Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England — British Post-Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
An early 20th-century Hayley Lever watercolor depicting fishing boats docked at the St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England. A fine, spontaneous rendering on watercolor paper, with fresh ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Hairdresser — vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
By Leonard Nowak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'Hairdresser', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove draw...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, India Ink
The Endeavour.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Endeavour. c.1935. Pencil and watercolor on watercolor board. 14 3/8 x 20 7/8. Signed in pencil, lower right; titled in pencil, verso. Housed in a subtle 23 1/2 x 36-inch light ...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$2,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Choice I - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Radek Husak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Radek Husak, a contemporary process-driven mixed media artist, was born in Poland i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pigment
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
FLOWERS - Exhibited in 1997 Smithsonian Monotype Exhibition
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945)
(FLOWERS) 1919
Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½”
Monotypes are unique works of art that fall between printmaking a...
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1810s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Preliminary Drawing for the color aquatint "New Orleans, Street Gossip"
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Drawing for the color aquatint "New Orlaens, Street Gossip"
Signed by the artist in pencil lower left
Graphite on tracing paper, 1916-1917
An impr...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Mirrored XXXIII - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Radek Husak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Rad Husak, a contemporary process-driven mixed media artist, was born in Poland in
...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pigment
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Mountainous Landscape, Mexico
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mountainous Landscape, Mexico
Monotype in colors on heavy paper, c. 1960's
Signed in ink lower left "G Ceniceros"
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 6 x 14 1/2" (15.24 x 36.83cm)
Sheet size: 12 7/8 x 19 11/16 inches
Guillermo Ceniceros (born May 7, 1939) is a Mexican painter and muralist, best known for his mural work in Mexico City, as well as his figurative easel work. He began his mural painting career as an assistant to mural painters such as Federico Cantú, Luis Covarrubias and then David Alfaro Siqueiros who was a mentor and a key influence. Ceniceros is the most notable of Siqueiros' assistants. While he has experimented with abstract expression, his easel work mostly classifies as figurativism and is influenced by the geometrical construct of Mexican muralism. He has had over 300 individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and the International stage. His work has been recognized by the Mexican Ministry of Culture and several of its institutions. He has painted over 20 large scale Mural Paintings with some of the most notable being the large scale work for the Legislative Palace of San Lazaro (Mexico's Legislative Building) as well as his murals in the Metro Subway System. He is a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. In 1995, the State of Durango, Ceniceros' native state, opened to the public the Guillermo Ceniceros Art Museum within the oversight of the Ministry of Culture. Ceniceros has been reviewed by notable critics such as Berta Taracena, Raquel Tibol, Alaide Foppa, Graciela Kartofel, José Angel Leyva and Eduardo Blackaller among others. There are several publications about his work including a vast review of his art life endeavors developed by the Ministries of Culture of Durango and Nuevo León. He is married to the artist Esther González and lives in his studio house in the Colonia Roma of Mexico City.
Life
Interview with the subject Ceniceros and Siqueiros
Ceniceros was born in a small village called El Salto, located in the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the Mexican state of Durango. His father was a woodworker who made toys and furniture in his workshop. His father's shop would become an influence in Ceniceros' life long interest in developing his own innovative working tools. When he was twelve the family moved to Monterrey to seek better economic opportunities. There he attended school and when he was fourteen he entered the Fabricación de Máquinas, S.A. (FAMA), a school/business, where he studied industrial drawing. He considers this early training important as it taught him the importance of geometry, use of space and materials. While at FAMA he met painters Gerardo Cantú and Ignacio Ortiz, and collaborated with them on sketches for publications of Alfonso Reyes, Pedro Garfias and other notable writers.
In 1955, he enrolled in the Taller de Artes Plásticas at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, graduating in 1958. At the Taller he met fellow Mexican artist Esther González, whom he married and with whom he has two children.
In 1962 he moved to Mexico City with the goal of working in the Taller of the Maestro David Alfaro Siqueiros. He became Siqueiros' first assistant working on his last murals while at the same time working at night on his easel painting work. Siqueiros supported Ceniceros decision to leave his Taller and supported him in his career until his death in 1974. By then Ceniceros was already a break thru artist having had several individual exhibitions including the prestigious Palacio De Bellas Artes as well as other recognitions. Thru the 70's and 80s Ceniceros continued his work with an emphasis on exhibits and exchanges abroad and traveling to Eastern Europe, Cuba, China, Chile, Ecuador, Italy and the United States. His Mexico City contemporaries and circle would include names that today have become reference such as Sebastian, José Luis Cuevas, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Benjamin Dominguez, Gustavo Arias Murueta, Byron Galvez, Leonel Maciel among others. In the 70's his Row-House neighbors in the colonia Roma were Francisco Toledo and Alejandro Jodorowski.
