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Art Subject: Baby
All Things Must Pass Gas, Colorful Figurative Drawing, Duck Wars Series
Located in Houston, TX
Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
All In a Dream - Daniel Johnston, Colorful Figurative Drawing, Duck Wars
Located in Houston, TX
Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
An elegant, cabinet-sized Post-Impressionist graphite drawing of a young woman, sh...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled
By KAWS
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20230914S04
KAWS [Untitled]
Ink on paper
ca.2012-2019
Artist signed in lower right
Unique
36.4 x 29.5 cm (14.3 x 11.6 in)
Provenance: From the artist's agent.
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Pomegranate, Veneto, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Academic study of hands and child's feet. 19th century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Academic study of a child's hands and feet.
Nineteenth century.
Drawing on slightly bluish gray paper. Anatomical studies are preparations for a painting or fresco with children or a...
Category
19th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
18th Century Monument, Pencil and Wash Artwork, German School
Located in London, GB
Pencil and wash
Image size: 10 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (27 x 40 cm)
Mounted
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
'Woman Knitting by Cabin', American Frontier Life Oil, Westward Expansion, Cat
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Watercolor and gouache on paper, American School painted circa 1830, Unsigned.
An idyllic view of Early American frontier life showing a peaceful scene of a young woman knitting and...
Category
1830s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Tennis Player - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Tennis Player is a pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Picasso and Politics
Located in New York, NY
Jane Kaplowitz explores politics within art in her depiction of Pablo Picasso's style.
Category
1990s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
NUDE (Self Portrait) - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
To the victory - Contemporary watercolor painting on paper, War diaries
Located in Warsaw, PL
DANYLO MOVCHAN
In 2000 he graduated from Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Fine Arts, Artwork restoration department. During 2000-2006 he studied in Lviv National Academy of Arts, at the department of sacral art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pencil Study #18
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #18
2016
Graphite on paper
8 x 9.5 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, conce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Drawings and W...
Materials
Graphite
Pencil Study #25
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #25
Graphite on paper
10 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Drawings and W...
Materials
Graphite
Pencil Study #24
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #2342016
Graphite on paper
10 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Drawings and W...
Materials
Graphite
Multicolor Snoopies Unique Hand Colored Dog Lovers screen print 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique hand colored work.
A one color screen print is used as a foundation, measuring 11x 14 inches.
This is from my ongoing snoopies series I began in 1999.
When I was a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Screen
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Movers
New Yorker published, Se...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
G. A. Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study for Les Trophées, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938)
Study for "Les Trophées"
carbon pencil on thin paper
15.5 x 19 cm
Signed lower left
In good condition
In in its original mount (a tear in th...
Category
1910s Symbolist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Study for The Circus - Stamp Signed Gouache, Pastel and Pencil Drawing 1957
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes
Title: Study for The Circus Equisse pour ‘Le Cirque’, 1957...
Category
1850s Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Pencil
Mechanical Life (XXIV)
Located in New York, NY
HANS HOFMANN
Mechanical Life (XXIV), c. 1930-31
Ink on paper
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
26.7 x 34.3 cm
Signed, lower right: H Hofmann
--
Hans Hofmann (b. 1800, Weissenburg, Bavaria, G...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sven Berlin drawing 'Dove', St. Ives Cornish artist, modern British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Dove for marble sculpture
Pen and ink
Inscribed with title, signed with monogram and dated 'SB 86' (lower right)
6.5 x 6...
Category
20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Dandelions Become Clouds (Unkraut stirbt nie)
Located in New York, NY
Zachari Logan “Dandelions Become Clouds (Unkraut stirbt nie)”
2022
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Blue pencil on paper
15 x 41.25 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Self Isolation
Located in New York, NY
A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Paper, Archival Paper, Ink, Canvas
Self Isolation II
Located in New York, NY
A uniquely hand painted print from the original painting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfa...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Pencil, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink
"Sinking Ship drawing", Graphite Drawing
By Scott Fraser
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Fraser's "Sinking Ship drawing" is an original, handmade graphite drawing that depicts gold fish snacks flowing from a model sail boat into a bag...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Mylar
Mid Century Ink Drawing on Paper of a Female nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century ink drawing on paper of a female nude, signed Devine bottom right, in plain wood frame under glass.
