Art by Medium: Watercolor
Color: Gold
Medium: Watercolor
'Oberon, Series 1', Instituto Allende, Carmel Art Association, NAWA, La Jolla
By Barbara Johnson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Barbara Johnson' (American, 1927-2021) and titled, lower left, 'Oberon Series 1'.
Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, circa 1995 (accompanied by original label)
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Category
1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Contemporary Art by Hiromi Sengoku - What're your Neighbours doing Next
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, gouache, japanese mineral pigment, gold leaf on panelled linen
Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Musash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Contemporary Art by Hiromi Sengoku - Lily and Lilies
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, gouache, japanese mineral pigment, gold leaf on panelled linen
Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives & works in Tokyo, Ja...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Large Abstract', Exhibited at Tokyo Museum Of Fine Arts, Japanese Woman Artist
By Iku Nagai
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Nagai" for Ikuko K. Nagai (Japanese-American, born 1932) and painted circa 1980.
Previously with: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
paper dimensions: 33.5 x 45 inch...
Category
1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver
Red Ribbons and Rods Collotype Triptych
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique and stunning collotype triptych (3 panels) abstract composition of fabric and red ribbons draped over rods by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned. Purchased as pa...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Ink
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley
Metallic abstract geometric symbols
Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / G...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Abstract Painting Green Dots, Gold Leaf and Blue Royal Society of Arts Africa
Located in Norfolk, GB
Anthony Benjamin, 'Green Dots', acrylic and gouache on gold leaf board, image size 9" x 12", signed and dated 1999. Artist Estate Stamp on verso
Provenance: From the Artist Estate
A...
Category
1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Black & Gold Glyphs I by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Time Travel
Black & Gold Glyphs I by Cheryl R. Riley
Metallic abstract geometric symbols
Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper
Feminist Art and Contemporary F...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Femmes au Paon, Mixed Media with Gouache on Paper, circa 1910
Located in London, GB
Femmes au Paon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Mixed media with gouache, gold and silver highlights and charcoal on paper
22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 11 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold, Silver
Abstract Painting Red Pink, Gold Leaf and Blue Royal Society of Arts Africa
Located in Norfolk, GB
Anthony Benjamin, 'Intitled', acrylic and gouache on gold leaf board, image size 8" x 10", 1999. Artist Estate Stamp on verso
Provenance: From the Artist Estate
A Gallery Certificat...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Coffee Breaks, 2022 - Contemporary Painting Mixed Media
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful series of mixed media of found objects, watercolor, gold leaf, in a handmade frame from artist based in Los Angeles.
Video is attached for viewing detail
“Coff...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Stanley Boxer Mixed Media Abstract Expressionist Painting on Paper, Gold
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract, 1987
Hand signed and dated verso
Not sure of technique. this might be a monotype or monoprint with hand painting. The handmade paper is cut somewhat irregularly as per the artists intentions.
Stanley Boxer (1926-May 8, 2000) was an American abstract expressionist artist best known for thickly painted abstract works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker. He received awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Boxer was born in New York City, and began his formal education after World War II, when he left the Navy and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He drew, painted, made prints, and sculpted. His work was recognized by art critic Clement Greenberg, who categorized him as a color field painter, A group that included
Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko and was a form of Abstract Expressionism and later included Helen Frankenthaler, Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, Raymond Parker and Morris Louis. Boxer himself was adamant in rejecting this stylistic label. Over the years, he remained loyal to the materially dense abstract mode on which his reputation rested.. Art critic Grace Glueck wrote "Never part of a movement or trend, though obviously steeped in the language of Modernism, the abstract painter Stanley Boxer was a superb manipulator of surfaces, intensely bonding texture and color."