His focus on mural painting is renewed in the mid 80's thru his large scale work in the Metro Subway System with him working on major commissions consistently and into the new century. While the Mexican school of Muralism had been challenged by the Ruptura members, the interest in Mural painting as a unique national form of expression continues.
He lives in Mexico City at a studio/home in the Colonia Roma. His home is a frequent gathering place for writers, poets, painters, singers, actors and journalists. He has a strong interest in Spanish language literature. Juan Rulfo...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
By Gaston Lachaise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Erotica, which lists Lachaise as one of the artists exhibited.
Part of small group of drawings of the male nude, done late in the artist's life, many of which are in museums (MMA, FAMSF, Whitney, Yale, Princeton).
Almost identical to the Lachaise drawing in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which is the same size and depicts the same model. (see photo)
Very similar to the smaller Lachaise drawing in the Whitney Museum of American Art (Accession number 32.2).
The Metropolitan Museum has a Lachaise male nude drawing with one arm upraised (Accession Number: 68.91.1)
Provenance: Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Alan Stone Projects, New York (see photo of label)
Condition: excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic for UV protection
22K gold leaf frame
Image size: 17 3/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Regarding Alan Stone Gallery:
"Founded in 1960 by visionary connoisseur and dealer Allan Stone (1932 – 2006), the gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century.
Celebrated for his eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th Century, Allan Stone was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and a passionate collector of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. He also promoted and collected the work of a younger generation of artists, including Robert Arneson, Jack Whitten, Robert Mallary, Lorraine Shemesh...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Double sided crayon drawing in colors: Study for "The Shoe" (recto)
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double sided crayon drawing:
Front: Study for "The Shoe"
Reverse: Studies of Figures
Blue crayon, red and black crayons
Image size: 19.25 x 15.375 inches
Frame size: 30 x 25 1/2 inch...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th century
Provenance:
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)
Phillip Duechnes Bookseller, New York, c. 1948
References And Exhibitions:
Otto F. Ege Box Folio 27
Ege describes these folios as: Epistolary (Epistolarium), Italy, Middle 15th century
Latin Text: Rotunda or Round Gothic Script, square rhetorical neumes
Sister folio are in the following rare book libraries:
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Public Library
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland Public Library
Denison University
Kent State University
Kenyon College...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored pencil, 1926
Signed in pencil l...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Butterfly and Heart
By Damien Hirst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Butterfly and Heart
Drawing in black felt pen over color screenprint 'spot' composition
Signed in full (bottom edge) and dedicated (top edge)
Dedicated by the artist
Annotated in fe...
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2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
With the artist's original presentation (Frame and matting)
Two similar titles were exhibited in The ...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
By David Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Unsigned
Annotated in pencil verso:
"This drawing was made by David Smith in the Matulka class at A. S. L. 1931
Signed
Doroth...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Corrected RC Site Plan, 1988/92
By James Turrell
Located in Houston, TX
James Turrell
Corrected RC Site Plan, 1988/92
Ink on printed paper
35 x 45
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20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Felt Pen, Black and White
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Field Study #749
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
Field Study #749, 2020
Oil on vellum
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Vellum
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Graphite on paper, 2005
Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo)
In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Madonna and Child and Saint with Two Angels
Located in Chicago, IL
This confidently executed drawing is a study related to Maratta’s painting La Vergine appare a S.Stanislao Kotska 1687 in the second chapel to the right, in the church of S. Andrea a...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Model Dressing
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist
Exhibited:
Homage to Béla Czóbel: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings,R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1990: no. 56 and reprodu...
