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Style: Naturalistic
Cows Graze in a Meadow, Pencil, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
This drawing by Nils Kreuger, a Swedish artist born on October 11, 1858, in Kalmar and who passed away on May 11, 1930, in Stockholm, showcases a quintess...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Azure Clouds, Blue Tones Cyanotype Print Landscape, Contemporary Skyscape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Azure Clouds" is an cyanotype of the semi-abstract patterns of clouds in the sky, showing shades of blue.
Details:
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Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Winter Landscape, 1908, Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Robert Thegerström, a Swedish painter, draftsman, and graphic artist, captures a serene winter scene from 1908. The artwork presents a frozen lake bathed in warm s...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Azure Clouds, Blue Tones Cyanotype Print Landscape, Contemporary Skyscape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Azure Clouds" is an cyanotype of the semi-abstract patterns of clouds in the sky, showing shades of blue.
Details:
+ Tit...
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2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
'Ebren Ha Dor, Tremenus'. Framed contemporary landscape, rural sky blue nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Ebren Ha Dor, Tremenus'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high a...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Lugar de Encuentro' Mountains landscape painting neutral earth natural pastel
Located in Penzance, GB
'Lugar de Encuentro (Montes de Malaga)'
Original Artwork. Unframed
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The evening light is creating layered lines and meeting places in the mountains, that only exist in...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Ink, Acrylic
Cows Graze in a Meadow, Pencil, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
This drawing by Nils Kreuger, a Swedish artist born on October 11, 1858, in Kalmar and who passed away on May 11, 1930, in Stockholm, showcases a quintess...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Rafael Mckenzie Soares, Wildlife artist, Horse or Equine portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really charming and beautifully executed study of a horse by this very talented artist. A most attractive picture of this noble creature in ready to hang condition
Rafael Mckenzi...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blanche et Noire
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Blanche et Noire, de l'album «Toulouse-Lautrec, douze lithographies»
52,2 x 35,9 cm
Category
1890s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Palm Leaf Over Blue Sky, Handmade Botanical Cyanotype on Paper, Tropical Vintage
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a beautiful Palm Tree Leaf.
Details:
+ Title: Palm Tree Leaf Over Blue Sky
+ Year: 2025
+ Edition Size: 100
+ Stamped a...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
Charles Culver Landscape Winter Road Watercolor Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this country scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Winter Road)” is a quiet country scene depicting a road leading into the distance either going to or coming from a local farm. The snow does not particularly seem fresh suggesting a melt and the coming of spring.
This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservator glass.
In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.”
Charles...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Northern Light: A Winter Scene from Ljusdal
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present this enchanting winter landscape by the Sundsvall-born artist Oscar Lycke. Executed in 1911, Motif from Ljusdal captures the serene beauty of a snow-cover...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Chalk, Ink
Summer Evening in Montreux, Lake Geneva, 1902
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite watercolor by the Swedish artist Olle Hjortzberg (1872–1959) captures a serene view of Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1902. Known for his masterful use of color and li...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Omvetya III'. Blue white shore ocean beach cottage abstract nature drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
'Omvetya III (Sea Carrots, Sennen)'
Original Artwork. Unframed
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The evening light is drawing low soft shadows in the dunes at the salted edge of the Atlantic. 'Omvety...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Photogram
Impressionist ink drawing
Located in New York, US
A natural landscape painting is beautiful because it connects us to the innate tranquility and majesty of the natural world. The harmonious colors, such as the greens of forests, the...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Birds of Europe by John and Elisabeth Goult, 1832
By John Gould and Elizabeth Gould
Located in Paris, FR
Rare Set of 6 beautiful Naturalistic hand-colored lithograph prints by John Gould from his work Birds of Europe, embelished with gum arabic in vibrant colors. Published 1832 - 1837 by Hullmandel, Walter and Walton. Presented in gold leaf wood frames. Very charming .
The price includes the set of 6 framed ones.
