Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
Yellow Rose, Original Watercolor Painting, 2014
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is a watercolor floral still life painting.
Keywords: flowers, floral, still life, vase, bouquet
Artist Biography:
Born and raised in a small town in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tiger Lilies, Original Watercolor Painting, 2014
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is a watercolor floral still life painting, measuring 30 x 22 inches.
Keywords: watercolor, flowers, floral, bouquet, still life, vase, colorful, bright, pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Blue Vase, Original Watercolor Painting, 2015
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is a watercolor floral still life painting.
Keywords: Abstract, Bold, Pop & Graphic, Expressive & Gestural, symmetric, blue, yellow, orange
Artist Biography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Glamorous Palm Beach Portrait with Sun Hat - Mid Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The mid-century glamour portrait of an elegant, long-necked woman in silhouette with a straw sun hat. Signed and dated Grafstrom Palm Beach 1947 - Condition is good with some scatter...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
"Pigs"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Daniel Garber (1880 - 1958).
One of the two most important and, so far, the most valuable of the New Hope Sc...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Rain in Union Square
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: J. Joseph –
Category
20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"St. Ives in the Evening"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed and dated lower right.
Hayley Lever (1876-1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Union Street Bridge & Pylons
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Barges at Hamilton Ave
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Decoration with Urn
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed at lower left/lower right: B . 10 . 100 / 10 . 10 . A
Framed Dimensions: 14 x 16 1/4 inches
Provenance:
private collection, Boston
To produce his murals, Sargent painte...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figure Study For 'Science'
Located in New York, NY
This charcoal drawing is a preliminary study for the figure of Science, the subject that comprises the far right panel above the entrance to the library at the Museum of Fine Arts, B...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Studies for Medusa
Located in New York, NY
This is a study for the body of Medusa in Perseus on Pegasus Slaying Medusa, 1922-25, the mural panel installed on the ceiling side aisle of the Huntington Avenue stairway at the Mus...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Garland Studies I
Located in New York, NY
To produce his murals, Sargent painted monumental canvases in his studios in London and Boston, adhering them to the building walls (rather than creating them as frescoes). Along wit...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study for Apollo and the Muses
Located in New York, NY
This is a figure and head study for the extreme right figure depicted in Apollo and the Muses, one of the magnificent ovals decorating the dome of the rotunda of the Museum of Fine A...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figure Bending Over / Fixing His Sandal
Located in New York, NY
This drawing is also referred to as Young Boy Adjusting His Sandal, and is illustrated in the catalogue for Sargent's 1928 exhibition of drawings at Grand Central Art Galleries in Ne...
Category
1870s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Courses at Deauville, Original Modern Watercolor Painting by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Deauville is a French coastal town that has been a popular travel destination since the 1800s. The resort town is home to a grand casino, golf courses, and—as depicted here by Raoul Dufy—horse...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Route de Village, Original Impressionist Painting by Maurice Vlaminck
Located in Long Island City, NY
This scene by French artist Maurice Vlaminck features a regular subject of the artist's practice. Rendered in gouache, acrylic, and India ink on paper, Vlaminck shows a solitary snow...
Category
1950s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Le Quai de Louvre, Impressionist French City Scene
Located in New York, NY
Eugène Galien-Laloue’s gouache works, such as Quai de Louvre, are sublime examples of Belle Époque artistry, showcasing the elegance and vibrancy of Paris at the turn of the 20th cen...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Long Barn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Wolf Kahn's Long Barn, 2002, is a pastel on paper artwork measuring 7 x 10 inches, signed by the artist on the lower right. Kahn, renowned for his vibrant landscapes, captures the es...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Preparing the Picnic
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Preparing the picnic" c.1950, is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist John Cuthbert Hare, 1908-1978. It is signed at the lower right corner by the arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Market Street, San Francisco
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Market Street, San Francisco" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner by...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lesser Ury - Auf dem kanal, impressionist, pastel, german, waterscape, canal
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
Lesser Ury (1861-1931)
Auf dem Kanal
1912
pastel on board
49.2 x 34.9 cm
signed and dated 'L.Ury.1912.' (lower left)
Price:
$25,000 USD
Provenance:
Sale: Christie's London, 30 June 2000, lot 42
Collection of Simone and Jean Tiroche (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent
Sale: Christie's London, 19 June 2013, lot 199
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale)
Notes:
Dr Sibylle Gross has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Lesser Ury, a German-Jewish Impressionist...
Category
1910s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Farmhouse with Windmill
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010)
Title: Farmhouse with Windmill 243
Year: 1949
Medium: Ink on paper, signed
Size: 8.5 in. x 11 in. (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Rolling Country
By Louis Ritman
Located in Missouri, MO
Louis Ritman (1889-1963)
"Rolling Country" c. 1945
Original Watercolor on Paper
Signed Lower Left
Provenance: Milch Galleries, NY (original label verso)
...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Katia en Rose, au Jardin de Marras
Located in Missouri, MO
Hughes Claude Pissarro
"Katia en Rose, au Jardin de Marras" 1989
Pastel on Paper
approx 14 x 18.5 inches
approx. 23 x 26.75 inches framed
Signed Lower Left
Category
1980s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
Les Usines En Banlieue
Located in Missouri, MO
"Les Usines En Banlieue" 1926
Gouache
31 x 40cm/approx. 12.5 x 16.75 inches
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Catalogue Raisonne: Petredies, Plate AG166, Page 190-191
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Scottish Marine
By Andrew Black
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An exceptional early watercolor by Scottish artist Andrew Black.
"Scottish Marine", is an original watercolor, signed, c.1885, with an image dimesnion of 4 x 6 inches.
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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