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Art Subject: Drawing
Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper
Nude woman laying down by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978).
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collectio...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Infanta Flower Head with Mountain Body
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chikako Okada’s autobiographical works of art bridge traditional realism with magical realism and surrealism. The artist uniquely addresses questions of the human condition through h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
A Non AI-Driven Neo Deco Celebrity Nude – 09-03-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pe
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Even at the Mauritshuis This graphite pencil drawing ‘A Non AI-Driven Neo Deco Celebrity Nude – 09-03-23’ is something different or is it? Insp...
Category
2010s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Flute Player
Located in Zug, CH
Hermann Rastorfer was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, illustrator, ceramist, designer, poster artist, developer of advertising concepts and communication campaigns, inventor, and architect. He began as a typesetter in Salzburg. In the mid-1950s, he moved to Germany, where he soon founded his own studio for graphic design and advertising. His goal was always to give each product a distinctive, highly recognizable appearance. He designed his own design line for the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, artistic cover images for numerous paperbacks from renowned publishers, and packaging for well-known products such as Ferrero Küsschen, Mon Chéri, Martell cognac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Alfred Bendiner, Baccaloni in Rosenkavalier
Located in New York, NY
The Italian opera singer, Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969) often took comic roles. He worked with several opera companies in Philadelphia between 1951 and 1966. Bendiner was a world t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Oriel Street, Oxford watercolour by Ken Messer
By Ken Messer
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the ...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Gouache by Yvon Taillandier
Located in PARIS, FR
Very nice original work done with gouache by Yvon Taillandier.
The work of Yvon Taillandier is related to the free figuration, mixing image and language. His painting has an aesthet...
Category
1970s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Torrent VI - embossed, organic, oil ink, abstract, monoprint on archival paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by nature, this dramatic image of a swirling torrent is one in a series of monoprints created by Toronto print and ceramic artist, Susan Collett...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monoprint
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Dancing Horse Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you and that that you decide to follow.
Shipping: Please note this artwork will be shipped in a professional, wide art tube and will be sent rolled. The cost for shipping will therefore be considerably cheaper than that quoted
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock, The Dancing Horse of the Day, mixed media on archival paper , 153cm x 122cm, unframed, 2013
The Long Story of the Dancing Horse of the Day
In Rock's own words,
'With seven long strides I traversed a might ocean, the salt spray dried my throat and crusted my lips with crystals. With eight huge hops I vaulted a vast desert of sand dunes, hot sand blew in my eyes, blocked my nostrils and burnt my hooves. With nine large leaps I scaled a stone wall that stretched to the skies, the cold grey lumps seemed to penetrate my heart with their silent indifference. I had come to dance before the Queen who had heard rumours of my beauty. I knelt before her in the great long throne room.
'Your majesty,' I said, 'I will dance for you but you must know that this comes with a price. How great the price will be I cannot tell, it will depend on your deepest heart.'
'Dance,' she commanded, 'I care not for such things. There is no price, I am the Queen.'
So I tapped my hooves and jiggled my legs, I tossed my mane and I shook my head. I danced and I danced. My body shimmered and shone, radiant in the light of the chandeliers. As I danced a rumble began, it got louder and louder as the walls of the castle crumbled and fell around me. I carried on dancing until nothing was left and the Queen was nowhere to be seen. I assumed she was crushed under the rocks, but I had given her fair warning...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
A Pair of Framed Monkey Studies
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of exquisite drawings by American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy.
Category
1920s Ashcan School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Nude in the studio, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
Nude in the studio
signed lower right
Charcoal on paper
37.5 x 31.5 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 53 x 46.5 cm
Published under n°414 of the artist's catalogue raisonné (p 167 reproduced) published by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, Paris 2020
This drawing is a particularly interesting and touching example of Henry Ottmann's art. It shows his special technique, which gives priority to a kind of blur, and in this case it serves very well this scene of intimacy as if captured by stealth.
Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis.
He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries.
In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Sir William Blake Richmond - An Angel - 19th Century British Drawing
Located in London, GB
SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA
(1842-1921)
Study of an Angel
Pencil
Unframed, in mount only
18.5 by 10.5 cm., 7 ¼ by 4 ¼ in.
(mount size 32 by 25 cm., 12 ½ by 10 in.)
William Bl...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Boris Akopian "Drawing"
Category
1990s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Buitengoed Leeuwenbergh – 25-03-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
All of a Sudden, Sun! Last week on my way home from a student I came across Buitengoed Leeuwenbergh. It was late in the afternoon and surprizingly a drizzly grey day turned into a b...
Category
2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Hotel Bel-Air)
By Ed Templeton
Located in New York, NY
Ed Templeton grew up and lives in Huntington Beach. While Templeton originally gained fame as a professional skateboarder, he is now recognized as a semin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"New York Skyline", contemporary, plant, blue, cyanotype, photograph, drawing
By Marie Craig
Located in Natick, MA
Marie Craig’s “New York Skyline” is a pen and ink drawing of the skyline of New York City on a unique cyanotype photograph of leaves and blossoms which has been toned to fade away ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photogram, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Banquet scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Banquet scene
Pen and black ink, brown ink wash on paper
Diameter 21 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame under glass 30 x 30 cm
Louis Feli...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape - Drawing - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized in 1960.
Carbon Pencil on paper.
Hand-Signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Equilibrist - Pencil and Watercolor by Benjamin Mendoza - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Equilibrist is original drawing in pencil and watercolor realized in 1976 by Benjamin Mendoza, Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
In very good conditions, with some small sta...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Cats - Watercolor on Paper by French Artist Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chats is a black and white watercolor realized by Anonymous artists in the second half of the XX century.
The artwork depicts silhouettes of sinuous cats also on both sides of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Breakfast - Original Drawing In Tempera And China Ink - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Breakfast is an original drawing in tempera and China ink on paper, realized by Albert Léon.
In very good conditions.
This artwork represents an admirable portrait of a man on ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Matches - Polish Art Master, Contemporary Surreal Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
Drawing on paper, 1978
FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI (b.1930- d.2009)
studied paitning at Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw (1949-1955). He specialized in poster, drawing, paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Landscape - Drawing by Camille Adrien Paris - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Camille Adrien Paris.
Pencil drawing.
Includes frame.
Camille Adrien Paris (1834-1901) Born in Paris, died in Barbizon. Student of Ary S...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sapiens #1 #2
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
2018 Sapiens series. Ink + thread hand stitched on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Paper, Ink
(Abstract Landscape) Untitled, 1965, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: (Abstract Landscape) Untitled
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Charcoal on archival paper
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian...
Category
1960s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Beth Erze
Located in Kansas City, MO
Beth Erze
Title: Untitled
Year: 2017
Medium: Crayon, Wax Crayon, Pencil on Paper
Size: 7.5 x 6.25 inches
Signed by the artist
COA provided
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Wax Crayon, Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Alfred Moitroux - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alfred Moitroux (1886-1938) in the Mid-20th Century.
Pencil ivory-colored paper
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized throu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figure - Drawing by Louis Drioferou - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a drawing realized by Louis Drioferou in the Mid-20th Century.
China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
Horse Doodles, Pen & Ink on Paper by PadmaShree Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - 8.5 x 9 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely s...
Category
2010s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Jiyagunj : Boat, Rare Drawings, Ink on Paper by Indian Master Artist Indra Dugar
By Indra Dugar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Indra Dugar - Jiyagunj - 5.5 x 16 inches (unframed size)
Ink on paper
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Jiyagunj, Exemplary rare drawings, Ink on paper by Shri Indra Dugar from the Note Book of Bengal’s much lauded Master Artist , inspired by Master Artist Shri Nandalal Bose...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cities in Dust II, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Colored pencil and pen drawing on illustration board. 5 x 7". Created during a live art event, Club LeBon: Satellite at Chicago's Epiphany Center for the Arts. :: Drawing :: Illustra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Cities in Dust III, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Colored pencil and pen drawing on illustration board. 5 x 7". Created during a live art event, Club LeBon: Satellite at Chicago's Epiphany Center for the Arts. :: Drawing :: Illustra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Composition - Drawing by Giancarlo Limoni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giancarlo Limoni.
