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Art Subject: Head
"As Others See Us" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1924
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Center
"As Others See Us," by Princess Cantacuzene and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1924.
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint
"Capital on Strike" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1921
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Along Lower Edge
"Capital on Strike," by Albert W. Atwood and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, October 8, 1921.
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint
Shaw Barton Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 24.00" x 20.0"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
An Argument in the Park; Shaw Barton Calendar Illustration
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Two Young Sports Fans in Barrels
By Monte Crews
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink, Charcoal and Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 20.00" x 30.00"
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Dolly Dingle's Story of Pinafore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dolly Dingle's Story of Pinafore. Illustration possibly for children's booklet published by John H. Eggers Publishing Company, 1921. Watercolor on paper. 18 x 13 inches. Signed in lo...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled, ink, figurative, faces
Located in New York, NY
This framed Ink painting by Shiri Mordechay has a beautiful openness with the way the paint is handled, allowing full attention to the curious faces presented. Depicted is a face, th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Spare Time 23
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary artist Jianyong Zeng. The painting is executed in pastel watercolor and depicts the portrait of an anthropomorphic dog...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Handmade Paper
Putto, Modern Color Pencil Drawing by Lisa Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lisa Martin - Putto, Year: circa 2000, Medium: Color Pencil on Paper, Size: 13.5 x 10.75 in. (34.29 x 27.31 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Price Upon Request
Figure Study, Modern Watercolor and Graphite Drawing attributed to Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fernand Léger, Attributed to, French (1881 -1955) - Figure Study, Year: circa 1949, Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on Paper, Size: 17 x 28 in. (43.18 x 71.12 x 93.98 cm), Frame S...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Study for Apollo and the Muses
Located in New York, NY
This is a figure and head study for the extreme right figure depicted in Apollo and the Muses, one of the magnificent ovals decorating the dome of the rotunda of the Museum of Fine A...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Price Upon Request
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
1978
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.
Pencil on paper
14 x 17 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Price Upon Request
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
John Button
Untitled
1975
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.
Pencil on paper
14 x 11 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Price Upon Request
Get Off You Lousy Son of a Bitch, Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Waiting for King Arthur
Located in New York, NY
Melike Kılıç (b. 1982) is a Turkish artist who tells stories through drawings and delicate paper cutouts. She grew up in a small village in Sebinkarahisar, and currently works in Ist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Yes Na Stop - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing, Austin, Texas Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Weird - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing on Paper, Austin, Texas Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
We Will Not Honor Your Curses From Now On - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Illustration Board
To Meredith and Love Beyond - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing, Austin, Texas
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Till Us! - Daniel Johnston, Original B/W Drawing, Austin, Texas, Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Illustration Board
Then Every Once in a While - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing, Austin, Texas
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Surfin' Ratzoid - Daniel Johnston, Original Drawing, Austin, Texas Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Redhead in Green Bikini - Daniel Johnston, Original Ink Drawing on Paper, TX Art
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ratzoid Yip Yeo - Daniel Johnston, Original Ink Drawing on Paper, Texas Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
No Show For No One - Daniel Johnston, Black and White Drawing, Outsider Pop Art
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
In Secret We Will Be As One, Daniel Johnston, Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Art
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
I'll Be There - Daniel Johnston, Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
I Am The Hulk - Johnston, Two-Sided Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Hulk Mad! - Daniel Johnston, Vintage Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Beast of Holidays - Johnston, Figure Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Artist
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Be Proud of Being an America!!! - Figure Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Art
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Attack of Everything - Johnston Figure Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Pop Art
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Action - Johnston, Figure Ink Drawing on Paper, Outsider Artist, Austin, Texas
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 Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Standing Nude
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist Enrique Alférez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied in C...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
Price Upon Request
Reclining Nude
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist Enrique Alférez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied in C...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Number Three
Located in New York, NY
Melike Kılıç (b. 1982) is a Turkish artist who tells stories through drawings and delicate paper cutouts. She grew up in a small village in Sebinkarahisar, and currently works in Ist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Hawaii)
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing of a man nude from the waist down wearing a blue tank top that says Hawaii.
This work by Zachari Logan measures 64 by 42 inches and is mad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Price Upon Request
Pastoral Landscape with Reclining Odalisque and Fruit
Located in Long Island City, NY
This reclining nude portrait of a woman on a picnic makes several different art historical references. The bold, almost neon colors are reminiscent of the tropical paintings rendered by Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The setting harkens back to "Luncheon in the Grass" by Manetl. And the pose is historically associated with sex workers and the goddess Venus, in paintings like "Olympia" by Manet, "Grande Odalisque" by Inges, and even further back like "Venus of Urbino...
