Plant Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's. During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities. Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...

This small original hand-drawn illustration by Elizabeth Iadicicco is made with illustration marker, pen, and matte and metallic gold colored pencil on Strathmore marker paper. The d...

'Camellia Study no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...

'Bright Camellias' original watercolor painted in 2021 in beautiful shades of pink, green with hints of blue and yellow from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived i...

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 8.25 x 5.5 inches, signed lower right Top Right: 3.5 x 5.25 inch...

French Countryside Landscape is an original China Ink drawing and watercolor realized by a french artist of the 20th century. Good condition on a brown paper. Illegible signature.

French watercolor of a serene valley path by artist Raymond Segond, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border....

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...

This original hand-drawn botanical illustration by Elizabeth Iadicicco is made with illustration marker and pen on Strathmore marker paper, and captures a large red flower and smalle...

Sole Tree is a drawing realized by Mareal Abougit (1903-1985) in 1974. Pencil, pastel and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower left. Good conditions with slight...

Winold Reiss The Red Silo Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 20 x 29 inches Winold Reiss (1886-1953) was an artist and designer who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1913. Probably best known as a portraitist, Reiss was a pioneer of modernism and well known for his brilliant work in graphic and interior design. A compassionate man who greatly respected all people as human beings, he believed that his art could help break down racial prejudices. Like his father Fritz Reiss (1857-1915), who was also an artist and who was his son's first teacher, Winold Reiss was artistically moved by diverse cultures. The elder Reiss focused on folk life in Germany while Winold drew substantial inspiration from a range of cultures, particularly Native American, Mexican, and African-American. As did many young aspiring artists, Winold Reiss studied with the esteemed painter and teacher Franz von Stuck at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which was at that time a center of the decorative and fine-arts movement. It is not known whether Reiss met E. Martin Hennings...

Still life with succulent on a royal blue tile floor, with a section of an oriental rug, pillows, and a mug of tea visible in the periphery by Noel Howard (American, 20th Century). S...

Anna Kudriashova, born in a small town in Russia, has always been an artist at heart. From her youngest years, she was passionate about painting, spending her days immersed in the wo...

Paris: A Collection of Three Paintings of Paris Scenes by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) the Eiffel Tower painting is signed front lower right and also inscribed to the back, the Versailles painting...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of cyclamen, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style blending into line drawing by California artist Deborah E...

Nell Blaine Tree at the Edge of the Field, Springs, 1967 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor on paper 14 1/2 x 20 inches Nell Blaine was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1922. She ...

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...

This piece is framed measuring 27.5 by 35 inches. Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealis...

Sunday in the park is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's. Colored tempera on cardboard. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. The artwork represen...

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Brick Layers House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939 ...

A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...

Jean DUFY (1888-1964) Bouquet of Roses Original ink and lavish drawing Signed with the artist stamp On paper 29 x 36 cm (c. 12 x 14 in) Very good condition, paper lightly yellowed

Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed. Medium : Watercolour, Soft Pastel and Oil based col...

