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Art Subject: Nature
Winter Wilderness, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I love to paint atmospheric watercolors and wintertime provides a good source for atmospheric scenes. I paint from imagination but I am also influenced by nature and my experiences a...
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2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Coastal Scene with Figures"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "California Coastal Scene with Figures" c.1970 in a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Wayne Carl Lacom, born 1922. It is signed at he lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 14.25 x 21.5 inches, framed is 20.35 x 28.75 inches. It is custom framed in original wooden silver brown frame. It is in very good condition.
About the artist:
Wayne La Com...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moors, Yorkshire, UK /// British Antique Landscape Watercolor England Country
By Harry George Theaker
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Harry George Theaker (English, 1873-1954)
Title: "Moors, Yorkshire, UK"
*No signature found
Circa: 1935
Medium: Original Watercolor on watercolor paper
Sheet size: 9.75" x 13.75"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Corsham, UK. "GAC" and "H.G. Theaker" pencil inscribed upper left and center on verso.
Biography:
Born January-March 1873 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. He was the son of George Theaker (1835-1902, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire), headmaster (principal) of the School of Art in Burslem from 1869-94 and designer for pottery. His younger brother, Charles Edmund (1875-1903) was an apprentice designer modeller and then a teacher at the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem around 1900.
Harry George was an apprentice pottery decorator and then a teacher. He settled in London c.1900-05 and was in charge of design at the Polytechnic in Regent Street from about 1906 onwards, where he also taught courses in 'modelling from design'. Theaker remained at the Polytechnic and is listed in prospectuses as headmaster (principal) between 1931-2 and 1937-38.
Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. Amongst the books he illustrated are 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Sir Thomas Ingoldsby, London, 1911; 'Children's Stories from 'The Arabian Nights', by Rose Yeatman Woolf, 1914 (and later editions); 'The Adventures of Don Quixote', c.1920 and 1929; 'Gulliver's Travels', 1928; 'The Water Babies', 1930; 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 1930; 'Stories of King Arthur', 1925 and 'Long, long ago: stories from the classics' both retold by Blanche Winder, the latter probably in the 1930s (see National Art Library catalogue...
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1930s Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Waterfall Watercolor Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Plein air image of Yosemite's Bridal Veil Falls done in watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" lowe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Joseph Arthur Powell - Early 20th Century British Watercolour of a Watermill
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH ARTHUR POWELL
(1876-1961)
A Watermill
Watercolour
Unframed
38 by 55 cm., 15 by 21 ¾ in.
(mount size 54 by 70 cm., 21 ¼ by 27 ½ in.)
Born in London he was the son of the su...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971) - Framed Gouache, Views of Dartmouth
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating gouache painting by British artist Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971), depicts a coastal view at the mouth of the river Dart with sail...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"Untitled 4, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 4" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a cow in a mountainous landscape.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$225 Sale Price
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Spring Rain - Vertical Chinese Landscape with Waterfalls and Mountains
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring Rain - Vertical Chinese Landscape with Waterfalls and Mountains
Idyllic landscape with a massive waterfall by an unknown artist (20th ...
Category
20th Century Qing Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper
$680 Sale Price
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19th Century 1925 California Coast Marine Landscape Watercolor, Rocks & Waves
Located in Denver, CO
American Impressionist California coastal watercolor painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942), circa 1925. This stunning piece captures the beauty of the coastline with vibran...
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Brady Creek Ranch, First Look
Located in Dallas, TX
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
French Impressionist Watercolor of a Coastal Scene with Outbuildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of a Coastal Scene with Outbuildings
By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021)
Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed
Size: 4 x 6.5 inches (Height ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$209 Sale Price
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Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor
L’entrée d’un village animé de paysans en Artois
Located in PARIS, FR
1905
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
Signed lower left “L. Lhermitte”
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
“Stone Wall”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautifully executed watercolor of a bucolic New England series of village houses by the American artist, Gary Shepard. ...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,800 Sale Price
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"Harvester at work in the field" - Ink Drawing on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and detailed drawing of a harvester in the field by an unknown artist. A team of horses is pulling a large harvester, controlled by four people riding on the machine. To the...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Only A River's (Gonna Make Things Right), Original Signed Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Only A River's (Gonna Make Things Right), Original Impressionist Landscape Painting
9" x 12" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
A combination of an impressionist and expressionist landscape, Dina Gardner's interpretation of the light in this gesturally painted artwork gives an energy and vitality to the work, with the use of rich reds and purples to depict the mountain's rock face. The cool blue waters then re-center the work, grounding the composition and giving it a serene feel that calms the viewer.
Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed.
