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Style: American Realist
Period: 20th Century
David Dewey Watercolor of Reader's Digest Headquarters
By David Dewey
Located in Larchmont, NY
David Dewey (B. 1946)
Reader's Digest Headquarters, 1996
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 24 x 18 1/2 in.
Framed: 36 x 29 3/4 x 1 in.
Living on the Maine coast, David Dewey is a watercolo...
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1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980)
Proposal Sketch for Worland Wyoming Post Office WPA Mural Project
Image: 7 x 15 inches
Board 14 x 22 inches
Watercolor on paper, attached to black/gray cardboard/thick paper
c. 1937
Signed lower right
Written in Louise's hand on mounting paper in white chalk/pencil: "Sketch for Mural...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Watercolor
"Danzantes de Colores" from the "Colcha" series
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danzantes de Colores from the "Colcha" series, 1989, is a watercolor and ink on hand made paper by noted American artist Amado Maurilio Pena...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Woman in Purple" from the "Colcha" series
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Woman in Purple" from the "Colcha" series, 1989, is a watercolor and ink on hand made paper by noted American artist Amado Maurilio Pena...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Brave
Located in Raleigh, NC
Pencil portrait of a brave signed by Joseph A. Imhof.
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Standing Female Nude
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Colored chalks on tan Strathmore paper, c. 1975
Signed in chalk upper right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Housed in an 8 play acid free rag matting
S...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Delaware & Hudson Canal, Ellenville NY watercolor by Edward Lamson Henry
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Hudson, NY
Original watercolor by Edward Lamson Henry looking back at barge travel through small New York state towns.
Delaware & Hudson Canal, Ellenville N...
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Early 1900s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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
Construction
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFinearts is pleased to offer this WPA Era drawing by Carl Pickhardt of construction workers.
It is matted and drawn on slightly pinkish paper.
A wonderful addition to a WPA or lab...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Eileen Lake
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eileen Lake
Crayon on paper, early1930's
Initialed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled and annotated verso "Eileen Lake, early 1930s girlfriend"
Note: Eileen Hall Lake was an American poet and Adolf Dehn's girlfriend in the early 1930s.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent
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. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood.
After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet).
Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason.
Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag.
The Years in Europe: 1922-1929
In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work.
Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.”
A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
At the Beach
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this fine pencil drawing of young people enjoing the beach by Carl Pickhardt done in the 1930s.
This picture illustrates the fine craftsmanship that P...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Couriers of History Bronx Post Office Mural Study
Horse in the Sun (with two ad...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
“Work Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a sailboat with a trailing dory heading out to sea. Attributed to the hand of Alexander Yaron. Signed lower right and dated 1980. Condition is excellent. Under glass. The artwork is matted and housed in a rounded front edge solid oak wood frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 34 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida gentleman.
Alexander A. Yaron was born in Estonia in 1910, lived in China and the Philippines before moving to the United States in the 1950’s. He lived in New York as well as in Anaheim, California where he has a working studio. An autodidact and a versatile commercial artist, Alexander Yaron applied his talent in portraiture, photography, interior design, advertising, layout and illustration. His best known projects were illustrated art...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nude in Repose
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Woman in Floral
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Color Study of a Child
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite, Pastel
Seated Nude in Profile
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Charcoal
Seated Nude
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite, Charcoal
Self Portrait
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Infant in Mother's Arms
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Value Study of Woman's Head in Profile
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Child in Profile
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Charcoal
Study of Model's Head
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Nude and Interior No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Nude and Interior No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Value Study of Woman's Head
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite, Charcoal
Portrait of a Woman in Ruffles
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Charcoal
Three Quarter Portrait Study No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Three Quarter Portrait Study No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Woman's Head
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Veteran
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Charcoal
Head of Woman
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
Wilton Riding Club Horse Event
Located in Greenwich, CT
An award winning artist for her watercolors, Davis was a beloved Connecticut artist. A rare subject done in a contemporary and fresh way. She was a member of this club and enjoyed t...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Schooners along the Hudson, West Point Academy in the distance.
Located in Middletown, NY
A serene Hudson River scene by a student of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Anna May Walling was born in 1881, a native of Goshen, New York. She was a graduate of the Blair Academy, and Prat...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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
Materials
Charcoal
Ski North Carolina
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this beautiful watercolor by renowned North Carolina artist William Mangum of skiers on a ski run, likely in Mangum's ho...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
"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
Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Answering the Door 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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1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
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
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957
Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Ber...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Bailing Hay
42 x 40 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower right
Unframed
Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs.
BIO
JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003)
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil, Paper
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Telephone Pole Worker
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Oil on pap...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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
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Paper, Oil
Nonconformist Removed by the State. Satyr / Pan Mythology
Located in Miami, FL
This cartoon by Charles Addams is generations ahead of its time.
To get the punch line, you need to know the meaning of a Satyr or Pan.
Satyr: Part man and part beast. - A male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated permanent erection. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs; Satyrs were characterized by their vulgar, indecent ribaldry, and were rowdy lovers of wine, music, dancing, and women. They inhabited remote locales, such as woodlands, and they often attempted to seduce or rape nymphs and mortal women alike.
It's prudish 1950s America, where TV programs show husband and wife sleeping in separate beds. The discussion and representation of sex was repressed. To make a bold statement about censorship and the uncompromising moral climate of the time, Addams uses a reference from the mythical world to make a statement about the real world. In doing so, he anticipates the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s.
The satyr/pan symbolizes nonconformistism. He has his own earthy customs, attitudes, and ideas. Because of that is being handcuffed and formally taken away by the state whose goal is to repress natural erotic fun and frolic that is ubiquitous in todays society.
A proper and perfectly pressed Park Ranger cleans out a lustful undesirable from pristine woodlands. With startled expressions, a vulnerable family of correct women witness the event as they are about to have a picnic. The Satyr grasps his Pipes of Pan just over his crotch. The background is populated by phallic symbols. This is one a the rare instances where Addams address the issue of sex. The Ranger is a dead ringer as a self portrait of Addams.
Original illustration for a cartoon, showing a uniformed ranger leading away a manacled satyr, in front of a startled picnic party. Ink and grisaille wash on Whatman cold press illustration board, signed "Chas Addams...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Ink
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Cowboy
33 3/4 x 36 inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
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
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Paper, Oil
Surveyors WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Men Working
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Surveyors WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Men Working
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Surveyors
30 ½ x 40 ¼ inches (sight)
Gouache on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower rig...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Painter
41 ½ x 36 3/4 inches (sight)
Gouache on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower rig...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Alfred Mira (1900-1981)
Greenwich Village NYC
14 x 17 inches
Oil on board,...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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 ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Man with a Tool
39 ¾ x 38 ¼ inches
Gouache...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid- 20th Century WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week – b/w
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
I...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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