In 1953 Boxer had his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York City, and showed regularly thereafter until his death. His paintings and sculpture were represented in New York City during the late 1960s through 1974 by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, then by the André Emmerich Gallery from 1975 until 1993, and finally by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries until its demise in 2007. Richard Waller...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Archival Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Halo drawing abstract
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Halo, Drawing, study for a sculpture. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Michael Davis My sculptures and installations are physically and symbolically multilayered mechanisms that react to environ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Minimalist Figurative Mixed Media, "I was Just Following You"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind minimalist mixed media work by San Diego artist, Stacy Nixon. Its dimensions are 26"x40". It comes in a white frame. A certificate of authenticity will follow...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Lily and the Rose - Arts & Crafts watercolour on vellum after Walter Crane
Located in London, GB
LIONEL DURIEU
After WALTER CRANE RWS (1845-1915)
The Tournay of the Lily and the Rose
Signed and dated 1898
Watercolour and gold and silver paint on vellum, framed
19 by 31 cm., ...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Halo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Halo, Drawing, study for a sculpture. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Michael Davis My sculptures and installations are physically and symbolically multilayered mechanisms that react to environ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Interlude 2, Magdalena Morey, Original Abstract Painting, Affordable Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Magdalena Morey – “Interlude 2” (2017)
This is the second painting in the “Interlude” series. As with the first painting in the series, I wanted to capture the incredible sense of e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Lost in Thought", contemporary, botanical, ink drawing, watercolor painting
Located in Natick, MA
Sarah Alexander's "Lost in Thought" is a 54 x 44 x 1.5 inch botanically inspired India ink drawing on canvas with real gold leaf accents, and watercolor paint made from crushed semi ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
"When the Storm is Over", contemporary, leaves, vines, ink, watercolor painting
Located in Natick, MA
Sarah Alexander's "When the Storm is Over" is a rich watercolor on canvas with accents of genuine white gold, watercolor made from crushed semi-precious stones, and India ink careful...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Schistes Personata (Hummingbird)
By John Gould
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN GOULD
A Monograph of the Trochilidae,
or Family of Humming-birds.
Drawn and lithographed by John Gould,
Elizabeth Gould, H.C. Ritcher, and W. Hart.
Richard Bowler Sharp supplement 1880-87.
Published by John Gould.
Printed by Hullmandel and Watson.
London, 1849-61.
Lithographs with original hand-color.
Excepting the supplement, most with gold leaf illumination.
418 plates.
John Gould was the most prolific ornithologist and recorder of birds in England during the 19th century. Born a gardener's son, he was raised on the royal estate at Windsor. He became a gardener at Ripley Castle, where he learned the art of taxidermy, a skill so useful in his future career. In 1827, N.A. Vigors required a taxidermist for the newly formed Zoological Society of London; the job came to Gould who moved to London and married Elizabeth Coxen. She was to become a skilled collaborator, both as draughtsman and as supervisor in the lithographic shop. It was Elizabeth who was responsible for transferring the drawings made by Gould, from the specimens sent to him from all over the world, onto lithographic stone.
Unable to find a publisher, Gould resolved to publish his works himself. Illustrating over 3000 species of birds and animals and producing over forty folio volumes, Gould's works became great financial successes. He realized a considerable fortune.
The most well known prints are from his outstanding monograph on hummingbirds. They are unequaled in the history of ornithology. The brilliant coloring is highlighted with gold and a transparent luster creating metallic hues, a technique which has never been successfully reproduced. The birds appear in charming groups of twos and threes surrounded by realistic foliage. Each bird is drawn to scale and is anatomically correct to the smallest detail.
References: John Gould’s Hummingbirds...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Wrath
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Ryan Wilks
Title: Wrath
Medium: Holy Water, Lapis Lazuli, watercolor, Gold Leaf, on 243 year old Bible page (1777)
Year: 2019
Size: 9.75" x 15.5'
De...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Teal Landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Teal Landscape by Catherine Ruth Church [2020]
original
Acrylic, gouache, Gold Leaf
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gold Splatter
Located in Deddington, GB
Gold Splatter by Catherine Ruth Church [2020]
original
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Gouache, Pearlised Paint, Ink
Image size: H:124 cm x W:84 cm
Comple...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Gouache
'Dreamscape', Bolivia, Brazil, California, Sao Paulo Biennale, UNESCO
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mario Cespedes' (Bolivian-American, born 1940) and created circa 1985.
Matted dimensions: 24 H x 18 W x .25 D inches.
Born in Bolivia, Mario Cespedes immigrated...
