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Medium: Conté
'Cascade' — Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralph Arnold, 'Cascade', mixed media: acrylic, pencil, conté crayon, marker, oil; 1986-88. Signed 'Arnold' and dated '86-88' in pencil, lower right. A fin...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Oil, Acrylic, Felt Pen
Untitled (Standing Male Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Standing Male Nude)
2017
Signed and dated, recto
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
"Double Over" Show Jumper Gouache By Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958)
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 12 1/2"H x 16"W
Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 22"W
c1938
Conte Crayon w/ Gouache
Category
1930s Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Gouache
Untitled (Two Men, Sitting and Standing)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Two Men, Sitting and Standing)
2017
Signed and dated, l.r.
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30 x 21 inches (76.2 x 53.3 cm)
$1,600
This work ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
2019
Signed and dated
Two-sided drawing in charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30 x 20.5 inches
$1,600
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
'Georgia'. Roses, linen, oak frame. Contemporary abstract bold floral nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Georgia'.
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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Soft mist is lifting, blue and golden in the early light along the Savannah river, the rising heat of this May mor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
'Scarlet Dreams'. Contemporary painting poppies red white blue floral nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Scarlet Dreams'.
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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Exploring the flux and balance in the nature of all things, 'Scarlet Dreams' captures an essence of the equ...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil, Carbon Penc...
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
Category
1960s Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Untitled (Nude Man with Black Hair)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
Category
1970s Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1905
Signed lower right: E Shinn
Provenance:
James Graham & Sons, New York (labels)
Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus
Colum...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
George Dureau (New Orleans) "Two Angels", Large, Finely Framed
Located in New Orleans, LA
Classic imagery by one of New Orleans' most famous artists, who was a huge influence on Robert Mapplethorpe and others. Just Google "George Dureau" to find a wealth of information ab...
Category
Late 20th Century Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
1993
Signed and dated, l.r.
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30 x 18 inches
$1,600
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
'Erika in Gesture II, ' by James Cobb, Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21" x 19" academic drawing by artist James Cobb, 'Erika in Gesture II,' captures a female model in a standing pose. Facing away from the viewer...
Category
2010s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Graphite
'Just for One Day'. Roses on raw linen, oak frame. Contemporary floral nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Just for One Day'.
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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Such sensual fullness, intoxicating in it's momentary glamour, for tomorrow the petals will fall softly l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
Category
1930s Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
'Ashes From the Snow'. Roses on raw linen, oak frame. Contemporary floral nature
Located in Penzance, GB
'Ashes From the Snow'.
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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All winter long we burned the old dead elms in the hearth, watching it release mythical dancing dream ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Pastel
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
2019
Signed and dated
Double-sided drawing in charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30.25 x 20.5 inches
$1,600
This work is offered by CLAMP in Ne...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
“Sitting Female Nude”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original conte crayon drawing of a sitting female nude on tinted archival paper by the American artist, Renate Duncan. Signed lower left. Circa 1980. Condition is excellent. The art...
Category
1980s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Archival Paper
Untitled (Man in Blue Tank Top)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Pastel and conté crayon with partial foil star on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in ...
Category
1970s Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Foil
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing of a naked man sitting by Mark Beard.
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Detailed nude drawing by Paul "Garth" Garfield Benton (American, 1940-2012). Po...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
Untitled (Man in Repose Leaning Against Post)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
Category
1970s Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
'Female Nude Figure Study, ' by John Fenton, Drawing on Paper
By John Fenton
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 23.5" x 19.5" drawing of a seated female nude depicts the figure in a frontal pose leaning forward with one leg raised and elbow placed on her kneecap. Her head rests in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper
Untitled (Nude Man with Raised Leg)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Mark Beard is already framed, price includes framing.
Untitled (Nude Man with Raised Leg)
1990
Signed and dated, l.l.
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on R...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Charcoal
Study of Trees in Forest II
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Study of Trees in Forest II
Conté crayon on paper
8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
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 Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Untitled (Children Sleeping)
By Amalia Polleri
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...
Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
San Elijo Beach
Located in Dallas, TX
“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 (American Arts Quarterly.)
Dallas born Weary studied under Olin Travis, Octavio Medellin and Chapman Kelley before earning a 4 year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with awards for excellence in drawing. In 2008, Weary left Texas for a three year sabbatical in Southern California where she began drawing in Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve with red conté...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper
'Dancer in Seated Gesture 2, ' by James Cobb, Chalk and Conté on Paper, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 11.25 x 15.25 work on paper features a lone, seated, female dancer viewed from the back. The figure is twisting toward the viewer as she begins to look over her right shoulder. Her legs are pulled toward her body with the left leg crossed over the right. The isolation of the seated figure within the ground of the page lends a vulnerable quality to the work.
The 16 x 20 dark brown mat has a window size of 11.25 x 15.25.
Bio:
Jim Cobb, until recently was hanging his work on Canyon Rd in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One-man shows have been hosted in Taos, New Mexico, Norman, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When the Oklahoma Art...
Category
2010s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Paper
Bent Tree, Torrey Pines
Located in Dallas, TX
“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 before earning a 4 year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with awards for excellence in drawing. In 2008, Weary left Texas for a three year sabbatical in Southern California where she began drawing in Torrey Pines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper
Pears / mixed media quiet still life, framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Pears - sill life composition - exquisite highly contemporary still life drawing / mixed media work, created with dry pigment and conte crayon on 350 pound archival rag paper that is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pigment
Flat Rock (Santa Ana Rescue)
Located in Dallas, TX
“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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
Untitled (Woman Resting)
Located in Dallas, TX
Edmund D. Kinzinger was born in 1888, in Pforzhein, Germany. In Munich he studied at the Kirr Schule and the Staatliche Akademie, and pursued graduate studies at the Academie Modern, Paris. Before serving in the German Army, Kinzinger was a master student of Adolph Holzel at the Staatcliche Akademie, Stuttgart; he returned to study under Henrich Waldschmidt after nearly five years of artillery service.
Several of Kinzinger’s fellow students in Germany, such as Johannes Itten, would go on to be associated with the Bauhaus school. Coming into contact with all manner of artistic influences in Europe after World War One, Kinzinger’s work may be viewed as a “synthesis” of modernist styles. The influences of Abstract Expressionist, Cubist, and Futurist styles in Kinzinger’s work at this time are symptomatic of his contact with the likes of Hans Hofmann, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Archipenko. Philip Van Keuren...
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Pastel
Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Edmund D. Kinzinger was born in 1888, to an upper-middle class family in Pforzhein, Germany. In Munich he studied at the Kirr Schule and the Staatliche Akademie, and pursued graduate studies at the Academie Modern, Paris. Before serving in the German Army, Kinzinger was a master student of Adolph Holzel at the Staatcliche Akademie, Stuttgart; he returned to study under Henrich Waldschmidt after nearly five years of artillery service.
Several of Kinzinger’s fellow students in Germany, such as Johannes Itten, would go on to be associated with the Bauhaus school. Coming into contact with all manner of artistic influences in Europe after World War One, Kinzinger’s work may be viewed as a “synthesis” of modernist styles. The influences of Abstract Expressionist, Cubist, and Futurist styles in Kinzinger’s work at this time are symptomatic of his contact with the likes of Hans Hofmann, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Archipenko. Philip Van Keuren...
Category
1930s Cubist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Crayon, Paper
Pair of antique portraits women period clothes framed drawing red hats 19th
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original red conte crayon drawings in their original frames featuring two young women in period clothing.
