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Style: American Realist
Dandelion with Bud, contemporary realist silver floral graphite drawing, 2019
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Two Soldiers with Machine Gun
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Finkel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Heritage Some slight fading. Mounted to illustration board, Could be Unframed - Not sure if it is framed but the frame is old with wear. Reco...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Franconia, New Hampshire
Located in New York, NY
David Johnson was a stalwart of the New York art world in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the fifty years between 1849 and 1899, Johnson exhibited over fifty paintings at the National Academy of Design, where he was an academician. In 1867, Johnson visited a spot above West Point on the Hudson River to paint a view that had long been a favorite of the landscape artists comprising the so-called “Hudson River School.” John Kensett had painted from the same vantage point ten years earlier, describing the area in a letter of 1854 as being “in the midst of the beautiful highlands of the Hudson, which I think for their peculiar kind of beauty there is nothing to surpass” (Kensett to his uncle, John R. Kensett, March 30, 1854, as quoted in Natalie Spassky and Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845 [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985], p. 33). The Kensett painting, now called Hudson River Scene...
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19th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Fresh Air, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"An original watercolor that gives homage to a time when grandma or mom baked desserts and cooled them by fresh air," says Dwight. "The windowsill in this pai...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Al Hirschfeld "Art Week" NYC illustration New York Times poster design 1940
Located in New York, NY
Poster design for National Art Week, November, 1940. In collaboration the Al Hirschfeld Foundation Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishi...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

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

Battlesea, the T-More Mare, Horse Painting by Helene Alison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helene Alison, American (XXth) Title: Battlesea, The T-More Mare Year: 1977 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 20 x 20 inches
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

Approaching Storm, New Branches
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Approaching Storm, New Branches" is a watercolor on watercolor board, executed in dark browns, greens and blues and depicting a tree trunk with bare ...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Board

Dina Brodsky, Crested Caracara, realist gouache animal portrait miniature, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Rooster, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Dina Brodsky, Little Rooster, realist gouache miniature animal portrait, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Tree #55, contemporary realist ballpoint pen and gouache nature still life
Located in New York, NY
In her ballpoint pen and gouache still-life, "Tree #55," Dina Brodsky uses a sketch-like approach to capture the texture of the tree bark, and the delicacy of its branches. Brodsky c...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Handmade Paper, Ballpoint Pen

Soho, Mercer Street - Photorealist Watercolor on Paper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown Title: University Floral Design Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches Frame Size: 28 x 35 inches Street scene watercolor by an...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Fence Support
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Fence Support" is a watercolor executed in greens, blues yellows and browns and depicts a pair of barren trees against a barbed wire fence...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Distant Shade, Knights Ferry, CA
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Distant Shade, Knights Ferry, CA" is a watercolor, executed in earthy yellows, browns, blues and greens and depicting a California landscape of rolli...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Capitol II (Modern Realist Cityscape in Black & White Watercolor)
Located in Hudson, NY
watercolor on paper 9 x 9 inches 17 x 21 inches, black stained artist made frame, white mat This photo-realist cityscape of the New York State Capitol in Albany, NY was painted wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

San Gio, Como
Located in New York, NY
Eleanor Park Custis painted scenes as varied as the artist's travels: from her hometown of Washington, D.C., to the coastal towns of New England; from the prosperous fishing villages of Brittany, to Venice and the mountain villages and lakes of northern Italy. While Custis's subjects are diverse, her style is consistent and distinctive throughout this body of work. Her use of flat areas of color delineated by dark contours is reminiscent of the aesthetics of woodblock printing. Like many artists of the day, she was profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and her adaptation of the aesthetic by 1924 led to her most productive artistic period. Eleanor Custis hailed from a socially prominent Washington, D.C., family. She was distantly related to Martha Custis Washington, America's first First Lady. Custis began three years of formal art training in the autumn of 1915 at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and was guided and inspired by Impressionist artist Edmund C. Tarbell, one of the Ten American Painters, who became the Corcoran School's principal in 1918. Custis exhibited widely in many of the Washington art societies and clubs for much of her career. She was also a frequent exhibitor at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City; her last one-woman show there was in April 1945. Custis's mature style emerged in scenes of the streets, wharves, and drydocks of seacoast villages from Maine to Massachusetts, which she visited during the summers of 1924 and 1925. She was working in Gloucester, Massachusetts in August 1924, and painted several gouaches of the town's wharves and winding streets, including In Gloucester Harbor and At the Drydock, Gloucester. During her stay, Custis may have met Jane Peterson or at least must have seen her work, the best of which was executed in Gloucester during the preceding ten years. The similarity between their styles is unmistakable, but, while it may be tempting to suggest that Custis was influenced by Peterson during her summer in Gloucester, the connection between their work is probably more a case of shared aesthetics and common European influences. Custis expanded her subject repertoire with three trips to Europe between 1926 and 1929, and was inspired by the Old World charm of Holland, northern France, Switzerland, and Italy, leading to such works as New Kirk, Delft, Holland, Market Day in Quimper, At the Foot of the Matterhorn, and The Town Square, Varenna. A Mediterranean cruise in 1934 introduced her to the Near East, and the bustling, colorful streets and bazaars of Cairo, captured in works like A Street in Cairo, Egypt and A Moroccan Jug...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

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

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Acrylic Polymer, Gouache, Pencil, Watercolor

Pink Rose Floral Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of a pink rose with a stem on laid paper by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Presented in a double mat in a modern silver frame. Signed "Barbara Gibson" and dated "1989" in ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil

Neighbors No. 2 / River painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative watercolor in mainly green from Mary Robertson whose paintings Wayne Thiebaud calls "Joyous and meditative colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Steepe...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" 1909 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 9.5 x 14 inches, framed is 18.5 x 22.35 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