Category
1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Schooner + Doryman" First Edition Hand-Colored Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold woodblock print by Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999). Titled "Schooner + Doryman", numbered "1st ed.", and signed and dated "Byron Randall '62" along the bottom edge. Small am...
Category
1960s American Modern Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Tree, Gouache & Gold Leaf on Paper, Green by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Yugal Kishor Sharma - The Tree - 18 x 18 inches (unframed size)
Gouache and Gold Leaf on Paper.
About thwe Artist & his works :
Born : Rajasthan in 1959.
Education :
Post Graduation (Painting) M.L.S. University, Udaipur
Ph.D (Painting) M.L.S. University, Udaipur.
Fellowship : 1989-1990 National Jr. Fellowship by M-HRD,GoI-New Delhi.
Work Experience :
1970-80 : In traditional miniature painting of Nathdwara, School, Nathdwara
1982-83 : In graphics art, Lalit Kala Academy’s Artists Studios, Garhi, New Delhi.
Participation :
1980-2001 9th International Exhibition of Art AIFACS.
5th International Biennial of Print Art-2001,Bhopal
National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
Selected Exhibitions :
1992 & 94 : The Heritage, Chennai
1991, 2000 & 03 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 : Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2004 : Harmony Show by Tina Ambani, Mumbai
2005 : Exhibition at Kriti Gallery, Varanasi.
Awards :
1980 : Maharana Raj Singh Award, Mewar Foundation, Udaipur
1983 & 2001 : State Award of Art, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur
1989 : All India Silver...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Untitled, Gouache and Gold on Acid Free Paper by Contemporary Artist"In Stock"
By Chhotu Lal
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Chhotu Lal - Untitled, 10.25 x 14 inches
Gouache and Gold on Acid Free Paper, 2020
** Shipped in roll form.
Born in 1957, Chhotu lal is an acclaimed artist ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Strength in Love
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Ryan Wilks
Title: Strength in Love
Medium: Gold Leaf, Lapis Lazuli, Watercolor, Holy Water, Pen and ink on 243 year old Bible page.
Year: 2019
Dimen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Garden Landscape with River', 19th Century Kano School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A finely-drawn Kano School watercolor and gouache showing figures in kimonos on a bridge and seated beside a stylized river flowing through a graceful garden. An elegantly formal com...
Category
Late 19th Century Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gold Rush Town Western Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming, vibrant watercolor painting of a small California gold rush town by Diane Baldwin (American, 20th Century), 1970. Signed "Baldwin" lower right....
Category
1970s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
1950s Impressionist Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Alphabet Letter "P"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed in Colours. Hand-Painted Gold Highlights.
To produce a study for an historic illumination of antiphonals, the Arundel Society selected each of the alphabet letters from chorale books created in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Devotional pieces, the chorale music was greatly appreciated by Christians throughout the world. Often it was sung as responsive music where the choir would be divided into two parts thus creating a harmony which reinforced the Christian religious doctrine.
As illustrious as the music, the key letters that headed each piece would take their own place in the art world. Many initials would be specifically devoted to prominent men and woman of both religious and cultural importance. For example, the “F” was devoted to Fra Angelico, an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Urtica (Nettle)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg...
Category
1750s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
"The Grand Military Gold Cup" Sandown Park- 1905 Gouache by John Beer
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic steeplechase gouache by John Beer (1860-1930) signed (LL) of 'The Grand Military Gold Cup, Sandown Park 1905
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 13 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 1...
Category
Early 1900s Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gouache
TOWER BRIDGE
Located in New York, NY
watercolor, gesso, and gilding on BFK paper. Gold Leaf. Depiction of the Tower Bridge in London. Medieval figures.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Meriana (Bugle Lily)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Alphabet Letter "S", Saint, Religious
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Guanabanus (Guabana or Soursop Fruit)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Alphabet Letter "T"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K" Religious Saint
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "F"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Alphabet Letter "K"
Located in Florham Park, NJ
An Alphabet of Capital Letters: Selected from the Illuminations of Italian Chorale Books of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Arundel Society. London, 1862.
Engraving. Printed...