John Gould (18041881) is the most prolific publisher of ornithological subjects of all time. In 19th-century Europe, his name was as well known as Audubons was in North America. Unlike Audubon, whose lifes work focused on one region, Gould traveled widely and employed other artists to help create his lavish, hand-colored lithographic folios. John Goulds love of natural history was fostered in the gardens of King George III where his father was chief gardener at Windsor Castle. Although trained as a gardener, Goulds interests quickly evolved, and at the age of 20, he was appointed taxidermist to the Zoological Society of London. After three years, he progressed to the position of curator of birds and chief taxidermist. In 1830, newly married, Gould and his artist wife, Elizabeth Gould...
Category
1830s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
'Omvetya II'. Blue white shore ocean landscape abstract nature drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
'Omvetya II (Cargeen, Towards Treryn Dinas)'
Original Artwork. Unframed
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Softly dancing seaweed, patiently awaits the return of the salty sea to fill the tidal pools. ...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Photogram
'Omvetya I'. Blue white ocean landscape abstract nature drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
'Omvetya I (Prye, Rising Tide)'
Original Artwork. Unframed
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Softly dancing seaweed, patiently awaits the return of the salty sea to fill the tidal pools. Created outdo...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Photogram
Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite
"Falcon on Branch" Grey Tonal Painting of a Falcon Perched on a Branch
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Houston, TX
Grey tonal painting of a Falcon perched on a branch. The work is framed in a silver frame with a white matte. The artist signed the work in the bottom right corner.
Artist Biograph...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Aquatint
Cairo Citadel Palm, Cyanotype on Paper, Desert Botanical Tree in Blue Tones
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
This cyanotype shows a desert palm tree located in the majestic mediterranean city of Cairo, Egypt.
Details:
+ Title: C...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...
Oldham The Surrounding Hills Greater Manchester Cityscape Original Watercolor
By Robert Littleford
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Robert Littleford.
English ( b.1940 – d.2023 ).
Oldham From The Surrounding Hills, 1984.
Watercolor.
Signed & Dated Upper Left.
Image size 14 inches x 21.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 54cm )...
Category
Late 20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Beneath the Birch Drawing by Swedish Artist Christian Berg (1893–1976)
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are proud to present an exquisite drawing by the renowned artist Christian Berg (1893-1976), executed around the 1920s. This captivating artwork port...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Delicacy, Jo Haran, Original Painting, Affordable Art, Floral Artwork
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Delicacy by Jo Haran [2020]
original
Watercolour, gouache and gesso
Image size: H:36.5 cm x W:49 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Horse with Herds - China Ink Drawing by Filippo Palizzi - 1895
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 14x22 cm.
Horse with Herds is a really beautiful china ink original drawing on paper, signed and dated in black ink on lower margin by the Italian artist, Filippo Palizzi...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"SOMEWHERE ELSE #3", Watercolor on Sal Leaf Plate, Black Frame, White, Tan, Gold
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The artwork "SOMETHING ELSE #3" uses materi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS)
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS).
“Beat to the Finish” is a 1967 watercolor by Joseph Webster ...
Category
1960s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Angler on Riverscape
By William Bradley Lamond
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Lovely 19th century watercolor painting with an angler in a mountain stream landscape painting, this is signed William Bradley with a place and date on the lower left hand corner. Mists fall over the central mountain rising above the stream with rocks and boulders. A mountain ridge is on the left, and trees above boulders on the right.
William radley Lamond was a self taught artist flourishing from mid to late 19th century. This would be a later work by this artist. The attribution is based on the period, the style the landscape subject and signature.
The painting is presented in an attractive new wooden frame with fresh glass...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Whimsical Illustration Skiing Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Old Bobbin Mill on the Spey
Located in Hillsborough, NC
William Beattie-Brown is a 19th century Scottish artist, and a master landscape painter using tonal color in a naturalistic style. 'Old Bobbin Mill on ...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Woodland Stems On Dark, Jo Haran, Contemporary Floral Art, Original Artwork
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Woodland Stems on Dark by Jo Haran [2021]
original
Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso.