King Street, Troy (Modern Realist Cityscape in Black & White Watercolor)
Located in Hudson, NY
watercolor on paper 9 x 11 inches 17 x 21 x 1 inches, brown wood artist made frame, white mat This photo-realist cityscape of Albany, NY was painted with black and white watercolo...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Study for "The New Masses"
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

Afternoon at Hortons Point
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 Arti...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Harbor Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Village Harbor" c.1910 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 8 x 15 inches, framed is 17 x 23.75 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid Century Amaryllis Blossom Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed watercolor of an amaryllis blossom by Joe Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in pen under one of the petals. Presented in a wood frame wit...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Two Penguins, contemporary realist animal watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. Each carefully defined feather shimmers with a prism of color. Her attention to detail is enliven...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Mickey Mantle, Yankees, Original Pastel Drawing by Jack Lane
By Jack Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pastel drawing of Mickey Mantle by Jack Lane from 1986. A classic sports illustration of the legendary Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees at bat. Fr...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Dead of Winter
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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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Branches
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Branches" is a watercolor on paper executed in browns, greens, yellows and blue and depicting a tree trunk with bare branches set against a landscape...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Fallen Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Kristin Musgnug Fallen Trees, 2015 oil on paper, 22 x 30 inches unframed 25 x 33 framed (framed in white washed maple, with OP3 glazing)
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Rag Paper

Beast of Burden
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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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Coastal Path
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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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

Mansard Roof
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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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Seated Couple, Pencil and Watercolor on Paper by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987) Title: Seated Couple Year: circa 1930 Medium: Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, signed Size: 10 in. x 9 in. (25.4 cm x 22.86 cm) Fram...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Watercolor

Pot Creek, NM, Late Summer
Located in Dallas, TX
Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Squabbling Penguins, contemporary realist animal watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. Each carefully defined feather shimmers with a prism of color. Her attention to detail is enliven...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Portrait of a Young Woman, Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Young Woman in Floral Dress Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 25 in. x 19 in. (63.5 cm x 48.26 cm)
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Casein

Typewriter (Illustration for Playgirl Magazine)
By Gary Van Der Steur
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gary van der Steur, American Title: Typewriter (Original Illustration for Playgirl Magazine) Year: 1975 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 24 in. x 19 in. (60.9...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Stillness
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
By limiting the painting to one color, a bit of distraction is removed, simplifying the scene and bringing a special serenity to the painting. Too much detail...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Storm Sky Over the Farm
By Amos Sangster
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor by American artist Amos Sangster featuring a dramatic allegorical composition and spectacular hand carved frame.
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1890s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Reaching Out
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
By limiting the painting to one color, a bit of distraction is removed, simplifying the scene and bringing a special serenity to the painting. Too much detail...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Red-Haired Woman in a Cafe, Watercolor Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Red-Haired Woman in Cafe Year: circa 1975 Medium: Watercolor Size: 23 in. x 18.5 in. (58.42 cm x 46.99 cm) Frame Size: 31 x 2...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Flight into Egypt
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered in beautiful pastels colors account of biblical story. Doyle New York
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Pencil, Watercolor

Nude with Folded Arms, Watercolor by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987) Title: Nude with Folded Arms Year: circa 1965 Medium: Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, signed Size: 21 x 15 in. (53.34 x 38.1 cm) Frame S...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Rama Rama, Horse Painting by Helene Alison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helene Alison Title: Rama Rama Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.c. Size: 20 x 20 inches
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

I am Human Watercolor on Paper
Located in Delray Beach, FL
I am Human Watercolor, ink on paper 49"x42" framed Keith Carrington Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid a...
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1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Drawing Compositions 1977
Located in Buffalo, NY
Known primarily for his work depicting horses, Joseph Piccillo also finds intrigue in the human form. Utilizing a grid format his charcoal and graphite portraits are organized as "ti...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Graphite, Paper

Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind"
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind" Beautiful and highly detailed illustration of a pink rose on a complex matrix background by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Titled "Georgia on My Mind" lower left. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"H x 18.25"W on a 25"H x 20"W Mat. The artist takes many days creating the hand drawn matrix background of circles and line. Ben Black was born in Boston, he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art 1947. He served in World War 2. He was an art director at one of Boston's leading advertising firms, later opened his own studio where his works were included in The New Yorker Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, establishing himself as a leading American Illustrator. He had many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and his work is collected throughout the world. Originally known for his clowns, he created a limited edition series of plates for Royal Daulton as well as clown figurines...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, India Ink, Watercolor

Matchbox: The Tobacco Safety Match
By David Wharton
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor on paper executed in bright and saturated red, yellow and blue depicting a box of matches by American artist David Wharton. Signed lower le...
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Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Flamingo #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- From the artist statement, "My artwork centers on mid-century American architecture and design, once revered for its groundbreaking i...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

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

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Crayon

Williams Residence
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- From the artist statement, "My artwork centers on mid-century American architecture and design, once revered for its groundbreaking i...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

STUDENT
Located in Portland, ME
Hirsch, Joseph (American, 1910-1980). STUDENT. Charcoal drawing on paper, not dated, but before 1980. Signed lower left, "J Hirsch." 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (framed to 25 x 19 inches)...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

"Children in a Creek" Playful Sunny Landscape Water Bridge Forest Rocks Happy
Located in Austin, TX
This idyllic scene shows children playing in a creek next to a cobblestone bridge on a sunny day. The surrounding foliage is lush and green. By Charles Shaw 17.5" x 23" Watercolor on...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) The Wonders of Life on Earth Earth South...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Gouache

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