Category
1860s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Mizzles and Fairies
By Nadia Roldan
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Watercolor, gold leaf and resin on 3 wood panels.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Scale Arts & Craft Style Vertical Triptych
Located in Soquel, CA
Unusual and stunning vertical collotype and hand-painted triptych (3 panels) abstract composition titled "Mutable Green" of subtle gold and silver gilding evoking Frank Loyd Wright b...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Heliocarpus (Tree, Malvales)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONSYSIUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionsysius Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nuremberg, 1750-73.
Hand-colored engravings. Titles highlighted with goldleaf.
100 plates.
19.5” x 13.5” Unframed.
A supplement of 20 plates issued by B.C. Vogel in 1790.
"The dominant influence in botanical art during the middle years of the 18th century." "One of the finest records of cultivated flowers..." "His accuracy and general excellence as a true botanical artist have never been equaled." Ehret’s praises have been sung throughout the centuries. While his training was in gardening, Ehret's true talents were in his art. Drawing the specimens from life in the garden's in which he labored won Ehret his employer's praise and his co-workers jealousy. Not only were his botanical portraits highly accurate in every technical detail, they reflected an awe-inspiring love of subject.
A restless man, Ehret wandered from Heidelberg through Germany to Vienna and Basle, working his way to Paris and finally settling in London. He was honored by peers and patrons wherever he traveled. Ehret's list of benefactors include the most brilliant and generous members of society in his day. However, it was Christoph Trew, a wealthy physician, lifelong supporter and friend, who published the work for which Ehret is best known, Plantae Selectae.
Ehret went to Leiden to meet Carolus Linnaeus and they became the best of friends. It is the Linnaen classification of plants to which Ehret subscribed. In distinguishing of the sexual systems of plants and the cross-sectioning of specimens, based on the teachings of Linnaeus, Ehret's illustrations have become the standard followed by horticulturists throughout the centuries. Ehret is the only foreigner to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England.
The illustrations for Plantae Selectae were printed in black and white and painstaking colored by hand at the time of publication. The color is superb! All of the initial words of the titles were gilded; a glorious tribute to an achievement of excellence. Various scholars at the time of publication praised the book highly, singling out the excellent quality of Ehret's watercolor studies, as well as Haid's fidelity to them. In a letter to Linnaeus in the 1750's, Dr. Trew called the book "one of the miracles of our century in the natural sciences." In the 1960's, Claus Nissen wrote "the Plantae Selectae became the most beautiful German plant...
Category
1750s Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Circle Drawing: 10 Layers
Located in London, GB
Circle Drawing: 10 Layers, graphite on paper with gouache, gold and silver, by Carali McCall (2019). Consisting of a collection of durational-drawing artworks in which McCall draws with graphite on paper for hours at a stretch, these time-based works have been compiled and then carefully measured to explore the depth and sculptural means of drawing materials. Each layer is hand-cut in the shape of a circle, unveiling and superseding the work that came before. As cutaways, excitingly, this new work advances the elaboration of McCall’s contemporary art practice. In new condition. The artwork has been recently framed in walnut with non-reflective museum glass. Signed by the artist on the rear of the work.
About the Artist: Carali McCall is an emerging artist whose works are internationally recognised. A Canadian born in 1981, she is based in London, UK. McCall was awarded a PhD from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and her work is featured in the upcoming publication by Bloomsburg Publishing, 'Performance Drawing: New Practices since the 1960s'.
A finalist in the 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, McCall’s work is currently touring the United Kingdom and is situated in private and public collections curated alongside artworks by Picasso and Damien Hirst.
Other notable exhibitions include: Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, (2012), Kenny Schachter’s Rove Gallery, Hoxton Square, London (2008), Folkestone Fringe Festival (2014), Woolff Gallery, London UK (2017) and EMPIRE II...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Diana #1#6
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Water color, Platinum leaf and thread
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Chasm" - Minimalist Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Minimalist abstract done in watercolor, acrylic and metallic paint (gold and light gray/blue). Titled, signed and dated on verso: "Chasm, de Joly, '88", Presented in a brick red sta...
