x W 33 in. Artist Biography: Peter Keefer...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pencil

Sleepwalking at the Olcott, mystery monochromatic narrative noir
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Monotype

Lonly (Lonely)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed lower right Provenance: Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH Possibly deaccessed from the Columbus Museum of Art THOMAS FRENCH FINE ART, LLC Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) A...
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20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pablo Casals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pablo Casals Graphite on paper, 1963 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 8 inches Condition: glue residue in all four corners of the sheet Drawn from life during an appearance at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

untitled (Exotic Bird in Fantastic Landscape)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Painting of Exotic Birds in Fantastic Landscape leaning against a wall)) Graphite on paper Signed by the artist in pencil lower right Pr...
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Female Nude in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman Pen and ink on paper, c. 1925-1928 Signed in pencil lower left Exhibited: Akron Art Institute (Akron Art Museum), William Sommer Retrospective, Oct. 25 to Nov. 29, 1 970 Illu...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

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. Artwork size: 12" x 19". Archivally matted ...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Fortune cover published, January ...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

UNTITLED PORTRAIT
Located in Portland, ME
Heliker, John. (American, 1909-2000). UNTITLED PORTRAIT. Ink on paper, not dated, likely 1930s. The image is of a man, likely a factory worker, seated, wearing a cap, leaning his face on one hand, with factory structures in the background. Signed, lower right. c. 8 x 8 inches 0n a larger sheet. In excellent condition. Heliker was born in Yonkers and spent his adult life dividing his time between Manhattan, where he taught art for decades, and Great Cranberry Island...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

American flag collage with a colored print of California as an Island
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works. His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied. Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes.. He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city or style. Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him. Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts. These set of collage...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

Obscura, face w birch trees, nature, monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Starting with observational drawings from life, these works evolve through a series of variations, modifying tonality and forest elements.Even though recognizable as trees, the artis...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Charcoal

"Boats in Berlin Harbor, " Pastel on Cheesecloth by Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats in Berlin Harbor" is an original pastel painting on cheesecloth. Small tugboats push across the Berlin harbor as a gauzy cityscape watches from behind. Image: 25" x 33" Frame...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

"Tokyo Diptych" Yvonne Jacquette, Japanese Urban Cityscape Nocturnal Aerial
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Jacquette (American, b. 1935) Tokyo Diptych, 1985 Pastel on paper Overall 17 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches Signed lower center Provenance: Carey Ellis Company, Houston, Texas Brooke Alexander, New York Collection of an American Corporation Exhibited: New York, Brooke Alexander, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, April 5 - May 3, 1986, n.p., illustrated; this exhibition later traveled to Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, June 27 - August 24, 1986. Yvonne Jacquette has a preference for high places, a circling plane, a penthouse window, an aerie from which to watch the world. Her work has often depicted the city and man-made landscape from the vantage of angels. It is a privileged perspective, long loved by photographers, who were perhaps the first to recognize the geometric grandeur of the city below. That grandeur structures Jacquette's images but is not its full content. Her work attempts to resolve the visual and emotional pardoxes of the modern metropolis. Only from the tower is there the possibility of order and context. And unlaced beauty. Jacquette first visited Japan in 1982. Nighttime Tokyo, its cars and crowds and canyons of loud Vegas neon, made a vivid and bewildering impression on her. The neon signs, pulsing, scaling the walls of high rises, fascinated the artist, "like Times Square spread over miles." Her fascination was equal parts marvel, confusion, and curiosity—the sparks of art. She returned to Tokyo in May of 1985, choosing hotel rooms with expansive vistas. From these views Jacquette excerpted images for a series of pastel night scenes. The basic forms and colors of each drawing were blocked in during night sessions by the window. She worked in the dark, selecting colors by flashlight. In daylight, she sharpened the geometry and corrected ambiguous passages. She refined the drawings further in the studio until the images read clearly. Photographic correctness was not important. The finished drawings are complete statements, not simply preparatory sketches for paintings. They have the authority of expert witness. In clear, discreet jots of pastel they record the performance of seeing, each touch of color attesting to a moment's close scrutiny. Yvonne Jacquette was born on December 15, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence from 1952 to 1955, when she moved to New York City. Her late husband was photographer Rudy Burckhardt, and the couple were part of a circle of artist friends that included Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, and Mimi Gross. She continues to live and work in New York City, as well as in Searsmont, Maine. A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette’s interest in aerial views, after which she began flying in commercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns. She soon started sketching and painting the landscape as seen from above, beginning a process that has developed into a defining element of her art. Her first nocturnal painting...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches. About the Artist: Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Jenne Magafan “Windmill on the Plains” 1940s Colorado Watercolor, Framed
Located in Denver, CO
"Windmill on the Plains" is an original watercolor and ink on paper painting by acclaimed 20th-century Colorado artist Jenne Magafan (1916–1952). Created in the 1940s, this evocative...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Paper