Drawing in China ink.
The artwork is in good conditions .
The artwork is depicted skillfully thro...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Woman - Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941) .
Pencil drawing on brown paper in very good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Female Figure - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawings in oil pastel on paper.
Good conditions b...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Landscape - China ink Drawing by Renzo Vespignani - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized in 1949 by Renzo Vespignani.
Hand-signed on the lower left and date.
Applied on a Passepartout: 21 x 15.5 cm.
Very...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Bondage - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Bondage is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawings in Black Marker pen Watercolor on paper.
Good c...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker
The Ancient Theater - Watercolor on Paper by M.E. Wrede - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Ancient Theater is an original modern artwork realized by the Austrian artist Maria Elisabeth Wrede in the first half of the XX Century.
Original colored watercolor on paper.
H...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman, Ceremonial bird, Ink on Paper by Indian Contemporary Artist “In Stock”
By Jayasri Burman
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jayshree Burman - Untitled - 8 x 10 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper
It will be shipped in a roll form.
About the Artist & her works : The imagery ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Le Cadeau de Sahagun, original dawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Le Cadeau de Sahagun, The Gift of Sahagun
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left, titled on the lower left
Ink on paper
29,8 x 18.7 cm
In a modern fra...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 26 x 19 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French origin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 24.5 x 18.75 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Lady - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French or...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a sitting beggar, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a sitting beggar,
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20.5 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : glued ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Bull III - expressive line drawing
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The Bull III - expressive line drawing on 140lb paper. The work is size 12x8 inches framed (black) with a styrene face on a double mat board in grey-beige or white-beige color with s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled: Rearview Of a Seated Nude
Located in New York, NY
Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1887-1970), "Untitled: Rearview Of A Seated Nude", Figurative Signed Pen and Ink Drawing, 16 x 10.38, Mid 20th Century
Colors: Black and White
Henry V...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Untitled (Female Nude)
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1936
Signed "Ganso" right (see photo)
Illustrated: Esquire Magazine, "Emil Ganso, Handy Artist", July 1938, pages 58...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Delft – 19-03-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Preparatory Trip This graphite pencil drawing ‘Delft – 19-03-23’ is based on a trip to that city only yesterday. You see, I was visiting the place with my parents in prepara...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mino Maccari (189...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Permanent Marker
Lawyer - Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lawyer is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
In good condition except for some folding and small missing of paper on the marg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Fisherman - Original Drawing - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The fisherman is an original drawing in China Ink realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Reclining Female Nude with Flowered Sheet a la Matisse (Leg Down)
Located in Columbia, MO
William A. Berry (American, 1933-2010) was an accomplished artist and renowned illustrator who left thousands of drawings, paintings, photographs, and mixed media works, a multitude ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Creekside South"
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Joseph Beckwith Hartranft Original drawing on paper “july 1967”. In good shape Unframed. Measures 16x13
Category
1960s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Marlot – 11-04-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Merely a Park This graphite pencil drawing ‘Marlot – 11-04-23’ follows my previous one depicting the Noteboompark in Voorburg. We stay in the region because Marlot is not fa...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Soft and Fuzzy, Watercolor Paper Drawing, Cat with Flowers, Graphic Wavy Pattern
By SarahGrace
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Soft and Fuzzy" (2021) by SarahGrace
Watercolor tip ink on watercolor paper
Hand-signed by artist
Certificate of Authenticity Included
Framing Available
Watercolor / Pop and Contemp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.