Category
1980s Modern Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold
Astronomie des Dames
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
DAMIEN HIRST
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor, gesso and gilding on BFK paper. Drawing of a medieval styled woman in front of a pharmacy/restaurant and bar. Satire.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Carali McCall, Work no. 1 (Circle Drawing) Gold/Red, 2hours 24minutes, 2018
Located in London, GB
'Work no. 1 (Circle Drawing), Gold/Red, 2hours 24minutes, 2018’ graphite on 315 gsm Heritage Fine Art Paper by Carali McCall (born 1981).
McCall began her ‘Circle Drawing' artworks in 2004 where she focuses on the durational element and physical process of drawing. Using graphite on paper she draws her full arm's length in a continuous circular motion to the point of complete exhaustion.
During this physically demanding process, her position and ability to extend the arm diminishes to the extent she can no longer hold the graphite. McCall quotes, 'an important aim is to maintain a constant and continuous visible line that embodies time and energy. While performing, painfully, my entire body is noticeably putting effort into the drawing.'
This intense action and durational element often cause the paper to fatigue and rip, which is often identified as her distinctive trademark.
In McCall’s new addition to the series, materials such as Gold and Gouache are used to treat the surface and bring another layer of reference to important art historical processes. The combination of these new materials and grand scale of this practice, make McCall’s work particularly striking.
About Artist: Carali McCall is an emerging artist whose works are internationally recognised. A Canadian artist born in 1981, she is based in London, UK. McCall was awarded a PhD from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and her work is featured in the upcoming publication by Bloomsburg Publishing, 'Performance Drawing: New Practices since the 1960s'.
A finalist in the 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, McCall’s work is currently touring the United Kingdom and is situated in private and public collections curated alongside artworks by Picasso and Damien Hirst.
Other notable exhibitions include: Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, (2012), Kenny Schachter’s Rove Gallery, Hoxton Square, London (2008), Folkestone Fringe Festival (2014), Woolff Gallery, London UK (2017) and EMPIRE II...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Oreo Trochilus Leucopleurus (Hummingbird)
By John Gould
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN GOULD
A Monograph of the Trochilidae,
or Family of Humming-birds.
Drawn and lithographed by John Gould,
Elizabeth Gould, H.C. Ritcher, and W. Hart.
Richard Bowler Sharp supplement 1880-87.
Published by John Gould.
Printed by Hullmandel and Watson.
London, 1849-61.
Lithographs with original hand-color.
Excepting the supplement, most with gold leaf illumination.
418 plates.
John Gould was the most prolific ornithologist and recorder of birds in England during the 19th century. Born a gardener's son, he was raised on the royal estate at Windsor. He became a gardener at Ripley Castle, where he learned the art of taxidermy, a skill so useful in his future career. In 1827, N.A. Vigors required a taxidermist for the newly formed Zoological Society of London; the job came to Gould who moved to London and married Elizabeth Coxen. She was to become a skilled collaborator, both as draughtsman and as supervisor in the lithographic shop. It was Elizabeth who was responsible for transferring the drawings made by Gould, from the specimens sent to him from all over the world, onto lithographic stone.
Unable to find a publisher, Gould resolved to publish his works himself. Illustrating over 3000 species of birds and animals and producing over forty folio volumes, Gould's works became great financial successes. He realized a considerable fortune.
The most well known prints are from his outstanding monograph on hummingbirds. They are unequaled in the history of ornithology. The brilliant coloring is highlighted with gold and a transparent luster creating metallic hues, a technique which has never been successfully reproduced. The birds appear in charming groups of twos and threes surrounded by realistic foliage. Each bird is drawn to scale and is anatomically correct to the smallest detail.
References: John Gould’s Hummingbirds...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Diana #1#7
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Water color, Platinum leaf and thread
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Un Planete et ses Satellites
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
Diana #1#9
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Water color, 24 crt Gold leaf and Lace
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
J.J. Grandville
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
La Mauvais Etoile
Located in Florham Park, NJ
J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47).
aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard
Les Etoiles.
Text by Joseph Mery (1798-1865).
Engraved by Geoffroy.
Paris, 1849.
Steel engravings with original hand...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art by Medium: Watercolor
Materials
Gold Leaf
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