Wrestlers, monochromatic sports dramatic black and white
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstr...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Monotype

That Day in Crete..., female gaze butterflies RINY collaboration abstract
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works. Full title: That Day in Crete when you found the Blue Blanket in the Rocks and Dried it ...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Flamenco Dancers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Flamenco Dancers" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower cent...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Still Life with Knife
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Knife" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the low...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Looking at the Jungle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Looking at the Jungle" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The size is 16.5 x 26.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed. About the artist: Charlotte Huntley might have been a renowned graffiti artist – her earliest work consisted of drawing on walls. But fate intervened and she learned to control these urges with a formal education at Scripps College, Chouinard School of Art, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. These early tendencies reemerged not just in painting, but in other artistic ways as well, to the benefit of community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. She spent years as a professional puppeteer and set designer, and developing her own unique watercolor painting style. Charlotte’s use of pointillism. Charlotte Huntley AWS, June Workshop Instructor “Charlotte Huntley has special insights into color and fresh approaches to cliche subject matter. Her work in watercolor is truly unique. Charlotte adapts the Pointillism of Seurat and other post-Impressionists and makes it her own in watercolor. With Pointillism, distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary colors. The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones. Charlotte truly makes the most of this style of painting. Over her illustrious career, Huntley has been awarded a signature membership in 29 watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, Transparent Watercolor Soc. of America, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Watercolor West. Overall, Charlotte has received 45 Awards in National Exhibitions since 2000 – an impressive achievement. This imaginative Watercolor Artist has had over 575 paintings accepted in National Juried Art Exhibitions in 46 states, also Canada and Puerto Rico, with 113 Awards. Charlotte has proven to be a popular Juror, knowledgeable Juror, inspiring Workshop Instructor, and an Award-winning Author.The work of Charlotte Huntley is held in collections in the U.S. Canada and Puerto Rico as well as in some European country. In 2016 Charlotte has been accepted in 14 National Exhibitions with 1 Award: Signature American W/C Society (CA), Rockies West National (CO) , Animals in Art (LA) (Judge’s Award) , Georgia W/C Society , Missouri W/C Society, Society of W/C Artists (TX) , Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN) , Illinois W/C Society, W/C Soc. of Alabama, Rocky Mountain Nat’1 W/C (CO), Alaska W/C Soc., Aqueous USA 2016 (KY), Niagara Frontier W/C Soc . (NY) and Northwest W/C Soc. (WA). Elite Awards Sylvan Grouse Guild Award, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Elite Signature Status , Watercolor Art Society-Houston Master Signature Member, Western Colorado Watercolor Society Received over 100 Awards in National Exhibitions: 2014 3K1 Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN), 4lb Place, Soc. of Watercolor Artists (TX) and 5 other Awards. 2013 !st Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Association (TN). Awards Red River W/C Society , West VA W/C Society, Watercolor Wyorning 2012 2nd Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n. (TN). 3’d Place, Cheyenne Artists’ Guild, Awards and 2 others. 2011 lst place Cheyenne Artists Guild, lst place Society of Western Artists, CA 2nd Place Niagara Frontier WS, NY and 6 others. 2010 Best of Watercolor, Arts in Harmony , MN, and First Place, Kentucky W/C Society Aquaventures 2009 Mary Anderson Surnner Award and Gold Medal, Red River Valley, TX 2008 Amy Freeman Award, Texas Watercolor Society, Presidents Award, Arizona Watercolor Association 2007 Founders Award, Watercolor West, CA , Third Place, Red River Valley Museum , TX 2006 AWS Traveling Exhibition 2005 First Place in Painting Division, Girardot, MO 20(A Second Award, Gulf Coast National , TX 2003 Arches Award, Aqueous Open, PA 2002 Best of Show , Visual Arts Center of NW FL, President’s Award, Society of Watercolor Artists , TX 2001 Board Of Directors’ Award, Western Colorado Watercolor Society 2000 Best of Show, Art Wyoming, WY Books and Magazines Together with Judi Betts...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Leashed and Unleashed, dogs collage abstracted drawing color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This remarkable aquatint print handpainted and collaged with watercolor depicts dogs actively engaged in friendly play in a desert landscape. Leashes fly outside the square composit...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Aquatint, Archival Paper

