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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Theatrical Costume - Pencil by Alfredo Edel - 1895
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Costume is an original pencil drawing realized by Alfredo Edel in 1895. Good condition, the artwork is with watercolor and biacca. Hand signed with pencil by the artis. Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...
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1890s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Christ - Original Pen and Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ is an original drawing on paper in pen and pencil mounted on blueish Passepartout, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Cen...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Pencil

Literature - Pencil Drawing on Paper by Unknown French Artist - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Literature is an original artwork realized by a French artist in the XX Century. Original drawing on paper. Very good conditions. Very interesting artwork representing several s...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Interior of a House - Original Mixed Media Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Interior of a House" is an original pencil, china ink and pastels drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of XIX Century. In very good condit...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Pastel, Ink

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study; Composite- Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century. Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Pastel

Blanche Grambs, Eagle
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson. Her birds are masterful. Here an eagle, a majestic bird-of-pr...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Figure - Original Watercolor on Paper by Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove in 1922. Hand-signed on the lower right. In good conditions, with aged margins. Sheet dimension:...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1950s "Lounge" Mid Century Figurative Ink Drawing NYC Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Lounge" c. 1950s Ink on paper 14" x 16.5" unframed Unsigned Came from artist estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fine Art The Art Students League Pratt Graphic Arts Center University of Paris 1953-54 University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55 Faculty: Art Department of the New School Museum of Modern Art School of Visual Arts Stacy Studio Workshop Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns George Wittenborn The New School Print Exhibitions, Chicago University of Oklahoma Honolulu Museum Monclair Museum Wisconsin State College Louisiana Art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Jerusalem
Located in Storrs, CT
1931. Pencil, ink and watercolor. 9 1/4 x 15 (framed 18 1/2 x 24 1/2). Signed and dated in pencil. Housed in a silk mat and an elegant carved gold leaf frame. Twelve of the artist'...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

The Dance - Drawing - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a pencil drawing realized in 1920 and attributed to Augusto Monari. Good condition, no signature. Mounted on a grey cardboard passpartout ( 23.5x18.5).
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Farmers - Painting by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Farmers is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by the artist Gabriele Galantara. Watercolor and tempera. Monogram on the lower right. Hand-written annotat...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Tempera

Sir Lancelot and Elaine Arthurian Stained Glass Window Design For TW Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios that had not been seen for decades. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller". Further designs will be listed in due course, please send us a message if you would like to see them. Florence Camm (1874-1960) Sir Lancelot...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Geode, Modern Watercolor and Ink on Paper by G Sinclair
Located in Long Island City, NY
G Sinclair - Geode, Year: 1969, Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed and dated in pencil, Size: 15.5 x 12 in. (39.37 x 30.48 cm)
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Study for a Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Study for a Portrait" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous French Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. ...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Confidential Look - Ink Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Confidential Look is an original drawing on paper, realized around the mid of the Century by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989,. Black china ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper

Nude of Woman 1946 - Original China Ink Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman 1946 is an original china ink drawing realized by Tibor Gertler in 1946. Good conditions, mounted on a brown cardboard passpartout (52.7x38). Image Dimensions: 43x26....
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

The General….Baron de Brielhe - Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The general ... Baron De Brielhe is an original drawing in pencil with gray point, unsigned, on paper, realized by E. O. Wauquier (1808-1869). Good conditions except for minor cosme...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

The Storm - Original Ink and Watercolor by Henri Espinouze - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The tempest is an original drawing artwork realized by Henri Espinouze (1915-1982). China ink and watercolor. Hand-signed on the lower center. With the stamp of the artist's atelie...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

A Fine 1940s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, 1940s Mid-Cenrury Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Studies for a Female Standing Nude - Pencil Drawing by D. Ginsbourg - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Studies for a Female Standing Nude is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918. Original red pencil and pencil on paper. Hand-...
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1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sleeping Man - Etching + Pencil Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seeping Man is an etching on paper realized by Francois Blaise (1825-). Signed on the plate, with the same drawing in pencil on the rear, with an inscription on the lower center. Th...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Etching