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1960s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Diadem
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Diadem
Black Crayon on paper, 1957
Signed and dated lower left
The preliminary drawing for the 1957 sculpture of the same name in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs
Black crayon on paper, 1971
Signed and dated lower right (see photos)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Michael and Alan Lipton (sons)
...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Male Lying Nude - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November 30 '36 (1936). Clearly the works are authentic and this sketch is signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Preliminary drawing for the painting entitled Trapezoids
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on graph paper
The final composition measured 28 x 28 inches
Annotated #615 in the lower right corner of the sheet
Provenance: Francine Seders Galler...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
UNTITLED (SURREALISTIC HOUSE)
Located in Portland, ME
Smith, Jules Andre (American, 1880-1959). UNTITLED (SURREALISTIC HOUSE). Watercolor on heavy paper. Not dated. Signed, lower right 18 X 13 inches. In very good condition.
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
Refer...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
watecolor and gouache on paper, 1960
Unsigned
Beni Kosh estate stamp No. 717 verso, unsigned.
(see photo)
Condition: Minor condition issues
minor folds
Not objectionable
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 24 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Bingham Vance, Shaker Heights...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Commedia dell'arte – Four Character Studies in Watercolor, 1920s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Unidentified artist, 'Commedia dell’arte' – four character studies (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pantalone giovane, Tartaglia), watercolor and pencil, c. 192...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
Gouache and watercolor on paper, c. 1950
Signed with the estate stamp signature lower left (see photo)
This is a preliminary study for a large exhibition painting...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled (Young woman seen from the back)
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Young woman seen from the back)
Sanguine crayon, charcola and watercolor on paper, c. 1910
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 5169 lower left corner
Provenance:
Estate of ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Grand Canyon —vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
By Leonard Nowak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'Grand Canyon', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove dra...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, India Ink
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled Abstraction
By Medard P. Klein
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper, c. 1946
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Provenance: estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Conditio...
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1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Family Group
By George Morland
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Family Group
Drawing in Chinese white, sepia and bistre ink, c. 1790
Signed lower left: G. Morland (see photo)
The present work appears to be a preliminary study for two Morland paintings where the artist uses portions of this preliminary study in finished exhibition paintings. The strongest association is with the painting entitled The Cottage Door (1790), now in the collection of Royal Holloway College, University of London. Morland uses the same small girl (on left side of this sheet) holding a doll on a chair in the exact same pose. The second painting entitled The Tea Garden (Tate Gallery, London, c. 1790) incorporates similar poses and gestures of the three other figure studies on this sheet.
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (Stock # D25924, see photo)
Maynard Walker Gallery, New York ( see photo of label)
Davis Galleries, New York, their Eagle stamp and stock number (see photo)
Ms. Gloria Kaplan (1930-2011) New York City
Regarding Maynard Walker:
Maynard Walker New York Times obit:
"Maynard Walker, an art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters, died of pneumonia Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Carbondale, Pa. He was 89 years old and lived in Lake Ariel, Pa.
In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry.
After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war."
Condition: Aging to paper
Slight fading to ink
Tiny spotting in image
All consistent with the age of the drawing
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches
George Morland was born in London on 26 June 1763. He was the son of Henry Robert Morland, and grandson of George Henry Morland, said by Cunningham to have been lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, while other biographers go so far as to say that he had only to claim the baronetcy in order to get it. Morland began to draw at the age of three years, and at the age of ten (1773) his name appears as an honorary exhibitor of sketches at the Royal Academy. He continued to exhibit at the Free Society in 1775 and 1776, and at the Society of Artists in 1777, and then again at the Royal Academy in 1778, 1779 and 1780.
His talents were carefully cultivated by his father, who was accused of stimulating them unduly with a view to his own profit, shutting the child up in a garret to make drawings from pictures and casts for which he found a ready sale. The boy, on the other hand, is said to have soon found a way to make money for himself by hiding some of his drawings, and lowering them at nightfall out of his window to young accomplices, with whom he used to spend the proceeds in frolic and self-indulgence. It has been also asserted that his father, discovering this trick, tried to conciliate him by indulgence, humouring his whims and encouraging his low tastes.
He was set by his father to copy pictures of all kinds, but especially of the Dutch and Flemish masters. Among others he copied Fuseli's Nightmare and Reynolds's Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. He was also introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and obtained permission to copy his pictures, and all accounts agree that before he was seventeen he had obtained considerable reputation not only with his friends and the dealers, but among artists of repute. A convincing proof of the skill in original composition which he had then attained is the fine engraving.