A beautiful light touch and economy of line are what makes this drawing so alluring. It follows a long tradition of 'encre de chine' and sanguine drawing where one simple brushstroke or line can speak volumes. The likes of Da Vinci, Picasso and Matisse were all able to create amazing images using very few marks to the paper making...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Torso No. 3 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 3 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
8 x 6.5 inches (20.3 x 16.5 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Mylar
Le Grand Act De La Seduction
Located in Dallas, TX
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Le Grand Act De La Seduction
Ballpoint Pens, Crayons And Colored Pencil On Cardboard
7.5 x 5.5
March 11, 1948, he experi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Cardboard, Crayon, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
Two Horses with Female Nude
By Rudy Autio
Located in Missouri, MO
Two Horses with Female Nude, 1981
By Rudy Autio (1926-2007)
Without Frame: 25" x 39"
With Frame: 33.25" x 47.25"
Signed and Dated Bottom Right
Rudy Autio is a ceramist who was born in Butte, Montana, in 1926, and has lived in his native state throughout most of his career. He headed the ceramics department at the University of Montana for twenty-eight years and is now retired as Professor Emeritus of the School of Fine Arts.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Montana, Autio was a founding resident artist at the Archie Bray Ceramics Foundation in Helena, Montana. Autio received a Tiffany Award...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Two Horses
Located in Missouri, MO
"Two Horses" by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Signed Lower Right
Without Frame: 7" x 10"
With Frame: 16.25" x 19.25"
Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri on April 15, 1889. Even as a boy, he was no stranger to the "art of the deal" or to the smoke-filled rooms in which such deals were often consummated. His grandfather had been Missouri's first United States Senator and served in Washington for thirty years. His father, Maecenas Benton, was United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri under Cleveland and served in the United States House of Representatives during the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations. Benton's brother, Nat, was prosecutor for Greene County, Missouri, during the 1930s.
As soon as he could walk, Benton traveled with his father on political tours. There he learned the arts of chewing and smoking, and while the men were involved in their heated discussions, Benton delighted in finding new cream colored wallpaper on the staircase wall, at the age of six or seven, and drew in charcoal his first mural, a long multi-car freight train.
As soon as he was eighteen, even though his father wanted him to study law, Benton left for Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute during the years 1907 and 1908. He continued his studies in Paris, where he learned delicious wickedness, aesthetic and otherwise.
Once back home, he became the leader of the Regionalist School, the most theatrical and gifted of the 1930s muralists and as Harry Truman described him,"the best damned painter in America."
Detractors said that Benton was "a fascist, a communist, a racist and a bigot"; the ingenious structure, powerful use of modeling and scale and the high-colored humanity of the murals and easel paintings are retort enough. He was a dark, active dynamo, only 5 ft., 3 1/2 in. tall. He was outspoken, open, charmingly profane; he had a great mane of hair and a face the texture of oak bark. He wore rumpled corduroy and flannel, and walked with the unsteady swagger of a sailor just ashore. He poured a salwart drink, chewed on small black cigars and spat in the fire.
Benton was once described as the "churlish dean of regionalist art...
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20th Century Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
A desert - Contemporary ink drawing, Young art, Minimalism, Social commentary
By Anna Wardega
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA WARDĘGA
Studies at Painting Departament at Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland. She's dealing with easel painting, wall painting as well as drawing. Finalist of Competition fo...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bathers
Located in London, GB
Bathers series drawing done in my studio in South Pelio in summertime.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
" Lifar était Massine " original drawing ." two characters " .certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" Deux personnages " . " Two characters " is an original indian ink on paper drawing by Jean Cocteau, graphite, stump and brown wash . "Anteil " was a jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The imprisonment - Drawing - 17th century.
