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Style: American Modern
Classroom Figurative
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Classroom interior scene by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed in the lower right corner and unframe...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Materials
Paint, Paper
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
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan (Blue)" is an original mixed media drawing created by Abraham Walkowitz. It is made with pen & ink, graphite, and watercolor piece on cream paper. The artist signed t...
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1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
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...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Charcoal
"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...
Category
1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Eastern Bluebird
Located in Columbia, MO
Hannah Reeves
Eastern Bluebird
2024
13 x 11 framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Photographic Paper, Acrylic
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...
Category
1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
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...
Category
1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Unknown American Modernism School - Drawing of a Kitchen Interior
Located in New York, NY
Unknown American Modernism School
Untitled (Kitchen), c. 1930
Pencil on paper
Sight size: 10 x 12 in.
Framed: 16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1950s "Morning Robe" Mid Century Figurative Ink Original Drawing
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Morning Robe"
March 1951
Ink on paper
14" x 16.5" unframed
Signed and dated 1951 in pencil lower right
Came from artist estate
*Custom framing available for additional...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$600 Sale Price
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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...
Category
1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Five Faces #736, " a Black Ink Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Five Faces #736" is an original black ink drawing with a stamped signature in the lower left by Sylvia Spicuzza. It depicts five female faces from a...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Balloon Heads
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Jay Alan Babcock is a St. Louis-based graphic designer and painter. His work exhibits his interest in the visual language of Americana, including old ...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Untitled (Figure Drawing)
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen".
Category
1960s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"UNTITLED ABSTRACT" FRAMED 40.75 X 33.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Schorre
1925-1996
Texas
Image Size: 30 x 22
Frame Size: 40.75 x 33.25
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
"Untitled Abstract"
Biography
Charles Schorre 1925-1996
Charles Schorre (192...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Long Time River Woman (Blackfoot Maiden)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who scholars increasingly recognize as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is known for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Metropolitan Fantasy - City at Night with Pulsing Lights
Located in Miami, FL
Yvonne Jacquette uses pastel on a heavy rag paper to depict an ariel city scene at night with pulsing lights. There is a heavy texture to the paper and the surface is rich and vibra...
Category
1990s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
Women's World Magazine Cover Illustration , Children Sledding
Located in Miami, FL
Children Sledding, Women's World Magazine Cover, December 1939
Signed lower center image
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and wash on paper
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Leaping Marlin (with fisherman on the boat Islander) by John Whorf
By John Whorf
Located in Hudson, NY
John Whorf captures one of the thrilling moments of fishing in this watercolor – when the fish is on the line, but still trying to escape. One of the fastest fish in the world, marlin fishing...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Reefer Madness, Marajuana - Pot - Cannabis - Cover Atlantic Monthly Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Gouache, Crayon, Pencil, Film on Paper, not framed
Cover Atlantic Monthly Magazine August 1994
Category
1990s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Handsome Couple in Sailboat - Collier's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Collier's Magazine Illustration
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Work is framed in a period wood frame
Watercolor on board
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
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...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
A Man and his Wine, Illustrative Wax Crayon Drawing by William Gropper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Gropper, American (1897 - 1977)
Title: A Man and His Wine
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Crayon Drawing on Paper, signed in pencil l.l.
Size: 11 x 9 in. (27.94 x 22.86 cm)
...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon
Study of a Woman, Abstract Graphite on Paper by Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904 - 1981)
Title: Study of a Woman
Year: 1955
Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 24 in. x 1...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Fish Bowl Looks Like the Living Room -School of Macabre Charles Addams
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to Gahan Wilson's magnificently morbid mind, where viewing his cartoons/illustrations gives the viewer the creeps. In this work, a husband designs...
