Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Sandy Litchfield brings her magical abstracted landscapes to a new medium in her recent colored pencil drawings. Loose, delicate lines scramble over one another, bringing a diffuse, ...

This artwork titled "Blind Beggar" 1959 is a watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board by noted California artist Frank Moss Hamilton, 1930-1999. It is signed and dated at t...

Dramatic desert landscape by Betty Jenkins (American, 20th Century). Red rock formations stretch across the center of the composition, executed with skil...

Watercolour on paper circa 1910 by Henri Duhem depicting a man fishing in a boat on the river accompanied by his dog. Signed lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a s...

Only A River's (Gonna Make Things Right), Original Impressionist Landscape Painting 9" x 12" (HxW) Pastel on Paper Hand-signed by the artist. A combination of an impressionist and e...

John Terrick Williams (known as Terrick Williams) British 1860 - 1937 Another rather wonderful Pastel drawing by Terrick Williams. It is San Giovanni...

19th century Impressionist view, in watercolour, in the style of Turner, of Beaulieu, South of France, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...

Sunday Drive, Original Impressionist Landscape Painting 8" x 10" (HxW) Pastel on Paper Hand-signed by the artist. Journey down a desolate road amongst a beautiful green landscape of...

Rye field. 2000. Cardboard, oil, 69x91 cm Summer landscape with Rye field and river by Edgars Vinters

Delicate and detailed etching by Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964). At the edge of an old Adobe building, a staircase leads to the second floor. The stucco on the walls of the building is cracked, revealing the stonework below. Next to the building is a garden with Corkscrew Willow trees. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California. Signed in plate, lower left. Paper size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W Mat size: 10"H x 12"W Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964) graduated from Polytechnic High School, L.A. and later studied at U.C.L.A. Art School and at the Cannon Art School. Artists Paul Lauritz and Anna A. Hills of Laguna Beach were her first art teachers. She continued her study of art at the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Europe. Some of her earliest work was in designing. Many pages of her fine pen work drawings appeared in Los Angeles newspapers, illustrating the fashions of the day, not only in clothes but in furniture and other things. Then for a time she did her work in New York City and later with the Ladies Home Journal in Philadelphia. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California. From the Mexican border to Death Valley she roamed, meeting and painting portraits of such characters as Death Valley Scotty, Shoshone Johnny, the ancient Indian who supposedly saw the first white man come to Death Valley, Emanuel A. Speegle, "The Last of the 49'ers" (over 90 years of age) and others. Orpha was active in keeping alive the memory of one historical event in particular, the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga ending the Mexican War...

Idyllic scene of a church in the countryside by an unknown artist (20th Century). A modest church is surrounded by trees, casting delicate shadows on the building. Some of the trees ...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil, double sided The sketch is original, v...

Elegant mid century figure study in pastel on brown paper depicting a seated nude woman with a hat and rose, by by American artist Louis Nadalini (Italian, 1927-1995). Signed Nadalini upper right. Presented in a simple wood frame, with new mat and new foam core backing. Image size: 29"H x 19.5"W. Signed and dated "Nadalini 85" lower right. Unframed. ARTFORUM article: Louis Nadalini In the last couple of seasons, San Francisco has lost several of its galleries. Some others have just recently begun operating but often with an entirely new group of artists. Some members of those apparently secure gallery stables that went out of business have found their way into other stables, but a larger group is without a place to show. I decided to look into such a person’s studio in my endeavor to find out what is really happening in the Bay Area art world. I went to see Louis Nadalini. His latest painting continues with the lattice of slats protruding forward with two variations of the painting painted on the sides of the slats which are viewable when standing to either side. This was always a very abstract method and he had quite often painted pure abstractions which centered quietly into hypnotic devices of exceptional color richness, but which gave a kaleidoscopic change as you moved past it. Untitled #42 (the most recent painting) has subject matter and was done in a much more painterly way. The side variations were flat in color, and there were some elements seen only in the side views, a skeleton’s arm and a black hand, for example. Nadalini says that he may abandon the lattice altogether if it gets in his way, but so far it seems to work better than it did with the abstractions. He is enthusiastic about the work he is doing, felt very free about making changes, and was, at the same time still happy about work from several years ago and unwilling to think that older work and new work should not be exhibited together. He hasn’t been thinking about galleries for a while. Nadalini goes to sea periodically which gives him time for contemplation as well as for renewing his resources. by —Knute Stiles...

