Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Exotic Bird, watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
312
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Exotic Bird
Size: 12 x 16 in...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rhinoceros, Wild animal, watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
311
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Rhinoceros
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Great Tit, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
296
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Great Tit
Size: 12 x 16 inch...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Charcoal Portrait of a Young Girl" (2023) By Bunyod Suvonov, Original Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"I Saw You in My Dreams" (2023) by Bunyod Suvonov is original handmade drawing made with charcoal and graphite on toned paper. This piece depicts a portrait of a woman with long blac...
Category
20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Eagle, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
225
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Eagle
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
South San Francisco
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "South San Francisco" 2003 Is a watercolor on paper by Filipino artist Ephraim Samson, b.1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Capercaillie, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
277
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Capercaillie
Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Warbler, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
289
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Warbler
Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chipmunk, Animal, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
258
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chipmunk
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Kingfisher, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
252
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Kingfisher
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Second World War Swillbin painting, British Valentine Tank
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick
British Valentine Tank
Gouache
6 x 9 cm
Signed to the reverse.
This striking miniature gouache depicts a British Valentine tank rolling through the no man's land ...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Summer - Chalk Drawing Design for Minton charger by Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Summer
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Capercaillie, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
276
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Capercaillie
Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seaman in petticoat breeches and slops, smoking a pipe, carrying a carpetbag.
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 18th century
Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...
Category
18th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pen
"Cathédrale Saint Pierre, Geneva" by Jacques Tornare - Watercolor 33x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame
Total size with frame 69x88 cm
Jacques Tornare is a contemporary artist born in Switzerland and watercolor specialist.
Category
1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Kimono of White Lace and Purple & Red Ribbons
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing by Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948). Many of the ribbons in this piece are slightly metallic in finish. This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a col...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen, Pencil, Color Pencil
$1,155 Sale Price
30% Off
East Fork Frio River, Winter
Located in Dallas, TX
Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Wren, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
219
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Wren
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wolf, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
240
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Wolf
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"The Small Collar", Trees Inhabited by Human, Paper Drawing with Pigment Colors
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This drawing by Frank Girard is created with ink and pigments Colors, on 300g/m2 neutral white paper. It is not framed.
Through drawings, the masterful French artist Frank Girard is...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
Volkswagen 1500. Figurative realistic acrylic on paper painting Polish art, Car
Located in Warsaw, PL
Acrylic on paper contemporary figurative painting by Michal Wojtysiak. Artwork depicts Volkswagen 1500 car in realistic style. The color is vibrant and saturated. Michal Wojtysiak p...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Capercaillie, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
266
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Capercaillie
Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Anxious Thoughts.
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anxious Thoughts
Ink drawing
This piece visualizes a state where inner anxieties take shape and begin to constrict the mind. The octopus represents a multi-limbed embodiment of subc...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
'The Little Bandit', California Raccoon, National Watercolor Society
By Jack Bevier
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jack B. Bevier' for Jack Bernard Bevier (American, 1923-1996) and painted circa 1985.
Born in Michigan, Bevier was primarily a watercolor painter who specialized in rural country landscapes, seascapes of the Monterey Peninsula, boat and harbor scenes.
Jack Bevier was educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan before serving 3 years in the Army Air Corp during World War II. After the war he attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he graduated with honors. After six years of painting and working in the commercial art business in Chicago, Bevier moved to California. He settled in the Salinas area on the Monterey Peninsula in 1956 and operated a gallery in Carmel, California for many years.
His works have been exhibited widely and with success including at the National Watercolor Society...
Category
1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Bottle Bag (Lady Selborne, Pretoria, South Africa)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tshidiso Andrew Motjuoadi (1935-1968) Bottle Bag (A Penny for a Bottle). 1963. Ink on handmade paper laid down on plywood board, panel measures 20.5 x 28.75 inches. Signed and dated ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Chipmunk, Animal, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
261
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chipmunk
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chipmunk, Animal, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
260
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chipmunk
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chipmunk, Animal, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
259
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chipmunk
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Mickey's Dining Car HAND SIGNED
By John Baeder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This etching, titled Mickey's Dining Car, is a mezzotint by John Baeder, hand-signed and numbered in pencil out of an edition of 200. Known for his dedicati...
Category
1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Hawk, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
224
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Hawk
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract city landscape Watercolor painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Abstract landscape of the city in watercolor - a landscape about a warm evening in beautiful St. Petersburg. Warm shades of ochre, contrasting shadows, the city in an abstract style ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rhino, Watercolor Handmade Painting, Animals, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
210
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Rhino
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$96 Sale Price
20% Off
Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
243
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Bird
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pastel Drawing of Cattle in English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
By Wendy Reeves
Located in Preston, GB
Original Pastel Drawing of Cattle in English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Wendy Reeves.
Art measures 22 x 14 inches
Frame measures 30 x 24 inches
Wendy Reeves gar...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Sparrow hawk , Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
227
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Sparrow hawk
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Eagle, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
221
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Eagle
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Red Hair Woman - Original gouache and watercolor painting - Signed - 1939
By Claire Vergez
Located in Paris, IDF
Claire VERGEZ
Red Hair Woman, 1939
Original gouache and watercolor painting
Signed bottom right
On heavy vellum 38 x 25.5 cm (c. 15 x 10 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'New Mexico Mission Church', by John B. Aragon, Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
John B. Aragon's Watercolor Painting on Paper of the exterior of a New Mexico Mission Church measures 10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches. The matting and framing bring the total dimensions to 17...