Category
1990s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Lucky Cat Lady colorful seated woman w six live kittens and chinese lucky cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This large scale pastel on toned archival paper is suitable for framing under glass to protect the soft pastel medium . It is signed and dated on the bottom left corner. The subject ...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Rosalee Sondheimer I
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who scholars increasingly recognize as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is known for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Ink and gouache drawing of a nude woman from behind
Located in Brookville, NY
A nude viewed from behind, with black hair , inscribed on the lower right by the artist John Begg "Mature Nude" c.1953 Outlined in black ink and with som...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Whirl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Ellen Steinfeld is a sculptor, a painter and has worked in several different media. She graduated with a degree in painting and design from Carnegie Mellon University and earned a graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She has received numerous large-scale public and private commissions including an 18’ steel sculpture for the atrium of Roswell Park Cancer Institute and a commission to design 16 large stained glass windows for Christ Church in Detroit. Works in various media have been selected and incorporated into public spaces including schools, hotels, hospitals, museums, airports, stadiums and corporate collections. Her work was selected to represent New York State for the Absolut...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor
Chain Gang Music
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chain Gang Music
Watercolor on paper, dated '39, but created in the 1970's
Signed "Longstreet" lower left corner
Titled and annotated "George - '39" in pencil at top of sheet
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, friend and patron of the artist
Born Henri Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener), the artist tried alternate names and personae including Paul Haggard, Thomas Burton, and David Ormsbee before settling on the name Stephen Longstreet in 1939. Longstreet dates his art based on the period he means to represent, not the actual date of execution.
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...
Category
1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
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...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, 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...
Category
1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude in Black ink Reclining, Black ink on ivory paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Striptease
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Irving Norman. "Striptease" is a macabre cultural commentary drawing, pencil and color pencil on paper executed in a dark palette of blacks, grays, and reds by social su...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Pencil
rare birds, man with hands raised, colorful pastel humor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on paper, anthropomorphic variety of birds
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. Hi...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
head study black and white with green overtones black female subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
head study on black toned strathmore paper signed black female portrait with pearl necklace
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Luna's Tire Shop, Urban, cut paper collage, playful, industrial, tires, framed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
LUNA'S TIRE SHOP :
Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper, framed in flat gray painted wood & plexi.
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper
Lacy Grey, semi nude mixed media muted tones lace charcoal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal, pastel lace
Audrey Anastasi states:
"The paper doll series was created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal an...
Category
2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Fabric, Archival Paper
Foot with Strawberries
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unparalleled influence on artists and visual cultur...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Surprised Woman with Cactus 1920s Female Illustrator
By Susan Flint
Located in Miami, FL
The postman's delivery of a limp cactus creates a big emotional response the female recipient. Most likely an interior illustration for a newsstand magazine. Signed lower right Sus...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Reclining Nude in black ink on buff paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Woman in Blue Dress
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: Reginald Marsh – / 1947
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
"Grain Elevators, Buffalo"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Tobias Musicant (1921 – 2004)
A new discovery in the art world is something always searched for and rarely found. Surely th...
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Untitled, Wine Bottle and Bird outside of a Bird Cage in Moody Brown
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated to lower edge 'Paul Rand 11.52'. Collection of the artist - Mounted along upper eduge to matboard, Unframed.
Category
1950s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Profile of a Woman
Located in New York, NY
Pencil on paper
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Three Studies of a Sleeping Cat, drawing in crayon on brown paper by Paul Cadmus
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Paul Cadmus captures the quiet grace of a sleeping cat in these expressive sketches. Executed in white chalk on brown paper, this intimate study measures 10.25 x 13 inches.
Three St...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
The Other Farm
By Arthur Dove
Located in London, GB
This quaint and reflective work features delicate and inky lines depicting a farmhouse nestled within a cool-toned watercolour landscape. Muted red brick, almost silver bluish greys,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Abstraction IV Geometric)
By Arthur Dove
Located in London, GB
Dove uses ink to render angular and rounded shapes, he then fills in these shapes with gouache using loose brush marks which create a sensitive textural landscape. The transparency o...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Golfers
Located in Missouri, MO
Golfers, 1928
Fred Conway (American, 1900-1973)
Signed and Dated Lower Right
18.5 x 24.5 inches
30.5 x 37 inches with frame
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art ...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
"Light Black Blur #2" Charcoal Cross-Hatch Drawing Canvas 1978 Monumental Piece
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Scott
"Light Black Blur #2"
1978
Charcoal on unprimed canvas sprayed with custom fixative
177.25x83.25" unstretched
Signed on reverse
Installation: This piece is intended to be stretched and stapled to the wall without a frame.
Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history.
This canvas is a testament to the artist's meticulous craftsmanship and creative vision. The intricate charcoal cross-hatch arches create a captivating play of light and shadow, each mark bearing the artist's hand. To enhance and preserve this piece, the artist has applied multiple layers of their custom-made a fixative. This carefully curated process not only protects the delicate charcoal work but also adds depth and texture to the piece. The result is a mesmerizing work of art that begs viewers to explore its intricate details and reveals new dimensions with each look.