The paper size is 30 1/8 x 44 inches

Francesco Spicuzza (American, 1883-1962) Untitled Landscape, 20th century Pastel on paper Sight size: 24 x 30 in. Framed: 26 1/4 x 32 3/8 in. Signed lower right: Spicuzza Italian-born Francesco Spicuzza was primarily a Wisconsin painter who did portraits, still-lives and local landscapes. He spent the first part of his life in near-poverty to become a painter. An eternal optimist, in 1917, the artist reported: "I am happy and my only ambition now is to paint better and better until I shall have reached the measure of the best of which I am capable." (Spicuzza, 1917, p. 22). His predilection for beach scenes germinated early: reportedly, the five-year-old boy first drew the outlines of his father's fishing boat in the sand on the seashore near their home in Sicily. After setting himself up as a fruit peddler in Milwaukee, Spicuzza's father sent for his family when Francesco was eight years old. For the following six years the boy was unable to attend school because of his job in his father's fruit and vegetable business. The poor lad suffered a caved-in shoulder from carrying a heavy wooden crate. The young Spicuzza was aided by moral and financial support from a sympathetic Milwaukee businessman named John Cramer, publisher and editor of the Evening Wisconsin, who raised Spicuzza's salary as a newspaper assembler so that he could attend school. In 1899 or 1900, Spicuzza began studying drawing and anatomy under Robert Schade (1861-1912), a painter of panoramas who had been trained in Munich under Carl Theodor von Piloty. Spicuzza was also taught by Alexander Mueller (1872-1935), a product of the Weimar and Munich academies. Mueller realized Spicuzza was a colorist and encouraged that orientation (Madle, 1961). Spicuzza found it beneficial to accept an apprenticeship in a lithographic studio for $8 a week, which demanded most of his time. During the St. Louis Universal Exposition in 1904, still a struggling student, Spicuzza attended the fair, thanks to Cramer. It was not long before Spicuzza received a twenty-five dollar portrait commission, and this inaugural success led to new commissions and allowed him to continue as a painter. The earliest influences in his work appear to be from Edward H. Potthast and Maurice Prendergast, though Spicuzza never mentioned either artist. Already in August 1910, Spicuzza was described in a newspaper as "one of the most talented of Milwaukee's rising workers." He undoubtedly received lasting inspiration from his one summer study period in 1911 with John F. Carlson at the Art Students League's Summer School in Woodstock, New York. Certainly Spicuzza would have picked up spontaneity in handling the brush from Carlson. Although he executed numerous still-lives and an occasional religious work, Spicuzza is best known for his Milwaukee beach scenes populated with frolicking bathers in multi-colored attire, not unlike the images of Potthast, who used a similar technique. Many of these are small, preparatory works on canvas board executed between 1910 and 1915. Frequently with even greater animation than Potthast, Spicuzza produced moving images of youthful energy and uninhibited child's play. These beach genre scenes reflect the attitude of American impressionists who depicted the more pleasant side of life. Spicuzza manipulated a successful balance of rich pigment applied in varying degrees of impasto texture with subtle nuances of hue. Working all'aperto, he sought "the soft enticing shades of yellow, blue, green, pink and lavender . . . to get the effects of bright glistening summer air." (L.E.S., n.d.). As a painter whose color not only derived from direct observation but also from a personal theory of color symbolism, Spicuzza traded the linear approach of lithography for dynamic patches of brilliant color. Like Prendergast, he would often tilt the angle of the picture plane to bring the viewer's position above the scene. Spicuzza was unable to enter the 1913 Armory Show or the Panama-Pacific International Exposition two years later but he did submit work to the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and those of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first important award was the bronze medal presented by the St. Paul Institute in 1913, which was followed by the silver medal two years later. Before long, Spicuzza had acquired a greater sense of security in his profession and was described by a writer in International Studio (April 1917) as "an independent artist with an assured future. His pastels and water-colours are poetic and joyous bits of nature with a genuine out-of-door feeling." In 1918, his Spirit of Youth, exhibited at the National Academy of Design, sold for $112.50. Four years later, the artist achieved his greatest local recognition by winning the gold medal from the Milwaukee Art Institute. Spicuzza spent a great deal of time painting en plein air and by 1925 he began summering at Big Cedar Lake, near West Bend, Wisconsin to gather his subject matter. Easter Morning (1926) owes something to the Symbolist movement, with its figure of Christ appearing over a seascape. During the difficult era of the Depression, patrons came to Spicuzza's aid and during the 40s, he taught housewives, businessmen and students at the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Center, and in his private studio. In the following decade, although his kind of art was no longer popular in the "make-it-or-break-it" New York gallery world, Spicuzza enjoyed regular patronage and sales. His beach scenes became more static and he would experiment with modernist techniques. Spicuzza died at the age of seventy-eight. Sources: L.E.S., "Do Colors Change a Person's disposition? Experiments of a Milwaukee Artist...