Category
20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Goldfinch, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
166
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Goldfinch,
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blue winter field Watercolor painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
A watercolor painting in blue tones depicting a sunny winter sunset sky and a snow-covered field. A landscape filled with light and air. It is always pleasant to look at it, noticing...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape Pattern Glen Lyon The Longest Loneliest & Loveliest Glen In Scotland
By Ronald Maddox
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Ronald Maddox.
English ( b.1930 - d.2018 ).
Landscape Pattern, Glen Lyon, Scotland, 1980.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 13.6 inches x 23.6 inches ( 34.5cm x 60cm ).
Frame size 20.3 inches x 30.3 inches ( 51.5cm x 77cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by the former long-standing President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Ronald Maddox, and dates from 1980.
The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic and contrasting contemporary frame to suit the subject coloration (which is shown in these photographs) and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass.
This vintage piece is in superb condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The watercolor is signed lower right.
Provenance: The painting was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Galleries at 17 Carlton Terrace, SW.1, London in 1980. The exhibition label from the previous backboard of the painting has been retained and affixed to the rear of the new backboard.
Ronald Maddox was an accomplished and successful British artist, designer and illustrator.
He was born in Purley, Surrey and studied at St. Albans School of Art from 1945 to 1948. He then served with the Air Ministry Design Service, during which time he attended Regent Street Polytechnic in London from 1949-51, before completing his studies at the London College of Printing. His tutors included Henry Trevick, Raymond Sheppard, and Christopher Saunders.
From 1953 to 1962 Maddox worked as an art director for advertising agencies in London. He then worked as a freelance artist illustrator and graphic designer. Between 1972 and 1989 Maddox worked extensively for the Post Office and the Royal Mail, and the Isle of Man postal authority. He designed stamps, stamp book covers, first day presentation packs, posters and charts. His stamps typically feature British architecture, rural life and the countryside. He also produced posters for British Rail and painted pictures that were used as carriage panel prints, and illustrated several books.
Maddox’s talents were well recognised and respected in the professional art and design communities. He was elected a member of the Society of Industrial Artists & Designers in 1956 and of the Royal Institute in 1959, in 1989 becoming its president. He was a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Illustrators.
Maddox received many awards for his work as an artist and designer, including the Winsor & Newton /RI 150th Anniversary Award in 1981 and the Members’ Award in 1991. He was a Hunting Group Finalist several times and won the Design Council Award in 1973 and the Rowland Hilder Award for the Most Outstanding Landscape in 1990.
Maddox excelled at architectural work, reproducing the textures and patterns of buildings, but he is perhaps best known for his topographical art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spring memories Watercolor painting with Tulips
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting with tulips for the interior of the living room, bedroom - emotional painting about spring memories. This painting is distinguished by an interesting composition,...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Old man in front of a mirror / - Diffusion -
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Berlin, DE
Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Old man in front of a mirror, around 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 33.5 cm x 40 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and agai...
Category
1990s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Eagle, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
213
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Eagle
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$84 Sale Price
30% Off
Chickadee, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
197
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chickadee
Size: 12 x 16 inch...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Falcon, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
214
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Falcon
Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Quiet Contemplation: Rural Serenity in Hagborg's Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
The artwork we present is a rare watercolor by the distinguished Swedish artist August Hagborg, painted in the later part of his career between 1910 and 1920. This watercolour is a departure from Hagborg's often-seen beach scenes with mussel pickers and instead offers a glimpse into a serene, pastoral moment. The scene is set against a timber house, with a man and a woman standing alongside, their gazes directed away from the viewer, which invites contemplation about the story behind their distant stares.
Watercolors by Hagborg are rare, making this piece particularly special. Its fine details suggest a mastery of the medium, likely honed over the years of his extensive career. A written letter from Göteborgs Konstmuseum, dated to the 1940s, suggests a later date for this piece.
August Hagborg, born on May 26, 1852, in Gothenburg and passed away on April 30, 1921, in Paris, was a renowned figure in the art world. His education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1871 to 1874 placed him among peers who would rise to prominence, such as Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. Moving to Paris in the fall of 1875, Hagborg initially painted within the costume genre before finding his niche in coastal landscapes that garnered him accolades and recognition.
Hagborg's success was punctuated by his 1879 painting...
Category
1910s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Seated Nude" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 17 Frame Size: 30 x 24 Medium: Pencil Drawing Date: 1932 "Seated" Nude
Biography
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995)
A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas.
“She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005.
Helen Ferne Slimp's instructors were a "Who's Who" of American artists including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young, and Jose Arpa.
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1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Carbon Pencil
Hats, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Hats
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator...
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1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ballpoint Pen
Antwerp, Cathedral of Our Lady, watercolour by Sir Albert Richardson PRA
Located in London, GB
Sir Albert Richardson PRA
Architectural Study of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
Watercolour
33 x 20 cm
Signed and dated 1963.
Sir Albert Edward Richardson (1880–1964) was a d...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Xmas Gifts, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Xmas Gifts
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illu...
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1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
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1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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1890s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$3,306 Sale Price
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Nude Female - Italian British art Edwardian nude portrait drawing female artist
Located in London, GB
This is a fine detailed and superbly executed Edwardian drawing by Estella Canziani which dated to circa 1911. Drawn by one of the leading artists of the day, it is a very striking a...
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1910s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Ease of Ascent: Night Heron
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beau...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
Chaffinch, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
146
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper,
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art,
Title: Chaffinch,
Size: 12 x 1...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Great Tit, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
180
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art
Title: Great Tit...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Robin, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
129
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper,
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art,
Title: Robin,
Size: 12 x 16 in...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Shadows of the past» watercolor on paper
Located in Zofingen, AG
I love walking along the sea coast, looking at big beautiful stones and talking to them. I record these dialogues on watercolor paper in the open air. Each stone has its own thousand...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
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