Artist Commentary:
I love music. I have it playing in my house and my studio all day long and I sing all day long. While traveling through the national parks in our RV this year, we were constantly listening to music and my head got stuck on an album from Bob Weir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Lonely Giant. Contemporary Limited Edition Etching
By Ian Laurie
Located in Brecon, Powys
Limited Edition , 5 of 15, etching from this very collected Scottish artist.
Signed. Excellent condition
Image 9" x 7.5"
Ian Laurie was born in 1933 and is a self taught artist who...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$200 Sale Price
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Les Indestinés, Charcoal, Original Black & White Drawing, Wave, Seascape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Charcoal and Graphite on Archival Watercolour paper 300Gsm.
Artist : Fabien Granet
Subject : Les Indestinés (series ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mid-Century Scenic House with Tree Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor landscape of a charming house with porch rendered in crisp detail, and a sprawling verdant green yard with large tree and sheds by Joseph Yeager (ear...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,100 Sale Price
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"Monhegan Island, Maine, " Edward Dufner, American Impressionism Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957)
Monhegan Island, Maine
Watercolor on paper
Sight 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' and 'dark', Edward Dufner was one of the first students of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy to earn an Albright Scholarship to study painting in New York. In Buffalo, he had exchanged odd job work for drawing lessons from architect Charles Sumner. He also earned money as an illustrator of a German-language newspaper, and in 1890 took lessons from George Bridgman at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
In 1893, using his scholarship, Dufner moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied with Henry Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines.
Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and privately with James McNeill Whistler. Verification of this relationship, which has been debated by art scholars, comes from researcher Nancy Turk who located at the Smithsonian Institution two 1927 interviews given by Dufner. Turk wrote that Dufner "talks in detail about Whistler, about how he prepared his canvasas and about numerous pieces he painted. . . A great read, the interview puts to bed" the ongoing confusion about whether or not he studied with Whistler.
During his time in France, Dufner summered in the south at Le Pouleu with artists Richard Emil Miller...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pond #4
By Ursula Schneider
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pond #4" 1984 is an original soft pastel on paper by Swiss/American artist Ursula Schneider, b.1943. It is unsigned. The artwork size is 15 x 22 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 24.5 inches. Custom framed in a black metal frame. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
The work of Ursula Schneider include pastel drawings, paintings, small-scale sculptural paintings and woodcuts, working on one medium at a time. These processes complement and enrich each other by stimulating a fresh approach and allowing for experimentation. Drawing from observation in the landscape has been the basis for the work.
She attended Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and Keramische Fachschule in Bern and holds an Undergraduate Degree in Ceramics from Switzerland.
In 1968 she moved to the United States and graduated in 1972 with an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.
She lived and worked in New York from 1980-2004 and taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union and Sarah Lawrence College.
Grants And Awards:
1985 National Endowment for the Arts. Major Fellowship Grant
1976 San Francisco Art Festival Award
1974 The Oakland Museum. The New Talent Award
1968 Swiss Government Grant: Kunststipendium
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Kunstmuseum Bern Switzerland
UC Art Museum Berkley, CA
Oakland Museum, CA
Forum Febicus, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Forth Worth, TX
Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum, NY
San Francisco Museum, CA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Rockland Center for the Arts, NY.
Collections:
UC Berkley Art Museum,
Di Rosa Preserve in CA,
U.S. Department of State,
Auditorium Netzwerk, Germany,
The Union Bank of Switzerland,
UBS Security,
Bell Savings Art Plus,
Security Pacific Bank, CA,
Swiss Bank...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Hill 1969, paper/watercolor, 17.5x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Hill
1969, paper/watercolor, 17.5x25 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School o...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Monterey Breakers', San Francisco, Pebble Beach, Carmel, Turner Art Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Turner Art Aca...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Finely Detailed British Watercolor Topographical the Top of Dunsmore Lane
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed
Size: 7 inches (height) x 9.75 inches (width)
Signed: Yes
Condition: Sound condition, with some minor signs of foxing visible
Provenance: Priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Barn in Winter" - Mid Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Snowy landscape by Maine artist Fannie Mae Cunningham (American, 20th Century). Tags on verso from previous backing have been preserved. Presented in a new grey-blue mat...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$719 Sale Price
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Colorful Lake Reflections, Large-Scale Pastel Landscape with Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant large-scale pastel landscape of colorful reflections rippling on a calm lake with three small ducks and a boat by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Winter Night in Canmore, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and sky
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Down Hill, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Presence of winter ! A winter road in a country setting with strong sense of depth, presence and and distance highlighted by the feel of looking over the hill. A recent viewer of th...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Oakland Industrial Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century Bay Area urban landscape watercolor of an industrial neighborhood in Oakland by California artist Polly Hughett Wagener (American, 1908–1992). This industrial scene of a ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lake Tahoe III
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992)
Title: Lake Tahoe III
Year: 1957
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 19 x 23.75 inches
paper size: 19 x 23.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower right in pencil by the artist
Condition: Excellent, some hanging tape remaining on the back at the sheet edge.
