Art by Medium: Charcoal

Portrait is an original drawing in pencil and charcoal on paper, realized Hubert Yencesse, Hand-signed. The state of preservation of the artwork is go...

Mid century charcoal and watercolor drawing with grey wash of a grimacing giant by the American artist, James Joseph Kearns. Titled and dated lower left and signed and dated again l...

In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a lakeside cabin under the shade of a massive tree. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, wh...

Official Entertainment is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s. Charcoal Drawing on paper Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin. Includes frame: 55 1...

Wonderful mid century figurative nude charcoal line drawing of a girl walking away by Moni (Mariellen) Ehlers (American, 1926-2007). Charcoal on...

Hand signed lower right. Very good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Roma, 1989) was a popular Italian artist and engraver. He realized a lot of graphic artworks, especially ...

Two Women is an original drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s This is an original Charcoal drawing on block notes and it represents two long hair women talking...

Pathos is an original drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s This is an original pencil drawing on block notes and it represents a man with his head towards the ...

The Fountain is an original pencil drawing on paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s. Black ink stamp on the lower-right corner: "Catherine ...

Man In Profile is an original pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s. This is an original drawing representing an interesting male portrait. Good conditi...

MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ MOMPÓ Spanish, 1927 - 1992 CASA DE LECHERA signed "H. Mompó" (upper left) & inscribed "Rotterdam 55" (upper right) with inscrip...

Sessual is a beautiful original charcoal and watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari. Hand signed on pencil on lower right margin. The paper sheet is stuck on another sheet. Ver...

"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...

Nice charcoal and ink drawing on paper representing the famous italian painter Giorgio Morandi (friend of Mino Maccari) smoking a cigar with images of a dream/nightmare on background...

Wonderful abstract expressionist drawing in shades and tones of grays and black by John Haley (American, 1905-1991), c.1956-7. Signed lower left corner. Presented in 3" mat. Condition: Very good: some edge wear consistent with age. Image size: 25"H x 19"W. A feature of the artwork of John Charles...

Stately mid century portrait of a man, done in charcoal in 1956, by William Clothier Watts (American, 1867-1961). Signed and dated "Willi...

Artist: Leon Kroll, American (1884 - 1974) Title: Seated Nude Medium: Charcoal on paper, signed Size: 10.25 x 11 inches Frame Size: 24 x 24 inches

"Monkey Island at Washington Park Zoo" is an original graphite and charcoal drawing on paper by Francesco Spicuzza. It depicts a number of figures gazing out at a monkey enclosure at a zoo. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. 8 1/2" x 11 3/4" art 17 1/4" x 21 1/8" frame Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in...

French charcoal drawing of fish, circa 1950. Signed Paule Champenois lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size fra...

Medium: Watercolor, Gouache & Charcoal on Board Date: 1950s Dimensions: Various Sizes Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions. AMERICAN ARTIST (20th Century) Group of four...

A moody night scene of Great Britain's largest and polluted steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales. L. S. Lowry is the best known artist of Britain's industrial scenes of the 20th century but there were others which include this somber work by female artist and illustrator Nan Youngman OBE. Signed and dated lower left. Framed under glass . Framed size 21 x 28 . _________________________________________________________ Nancy Mayhew Youngman OBE, (28 June 1906 – 17 April 1995), was an English painter and educationalist. Youngman is remembered primarily as a painter, but from before the war to the mid-1960s she was an influential figure in art education, as a teacher, an author and an impressively efficient organizer of exhibitions. Nan Youngman was born in Maidstone in 1906 to John Henry Youngman – a partner in the corn merchants Bradley, Taylor, and Youngman – and his wife, Adelaide Edith (Bida), née Marshall. She attended Wycombe Abbey School and then the Slade School of Art (1924–27), where she was taught by Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks. After she left the Slade, Youngman went on to study for an art teacher's diploma at the London Day Training College. There she was taught by Marion Richardson, who introduced her to Roger Fry and awakened her interest in children's art. From 1929 until 1944 she divided her time between painting and teaching; she lectured for the London County Council, gave practical art classes for schoolteachers and taught part-time. The organization of exhibitions became an important part of her strategy for increasing children's awareness of art. Throughout the 1930s, Youngman showed at the Wertheim Gallery and with the London Group. The death of her friend the artist Felicia Browne in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 altered Youngman's political outlook. She joined the left-wing Artists' International Association (AIA) and organised Browne's memorial exhibition.[2] AIA group shows became a focus for her painting, though politics never entered her own work. It was Nan Youngman who in 1939 famously asked a workman in from the Whitechapel High Street to open the AIA's exhibition "Art for All". In 1944 Youngman became art adviser to Cambridgeshire under Henry Morris. Nan Youngman became chairman of the Society for Education through Art in 1945 and published her ideas in articles for Athene (the SEA journal), the New Era in Home and School and the Education Journal. Through the SEA she initiated a remarkable series of exhibitions of contemporary art for sale...

Elegant depiction of a nude woman from behind by American artist Bayless (20th Century). The model's hands are raised, adjusting her hair, and the artist has captured the twisting an...

Sean Keating (Irish 1889-1977) "Self Portrait" c. 1950s Charcoal on Paper Signed Lower Right Framed Size: approx 20 x 16 inches A noted portrait and figure painter, influenced by both Romanticism and Realism, Sean Keating was an Irish nationalist painter who executed several iconic images of the Irish Civil war era, and of the ensuing period of industrialization. One of the great exemplars of representational painting in Ireland, Keating was an intellectual artist in that he set out to depict the birth and development of the Republic of Ireland, and his pictures are deliberately idealized even heroic. However, he held very conservative views about art - verging on the academic style - and was a committed defender of traditional Irish painting, considering much modern art to be bogus. Born in Limerick, Sean Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before winning a scholarship, arranged for him by William Orpen, to study fine art painting at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. In 1914 he won the Taylor Scholarship and the following year exhibited three paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Over the next period of years he spent time on the Aran Islands off County Galway, and then in London. He returned to Ireland in 1916 and painted the war of independence and the subsequent civil war. Works he completed at this time include the painting: Men of the South (1921) depicting a group of IRA men about to stage a military ambush, and An Allegory (c. 1922) which features a cluster of figures representing the fractures in the young Irish state. Meantime, in 1919, Keating was appointed an assistant teacher at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Then in 1921, he staged his first one-man show at The Hall, Leinster Street. In 1923, he was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy. In a Dublin exhibition of Irish art held in 1924, Keating was awarded the gold medal for his picture Homage to Hugh Lane - now hanging in the Hugh Lane Gallery. In the late 1920s, Keating was commissioned to record the building of the hydro-electric power generator at Ardnacrusha, near Limerick. He painted a number of paintings of this scheme. Not unlike the Soviet Realism School of painting, these paintings sought to promote the construction work as an achievement of heroic proportions. Keating's works began to attract interest abroad. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and, in 1930, he held a one-man show at the Hackett Gallery, New York. In 1931 Keating's one-person exhibition was staged at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. In 1934 he was made professor of the National College of Art in Dublin, and Professor of Painting, three years later. His 1937 exhibition at the Victor Waddington Galleries attracted considerable interest. In 1939, he was asked to paint a wall-painting for the Irish pavilion at the New York World Fair and duly created a huge mural of fifty-four panels. He was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1949 to 1962, exhibiting nearly 300 works during the period. In 1963, a retrospective exhibition was staged at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, which was opened by Irish President de Valera...