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Medium: Graphite
Underworld (2a)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Robin's Harvest #3, Still-Life Acrylic Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
End of the season, last of the bounty. Acrylic and graphite on Arches.
About the artist:
Richard Levine, born in Newark, NJ, is a painter and photographer whose professional career has spanned more than 30 years in the graphic arts working for prominent design firms and corporate clients. He studied oil painting for four years with artists Alan Turner and Andrew Lattimore and photography with Gary Winogrand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Acrylic
"First Theme"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Burgoyne A Diller (1906 - 1965)
Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller mad...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
Brunia Asteraceas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
signature, title, year on verso (both panels)
graphite and gesso on panel (left panel 42 x 11.5 x 1 inches, right panel 42 x 26.5 x 1 inches, with 2 inch gap in between)
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Gesso, Panel, Graphite
Mollusc 5 Suite, Abstract Laser Print, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of a piece from the Small Works Group, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Disintegration 8, Abstract Drawing, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of one of my sculptures, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and charcoal.
Keywords: abstract, bold, plastic
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Disintegration 3, Abstract Drawing, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of one of my sculptures, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and charcoal.
Keywords: abstract, bold, plastic
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Mollusc 2 Suite, Computer Manipulated Drawing, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of a piece from the Small Works Group, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Disintegration 7
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of one of my sculptures, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and charcoal.
Keywords: abstract, bold, plastic
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Disintegration 2
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is created from a photo of one of my sculptures, manipulated on the computer, printed on a laser print then drawn on with graphite and charcoal.
Keywords: abstract, bold, plastic
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Laser
Yellow
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Made with plastic bags, beeswax, oil paint and graphite
Keywords: abstract, colorful
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman has always combi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Plastic, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Pictorical action #1, Monolith
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Untitled
Located in Bozeman, MT
Rooted in observation and fueled by a curiosity about the behavior of objects and handicraft processes, Carly Glovinski makes paintings, sculpture and works on paper that often teeter between representation and abstraction. Letting craft techniques like weaving inform her mark making, her work mimics everyday objects and highlights geometric pattern and structure found in textiles, while exploring the resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and rural communities that prioritize placemaking in concert with nature. She received her BFA from Boston University in 2003 and is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Dream loop
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Detail
Located in Fairfield, CT
Graphite on paper.
Framing included (26.25" x 21.75" framed).
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Alleyway in Cairo - Original 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Alleyway in Cairo
Graphite on Paper
Acid free mount
Image Size: 16 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches
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Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Sostenido 12
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 12, 2015
Graphite and charcoal on paper
72h x 28.30w in
182.88h x 71.88w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
All the palm trees I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces presented by Daniel Berman attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the form, and the color. For Daniel, each p...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
All the palm trees IV
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces presented by Daniel Berman attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the form, and the color. For Daniel, each p...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Water mirrors Series
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Monument for Napoleon
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
The Battle (2)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Boy, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Boy
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Inlands (3)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
The Battle (3)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Surrealist Nude Female Figure
Located in Miami, FL
This is an important work that is loaded with Surrealist iconographies. The shape of her hands is echoed in the shape of her hair. Tiny man and woman figures...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Tenedor
Located in New York, NY
Tenedor, 2012
Pencil on paper
11.30h x 9.30w in
Martin Palottini was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. From 1995 to 2001 he attended Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts, wher...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Arena
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With a career spanning more than three decades, Robbie Cornelissen has established himself among the leading contemporary draughtsmen in Europe. His vast and irresolute creative univ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
ICELANDIC GOOSE, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Traditional Realism /Contemporary Wildlife
Located in New York, NY
Original drawing by Patricia Traub
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
"Panéjo con estómagos N°2" contemporary drawing figurative bird legs
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Enveloped by outstretched paintings, Gonzalo García reveals the ever-present ghosts of our past and present in a delicate swirl of color, light, and fle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
A Moment's Rest, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
A Moment's Rest
Graphite on Paper
Gilt Frame
Image Size: 10 x 17 ¼ inches
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
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Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Capacious Memory (XVII)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Man and Woman Talking with Oxen in Background" Probable Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Inscribed and Signed Upper Right
"Man and Woman Talking with Oxen in Background." Probable magazine story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, with their label adhered to ver...
Category
Early 20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite
Mixed Media on Cowboy
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Graphite
The Beekeepers Mid 20th Century Female Artist Graphite
Located in London, GB
Alice Headley Neave
1903-1977
The Beekeepers
Graphite on paper, signed and dated 'Christmas 1942'
Image size: 9 x 9 inches
Contemporary frame
The daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huckle, a surgeon and 'painting dealer', Alice was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Dome of the Holy Rock, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Dome of the Rock
Graphite on Paper
Image Size: 17 ¼ x 14 inches
Hand made gilt frame
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner was born in Weimar in...
Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Suitor with Voyeur
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Carruthers is a brilliant mix of George Tooker and Fernando Botero but with unexpected charm.
"The Suitor with Voyeur", A variation of this concept was done in oil twenty years later. "The Venus of Ponte Vedra...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite
Street Tailors in Cairo - Original Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Street Tailors in Cairo
Graphite on Paper
Image Size: 13 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
Acid free mount
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Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Black and blue knots on a white landscape
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Study for « The Chinese Masquerade » by Jean-Baptiste Pierre (1714 - 1789)
By Jean-Baptiste Pierre
Located in PARIS, FR
Arriving in Rome in June 1735 as a resident at the Royal Academy, Pierre was unable to attend the Winter Carnival festivities of 1735, which he nevertheless immortalised in an engrav...
Category
1730s Old Masters Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a Lady, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Lady
Graphite on paper
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Portrait of Julieta, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of Julieta
Graphite on paper, signed and inscribed '1931'
Image size: 15 x 12 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Florentine Gent, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Florentine Gent
Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1931 Florence'
Image size: 24 x 18 inches
Framed
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Graphite, Paper
30x22 in. Re- Enter - Ink, Acrylic, Graphite on paper, unframed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla, unframed.
Re-Enter
30x22 in.
Ink, Acrylic, Graphite on paper
Unframed
Framing available
The artist Alexis Portilla obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts.
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present.”
- Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
The artist has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally for more than 20 years. His works have been commissioned by major corporations, universities and for private collections.
Education
MFA, Columbia University
BFA, Pratt Institute
Selected Public Collections
Penn State University
New York Public Library
Selected Corporate Collections
Harvard Club...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
The Writer's Retreat, 20th Century British School Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
British School
1940's
The Writer's Retreat
Pen & ink
Image size: 10 1/2 x 9 inches
Hand made frame and mount
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Typewriter Eraser
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Claes Oldenburg
Typewriter Eraser
1970
Graphite and watercolor on paper
14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
Pencil signed and dated
Accompan...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Driving the Tee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor over Graphite on Thick Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Gustavson was an excellent golfer himself and illustrated the book How To Play Your Best Golf by Tommy Armour in ...
Category
1960s Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Wood Sculpture, 70 pieces: '54v'
Located in New York, NY
I want the viewer to have a sense of wonder and awe when looking at my work. We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Wood, Graphite
Purchasing a Hawk, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Purchasing a Hawk
Graphite on Paper
Carved giltwood frame
Image Size: 12 x 18 ½ inches
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Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Cub Book of Trucks. Title Page
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was a children's book illustrator in New York City.
Seiden was a members of The Society of Illustrators
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Pen, Permanent Marker, Graphite
"Machinery"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
1940s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Beyond
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Orange
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art by Medium: Graphite
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
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