Image size: H:64 cm x W:47.3 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:67 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0.01cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
America's Cup - 1967. Wing Mark, Intrepid and Dame Pattie.
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. WING MARK. INTREPID - DAME PATTIE [AUS].
This Joseph Webster Golinkin watercolor of the 1967 America's Cup depicts the...
Category
1960s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Naturalistic Female Nude Figurative Study
Located in Houston, TX
Seated nude women study in a naturalistic style. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection.
Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
Category
1950s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Dancing Stems, Jo Haran, Floral Contemporary Art, Original Work On Paper
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Dancing Stems by Jo Haran [2020]
original
Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso.
Image size: H:53.2 cm x W:62 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56 cm x W:64.5 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
'Dancing Stems' by Jo Haran is an original paitnng of lively rose stems and dark inky leaves in a dynamic composition. I used touches of neon pink acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Whimsical Illustration Hiking Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Dancing Figurative Study of a Nude Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Figurative study of a dancing woman. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper is not fr...
Category
1960s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Norwegian Pine Grove - The inner glow of the trees -
Located in Berlin, DE
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01."
- Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition.
About the artwork
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework.
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art.
It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement.
Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees.
With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature.
About the artist
Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842.
After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener.
In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882.
1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blaze, Original Oil Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I took this as a photo in the beautiful, rugged, Texas hill country, then painted it.
Keywords: Landscape
Artist Biography:
Judith grew up 15 miles north of Mil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunrise Over Mt. Fuji, Japanese Watercolor Landscape
By Emiko Satsuta
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic depiction of Mount Fuji by Japanese artist Emiko Satsuta (early 20th Century). Muted colors create a serene atmosphere, with Mount Fuji in the ba...
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Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard, Paper
Reclining Nude Woman Covering Her Face
Located in Houston, TX
Reclining nude woman covering her face from the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Ple...
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1950s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Moon Tunnel, Original Oil Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This painting was generated purely by imagination and imagery that I am drawn to.
Keywords: Landscape & nature
Artist Biography:
Judith grew up 15 miles north o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Untitled (Dock Scene)" Watercolor on Paper, Local Scene, Buildings, Water
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass.
In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.”
Charles Culver...
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1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pumpkin Vine Watercolor Painting 19th C. American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting a pumpkin on a flowering vine
Hand dated and inscribed "Lyme ...
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19th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Scarlet Dreams'. Contemporary painting poppies red white blue floral nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Scarlet Dreams'.
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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Exploring the flux and balance in the nature of all things, 'Scarlet Dreams' captures an essence of the equ...
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2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil, Carbon Penc...
Japanese Brush Painting by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Brush Painting
Watercolor on handmade paper
28 1/2 x 22 in.
Framed: 32 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Colorado Mountain Landscape with Eagle
By Don Easterwood
Located in Houston, TX
The painting is of a Colorado landscape with evergreen trees and an eagle flying through the sky. The work is framed in a decorative wooden frame with a navy blue matte. The work is ...
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20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Lumber Wharf
By Gordon Grant
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) created the watercolor entitled “The Lumber Wharf” in circa 1947. It is signed in the lower left 1 inch above the paper edge. The watercolor paper size ...
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1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Plants, Bristol 1863 Watercolor Painting American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting several plants in close proximity
Hand dated and inscribed "Br...
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19th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jurassic Aloe Leaves, Botanical Cyanotype on Paper, Blue Plants, Nature Details
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a beautiful Aloe plant.
Details:
+ Title: Jurassic Aloe Leaves
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 100
+ Stamped and Certifica...
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2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...
"Lion on the move", 19th Century watercolour by German painter Wilhelm Kuhnert
Located in Madrid, ES
WILHELM KUHNERT
German, 1865 - 1926
LION ON THE MOVE
signed "Wilh. Kuhnert" (lower left)
Watercolour on cardboard
6-1/2 X 10-1/2 inches (16.5 X 26.5 cm.)
framed: 14-1/4 X 17-3/4 inches (35.8X 44.8 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Munich, Germany
Private Spanish Collection, Madrid
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – February 11...
