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Style: American Realist
Fort Stephenson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Schooner St. Croix
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created the watercolor entitled “Schooner St. Croix” in 1952. This piece is signed in pen at the lower right and titled on the verso. The paper size is 16.88 x 22.25 inches. Stamped on verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez." Good to very good condition. “Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Graphite

Funeral Range, Watercolor by Ralph Hulett
By Ralph Hulett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ralph Hulett, American (1915 - 1974) Title: Funeral Range Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on Cardboard, signed Size: 12.75 x 39.25 in. (32.39 x 99.7 cm) Frame Size:...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The World We Live In Birds of Paradise Life Magazine Illustration ...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

"The Poor Little Bridesmaid" - Female Illustrator - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"The poor little bridesmaid ... in her pink cotton gown ... though doubtless, there never was such a pretty girl." A kitchen scene is depicted with a young bridesmaid admiring her f...
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1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper, India Ink, Pen

Cyclamen - Botanical Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of cyclamen, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style blending into line drawing by California artist Deborah E...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Iris - Botanical Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism Alfred Mira (1900-1981) Greenwich Village NYC 14 x 17 inches Oil on board,...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Board

Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The Wedding Colliers published, June 17, 1933 17 1/4 X 11 1/2 inches (sight) Framed 23 1/4 X 17 1/2 inches Gouache on board Signed lower right 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 Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

The New Dreamliner: Biggest Baby News in Years!
Located in Miami, FL
Published Thayer Stroller advertisement, 1951 Watercolor and gouache on board Signed lower left
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Army Wedding New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 11 1/2 X 8 inches ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views Graphite on paper, c. 1890 Unsigned Graphite study of standing female nude verso Provenance: Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati Spanierman Gallery, New York (label) Drawings from the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. A sister drawing from the same sketchbook was sold at Cowman’s Auction, Cincinnati, October 6, 2018. Accompanied by a letter from the Spanierman Gallery, dated 1997, stating that the drawing is from a sketchbook that was held in the Rookwood Factory Collection. Sister drawing provenance: Provenance: Terry DeLapp...
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1890s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Industrial Landscape Contemporary American Watercolor Magic Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Landscape Contemporary American Watercolor Magic Realism 20th Century Henry Koerner (1915-1991) J&L Oxygen Plant 18 x 24 1/2 inches Watercolo...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

150
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

139
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Nude Girls Dance Playboy cartoon "They Say Every Little Gesture Has Meaning
Located in Miami, FL
"They Say Every Little Gesture Has a Meaning", Playboy cartoon illustration, August 1968 Pen and watercolor on board 12.5 x 9.5 in. (image) Signed...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pen

The Captain's Lady. style of Andrew Wyeth
Located in Miami, FL
This meticulously rendered work depicts a three-quarter view of a young woman lost in deep introspection. Inscribed on verso: " The Captain's Lady" Leslie of ____________ St. ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cathedral New Yorker cover proposa...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Lily Quartet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Many flowers bloom from one bush and form clusters that are set up for dynamic compositions. Artist Jinny Tomozy presents four blossoming Calla Lilies in a ha...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Female Torso, Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Female Torso Charcoal on paper, c. 1920 Stamped and initialed in pencil "Asa Cheffetz/A.D.C" Estate signature by wife, A.D.C. Exhibited: Museum of F...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Large Thistle 1, contemporary realist botanical still life drawing
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass reimagines color and tone, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemerality, Glass lingers over t...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker
Located in New York, NY
Bridge Painter WPA American Modernism Mid 20th-Century Realism Industrial Worker. Sight size: 18 x 23 1/4 inches. Estate stamped verso. This drawing is the study for a large oil we ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Dancer in White
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Cardboard

Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
Located in New York, NY
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Chemists 40 ½ x 31 ¾ inches Oil on paper, c. 1930s Signed lower right 49 x 40 ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Sunburst
Located in Pine Plains, NY
Formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Cockrill is well know and respected for his use of the watercolor medium. Watercolor lends itself to melting, fluid brush stroke...
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Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