Category
1910s Art Deco Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
Cormorant Drying Off
Located in Dallas, TX
“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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Edmund D. Kinzinger was the Chairman of the Art Department at Baylor University from 1935 to 1950. Previously, Kinzinger was the Director of the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Munich. Kinzinger left Germany in 1933 because he did not agree with the Nazi government. Kinzinger’s early work in Germany was influenced by Theosophy: a philosophy based on mystical insight into the nature of God. This guided Kinzinger’s art away from representation and towards abstraction. Later, Kinzinger assimilated German Expressionism, French Cubism, and Italian Futurism with his own continuing sense of the mystery of life. While his work incorporated the formal qualities of cubism, there was always a mystical moodiness just below the surface.
"From EDK: The Early Years 1913-1935" by Philip Van Keuren...
Category
1930s Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper
Pines in Ravine
Located in Dallas, TX
“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,” wrote 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 before earning a 4 year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with awards for excellence in drawing. In 2008, Weary left Texas for a three year sabbatical in Southern California where she began drawing in Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve with red conté...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper
Tulip: Summer Evening
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
White Amaryllis with Dragonfly
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Pastel, Archival Paper
Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very early original red conte drawing is signed "Jack L. Nesbitt, 4/21/34". On the back of the drawing, Nesbitt has written "Quick sketch from fountain on Plaza". Jack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute during this period. The figure on the drawing is of a nude young boy with both arms in the air. A very rare early work by this fine artist.
Jackson Lee Nesbitt, a noted printmaker and painter of the American Scene, dedicated his artistic career to the portrayal of ordinary people going about the business of their lives. A native of Oklahoma, Nesbitt created scenes from the Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s, but in the 1950s, when interest in his work diminished, he moved to Atlanta and established a second career in advertising. Thirty years later, Nesbitt sold his business and resumed his artistic career from Atlanta.
He was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, on June 16, 1913, the only child of LuCena Grant and Howard Nesbitt. The family resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where his father owned a commercial printing business. Jack, as Nesbitt was known, helped out in the family business until 1931, when he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Two years later Nesbitt enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. As a first-year student, he learned etching from John deMartelly, attended Ross Braught's painting class, and met his future wife, Elaine Thompson, who was a costume design student. Thomas Hart Benton, who joined the faculty in the fall of 1935, quickly became a close friend and mentor to the younger artist.
In 1937 the management of the Sheffield Steel Corporation contacted deMartelly concerning an etching commission. Because Nesbitt was an outstanding student, his teacher suggested him for the job. When Nesbitt arrived at the plant one afternoon, he was taken to the open-hearth furnace area, where he diligently sketched anonymous workers in that dramatic setting until five o'clock the following morning. On the strength of his sketches, he was commissioned to create a series of etchings illustrating different phases of the steel industry. The commission launched Nesbitt's career as a professional artist.
The commission with Sheffield Steel Corporation provided the financial security that enabled Jack and Elaine Nesbitt to marry on June 1, 1938. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute about the same time. Working as a freelance artist, Nesbitt augmented his commissioned work with genre scenes of the Midwest, and he routinely went with Benton on sketching trips to rural Arkansas.
Beginning in 1939 Nesbitt's work gained widespread recognition. Open Hearth Door, a Sheffield Steel Corporation painting, was chosen to represent Missouri in the American Art Today exhibition at the New York World's Fair. Associated American Artists selected one of his etchings, Watering Place, for an edition of 250 prints that were sold through subscription. Having a print published by the association ensured national distribution, and four more of Nesbitt's works, all of rural southern genre scenes, were later selected by the print publisher.
Over the next decade Nesbitt's work was exhibited in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma. He was awarded the Eames Prize by the Society of American Etchers in 1946, and his work was included in the book American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century, by Albert Reese. Major corporations with operations in the Midwest, including Brown and Bigelow, Butler Manufacturing Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Omaha Steel Works, Pratt and Whitney...
Category
1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Summertime
Located in Dallas, TX
“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 ...