"Showgirl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The Rat - Original Pastel by Leo Guida - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
The Rat is an original drawing in pastels on paper realized by Leo Guida in 1973. Hand-signed in pencil and dated on the lower right. The state of preservation is good except for ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Still Life - Original Pastel on Paper by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original pastel drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by Herta Haussmann (1892-1972). Not signed. The state of preservation is very good. Stamp of the artist's ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Couple - Original China Ink Drawing and Pastel by Maria Lourdey - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is original drawing in china ink realized by Maria Lourdey (1860-1934). The state of preservation is very good and with a trace of time. Sheet dimension: 17.5 x 17 cm. Inclu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Ink

Winged Figure - Pencil Drawing by J. Bodley - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Winged Figure is a pencil drawing dated in the 1940s, realized by the British artist Josselin Bodley. The state of preservation is very good, except for...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Meeting - Original Pen and Watercolor- by Gustave Bourgogne - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
The Meeting is an original drawing in pen and watercolor realized in 1933 by Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968). Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower center. The artwork re...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pen

Still Life of Seashells
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of Seashells, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.75" W. Provenance...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Two Portraits - Pencil Drawings by Tony Minartz - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Two Portraits is included two original drawings in pencil on paper, realized byTony Minartz (1873-1944), with the stamp of the artist on the rear. Sheet...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Pencil drawing on canvas of a birch tree
Located in Oostende, BE
Pencil drawing on canvas of a birch tree
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas

Portrait of a Man - Original Pencil Drawing by G.J. Sortais - 1886
By Georges Julien Sortais
Located in Roma, IT
Man Portrait is a beautiful portrait drawn with a sanguine pencil by the French artist Georges Julien Sortais. The state of preservation is very good, except for some stains of funga...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Francisco Bores - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Bores in 1950. Charcoal drawings. Good conditions.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor with pencil painting Rabbi Klezmer music concert, flute player. Hand signed framed: 15 X 28.5, paper: 9.5 X 23 Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, Israeli President, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. He also did some important Hebrew medals. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work.In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute I mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller"; you can also search for other drawings by this artist. V A Hards...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Pen

Transport of Dead Christ - Pencil Drawing by A. Gros - Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Transport of Dead Christ is a drawing realized by the French painter Lucien Alphonse Gros (1855-1913) in the late 19th century. The state of preservation i...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Le Sentier
Located in London, GB
Paul Cézanne Le Sentier ca. 1890 Watercolour and pencil on paper 34.6 x 51.5 cms (13 5/8 x 20 1/4 ins) PC16325
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1890s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pencil

Design for Art Deco Marquetry Panels 1927 for Furniture George M Hammer London
Located in London, GB
One of a series of designs we have listed for Geo. M Hammer. To see them - and our other architectural and design-related drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search. Donald L Hadden (British, 20th century) Design for a Pair of Marquetrie Panels for Geo. M Hammer with two dancing figures 23x31.5cm Watercolour signed and dated 1927 Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Sketches - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is a modern artwork realized by in the Early 20th Century. Pencil drawings. Good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Machpela Cave Chevron 1967 Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Print Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Baruch Nachshon, was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, in the city of Haifa. Nachshon began to paint in early childhood, and developed his relationship to art and to artists throu...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Landscape - Drawing by Camille Adrien Paris - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Camille Adrien Paris. Pencil drawing. Includes frame. Camille Adrien Paris (1834-1901) Born in Paris, died in Barbizon. Student of Ary S...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Interior Bedroom Scene, Modern Graphite Drawing by John Koch
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Koch, American (1909 - 1978) - Interior Bedroom Scene, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed in pencil lower right, Size: 17 x 11 in. (43.18 x 27.94 cm), Frame ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Carrot, Modern Color Marker and Pencil Drawing by Van Amerige
Located in Long Island City, NY
Van Amerige - Carrot, Year: 1969, Medium: Color Marker and Pencil Drawing, Image Size: 13.75 x 10.75 inches, Size: 22.25 x 15 in. (56.52 x 38.1 cm)
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker, Color Pencil

