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Medium: Watercolor
Victorian Elegance: 19th Century Watercolor, Mounted on Canvas, Dated 1885
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Step back in time to the opulence of the Victorian era with this stunningly detailed and realistic portrait of an elegantly dressed gentleman. Painted by the skilled artist Tymon, this masterpiece is a testament to the artistry and attention to detail of the late 19th century.
Executed in watercolor on paper and mounted on canvas, the technique employed by artist adds an extra layer of delicacy to the portrayal. The subtleties of color and the fine nuances of the gentleman's attire and expression are brought to life with a level of precision that speaks to the mastery of the artist.
The indistinct signature of artist...
Category
19th Century Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Watercolor
Glamorous Performer in Art Deco Black Evening Dress, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
work is matted but not framed.
Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabr...
Category
1930s Art Deco Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Woman with a butterfly in her hat. Colliers Magazine Cover
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful and charming cover concept as an attractive young women stares at a beautiful butterfly caught in the netting of her hat. Fabry executes the work with his stylised loos...
Category
1930s Art Deco Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Fred Astaire and Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair Magazine
By Robert Risko
Located in Miami, FL
Airbrush Illustration on paper
Signed Risko lower right
Blindstamp Upper Right
Published: Vanity Fair Magazine
Unframed
Category
1980s Modern Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board
Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed
He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
Category
1940s Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
1940s American Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cowboy Hanging, Killer's Trail Illustration
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...
Category
1960s American Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
1950s Photorealist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi, Gouache on Linen
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even in their homes. The rich red, orange, green, and blue hues are still incredibly vibrant on ...
Category
Early 19th Century Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Silk, Gouache, Pigment
The Swashbuckler
By Barton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Dimensions: 18.00" x 14.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor
That Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Marlo Thomas TV Show Poster
Category
20th Century Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Er...
Category
1950s American Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a woman wearing a robe and talking on the telephone.
Signed lower left.
Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early rep...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
1950s Photorealist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
If I paint us (in gold) II.II
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: gold gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Molly: Oakland to Los Angeles, CA (Positive)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silver gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadershi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Molly: Oakland to Los Angeles, CA (Negative)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silver gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadershi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Maggie: St. Mary's County, MD (Positive)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Maggie: St. Mary's County, MD (Negative)
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine illustration, April 1918
Category
1910s Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Discipline-Reading Boy
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary Chinese artist Jianyong Zeng. "Discipline-Reading Boy" depicts a boy, a necklace of thorns around his neck, reading a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Watercolor
Newsweek Cover , Visitor from the Kremlin, Russia - Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the...
Category
1950s Realist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Woman Holding Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Image of a woman holding roses.
Category
20th Century Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Performer by Jerry Williamson
Located in Pasadena, CA
Jerry Williamson (1926 - 2016) was active/lived in California, Washington / France. Jerry Williamson is known for Portrait painting, street performers, and more.
Jerry Williamson (19...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Portrait of Football coach Paul Bear Bryant
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Under Glass
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: Approximately 12.00" x 16.00"
Portrait of Football Coach Paul Bear Bryant
Category
1980s Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'The Valley of the Moon' Cosmopolitan Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a couple.
"The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail." Ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29 1/2 inches. Signed in full, lower left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London's novel "The Valley of the Moon," Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache, Watercolor
Discipline-Flying Bird
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary artist Zeng Jianyong. Executed is muted pastels of blues, pinks, white and black, "Discipline-Flying Bird...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Four Stars
By Henrietta Harris
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Henrietta Harris
Four Stars, 2014
Watercolor on Paper
22 x 16.5 inches
Signed and Dated
Four Stars (2014) by Henrietta Harris is a striking watercolor painting that captures the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
There is Only So Much Letting Go You Can Ask Someone to Do (2024), dreamscape
Located in Jersey City, NJ
There is Only So Much Letting Go You Can Ask Someone to Do (2024) by Rebecca Johnson
Flashe, dry pigment, acrylic, pastel and watercolor on 40x30" canvas with custom whitewash-stain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Pastel, Acrylic, Vinyl, Watercolor, Pigment
Untitled (Brown Green Figure)
By Kim McCarty
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Kim McCarty
Untitled (Brown Green Figure), 2006
Watercolor on paper
40 x 26 inches (101.6 x 66 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fruit Carrier
Located in Austin, TX
"The Fruit Carrier by famous contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, William Cave Thomas
Watercolor, ink, & colored pencil on paper
Size: 14...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
THE CLOWN
signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right)
gouache on cardboard
10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Cel...
Category
1950s Fauvist Watercolor Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
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