Rosie Phipps Green Fields Original Landscape Painting Water Colour Paint, Gouache and Pastel on Paper Image Size: H 10cm x W 25cm Mounted Size: H 18.5cm x W 34.5cm Framed Size: H 23c...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

"Mrs. Snell/Figure (reverse)" are two pencil drawings on paper by Henry Snell (New Hope, Pennsylvania / Gloucester, Massachusetts 1858 - 1943). Each drawing measures 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches and is conservation framed and matted in black, wood frames, and put behind glass. These drawings come from an original sketchbook...

landscape, fishing, England, 1910,pastel,green,blue Edouard CHAPPEL (Anversa, 1859 – Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1946) MUSEI BELGIO Anversa Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts FRANCIA Paris Musée d...

"Portrait of a Lady" by Leon Launay (French 1890-1956) charcoal portrait drawing on paper, unframed stamped verso painting: 18.5 x 12 inches Condition report: The painting is in go...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

Bright watercolor of several flowers by Marge Shugart a California watercolor artist (American, 20th Century). Several flowers are depicted against a multicolor background, with a slightly abstracted quality. Signed in the lower right corner. Dated "12/93" on verso, with notes from the artist about color. Presented in a warm grey mat. Paper size: 15"H x 22"W Mat size: 20"H x 28"W Marge Shugart was a San Louis...

An original watercolour painting by Cotswold artist, Elizabeth Chalmers, featuring a typical Cotswold cottage built in that region’s honey coloured ...

Wonderfully vibrant mid-century autumnal landscape watercolor of rolling mountains and river by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). The artis...

Adolphe Appian (1818-1898) Les Bords de l'Ain (Shores of Ain), signed lower left charcoal and white chalk on paper 36 x 45 cm In quite good condition : foxings in the upper part (...

Michele Bajona's (Mexico based) "Lion" is an Watercolor painting that depicts a closeup of a male Lion with a white background. The painting is ...

Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - Seascape after Edouard Doigneau Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily. Lively watercolor of boats at the s...

Hachiya Persimmons & Fan, Modern Still Life with Red-Orange and Blue Lovely modern still-life of a fan and persimmons by Santa Cruz, California artist Anita Heckman (American, b.20th Century). This 1987 mixed media work on paper depicts three vivid Hachiya persimmons on a windowsill beside an elegant paper fan with a tassel. A decorative window drape...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

Old Town Auburn, Vintage California Large-scale Landscape Watercolor by Les Anderson Large-scale early 1970's landscape watercolor of quaint and historical Old Town Auburn, California by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). This 1971 watercolor depicts the iconic landmarks of Auburn, known for it's California gold rush history. Signed "Les Anderson" lower left. Titled "At Auburn, California", signed and dated "Les Anderson '71" on verso. Gallery tag on verso from Wharf Gallery in Monterey, California. Displayed in a vintage wood frame with linen liner. Image size: 18.25"H x 27.25"W. Framed size: 24.75"H x 33.75"W x 1.5"D. Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009) owned and operated Wharf Gallery, Monterey and the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor paintings and abstracts in oil...

Winter landscape. 1980. Oil on cardboard, 24x32.5 cm

Delicate watercolor of lilies in a pond by an unknown artist (20th Century). Two flowers are blooming above lily pads in a pond. The flowers are rendered in a soft pink, whereas the ...

Watercolor of boats at the docks by Clarence Albert Taubenhein (American, 1902-1989). In the foreground, a few boats are docked at a pier. The wat...

View works.Katya Gridneva OLGA RESTING VIEW WORKS SHARE Katya Gridneva was born in 1965 in the Ukraine. As a child she loved to draw and paint, however,...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand. Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920". Unframed. Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W. Right corner has a crease from being bent. Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin. In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910). In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor. In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland. His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...

