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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Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
A master of ...
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1960s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Two Studies of Henriette (Head of the artist's wife & The Artist's wife writing
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Studies of Henriette (Left: Head of the artist's wife, Right: The Artist's wife writing a letter)
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1928-1930
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Image/sheet size: 9 3/8 x 11 inches
Condition: Excellent
Colors fresh and unfaded
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
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19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
Watercolor on laid paper, mounted to support of old Albumin photograph mount
Signed and dated lower left (see photo)
The watercolor is mounted on support that is the backing for a vintage albumin photograph of Moulin Huet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, c. 1850's
Condition: Mounted to verso of albumin photograph mount (see photo)
Glue residue outside of image/sheet on recto
Colors fresh
No other issues to note
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour.
Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter.
His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist.
Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804
Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines
Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites...
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1840s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore.
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Gathering Vraic on a Jersey Shore. c. 1937. Ink and watercolor on 'Castle Linen Tolli & Harvey LD London' countermarked paper. 7 1/8 x 13 1/2 (sheet 12 1/2 x 16 1/4). Good condition, apart from small professionally repaired paper losses at the corners, from previous hinges. Dedicated 'To my friend Harold James Bailey E.B.' and annotated 'To wish you a glad glow of happiness for Christmas and the New Year'. From the collection of the famous Blampied scholar and collector, Harold J. Bailey, who wrote an article, 'Edmund Blampied: Artist and Philosopher' in the Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1937). Housed in a 15 1/2 x 21 1/2-inch Whistler style gold wood frame.
In the left rear section is a Martello or Conway tower, built as a fortiffiction. A Jersey Round Tower Coastal towers stand all along the coast of the island. The British built 22 round towers, one similar square tower, and eight Martello towers towards the end of the 18th Century and in the early to mid-19th Century, but now only 24 remain, including seven of the Martellos.
Vraic is a seaweed found in the Channel Islands. The main use of vraic is for spreading over potato fields during the winter. It is then ploughed into the soil before the potatoes are planted in late winter and spring. Vraic was traditionally gathered by horse and cart in Grouville Bay and St Ouen's Bay, and in smaller quantities at Le Hocq and Havre des Pas. The practice continues using...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee]
By Charles Paul Gruppe
Located in Storrs, CT
Charles Paul Gruppé. Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee] c. 1892. Watercolor. 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 (framed 19 1/2 x 23 1/2). Signed, lower left. Housed in an archival French mat and champ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
![Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3352/1579193458471/frameb3_master.JPG?width=240 "charles paul gruppe")
Sunderland Flying Boat R.A.A.F. Attacking Italian U Boat
By Roland Davies
Located in New York, NY
Original monochrome gouache illustration for the Sphere No. 2215. London, July 4, 1942.
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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England, 1905
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, in the orig...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two Dueñas.
By Donn Russell
Located in Storrs, CT
Two Dueñas. c. 1960. Watercolor and gouache. 13 x 17. Signed and annotated 'SPAIN' lower right. Housed in a 21 x 25-inch black wood frame.
Donn Russell is one of Nantucket Island's...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Mejdel Yaba
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Mejdel Yaba. 20 September, 1918 Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper. 8 1/8 x 22. Provenance: The Fine Art Society. Annotated, upper left, "due N at ???' Dated on the ink drawing on ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
untitled (Street Scene Mexico)
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Mexican Landscape (Man Walking on Street)
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Signed with the estate stamp lower right (see photo)
From the Estate of the Artist with the artist's estate stamp lower right.
C. 1960's
Condition: excellent
Image/Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans Mitchell. Soon, the Rorimer-Brooks design company, the developer Van Swerngen brothers, as well as the Sterling Welch and Halle Bros. department stores realized the extent of Grauer's talent and eagerly employed him. Grauer’s work during this time included architectural renderings for Shaker Square, Moreland Courts, and other many other projects commissioned by Cleveland architects. Grauer also remained true to his roots as a master designer of stained glass windows. With his work in such high demand, Grauer received a commission in 1921 to paint murals for the French Grill...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
View of the Kagermeer
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Storrs, CT
Ink and watercolor on paper. 3 1/2 x 5 1/4. Unsigned. Excellent condition on cream laid paper, tipped onto a backing sheet at the top corners. Annotated "Tavernier" verso, and "Hendr...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
UNTITLED - SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA
By Gerhard Marcks
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GERHARD MARCKS (1889 1981)
(SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA) 1933. Graphite on wove paper, signed,
dated, 14 ¼” x 7”. Sheet 15” x 10”. S...
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1930s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Original Painting for a Japanese Magazine Cover or Romance Novel
By Tatsumi Shimura
Located in Burbank, CA
Painting for a Japanese magazine cover, or possibly a romance novel. One can infer from the dramatic juxtaposition that it may have been designed for a s...
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1960s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Spring: Iris and Tradescantia
By Pang Tseng-Ying
Located in Storrs, CT
Spring: Iris and Tradescantia. c. 1973. Watercolor on Japanese mulberry paper. 17 7/8 x 12 1/2. Signed 'Ying' and sealed. Housed in a green 20 x 16-inch green French mat and a 25 1/2...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jerusalem
By Percy John Delf Smith, R.D.I.