About the artist.
Bart Perry studied at the California School of Fine Arts, MFA, 1928. Fine Arts, Mills College, Berkeley, CA. 1955.
Selected Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery with Wm. Mayo, 1946; California School of Fine Arts, Roy DeForest...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Birch Mystery, trees, female figure, neutral tones, collage on archival paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage
Paper charcoal collage
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and again, later, alone in the stu...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp lower right
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Mexican House with Porch
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Landscape BW" Minimalist Original Art , Draw on Paper -Large size Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Mineral Oxide on Paper
109 x74
Original Art
Ready to Hang
A unique and original work of art
This painting, made with mineral oxide powder pigments on Canson paper, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French 19th century Pen and Ink River landscape with boat from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century River landscape with boat sketch, in pen and ink and sepia color.
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris wh...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Pacific Coast', California Post-Impressionist, Modernism, San Francisco
By Michel Kady
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michel Kady' and dated 1948.
A substantial watercolor on Arches paper showing a coastal scene with figures walking beside the Pacific Ocean beneath imposing cli...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The river. 1989, oil on cardboard, 46x60, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The river. 1989, oil on cardboard, 46x60,5 cm
Summer landscape by the river
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He pain...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$749 Sale Price
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"48 Flowers, " Colored Pencil on Paper Landscape with Trees
By Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"48 Flowers" is an original colored pencil drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says:
“The state flower of each of the 48 contiguous states is shown, and located where its state is geographically, where a US map...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Two In The Mountains. Lovers, horizontal, nature, mountain landscape, watercolor
Located in Oslo, NO
The watercolor landscape painting "Two in the Mountains" is created in the most modern watercolor technique on "liquid paper" (on a special primer applied to a regular canvas). It wa...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing by Louttre Bissière - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing in watercolor realized in 1971 by Louttre Bissière.
Hand signed lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$342 Sale Price
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SK 2CGD, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic Liquitex Ink on 300gr. Arches cotton paper. Gloss varnish. Will ship rolled in sturdy tube. Certificate of Authenticity. 76 x 56 cm. 22 x 30 inches. :: Drawing :: Pop-A...
Category
2010s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Landscape. 1990. Oil on cardboard, 24x32, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1990. Oil on cardboard, 24x32,5 cm
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seas...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$461 Sale Price
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Glen Lyon, Scotland /// Contemporary Female Artist Watercolor Landscape Country
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gillie Cawthorne (English, 1963-)
Title: "Glen Lyon, Scotland"
*Signed and dated by Cawthorne lower left
Year: 2010
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper
Framing: Not framed, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Key West Bungalow, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Key West Bungalow She sang beyond the genius of the sea. The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motio...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,345 Sale Price
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1849 Pastel - The Mountain Path
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful continental scene depicting figures travelling a winding mountain path. Illegibly signed. Dated 1849. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$290 Sale Price
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City On The Sand - Contemporary African Landscape, Oil Pastel Painting
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
'Cap Ferrat', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, 'La Route Vers St Jean Cap Ferr'...
Category
1980s Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Baraques" ( near Deal, England) Pastel cm. 24 x 32 1910
Located in Torino, IT
landscape, fishing, England, 1910,pastel,green,blue
Edouard CHAPPEL (Anversa, 1859 – Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1946)
MUSEI
BELGIO
Anversa Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts
FRANCIA
Paris Musée d...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Cyan Tide Pool, Mid-Century Coastal Seascape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid-century seascape of a vivid cyan blue coastal tide pool by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in the lower right corner....
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
Ghost Ranch Encantado 11
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,360 Sale Price
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Lake & Mountains Watercolor Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor landscape of a lake surrounded by mountains by California artist Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey,...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Assertive
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Assertive (2018), 6 x 6 inches (framed size: 7.5 x 7.5 inches), watercolor on gesso on panel by Lindey Carter. $560
Lindey Carter’s delicate watercolor ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor, Panel
'California Coast', Corcoran, Bohemian Club, MoMA, AIC, CSFA, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamped, lower left, 'Wm. A. Gaw' for William Alexander Gaw (American, 1891-1973) and painted circa 1935.
William Alexander Gaw was born ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
River bay. 1987. Oil on cardboard, 44x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
River bay. 1987. Oil on cardboard, 44x58 cm
Summer landscape by the river
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$903 Sale Price
20% Off
Rocky Shore, Mid Century Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid century watercolor seascape signed by unknown artist M. C. Schmidt. Signed in the lower left corner. Presented in a new buff mat with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
High Cliff at “Dog Pool”
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Pleissner
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835-1900) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Quiet River
By Edmund Wimperis
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a simple dark frame. Signed with initials. On watercolour paper.
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
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