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FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954)
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 - THE ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso. THE 1921 UC BERKELEY YEARBOOK CONTAINED SEVERAL LEMOS PASTEL REPRODUCTIONS.
Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture.
He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department,
From Wikipedia:
Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.....
In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
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1910s Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Summer Landscape" Charles Harry Eaton, Tonalist Barbizon Landscape
By Charles Harry Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Charles Harry Eaton
Summer Landscape
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Inspired by the Barbizon style of painting and devoted to the Detroit landscape...
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Frank Charles Peyraud River Landscape With Boatmen, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century charcoal drawing by Swiss artist Frank Charles Peyraud (1858-1948) depicts a river landscape with boatmen.
As a young ma...
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19th Century Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Charcoal, Paper
IPSWICH SHANTIES
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW (American 1857-1922)
IPSWICH SHANTIES ca. 1892
ink wash on paper, 13 7/8 x 11 inches (sheet). Signed lower left “Arthur W Dow”. Ex. co...
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1890s Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Evening Fishing', Sunset River Landscape, Chicago Society of Artists, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'.
Bearing old framing label: Ferguson Art Shop, Flint, Mi...
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1910s Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
"Saratoga, " John Francis Murphy, Hudson River School, Tonalism
Located in New York, NY
John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921)
Saratoga, 1876
Graphite on paper
Sight 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Titled and dated to lower right
Provenance:
Babcock Galleries, New York
Spanierman Gallery, New York
In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.”
John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design.
In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker and Bruce Crane above a bakery shop. Murphy’s early work was typical of the Hudson River school but he soon fell under the sway of the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting...
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1870s Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil, Paper
Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai
By Iku Nagai
Located in Soquel, CA
Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai
Lovely Tonalist watercolor landscape of Alviso, California by Iku K. Nagai (Japanese/American, b. 1932)....
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1980s Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Laid Paper, Watercolor
"Mountain Landscape"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork:
Framed watercolor of a mountain landscape.
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928)
Born in Utica, New...
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20th Century Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Cloud Study"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork:
Framed watercolor of Summer cloud study.
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928)
Born in Utica, New York, Ar...
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20th Century Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Summer Clouds"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork:
Framed watercolor of mountain landscape with summer clouds.
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928)
Born in...
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20th Century Tonalist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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Gustav Melcher was a German painter and a pioneer in film, film criticism and film theory and created this clever little picture of the skyline of Venice with various vessels.
Going by the various inscriptions an the backing paper, this drawing was made in 1918 when Gustav was twenty years old and passed on three years later to Gertrud Melcher on the 1. 2. 1921. I have no reasons to doubt this information. The small drawing is still in its unopened frame, so maybe there is more information to be discovered , however this will be the privilege of the next owner.
The picture also has retained its original antique frame – note that it has lost over the years various sections of the gesso decoration.
The very precisely executed drawing is most enjoyable to look at and doing so, remember you are looking through the eyes of a young man, who saw this foreign sea cape over a century ago.
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Top left; Lakeside Indian Encampment under the Moonlight by William Henry Chandler, Clars Auction Gallery 5/19/2018, Lot 4590, image courtesy of askart dot com
Top right; Campfire Along the Hudson River Under Moonlight by William Henry Chandler, Summer Market Sale 7/14/2016 by Eldred's Lot 449, image courtesy of askart dot com
Lower right; Lakeside Camp by William Henry Chandler, Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers Inc Lot 535, image courtesy of askart dot com
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Tonalist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Tonalist drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Arthur B. Davies, Arthur Wesley Dow, Charles Harry Eaton, and John Francis Murphy. 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 Tonalist drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 8 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 $638 and tops out at $9,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.
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