Located in Roma, IT
The imprisonment is an original China Ink Drawing realized by an unkown artist in 17th century.
Very good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (60x50 cm).
No si...
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17th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Four Men on Unicycles (Army Plaza at 5th Ave., New York City)
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: 31 x 40 inches
DONG KINGMAN (1911-2000)
Long acknowledged as an American watercolor master, he has received an extraordinary number of awards and honors throughout h...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Girls
Located in London, GB
Nectarios Stamatopoulos
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Little Housewife Le petite ménagere - Drawing on Chine Paper
Located in London, GB
TSUGOUHARU FOUJITA 1886-1968
Edogawa Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich (French / Japanese)
Title: The Little Housewife Le petite ménagere, 1956
Technique: Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawin...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Various Studies for “Subway Symphony”
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Various Studies for “Subway Symphony”
c. 1975
Crayon and graphite on vellum
24 x 18.75 inches (61 x 47.6 cm)
Contact gallery for price
This work is offered by ClampArt in New Yor...
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Crayon, Graphite
Three Characters [Study for “See No Evil, Speak No Evil”]
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Three Characters [Study for “See No Evil, Speak No Evil”]
c. 1985
Graphite on Vellum
19 x 24 inches (48.3 x 61 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This wo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Vellum
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Old Man from Behind with Face Study
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Old Man from Behind with Face Study
Signed in black ink, l.r.
Ink wash on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
$1,220
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Untitled
Located in Saint Louis, MO
José Vivenes
Untitled, 2006
Oil pastel on paper
32 x 24 inches (81.3 x 61 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Untitled
Located in Saint Louis, MO
José Vivenes
Untitled, 2006-7
Oil pastel on paper
30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
On One Knee
Located in New York, NY
On One Knee
Ink on paper
18.5 x 12.5 inches (47 x 31.8 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
Located in Surfside, FL
Reclining Nude.Early modernist line drawing, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting, signed with initials, framed. (size includes frame). Work is reminisce...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (Two Women and the Statue of Liberty)
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated ’81 in pencil, l.l.; Also signed, inscribed, and dated ’82 in pencil, l.r.
Graphite on paper
22 x 18 inches (55.9 x 45.7 cm)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
'Mother and Child', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Farmhouse with Windmill
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010)
Title: Farmhouse with Windmill 243
Year: 1949
Medium: Ink on paper, signed
Size: 8.5 in. x 11 in. (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled - Drawing by Wifredo Lam - Ink and Pencil - 1941
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
This extraordinary and rare drawing by Wifredo Lam is one of the artworks that the artist took with him when he moved from Cuba to France. In Paris, Lam showed Picasso his drawings a...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Berlin Street Scene
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
Ink wash on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
1920s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Lillies
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.)
Lillies, is an original watercolor on paper, signed, painted in 1936, currently unframed with an image dimension of 10.5 x 15 inches, excellent original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mother and Child In the Garden
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"Mother and Child in the Gardenl" 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed Lower Right
Framed Size: approx 19 x 10 3/4 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Three Girls
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"Three Girlsl" c. 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed Lower Left
Framed Size: approx 19 x 13 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Necklace and the Pot
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"The Necklace and the Pot" c. 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed Lower Left
Framed Size: approx 15 x 15 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Going for a Stroll
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"Going for a Stroll" c. 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed
Framed Size: approx 17 x 13 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Torse de Femme
Located in Missouri, MO
Aristide Maillol
"Femme de Torse" 1930
Charcoal on Paper
Monogrammed Lower Right
with Photo Certificate of Authenticity
Paper Size: approx 12 x 8 7/8 inches
Framed Size: approx 15.25...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
La Plage
By André Lhote
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANDRE LHOTE
"LA PLAGE"
PASTEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1927
17.75 X 24 INCHES
André Lhote
1885-1962
Lhote was born in Bordeaux, France in 1885. H...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
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