About the work:
Working on large unstretched canvases, Jack Scott draws charcoal arcs in a freehand style. Through placement and density the arcs create patterns of light and dark, vibrating with a luminescence unanticipated by the rawness of the materials. In previous works the arcs coalesced into amorphous forms—romantic sensations suggesting clouds, smoke or fog. With his recent works Scott introduces a concrete graphic form, large bisecting arcs that are giant magnifications of the minutely rendered arcs. Environmental romanticism yields to a bolder sensibility, as these shapes bear relationship to configurations favored by Minimalists and hard-edge abstractionists. However, Scott’s web of soft, undulating arcs subverts the large-scale coolness of the primary form. In this sense the artist’s works remind one of Rothko, whose monumental forms were also conceived through a diffused or soft-edge development.
The method of building up freehand forms is remarkable considering the massive scale favored by the artist. From this standpoint his drawing seems imbued with a medieval intensity, displaying a feeling for concentration and handcraft that is often absent from contemporary art.
—Hal Fischer
Category
1970s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal
Hanging by a Hair, Political Satire Illustration 1902
Located in Long Island City, NY
A political satire illustration “Hanging by a Hair” originally published in the The Philadelphia North American newspaper circa 1902, edited by Edwin A Van Valkenburg and pubilshed b...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Price Upon Request
European City
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
European City
By Dong Kingman (American, 1911-2000)
Signed Lower Right
Unframed: 15" x 22"
Framed: 24" x 31"
Born in Oakland, CA on March 31, 1911. When Kingman was five, his family moved to Hong Kong where he grew up and attended Lingnan Grammar School. The headmaster of the school, Szetu Wei, had studied painting in Paris and recognized his budding artistic talent. For several years he trained young Kingman in both oriental and occidental approaches to painting. Returning to San Francisco in 1929, Kingman became active in the local art scene and began painting scenes of the city. His first solo show at the San Francisco Art Center in 1936 brought immediate recognition. During the 1930s he spent five years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S. After the war Kingman settled in NYC and taught at Columbia University. His paintings were used as backdrops for the movie "Flower Drum Song...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Old Dehli
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Old Dehli
By Dong Kingman (American, 1911-2000)
Unframed: 15" x 22"
Framed: 23" x 30"
Born in Oakland, CA on March 31, 1911. When Kingman was five, his family moved to Hong Kong where he grew up and attended Lingnan Grammar School. The headmaster of the school, Szetu Wei, had studied painting in Paris and recognized his budding artistic talent. For several years he trained young Kingman in both oriental and occidental approaches to painting. Returning to San Francisco in 1929, Kingman became active in the local art scene and began painting scenes of the city. His first solo show at the San Francisco Art Center in 1936 brought immediate recognition. During the 1930s he spent five years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S. After the war Kingman settled in NYC and taught at Columbia University. His paintings were used as backdrops for the movie "Flower Drum Song...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Bangkok
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Bangkok
By Dong Kingman (American, 1911-2000)
Signed Lower Left
Unframed: 15" x 22"
Framed: 24" x 31"
Born in Oakland, CA on March 31, 1911. When Kingman was five, his family moved to Hong Kong where he grew up and attended Lingnan Grammar School. The headmaster of the school, Szetu Wei, had studied painting in Paris and recognized his budding artistic talent. For several years he trained young Kingman in both oriental and occidental approaches to painting. Returning to San Francisco in 1929, Kingman became active in the local art scene and began painting scenes of the city. His first solo show at the San Francisco Art Center in 1936 brought immediate recognition. During the 1930s he spent five years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S. After the war Kingman settled in NYC and taught at Columbia University. His paintings were used as backdrops for the movie "Flower Drum Song...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Asian City
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Asian City
By Dong Kingman (American, 1911-2000)
Unframed: 22" x 15"
Framed: 31" x 24"
Signed Lower Left
Born in Oakland, CA on March 31, 1911. When Kingman was five, his family moved to Hong Kong where he grew up and attended Lingnan Grammar School. The headmaster of the school, Szetu Wei, had studied painting in Paris and recognized his budding artistic talent. For several years he trained young Kingman in both oriental and occidental approaches to painting. Returning to San Francisco in 1929, Kingman became active in the local art scene and began painting scenes of the city. His first solo show at the San Francisco Art Center in 1936 brought immediate recognition. During the 1930s he spent five years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S. After the war Kingman settled in NYC and taught at Columbia University. His paintings were used as backdrops for the movie "Flower Drum Song...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
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