Oil painting and Oil based color pencils on Archival Cardboard 2mm - Original Painting and Drawing, Still-Life, Interior, Ready to hang Work Title : Fenêtre sur lac (EN : Window on lake) Artist : Gabriel Riesnert...

A pretty floral study showing an array of Spring flowers, including snowdrops, catkins and English ivy. The artist has signed to the lower edge and the painting has been presented in...

'Camellia no. 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. ...

“Anne Weary, who grew up as a Texas cowgirl, is at home in the outdoors and knows its ways and its language. There is a sort of very quiet but very powerful mysticism in her work, a sense of presence that goes quite beyond words,” writes poet and University of Texas at Dallas professor Frederick Turner in the American Arts Quarterly. Dallas born Weary studied under Olin Travis, Octavio Medellin and Chapman Kelley...

Detailed and vibrant depiction of a spider web by Doris Howard (American, b. 1935). Signed "Doris Warner" in the lower left corner. Tag on verso from the "Harvest of Colors" exhibition at Roberts Field...

Early autumn. 1990, cardboard, oil, 70x93 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seaso...

Signed lower left, 'M.E. Bailey' for Mike Bailey (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1980. A substantial, bravura study of red and pink rhododendrons contrasted against a variegated green background. This notable American watercolorist has served has President of the National Watercolor Society...

APPLE BLOSSOM AND YEW is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. This is part of a series by the artist examining the inherent geometry and co...

Rambling Rose by Jo Haran [2020] original Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso. Image size: H:72.5 cm x W:52.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm ...

Ann Bridges Late Afternoon Sunshine (poppies) Contemporary Semi-Abstract Painting Oil based ink on board Image size: 59 x 75 cm Sheet size: 75 x 91 cm Framed size: 83 x 100 cm Sold F...

French school of the mid-19th century Watercolor 51 x 37 cm (69 x 55 cm with frame) Signed and dated at the bottom “M. C. / 1857” The hollyhock comes from China, passing through Sy...

Landscape is an original china ink drawing on paper realized by Socrate Foscato. Hand-signed, on the lower right. Cachet of the Artist's Atelier, on the lower left. Good conditions.

Sunny landscape. Bilateral. 1985. Oil on cardboard, 46x60 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in...

Original gouache painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of trees in Will Roger’s Park in Los Angeles in colors of blue and green....

Flowers is an artwork realized by an unknown in the early mid-20th Century. Ink, pastel and watercolor on cardboard. 11 x 10 cm ; 30 x 29 cm. Good condition!

Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with an anti-UV varnish and it is not framed. Medium : Oil based color pencils on Hahnemühle Fine A...

Ranulph Bye (American, 1916-2003) Rocks and Trees (Doylestown, PA), 1958 Watercolor on paper 14 x 21 in. Framed: 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in. Signed bottom: Ranulph...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Woodstock (77), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's serene depict...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Roses and Irises in Vase (P1.22), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Winter Trees (P2.41), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 20 in. (35.56 x 50.8 cm), Description: Illuminated by the s...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - White Vase of Flowers (P2.47), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 19 x 13 inches, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Forest (P2.65), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10 x 12 inches, Size: 11 x 13.5 in. (27.94 x 34.29 cm), Descript...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vase of Spring Flowers (P2.48), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 21 x 13.75 inches, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Two Trees (P2.38), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 14 x 21 inches, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Descript...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Mandolin Still Life (50), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm), Description: Set on a table befor...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Tree (P5.61), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's adept...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Pines (P5.33), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 21.5 in. (38.1 x 54.61 cm), Description: Scattered over the rollin...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Late Summer (P5.11), Year: 1950, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12 x 17 in. (30.48 x 43.18 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's dep...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Aimhi Lodge (P5.4), Year: 1951, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 22 in. (39.37 x 55.88 cm), Description: Peering through the...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Salt Marsh (P6.29), Year: 1959, Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13 x 18 in. (33.02 x 45.72 cm), Description: Rendered with...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.38), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12 x 18 in. (30.48 x 45.72 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's portra...