Bourrée Fantasque #11 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #11 Blue", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet of the same name for the Ne...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil

'Fruit Still Life' original watercolor and gouache on board, signed Yolanda
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Though signed "Yolanda," the artist of this gouache and watercolor painting is unknown. The still life, contained and symmetrical, is dominated by the form of a pear. On either side,...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Book of Remembrance, female figure, gold tones, horses & Van Gogh references
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Florentine Birch, trees, nature, over classically patterned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Even though recognizable as trees, the artist considers the birch works to be process-oriented abstractions. "I am interested in the interplay between the abstract markings and the s...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Requiem, colorful female w figure elephants memorial prayer text collage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works. Born of the Covid pandemic, the team started working remotely, mailing artwork to each ...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Curlee Raven Holton, Three Views of a Dancer
Located in New York, NY
A painter, draftsman, printmaker and master printer, Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) taught for twenty years at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Blue Indigo, drawing collage female figure with abstract patterns, bright blues
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Cold View, monochromatic, female figure, landscape fragments
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal

Vintage Colorado Mountain Landscape, Original Modernist Graphite Drawing, Framed
Located in Denver, CO
This original graphite on paper drawing by renowned artist Boardman Robinson (1876-1952) captures the dramatic beauty of a Colorado mountain landscape...
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20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) JAPAN ISSUE Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936 14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight) Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches Gouache on board Signed lower left BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age Sylvia Sneidman was originally a fashion illustrator, but assumed the helm of the famous jazz-age panel cartoon "Flapper Fanny Sa...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Archival Paper

"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative. Chris Ritter (American, 1906 – 1976) "Animated Discourse," 19 x 24 (sight). Watercolor on paper. Si...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Third Man 3, night, city scape, monochromatic, narrative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Monotype

FLAT, cut paper collage urban New York street culture industrial
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"FLAT" Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Archival Paper

Tickets/ Coney Island, colorful detailed cut paper, urban New York graphic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Color Aid paper, Paint, Contemporary collage Hand cut color-aid paper Worked with Robert Indiana Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] th...
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Early 2000s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Nude Drawing on Gray Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Standing Nude drawing on gray paper Pencil signed and dated April 8, 21. Printmaker, painter and illustrator, George Kenneth Hartwell was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York City under Kenneth Hayes Miller, Edward Hopper, and George Bellows. His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923), the Society of Independent Artists (1923), Salons of America (1928 and 1934), Library of Congress (1944-46), the Laguna Beach Art...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil, Paper

Nine-O-One, dark colors, monochromatic, moody female figure, maps, text, time
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper charcoal collage These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio, furiously te...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Charcoal

"Country Haircut"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965). Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Paper

Northern Parula
Located in Columbia, MO
Hannah Reeves Northern Parula 2024 13 x 11 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Photographic Paper, Graphite

Eastern Bluebird
Located in Columbia, MO
Hannah Reeves Eastern Bluebird 2024 13 x 11 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite, Photographic Paper, Acrylic

"Saddle Back Light"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper by the American artist, Norman MacLeish. Signed lower right and dated 1955. Condition: good. There is a brown watercolor dash in the right sky. It is not a foxi...
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1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Figure Drawing)
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen".
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1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

American Modern drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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