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Style: American Realist
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
Female Torso, Nude
By Asa Cheffetz
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
Pencil Study #15
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #13
2016
Graphite on paper
13 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Reanimator
Located in Columbia, MO
Sean Lyman is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Missouri State University, with an extensive list of international exhibitions and work in public permanent collections including...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Graphite, Watercolor
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) "Going to the Festival," 14 1/2 x 10 1/2. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s....
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Movers
New Yorker published, September 20, 1935
18 X 11 1/2 inches...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache, Board
#159
By Russ Havard
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
Seashells 6, Beach-strewn seashells from Sanibel Island, Graphite on Paper
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
This drawing reveals the artist's mastery of the medium and her connection to her subjects. In this one, we peek beach-strewn seashells from her travels to Sanibel Island boast bubbl...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Graphite
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
Materials
Gouache, Board
The New Dreamliner: Biggest Baby News in Years!
By John Gannam
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
Materials
Gouache
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
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
Materials
Paper, Oil
Woman Graphite Pencil Drawing 1979 Signed Unique
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist : Raphael Soyer
Title : Woman
Year: 1979
Drawing in Pencil Signed in pencil
Drawing Size 11½" x 16 Inches
Matted Size : inches 16" x 20" inches
Born in 1899, Raphael So...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Larry No. 5
Located in Columbia, MO
Larry #5
2016
Charcoal on paper
22 x 10.5 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Man looking into Window
Located in Miami, FL
Original Magazine Illustration for a magazine like Harper's, Vanity Fair, Life, Look, and Judge
Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School. He also exhibited with the short-lived group known as "The Eight,"
Work is framed in an attractive gilt frame
Morris Weiss collection...
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1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Gouache, Pencil, Watercolor
Mid Century Bahamas Painting "Cockroach Cay"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming little piece of Bahamian history. This watercolor and gouache is titled cockroach cay which is a small island in the Bahamas. It is titled lower left and initial DW 54 for 1...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'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
Materials
Archival Paper, 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
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identic...
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1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT
Located in Portland, ME
Stella, Joseph. STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT. Blue, red and black crayon on tan wove paper, c. 1920. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 173 x 120 mm. Signe...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, 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
Materials
Gouache, Board
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
By Jo Cain
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
Wild Geranium 1, gold acrylic ink botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Dancer in Pink
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Cardboard
"CRIMSON RUMPED TOUCANET" BIRDS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dianna Aldana
(Born 1950)
Image Size: 10 x 7
Frame Size: 11.5 x 11
Medium: Watercolor
2022
"Crimson Rumped Toucanet"
Dianna is a self-taught artist, whose only training was in her hi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Portrait of a Woman, Framed Pastel Drawing by Peter Driben
By Peter Driben
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Driben, best known as an American pin-up artist, was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of the 1940s and 1950s. Driben's pinups delighted the American public from the beginning of World War II until the great baby boom of the 1950s. This portrait of a woman...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Chicory 2, gold ink botanical still life drawing
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Printing Press
40 ½ x 26 inches (sight)
Oil o...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Woman in Blue, Modern Framed Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Woman in Blue
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame: 27 x 22.5...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil
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
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, 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
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Thomaston Maine, Original Rooftop View Townscape in Watercolor
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Thomaston, Maine" is a 15 x 13.5 inches, watercolor townscape, signed in the lower left, and framed behind glass.
Ranulph Bye was born in 1916 in Princet...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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
Materials
Watercolor
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Hammering Nails
39 x 50 ½ inches
Gouache on paper c. 19...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
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Early 1900s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Man in Sombrero - I, American Realist Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Man in Sombrero - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mos...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
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
Allan Rohan Crite Pair of Female nude drawings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Very well listed and important african-American artist. He has Auction results as high as $20,000 for a drawing. He lived and worked most of his life in...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Pirate Ship - Skull-and-Crossbones Seven Seas Illustration in White and Blue
By Jamie Wyeth
Located in Miami, FL
The Skull-and-Crossbones flag flies atop this illustration of a Pirate Ship. Two palm trees flank it, and it floats in a cropped stylized sea. A single hatted figure is seen looking ...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Ink, Board
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
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
Materials
Ink, Wax Crayon
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
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Seated Young Woman)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Seated Young Woman)
Graphite on Veritable Papier d'Arches wove paper, 1970
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/sheet size: 15 x 11 1/4 inch...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
159
By Russ Havard
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
Materials
Paper, 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
Materials
Watercolor
Rowboat at the Edge of the Pond in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Rowboat at the Edge of the Pond in Watercolor on Paper
Serene watercolor by Barbara Jablin (American, b. 1922). A small rowboat is tied up at a small dock in a calm lake. There are ...
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Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
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By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
RUSS HAVARD
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 landscape, speaks to me. It is in this silence that I see the never-ending waves of struggle, wearing down, and rebirth emerging.
The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars and flowers of experience against a backdrop of an endless sea of days transform into a tiny glimpse of what Heaven might be. In what some see as mere desolation, I find a spark of the sublime: a release into a quiet revelry, and a peace that covers it all...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Nude Seated in Chair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Seated in Chair
Graphite on paper, 1976
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976 (see photo of label)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 14 ...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
“Gardiner’s Island”
By Terry Elkins
Located in Southampton, NY
Original collage composed of realistic graphite drawing on old nautical chart of a large rowboat. Signed lower right . Dedicated to Dr. Kerr, a Hamptons doctor. Condition is very ...
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1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Good Takings, American Western Art Gouache Painting on Board by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Good Takings, Year: 1991, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 x 2...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Factories, Sunlight, and Clouds
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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