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Style: American Realist
Period: 20th Century
"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
"Afternoon Sun, " Ann Wyeth McCoy, Interior and Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Ann Wyeth McCoy (1915 - 2005)
Afternoon Sun
Watercolor on paper
Sheet 24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Somerville Manning Gallery
Private ...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Cyclamen - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a cyclamen blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Debora...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Breaking Up of the Penelope
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope
watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Exhibitions:
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso)
Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso)
"Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring.
Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Pink Begonias - Floral Study in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of pink begonias by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). A large tuberous begonia is potted in a green pot. There are several large blossoms, and a few ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Frolic Club IV - New York City in the 1960's - Strip Club Gritty Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Philip Reisman paints the raw street life of New York City. Whether he's painting a barmaid or a street hobo, Reisman is a people painter. He studied at the Art Students League with ...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
RARE WPA ARTIST ISAAC FRIEDLANDER Judaica Drawing 1946
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Friedlander, Isaac American (1890-1968)
Isac Friedlander Latvian-born American Printmaker, 1890-1968
was born in Mitau, Latvia. He studie...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
"Dragon, " Original Pastel Drawing
By Quang Ho
Located in Denver, CO
"Dragon," by Quang Ho, is a secondary market work with one previous owner. It is signed and dated (1988) on the lower left. The painting comes with it's original frame (measures 50 x...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Watercolor, c. 1950
Signed by the artist in ink lower right: Wm. C. Grauer
Numbered in pencil verso: 152
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof, the artist's daughter
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 18 3/4 x 24 inches
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working
Located in New York, NY
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working.
21 x 15 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1938. Signed lower left.
BIO
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket. As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947. Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road" in 1940. He was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department (the European and Asian fronts) and Life magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain. Though he was fiercely committed to an art that expressed deeply human social values and issues and was quite hostile to abstraction, he was friendly with a number of abstract artists such as David Smith, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Paul Feeley, and Herman Cherry.
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
"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
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
Materials
Graphite
Daydreaming in Tiger Land, large watercolor and gouache
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Daydreaming in Tiger Land" is a watercolor and gouache on paper by artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is signed at the lower right c...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Three Figures Reading the Torah, Judaica Drawing by Tully Filmus
By Tully Filmus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tully Filmus (1903 - 1998) was a Russian/American artist who was known for his realist drawings of Jewish life. This pastel drawing on paper is signed low...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
[Man with cigar]
By Martin Lewis
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
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway.
10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Allan Rohan Crite Boston Harbor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed African American artist. He has had auction results over $200,000 for a painting. He is mostly associated w...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Tulips - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of pink tulips, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943)...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Under the Beach Umbrella, " American Realist, Watercolor, Seaside, Figural
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Aaron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1900. In 1916 Berkman attended the Connecticut League of Art Students, founded by Charles Noel Flagg. Beginning in 1919 he studied under Albertus E. Jones at the Hartford Art School. Berkman was influenced during this time by George Inness and John Singer Sargent and the Old Masters. He received a scholarship to the Museum Art School of Boston in 1921 and then traveled to Europe, remaining there from 1924 through 1925. He spent time in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Belgium. In 1929 Berkman moved to New York City, continuing a friendship and painting relationship with Milton Avery. He was appointed by the W.P.A. as Director of the WPA Art Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Berkman helped established the A.C.A. Gallery in New York City at 52 West 8th St., the first Artist Cooperative Gallery in New York City. He spent summers on Monhegan Island in...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Country Farmhouse with Dog, Watercolor on Paper, Landscape, Original Art
By Henry Soulen
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Country Farmhouse" is a 9 x 10.5 inches, watercolor on paper painting by American illustrator, Henry James Soulen. The landscape is signed "H J Soulen" in the lower left, it is newl...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
A suspiciously Low Tide, 2021
Located in Burlingame, CA
'A Suspiciously Low Tide, 2001', the original painting is 20 x 40 inches and the outer dimensions of the frame is 30 x 50 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excell...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the famous American marine artist, Gordon Grant. The artwork depicts two rugged lobstermen bringing their catch ashore...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Allan Rohan Crite Portrait of an African American Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed and important African American artist. He was born in Ne Jersey but moved at a young age to Massachusetts....