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1920s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies.
mid to late nineteeenth century.
A fine group of Chines...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rice Paper
![[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_14192/1683202071473/101715_20_master.jpg?width=240 "[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies")
'Still Life of Tea Roses', Woman Artist, Gold Medal, PAFA, New York, ASL, NAD
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Laura Hills' for Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859-1952) and created circa 1915.
Laura Coombs Hills first studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, the New Y...
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1910s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Postcard
Where Wild Hibiscus Grows, Absecon Island, NJ, Watercolor of Jersey Shore 1894
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Peter Caledon Cameron
(American, born Scotland, 1852-c. 1920)
Absecon Island, New Jersey, 1894
Watercolor on paper, 17 1/2 x 27 inches (sight)
FRAMED: 26 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches
Signed and dated at lower left: "ABSECON.ISLAND./ N.J-U.S.A Cameron/1894" N.J-U.S.A Cameron/1894"
Born in Perth, Scotland, Peter Caledon Cameron won awards for drawing and penmanship at a Glasgow public school. He claimed that at the age of fourteen his watercolors were already "in demand," and that before turning twenty he had "crossed every ocean in the world, sketching and painting as he went." He attended the Government School of Design in London and was certified as an art master in 1883. Cameron immigrated to the United States that year, settled in Philadelphia, and commenced work on large history paintings such as Niagara in Winter (unlocated) and Vesuvius in Grand Eruption (unlocated) that he exhibited in various northern cities. He exhibited one painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902. Nothing is known of his activities later in life.
In a lengthy inscription that accompanies this watercolor, Cameron noted that Absecon was "a piece of the best sand-dune region characteristic of the whole coast of New Jersey State from Sandy Hook point in the North to Cape May Point in the extreme south." This was one among a number of studies the artist made for a large oil painting titled "Captain Kidd Burying His Treasure" (unlocated). The famous Scottish privateer Captain William Kidd...
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1890s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blue Upright Desert Cactus, Extra Large Cyanotype Print in Blue Tones, Botanic
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a beautiful "Blue Upright Desert Cactus".
Details:
+ Title: Blue Upright Desert Cactus
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 100...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Other Medium
Naturalistic Study of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Houston, TX
A naturalistic study of a reclining woman. The woman is highlighted with color pencil. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection.
Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
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1950s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite
'Mother and Child', Académie Julien, Paris Salon, Amsterdam, Maternity, Infant
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Mother and Child' by Carel Eugene Mulertt, circa 1900, Académie Julien, Paris Salon, Amsterdam, Maternity, Infant
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Signed lower left, 'Carel Mulertt' for Carel Eugene Mulertt...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Christopher Ryland, Contemporary Still life of Freesias
Located in Harkstead, GB
Christoper Ryland (born 1951)
Still life of freesia
Watercolour
16 x 23 inches
Christopher Ryland's flower paintings are in collections all over th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Winter Landscape, 1908, Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Robert Thegerström, a Swedish painter, draftsman, and graphic artist, captures a serene winter scene from 1908. The artwork presents a frozen lake bathed in warm s...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
James Exley, Roaring Tiger watercolour
Located in Harkstead, GB
James Exley (1878-1967)
Roaring Tiger,
Signed and dated 1903,
Watercolour
14 x 10 ¼ inches
A superbly executed image capturing all the latent power and ferocity of the tiger.
Jam...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of a woman in repose - Russian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on cream wove paper, 9 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (235 x 200 mm). Overall toning with multiple spots of white discoloration throughout, and a spray of foxing across the image area on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Naturalistic drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Naturalistic drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Emile Lejeune, Emily Stackhouse, Kind of Cyan, and Bruno Surdo. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Naturalistic drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $110 and tops out at $95,000, while the average work sells for $1,000.