“Floating Forms”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern gouache on paper by the well known Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed and dated in blue pen lower left, 1947. Condition: Good. Framed in thin black matte painted frame with acid free white mat. Not examined out of frame. Overall framed 14.25 by 17 inches. ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984) Rolph Scarlett was born 1889 in Guelph, Ontario. His long life as an artist began in his teens as a jewelry designer and fabricator. At the age of fourteen he began to design jewelry professionally, a craft which he continued off and on for the rest of his life. His desire to learn more about art took him to New York in 1908, when American artists were just beginning to experience strong influences from major modern European artists of the day such as Cezanne and Picasso. Throughout his long career he produced, oil paintings, many works on paper, unique sculptured jewelry, modernist style industrial and furniture designs. Currently there are over 800 of his designs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Design Collection. In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California where he became a very successful stage and set designer. In the mid-1930s he met the director of the Museum of Non-objective Art in New York ( Hilla Rebay). He became her close associate and advisor in organizing and running the museum. He was Chief lecturer at the museum (1939 -1946) teaching the new modernism and abstraction to the new generation of artists in the New York art community. Hilla Rebay would introduce him as “Rolph Scarlett, my great find”. So considerable was her enthusiasm for Scarlett, that she and Solomon Guggenheim bought over sixty of his paintings and monotypes for the museum. After Kandinsky and Bauer, there was more of Scarlett’s work in the collection than any other artists. He participated in many of the museum exhibitions and galleries and was regularly exhibiting his work in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Modern Age Gallery in N.Y., the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He studied for a time at the Art Student League with William Merrit...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Petite Fille
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed, lower center: Joseph / Ramanankamonjy / Madagascar / Petite fille / “aquarelle sur soie” Provenance: Private Collection, Paris Private Collection, Florida Som...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Silk, Watercolor

Figures - Original Watercolor Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figures" is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper by Anonymous Artist of XX Century. Very good conditions. Sheet dimension: 22.2 x 16.2 cm. This is an original ...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Christ Church, Charnock Richard, watercolour stained glass design by Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Still Life of a Waste Bin
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of a Waste Bin, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 25.75" H x 20" W. Provenan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

A Fine 1930s Modern Drawing- Figure Study Sketch Class, Artists & Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Depicting an Artist's Sketch Class and a Seated Young Male Mode by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An excep...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Watercolor Painting American Modern Painting Bridge Harbor Female Artist 1950
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo Untitled (Bridge Tower), c. 1960s–70s Acrylic on paper, floated in a mat Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W Contemporary walnut or black wood frame with white archiv...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Acrylic

'Still Life with Orchids and Persimmon', California School of Fine Arts
By Kevin Elston
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kevin Elston' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A substantial watercolor still-life of orchids and a persimmon, arranged with other objects relat...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Sidney Poitier & Tony Curtis Oscar Winning 1958 film The Defiant Ones Caricature
Located in New York, NY
"The Defiant Ones" Tony Curtis Sidney Poitier Oscar Winning 1958 film Caricature. Two escaped convicts chained together, one white and one black, must l...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's Signed with the Estate stamp lower center Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Bicycle - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bicycle is a marker realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Monogrammed. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian writ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker

Still Life
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Best known as an impassioned supporter and avid collector of modern art, Earl Horter was also an artist himself. Largely self-taught, Horter was a highly skilled draftsman and engrav...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

"Chorus Girl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a chorus or show girl by Ruth Adele Mysel. Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New England School of Art. She was both a artist and sculptor as well as ...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1950s "Star Ear" Mid Century Figurative Drawing University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Star Ear" c.1950s Ink on paper Black wood frame 9.75"x17.25 Signed lower right in pencil Came from artist estate This striking piece of art is an original drawing by r...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

1950's Modernist Signed Painting - Interior Abstract Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Abstract by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), signed, stamped verso original gouache painting on paper overall size: 16 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso) Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938 Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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