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Blue Waves, Watercolor by Jon Carsman
By Jon Carsman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Carsman, American (1944 - 1987)
Title: Blue Waves
Year: 1976
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 39.5 x 28 in. (100.33 x 71.12 cm)
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Farm House, colorful 20th century American scene watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Farm House, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, handwritten artist and title label verso
12.5 x 18.75 inches
18 x 24.5 inches, framed
A major painter of American scene...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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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Watercolor, Paper
Gladiolas - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink gladiolas, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American,...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora is loved sketching and drawing and did so for almost every day of his career. This allegorical and very finished pencil drawing depicts a Faun in the forest. Poss...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Graphite
"Sleigh Ride, Winter, " Fletcher Martin, Woodstock, Holiday Scene Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin (1904 - 1979)
Sleigh Ride, Woodstock, New York circa 1955
Watercolor on paper
14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
James Cox Galler...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Tiger Lily - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper, Watercolor
"Steps", 1980s Farmhouse Staircase Realist Watercolor Landscape with Barn
Located in Soquel, CA
"Steps", a highly realistic late 20th century watercolor landscape of a staircase in front of a wooden barn by Verne R. Horton (American, 1941-2020), 1986. Horton's background as a technical artist and draftsman is apparent in the fine details of this piece, such as the crisply rendered planks of wood that comprise the barn, the individual pieces of metal that form the railing, and each block of cement that make up the staircase. Horton's meticulous rendering of shadows enhances the sense of realism.
Signed and dated "Verne R. Horton '86" lower right. Signed and titled "Steps" on verso.
Displayed in a new off-white mat and rustic wood frame with plexiglass.
Image size: 13.75"H x 9.75"W.
Born February 1, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA, Verne R. Horton went to Los Angeles State College where he earned a degree in pre-architecture. As a young man Verne joined the US Navy, in 1960 and served as a draftsman until 1965. After leaving the Navy, he ended up as a technical artist for North American Aviation. His charge: illustrating publicity pictures for the Apollo space program. After working on the Apollo program for three and a half years, he was lured into the corporate world as a regional manager for New York Life Insurance.
Horton said he did virtually no artwork in the 17 years he worked for the insurance company. He ended up earning another degree in insurance and finance from American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., in 1978. He moved within the company 14 times in 17 years, living in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Arizona and San Francisco.
"Then I had an awareness that I had always wanted to be an artist," he said. "It seemed that if I were going to do it, I needed to just do it." He quit his job and became a fine artist.
Horton's paintings and sculptures are truly those of a professional. He specializes in 1800s to 1930s Western Americana, but his love is steam era railroad art. "You must have historical accuracy. The worst thing is to have somebody come by and say, 'That's not right," Horton said. "You can't get involved in the history of the railroad without getting to know a community."
It was his insistence on historical accuracy and love of railroads that brought him to Carson City...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
Cincinnati Ohio Ida Street 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 8 x 10 inches. Signed lower right. No damage or conservation.
Birth place: Cincinnati, OH
Addresses: Cincinnati, OH; NYC
Profession: Painter, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, cartoonist, teacher
Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.; ASL
Exhibited: AIC, 1936, 1938; PAFA Ann., 1936; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1939; GGE, 1939; Paris Salon, 1937; Stockholm, Sweden, 1937-38; Soc. Indep. Artists, 1938; WFNY, 1939; SAE; LOC, 1943-45; Albright-Knox Art Gal., 1951; SAGA, 1951-on; Royal Soc. Painters, Etchers & Engravers, London, England, 1954; Am.-Japan Contemporary Print Exhib., Tokyo, 1967. Awards: first prize in graphics, Cincinnati Mus. Assn., 1939.