Watercolor by Elisabeth Spalding (1868-1954) titled "Little Garden Flowers (Still Life)" in colors of green, orange, and pink. Presented in a custom gold frame with archival materials, outer dimensions measure 28 ¼ x 25 ⅜ x 1 ⅛ inches. Image size is 16 ⅛ x 13 ¼ inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Provenance: Private collection, Denver Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: In 1874, at the age of six, Elizabeth Spalding and her family settled in Denver where her father, the Reverend John F. Spalding, became an early-day bishop in the Colorado Diocese of the Episcopal Church. After graduating from Wolfe Hall, a female academy in Denver where she later taught, she went to New York in 1890 to study drawing at a private school and painting at Cooper Union with J. Alden Weir. Later in the decade, she returned to New York to study at the Art Students League with Childe Hassam, Kenyon Cox and John Twachtman, and did outdoor sketching with Leonard Ochtman. She also spent summers working with a number of eminent American artists: Arthur Wesley Dow at Ipswich, Massachusetts; John F. Carlson at Woodstock, New York (later the first landscape painting instructor at the newly-founded Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs,1920-22); Charles H. Woodbury at Ogunquit, Maine; and Henry McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts classes in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. She also studied in France and England and lived briefly in Washington, DC. Spending the major portion of her career In Denver, she became a founding member of several local important art organizations. The first was the Le Brun Art Club, the city’s initial all-female artist group formed in 1890 and named after the renowned eighteenth-century French artist, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. In 1893, Spalding and several other Le Brun Club members (Henrietta Bromwell, Emma Richardson Cherry...

St. Peter's Basilica from the Edge of the City - Roman Lansdcape Lush watercolor of a sunset behind St. Peter's Basilica by Gaetano Facciola (Italian, 1868-1949). From a road at the edge of town...

Edith Isaac-Rose "Pastel Landscape Bright Yellow" c.1960 Pastel on paper 14"x17" unframed Unsigned Came from a portfolio of her work Born in Chicago in 1929, and neé Ganansky-Teitelbaum, she graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1951 and moved to New York in 1959 where she lived ever since. Taking as her professional name her parents’ first names, Edith was a prolific artist working first as an abstract expressionist then turning in the 1980s to figurative, political work consisting of drawings, paintings, and embroideries which she called “Daily Rage”. She had been represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery and her work is in the Hirshhorn Museum as well as numerous private collections. Edith, along with her partner of 35 years, Bea Kreloff, (1925-2016), founded Art Workshop International in 1981 where they held art and writing workshops in Assisi, Italy, Monhegan Island, Maine, and Puerto Escondido, Mexico. They were both actively involved with the anti-war movement, gay liberation...

Vibrant figurative pastel coastal landscape of two children playing at the beach by Southern California artist Connie King (American, 20th-21st Century). T...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design signed by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage...

Mid century watercolor figure study, a lively depiction of a reclining nude woman by Bay Area Figurative Movement artist Hubert Buel (American, 1915-1984)....