Category
2010s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
Nick Xylouris
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing by James Childs (1945-2020) offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Nick Xylouris
2004
Signed and titled, recto
Graphite and Conté crayon on paper
12 x 8.25 inches
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Graphite
"Self Portrait Conte Sketch" rare Ben Fenske work on paper - academic study
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A colorful self-portrait from Ben Fenske, staring at the viewer straight-on. Hues of red dominate.
Unframed.
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesota, and has been worki...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté
“Reclining Female Nude”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original conte crayon drawing of a reclining female nude on tinted archival paper by the American artist, Renate Duncan. Signed lower left. Artist full name and address verso. Circa ...
Category
1980s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Archival Paper
Painter Crouching on a Chair
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Painter Crouching on a Chair
Conté crayon on paper
15 x 10 inches (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Fortuny Rose drawing
Located in Burlingame, CA
Fortuny Rose, original drawing created with Conté & Pastel on Fabriano watermarked, handmade paper, by Susan Manchester. Museum quality frame included...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Le Ballon de Rouge
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Le Ballon de Rouge
Collage with colored pencil and conté on paper
Signed, recto
This collage is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Color Pencil
Andreas Zisimos
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing by James Childs offered by CLAMP in New York City.
2004
Signed and titled, recto
Graphite and Conté crayon on paper
12 x 8.25 inches
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Sunset Through Golden Gate Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1980's abstract of sunset through Golden Gate Bridge arch. Unsigned. Presented in rustic painted wood frame. Image size: 8.5"H x 11"W.
Category
1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Conté, Wax Crayon
Two Women (Contemporary Female Figurative Nude Drawing))
Located in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans/Washington State artist Lue Isaac shows off her remarkable draftsmanship with this classical nude figure drawing. Note that this is from her ske...
Category
2010s Academic Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
St John's College, Cambridge Great Gate print by Tony Broderick
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
Late 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Early 20th Century Portrait in Venice Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
A bit of a mystery scholarly sanguine drawing. Very well executed portrait of a Lady dated either 1904, 1907, or 1909 in Venice. It is signed but I cannot make it out. The paper meas...
Category
Early 1900s Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté
Figures & Flowers, Surreal Abstract Meditation
By Noel Howard
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal abstract figurative of a dreamy, meditative scene including multiple figures and flowers, blended with sill-life and landscape elements by Noel Howard (American, 20th Century...
Category
1970s Symbolist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Crayon, Laid Paper
Seated Woman Figurative Portrait
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage watercolor portrait of a seated female figure with red robe in front of a plant by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" in the lower left corner. Presented...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage watercolor portrait by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" in the lower right corner. Dated "1978". Unframed.
Doris Ann Warner began as an Abstract Expre...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Conté
“Floating Market”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original drawing done with conte crayon with hints of watercolor of a floating market place by the French artist, Rob...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Oil Crayon, Archival Paper
Trompe L'oeil [untitled]. Homage... Ter Nagedachtenis van S. G. Wezel oud 76 Jar
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil [untitled]. Homage.... Ink drawing, multimedia, 1837. Paper size 13.13 x 16.44" (33.3 x 41.8 cm). On watermarked paper "Blauw and Briel." Overall good condition. Small tears and the occasional bit of paper missing at the paper edge. Original color. Center paper crease - as issued. We believe the artist created this artwork on a sheet of paper that had been previously bound in a book.
Dutch trompe l'oeil drawing with pen & ink, pencil, sepia, and black chalk, wax seal, and painted pigment. This montage of early 19th century ephemera depicts sheet music, scenic views, a sealed letter, cards, a portrait of an unknown sitter, and a penned sheet noting ... van S. G. Wezel Wassenaar, October 1837. Is this a homage to the individual portrayed, a metaphorical self-portrait, or just a random assortment of ephemera beautifully composed? The artist keeps us wondering and visually appeased by a striking harmony created through contrast. This piece starts with sheet music entitled; Romance Larghetto No 2. There is a Psalm and Op Jezus Geboorte (On Jesus Birth...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art by Medium: Conté
Materials
Conté, Watercolor, India Ink, Ink
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