Member: Cincinnati Assn. Prof. Art; Cincinnati AC; SAE; SAGA
Work: MMA; NYPL; CI; Penn. State Univ.; Soc. New York Hospitals.
Comments: Contributor: cartoons in Saturday Review, New Yorker. Publications: illustrator, Lamb's Sectional Histories of New York State," Frank E. Richards; illustrator of filmstrips on New York State history produced by Our York State, NY, 1950-; medical illustrator, "A Syllabus for Health Visitors," Navajo Tribal Council, Arizona...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Portrait of a Man drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935. Signed lower right. Unframed. No damage or conservation.
Birth place: Cinc...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
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 no ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin
Graphite on laid paper, 1984
Signed and dated in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Donald Morris Gallery, Inc. Birmingham, MI
...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Mid Century Modern Realist Watercolor Still-Life with Toothbrush & Tool
By Claude Buck
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century modern realist watercolor still-life by Claude Buck (American, 1890-1974). This highly detailed watercolor features a yellow toothbrush and set of pliers in a decorative...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
Santa Cruz Boardwalk Railroad Trestle Bridge, Vintage Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage mid-1970's landscape watercolor of small figures on the famous Santa Cruz Boardwalk Railroad Bridge by Laura Manss Matarazzo (American, b...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Iris - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
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
Materials
Paper, Ink, 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
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy.
Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell.
Background on the Drawing
Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive.
The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him.
Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East.
In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people.
He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches
Provenance: Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976
William H. Bailey (American, b. 1930)
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, William Bailey became a painter in styles ranging from abstraction to super-real. He earned his B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Yale University and studied with Josef Albers and also had an Alice Kimball English traveling scholarship.
From 1962 to 1969, he taught at Indiana University, and from 1969, was a professor of art at Yale University.
He lives and works in Branford, CT and is a member of the National Academy of Design, elected an Associate in 1983, an Academician in 1994.
Recent one-person exhibitions include Robert Schoelkopf Gallery; Andre Emmerich Gallery; Robert Miller Gallery; Galleria il Gabbiana, Rome; and Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. Selected group exhibitions include Realism Now, Vassar College Art Museum; 22 Realists, and 7 Realists, both at the Yale University Art Gallery; Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Contemporary American Realism Since 1960,at the Pennsylvania Academy.
His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Des Moines Art Center; Art Institute of Chicago; Arkansas Art Center; Hirshhorn Museum; Pennsylvania Academy; St. Louis Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; and Yale University Art Gallery.
Publications on Mr. Bailey include "William Bailey", by Mark Strand...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era Eden Parks Drive
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Lumen Martin Winter, "Lightning, " Watercolor on Paper, circa 1975
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lumen Martin Winter. Winter's figurative equestrian paintings sometimes play with the edge of abstraction, resulting in an expressionisti...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
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 10 x 15 inches. Signed lower left. Good condition with no d...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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, image measures 7 x 9.5 inches on a sheet measuring 11 x 15...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Pink Lace Kimono Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed rendering of a kimono by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The ribbons in this piece have a metallic quality to them. Signed "Patricia A Pearce" in the bottom r...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Acrylic, Paper, Pencil, Ink
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...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
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 9.5 x 12 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Light Pink Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy ...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Bus Stop, New York City
By Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis
Title: Bus Stop
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches
Frame Size: 35 x 27 inches
This watercolor by American artist Don Da...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Freesia - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of brightly colored freesia, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Ameri...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Hot Pink Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of hot pink roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Am...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Iris Escaping - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of irises, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943). Sig...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
The Illustrator's Workroom at The San Francisco Call, Late 19th C. Illustration
By Adolph Methfessel
Located in Soquel, CA
Skillful late 19th century realist drawing of illustration Newspaper artists at work at the Republican National Convention by Adolph Methfessel (American, 1876-1912)., c.1898. This p...
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Early 1900s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
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