It is said that before his apprenticeship to his father came to an end, in 1784, Romney offered to take him into his own house, with a salary of £300, on condition of his signing articles for three years. But Morland, we are told, had had enough of restraint, and after a rupture with his father he set up on his own account in 1784 or 1785 at the house of a picture dealer, and commenced that life which, in its combination of hard work and hard drinking, is almost without a parallel.
Morland soon became the mere slave of the dealer with whom he lived. His boon companions were "ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks, and pugilists." In this company the handsome young artist swaggered, dressed in a green coat, with large yellow buttons, leather breeches, and top boots. "He was in the very extreme of foppish puppeyism", says Hassell; "his head, when ornamented according to his own taste, resembled a snowball, after the model of Tippey Bob, of dramatic memory, to which was attached a short, thick tail, not unlike a painter's brush." His youth and strong constitution enabled him to recover rapidly from his excesses, and he not only employed the intervals in painting, but at this time, or shortly afterwards, taught himself to play the violin. He made also an effort, and a successful one, to free himself from his task-master, and escaped to Margate, where he painted miniatures for a while. In 1785 he paid a short visit to France, whither his fame had preceded him, and where he had no lack of commissions.
Returning to London, he lodged in a house at Kensal Green, on the road to Harrow, near William Ward, intercourse with whose family seems for a time to have had a steadying influence. It resulted in his marriage with Miss Anne Ward...
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1790s English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Modele au Chapeau or Child with a Large Hat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the estate stamp initials lower right, Lugt 388a (see photo)
Provenance:
Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
...
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1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Farm Horse Drinking
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking
Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
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1920s English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Atlas Cornice Drawings 2 —Vienna Secessionist
By Heinrich Brad Schmidt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Two early 20th-century Vienna Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot glued by the artist to ...
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1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Weight Lifter (L'Homme aux halteres)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
The work is signed on the lower right by Gromaire. One of Gromaire's favorite subjects were men "of the people,” whether they worked in the fields or at sea, were construction worke...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Rotterdam
By Albert Lebourg
Located in Chicago, IL
Albert Lebourg participated in the fourth and fifth Impressionist Exhibitions of 1879 and 1880. The first of these exhibitions included: Caillebotte, Cassatt, Degas, Lebourg, Monet ...
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19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored...
Category
1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Medicine Drawings
By John Cage
Located in Houston, TX
John Cage
Medicine Drawings , 1991
Handmade paper with various medicinal herbs (set of twelve)
14 x 12 in (35.6 x 30.5 cm) each
Category
20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Tourists — vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
By Leonard Nowak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'Tourists', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove drawing...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, India Ink
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN CONCEPT FOR PLACEMENT
Located in Santa Monica, CA
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN FOR THE PLACEMENT OF THE SHIP
Watercolor and gouache on board, 20 x 36 inches. Signed and dated by the artist - Segroves, 1969. The original artist concept for the placement in Long Beach Harbor in 1969. Subsequently revised several times.
The Queen after extensive renovation has just reopened to the public on December 14, 2022
Much larger than the Titanic, At 1,019 feet long and 81,000 tons (310 meters and 73,500 metric tons), the Queen Mary was one of the largest and most elegant ships of the early 20th century.
From Wikipedia:
The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard-White Star Line and built by John...
Category
1960s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
ELLSBERG - PENTAGON PAPERS TRIAL - Original Drawing - Leonard Weinglass Attorney
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DAVID ROSE (1910 – 2006)
LEONARD WEINGLASS - ELLSBERG TRIAL, 1973
Color marking pen on tracing paper. Image 12 ½ x 11 inches, sheet 15 x 18 ½ inches. Very fresh, in good condition with bright colors save for horizontal creases at the lower sheet edge slightly into the image and a few other soft creases.
Leonard Weinglass along with Leonard Boudin were attorneys for Anthony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg at the Pentagon Papers Trial in 1973. Upon his death in 2011 the NY Times called Weinglass, “perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades
Provenance: Directly from the artist David Rose to this dealer in the late 1980’s. I knew David as an artist and friend as we both lived in Los Angeles. It has been in temperature and humidity storage since its acquisition.
The Ellsberg Trial was the beginning of a long career for Rose as a court reporter
Rose’s papers are in Special Collections of USC, The University of Southern California.