A beautiful and rare double-sided watercolor by the prolific contemporary Italian painter Marco Sassone (Italian, b.1942). In this early work, created in 1969, Sassone depicts two different sunset harbor scenes on each side of the paper. On the front, the artist uses a warm color palette of orange and yellow hues to depict a glowing sunset illuminating boats in a harbor. A second view of the harbor with small boats in the foreground on verso. Sassone's signature painterly impressionistic brushstrokes can be seen in the way the artist depicts the water in both watercolors. Signed and dated on verso, "M. Sassone 69". Displayed in a dark wood frame with mat. Image size: 10.5"H x 17"W. “One of the foremost colorists working in America today, Sassone is an artist who developed his own personal, expressive vision early in his career, and who has steadfastly remained faithful to it while refining and developing it to the full power and maturity that is seen in his works today.”Janet Dominik, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1988. Marco Sassone was born in Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan village, in 1942. The family moved to Florence in 1954, and there he met painters Ottone Rosai and Ugo Maturo, who encouraged him to follow his interest in art. In 1959 he enrolled at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, where he studied architectural drafting for several years. In 1963 he studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, a professor of art at the Accademia in Florence, himself a pupil of the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka. Loffredo encouraged him to develop his own style and vision. For inspiration, Sassone studied the works of the 19th century Italian impressionists, the Macchiaioli – Giovanni Fattori, Vito D’Ancona and Silvestro Lega. He began exhibiting his first works at Lo Sprone Cultural Center in Florence. In November 1967, soon after the flood had devastated his city, Sassone moved to California. He exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Dalzell-Hatfield Galleries in Los Angeles and became a regular exhibitor at the annual Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach. Throughout the seventies, he exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad. In 1976 he collaborated with director John Wilson to produce an autobiographical documentary. The following year his work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. Marco Sassone received a gold medal in 1978 from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science. In 1979 the monograph Sassone by art historian Donelson Hoopes was published in concurrence with the artist’s exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum. With prescience, Hoopes had observed: “Sassone’s art has evolved from within, and such an organic, psychological and spiritual process may take his work along new and unforeseen paths.” In 1981 Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco. During the 80’s his exhibition schedule continued along with his numerous lectures. In 1982 Marco Sassone was knighted by the president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the “Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic”. In 1987 Sassone received a commendation from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for his “contribution to the community through his art.” In March 1988, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery mounted his solo exhibition titled Sassone with the publication of a catalogue authored by Janet Dominik. The show travelled to Paris and was installed at the historic Bernheim-Jeune Gallery for the month of April. By the late eighties, the artist had become increasingly concerned with social themes. He began extensive and personal research on the homeless and painted a series of large canvasses and charcoal drawings portraying the life he observed on the streets of San Francisco. A number of these works were exhibited at the Chicago International Art Exposition, the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, Body Politic at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Issue of Choice at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE). In March of 1994, his exhibition “Home on the Streets” opened at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco. Kenneth Baker, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about his work: “There is true technical brilliance here…In the drawings, his technique seems to discover fresh descriptive possibilities each time out.” The exhibition traveled to Los Angeles in 1996 and Florence, Italy in 1997, where it was installed in the Cloisters of the Santa Croce Church. Paola Bortolotti, art critic for La Nazione, wrote: “The persistent theme however does not carry a denunciation of a social problem, but it is rather the pretext to pour forth onto canvas the urgency of the brush strokes loaded with pigment and light.” In 1997 Marco Sassone received a commission to create a 200 square foot mural in downtown San Francisco. The finished work comprised five canvasses dedicated to the theme of Il Palio...

The thunder of Hooves . Horse racing . Garth Bayley [2022] original Pen and Ink Image size: H:24 cm x W:32 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:24 cm x W:32 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unf...

Serene and delicate still life by unknown artist "S. A." (likely French). A blue pitcher stands proud above an open book, with a branch of mistletoe draped across it. The objects are...

Watercolour on paper Paper size: 14 x 22.5 inches Framed size: 27 x 35.5 inches Signed lower left

A charming watercolour on paper circa 1905 by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The piece depicts a woman in a dark coat walking through a town beside a canal in the evening....

In the land titled the Gift of the Nile, where pharaohs rode in gilded chariots, 149 feet she elegantly stands, in the sandy plains of Giza For decades long gone, shes taken t...

Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while A desert fills our seeing's inward span: Nurse of swart nati...

Grim stones whose gray lips keep your secret well, Our hands that touch you touch an ancient terror, An ancient woe, colossal citadel Of some fierce faith, some heaven-affronting ...

The river. 1989, oil on cardboard, 46x60,5 cm Summer landscape by the river Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He pain...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil, double...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...

Signed lower right, 'Tom McCobb' for Thomas McCobb (American, 1930-2020); additionally inscribed verso with artist's name, title and medium. Tom McCobb began focusing on his waterc...

A beautiful watercolour on paper circa 1910 by Henri Duhem depicting an autumn landscape - with a path weaving through broken fences, yellow flowers and a bare tree, with a cottage i...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil, double sided. The sketch is original, ...

English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Standing by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905) on off white artists paper, unframed measurements: sheet 14.75 x 10.5 inches provenance:...

AUSTIN TAYLOR (1908-1992) Horse Guards, Whitehall, looking towards Parliament Square Signed l.l.: AUSTIN TAYLOR 62 Watercolour Unframed 25 by 34 cm., 9 ¾ by 13 ½ in. (mount size 44 by 53 cm., 17 ¼ by 20 ¾ in.) Austin Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire. The family emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912, and in 1917 his father, who had joined the Canadian Army...

A sweeping view of Tallinn, Estonia by an unknown artist (20th Century). This detailed charcoal landscape drawing shows a panorama of the beautiful coastal city on the Baltic Sea, complete with small figures walking on a pier, boats in the harbor, and the iconic Alexander Nevsky...

Signed lower left, 'Andy le Poidevin' (British, d. 2019) and dated 2001. A gentle English watercolor showing a view of a woodland scene in the English Cotswolds with distant morning...