161
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social John Ruggles (1907-1991) Sight: 17 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches. Framed: 22 x 18 inches...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Board

#159
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish under desolate circumstances. The seemingly bleak, the empty...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pelargonium #4, Floral, Richard de Bas paper, realism, botanical
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor on handmade Richard de Bas "fleurs" paper Agnes Murray has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public collections. Ms. Murray is a p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper

WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980) Proposal Sketch for Worland Wyoming Post Office WPA Mural Project Image: 7 x 15 inches Board 14 x 22 inches Watercolor on paper, attached to black/gray cardboard/thick paper c. 1937 Signed lower right Written in Louise's hand on mounting paper in white chalk/pencil: "Sketch for Mural...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard

Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) The World We Live In Coral Reef ...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Lets Find the Way #1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lets Find the Way #1 Watercolor on Arches wove paper, 2021 Signed with the artist's initials lower right Signed, titled and dated in pencil verso This watercolor is related to the ar...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'Drawing with Water' - interior watercolor - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Drawing with Water" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, green, red and orange. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

'Cafe au Lait' - still life painting - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Cafe au Lait" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of grey, brown and yellow. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Good Health Week 10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches Oil on pape...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Study for "The New Masses"
By Hugo Gellert
Located in Boston, MA
Hugo Gellert (Hungarian-American, 1892-1985), Study for "The New Masses". Mary Ryan Gallery 4. Signed in ink lower left: "Hugo / Gellert"; inscribed in crayo...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Wax Crayon

Seductive Platinum Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Pin Up in Turquoise Hat
Located in Miami, FL
Study of a sultry and seductive reclining platinum blond Pin Up with a wide-brimmed sun hat. Most likely done for Playboy. This work is very finely rendered and looks better the ...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pencil

Nude Young Woman Modernist ink drawing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935. Ink on paper, measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Nude with Fan
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

Queen Anne's Lace, botanical colored pencil drawing 21 x 19 in. framed
Located in New York, NY
With mind-boggling precision, Morrison captures flowers and plant life in transition—rendering details so fine they surpass what the human eye could ever see. Set against pure white,...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Bison in Snow, Animal Picture, American School, John Aldrich Ruthven, signed
Located in Greven, DE
John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

[Man with cigar]
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed lower right: "M.L.". Estate stamp verso, lower left: Lucille Deming Lewis Collection. Inscribed verso, lower left: "LDL-803". In fine condition.
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (Coit Tower: SF)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Rhythm
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

160
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

'Bleak House 4-5-20' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-5-20" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan, pink and green. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of Georg...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

'Bleak House 4-26-2021' - interior watercolor - work on paper - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-26-2021" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, pink and yellow. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of Ge...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Manhattan Arch
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Baus is an alumnus and instructor of the Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York. His unique artistic vision, which mines the world of the Old Masters and antiqui...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen, Paper

White House with Tower
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Bowers
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
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Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Antique Store Display
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his subjects are quasi-urban and quintessentially American spaces with an inherently surreal quality, including architecture, restaurant vignettes, and more recently, suburban supermarket displays. Employing but reinterpreting the traditions of Spanish and Dutch still-life painting, these contemporary works represent an ongoing exploration of the ways in which our surroundings shape our modern lives. 'Antique Store Display...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

146
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Bay Windows, Oak Street
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Evening Fog, Moss Landing, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Evening Fog, Moss Landing, California" 1970, is a watercolor on paper by noted French/American artist Albert Bechely Crundall, 1906-1997. It is signed at the low...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Sitting Nude exudes sexuality
Located in Miami, FL
The key element to this work is that it is much larger that most of the other works on paper by Lachaise and somewhat more delineated and refined . The figure exudes sexuality has a...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

#Shoe, framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Pencil

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