Category
1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Studies of Caroline" II
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Alex Katz (b. 1927)
"Studies of Caroline" II, 1973
Original Drawing - Pencil on Paper
7.25 x 7.75 in
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Price Upon Request
"Studies of Caroline" I
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Alex Katz (b. 1927)
"Studies of Caroline" I, 1973
Original Drawing - Pencil on Paper
7.25 x 7.75 in
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Price Upon Request
The Tambourine Player, Watercolour Painting, Dated 1853
By Carl Haag
Located in London, GB
Watercolour with bodycolour on card
Titled 'Donn d'Albano' lower left and signed and inscribed 'Roma 1853' lower right
Image size: 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (50 x 34 cm)
This is a full...
Category
1850s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Price Upon Request
Moïse, illustration pour la Sainte Bible
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique and striking watercolor on paper by surrealist Salvador Dali. This painting depicts Moses in bold red paint with a crown of black points emerging from his head. Provenance: ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
"Chris", charcoal, drawing, Katz, Portrait, cool
By Alex Katz
Located in Köln, DE
This is an outstanding charcoal drawing by Alex Katz. He is portraying "Chris", who was model for several paintings and prints. Drawings do have an important impact to Alex Katz pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Price Upon Request
Daphné
Located in New York, NY
Daphné
2012
Graphite on paper
42.5 x 44 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Four Years (So Cool Cat) (2022) by street artist City Kitty, graffiti MTA poster
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (So Cool Cat)" (2022) by street artist City Kitty
18.25 x 12.25 x .75"
Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster, framed. Artist's signature graffiti style of comic relief for subway notice posters, often relating unfortunate news to the public of delays or changes to the regular schedule. Portrait of classic City Kitty character with his third eye and in this case with words written across his open mouth that read in bubble letters, "SO COOL" in pink. Black and white "7" train line Friday night service update poster with purple diamond 7 line train logo. Neon and pastel palette accents include pink and blue.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
For the past 12 years, NYC-based street artist City Kitty has been pasting elaborate, hand-drawn scenes of an adventurous street cat onto buildings, subway stations and alleyways throughout North America and Europe. Best known for his large-scale drawings of cats...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Four Years (Pirate Cat) (2019) by street artist City Kitty, graffiti MTA poster
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (Pirate Cat)" (2019) by street artist City Kitty
18.25 x 12.25 x .75"
Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster, framed. Artist's signature graffiti style of comic relief for subway notice posters, often relating unfortunate news to the public of delays or changes to the regular schedule. Portrait of classic City Kitty character, in this case a pirate, adorned with pirate hat...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Four Years (Ecstasy) (2019) by street artist City Kitty, graffiti MTA poster
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (Ecstasy)" (2019) by street artist City Kitty
18.25 x 12.25 x .75"
Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Four Years (The Count) (2020) by street artist City Kitty, graffiti MTA poster
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Four Years of Frustration, Delays & Missed Appointments (The Count)" (2020) by street artist City Kitty
18.25 x 12.25 x .75"
Ink, acrylic and color pencil on MTA poster...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
1854 Funeral of R. Williams at Gyokusen-ji Temple, Shimoda, with Commodore Perry
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885)
‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’
With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855
Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm
Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Untitled, " Oil on Paper - Figurative Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
This painting on paper is a playful, yet elegant depiction of a personal mantra of Bhatt’s in which she concedes, “life is a circus.”
Amita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Bhatt’s work has been exhibited at noteworthy venues such as the Bluestar Contemporary Art Center, Walters Art Museum, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Project Row Houses, all in the United States as well as Museo Pedro de Osma in Peru. She has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards and recently served as a Grant Panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works are included in many important private and public collections.
Bhatt digs deep into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Unafraid to explore uncomfortable territories, the artist mines from a range of sources to create hybrid creatures that are often symbolic of man’s psychological condition in an angst-ridden zeitgeist.
In exploring issues of identity and violence, Bhatt’s research led her to the beginnings of mankind. Most ancient creation...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Young Man Looking Down)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Young Man Looking Down)
Early 2000s
Signed, verso
Graphite on paper
11 x 8.5 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
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
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
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
Lady in Coat in Park
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed, l.r.
Contact gallery for price
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Lady In Gown
Located in New York, NY
Signed, l.r.
Graphite on paper
Contact gallery for price
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
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
Price Upon Request
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
Price Upon Request
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...
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1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
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"Nude Study no. 47", Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010)
Title: Nude Study no. 47
Year: 1949
Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 24 x 19 inches
Category
1940s Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
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RIC: Random Internet Cat #7
Located in New York, NY
Random Internet Cats
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Animal Drawings and Watercolors
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