The Online Archives of California Rose Biography states:
Rose's courtroom career began in 1973 with the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who released the Pentagon Papers regarding the Viet Nam War to the New York Times. (Rose received an Emmy Award nomination for his coverage of the Pentagon Papers trial.) Rose's sketches of this trial-- along with all those that would follow through the next twenty-five years-- appeared in television news broadcasts and newspapers all over the world. He saw himself as a reporter-- but with colored pencils and sketchpads as his tools. He tried to capture the emotions in the courtroom-- the tension, anger, and the body language that conveyed them. Over the years, Rose's art depicted the trials of some of the most famous-- and infamous-- personalities to make the news: Klaus Barbie (the Butcher of Lyon), Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, John Z. DeLorean, Rodney King, Imelda Marcos, Huey Newton...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
'Storm Clouds (Arizona)' — Early 20th-Century American Impressionism
By Albert Groll
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Lorey Groll, 'Storm Clouds (Arizona)', graphite on paper, c. 1914. Signed in pencil, in the image, lower left. A fine spontaneous rendering on heavy buff, wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, in good condition. With a pen and ink landscape drawing, verso.
Image size 7 5/8 x 10 inches; sheet size 10 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Ex. collection Kennedy Galleries, New York.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Albert Lorey Groll (1866-1910) was born in New York in 1866, the son of a pharmacist immigrant from Darmstadt, Germany. During his early years, he traveled to Europe to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nicholas Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz. He further pursued his studies in London and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Groll returned to New York in 1895 and moved from figure to landscape painting while expanding his interests to printmaking.
In 1904 Groll made the first of several trips to the American Southwest, traveling to Arizona with ethnographer Stewart Culin of the Brooklyn Museum. Later he went to New Mexico with his friend, the artist and illustrator William Robinson Leigh (see our 1stDibs listing no. LU53239015112 ). He focused on impressionistic scenes of Native American lands. The Laguna Pueblo people admired Groll's paintings, honoring him with the name "Chief Bald Head Eagle Eye."
Groll kept a studio in the Gainsborough Studios in Manhattan and won several awards for his work in Arizona and New York, including the Salmagundi Club Shaw Prize in 1904 and a gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1906. He was also awarded the George Inness gold medal from the National Academy of Design in 1912 for his painting of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.
In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design and, in 1919, an associate member of the Taos Society...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Woman Pulling on a Slip
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman Pulling on a Slip
Conte on paper, c. 1910
Signed lower right: "E. Shinn" (see photo of legs, signature on right)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist (see label)
Graham Gallery, N...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Composition No. 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition No. 12
Gouache on paper, c. 1926
Signed lower right: “Urban Weis” (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 16 5/8 x 10 5/8"
Frame: 21 1/2 x 15 5/8"
Provenance: Dudensing G...
Category
1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
By Everett Shinn
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Brown teapot surrounded by red onions on Yellow background
By Glenora Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
Glenny created beautiful miniature watercolors, mostly still life. This image of a bronze teapot with red onions is a unique work of art.
Glenora Rich...
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1990s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Composition in Red
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Composition in Red
c. 1960
Gouache on paper
52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins)
SF14434
$125,000
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gall...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude)
Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987
Signed lower right
Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
Category
1980s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
'After the Storm' — Coastal Brittany, Post-Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hayley Lever, 'After the Storm', also 'Sunny Afternoon', watercolor on watercolor paper, the full sheet, the image extending to the sheet edges; in very good condition. Signed 'Hayle...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,400 Sale Price
25% Off
St. Austrell, Cornwall, England
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A turn of the century view of the town of St. Austrell, Cornwall, in the morning mist of southern England. A beautifully subtle work, in muted earth tones, on buff wove drawing paper...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Colonial Dames
By Clark Hobart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CLARK HOBART (1868 – 1948)
COLONIAL DAMES Monotype signed and titled in pencil
Hobart was an early 20 c. California painter. He was on the forefront ...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Signed with the artist's initials in pencil
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Francis M. Nauman (label)
Private collection, NY
A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia.
Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library.
Biography
Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything."
At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage.
By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris.
During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student".
In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe.
Paris
The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum.
Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia.
In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s.
Philadelphia
The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
Category
1920s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$4,000
ACAPULCO
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926)
ACAPULCO 1901-08.
Colored pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image 10 x 14 inches to just ab...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
$1,320 Sale Price
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