Located in Storrs, CT
1931. Pencil, ink and watercolor. 9 1/4 x 15 (framed 18 1/2 x 24 1/2). Signed and dated in pencil. Housed in a silk mat and an elegant carved gold leaf frame.
Twelve of the artist'...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, India Ink, Ink
Skyscrapers.
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Storrs, CT
Skyscrapers. c. 1950. Pastel. 29 3/4 x 19 7/8 (framed 37 x 27). Provenance: The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Signed, lower right. Housed in a stunn...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
Looking Away (a sensual young woman reflects on her future as she ponders past)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil drawing
Tom Leveritt (1976) was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, got a first at Cambridge, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Ro...
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
UNTITLED DRAWING
By William Gropper
Located in Portland, ME
Gropper, William (American, 1897-1977). UNTITLED DRAWING. Blue chalk
on fibrous handmade paper. Signed lower right, and inscribed at left
to Irwin and Sarah Lefcourt. 26 1/2 x 20 1/...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
untitled (Woman and Cat)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite on paper
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20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
UNTITLED COMPOSITION
By De Hirsch Margules
Located in Portland, ME
Margules, De Hirsh. UNTITLED COMPOSITION, Ink on paper, 1962. Inscribed and signed in pencil within the image. 28 x 37 inches, 711 x 940 mm. In very good condition.
Margules (1899-1...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
NUDE IN ARMCHAIR
By Philip Evergood
Located in Portland, ME
Evergood, Philip (American 1901-1973). NUDE IN ARMCHAIR. Pencil on paper, 1950. Signed and dated, lower right, and inscribed, lower left "For David Rust July '52 P.E." 22 1/2 x 18 5...
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Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
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1960s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Gouache
New Orleans Sportin House
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New Orleans Sportin House
Pen and ink on paper, 1951
Signed in ink, titled and dated in pencil (see photos)
Condition: Corners are pasted to support sheet, some staining in image.
Image/sheet size: 15 5/8 x 18 inches
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, patron and friend of the artist
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
By Henry Somm
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890
Signed lower left (see photo)
A scene of the night life near the Moulin Rouge, Paris. The Moulin Rouge is the famous cabaret located in the old wind mill building in the right distance of this image. It was the center of fin de siecle culture in Paris.
Condition: Slight yellowing to the sheet from age.
Sight size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches
Frame size: 14-1/8 x 10-3/4 x 1/2"
Provenance: Eric G. Carlson (1940-2016), art historian and noted art dealer
François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).
“Somm is above all a painter and his watercolors are much sought after; he has the painter’s eye to the highest degree imaginable.” Louis Morin, Somm’s fellow artist revealed in 1893 that while his training as an academic painter forged his draughsmanship and an acute eye for colors, Somm preferred and excelled in the graphic realm. Particularly prolific, he produced a very extensive corpus of 7,500 drawings and prints, many of which were widely reproduced in journals and magazines.
In 1867, Somm’s career reached a turning point with the discovery of Japanese culture through his friendship with French collector and critic Philippe Burty and a visit to the Paris International Exhibition. More generally, Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints exerted a heavy influence on French artists at the time, and especially on the Impressionists, who were particularly inspired by the subject matter, as well as the innovative use of perspective, composition and color. Although technically not an Impressionist by pure definition, Somm’s interest in the effect of atmospheric light on shadow and color prompted Edgar Degas to invite him to participate in their 4th exhibition in 1879. However, Somm did not exhibit again with the Impressionists, and was never considered a member of the group. Rather, his work intersects between Impressionism, Symbolism and Japonism. In fact, while his drypoints and etchings reflect a more literal borrowing of Japanese elements than the work of Whistler or Monet, they also clearly anticipate the future work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Although Somm was 20 years older than Toulouse-Lautrec, both artists developed a friendship, as habitués of the Chat noir, a cabaret founded by Rodolphe Salis and located 84 boulevard de Rochechouart in Montmartre. More than a cabaret, the Chat noir also became an important gathering place for writers, poets, composers, musicians, and artists living in Montmartre. For Somm, a founding member of this artistic circle, it also served as a unique environment, where he could express his limitless imagination as active participant to the events – notably the literary soirées organized by the hydropathic group – and illustrator of the Chat noir journal.
In 1886, Somm, in collaboration with Georges Auriol, initiated the Chat noir’s first puppet show, which subsequently evolved into shadow theater. Somm’s Japonism and sense of humor appealed to Toulouse-Lautrec, and this influence is echoed in Lautrec posters advertising two other Montmartre nightspots, namely Le Mirliton and Le Divan Japonais...
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Late 19th Century French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
STREET ACAPULCO
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926)
STREET ACAPULCO 1901-08. Color pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image, 10 x 14 inches to j...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache
ISLAND, SEA, AND SKY I, PANAREA
Located in Portland, ME
Crossley, Greg (Canadian/American, born1952). ISLAND, SEA, AND SKY I, PANAREA. Colored pencils on black paper, 2011. Signed and dated in pencil. 5 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches (image) on a lar...
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Early 2000s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
FIGURE STUDY
By Rico Lebrun
Located in Portland, ME
Lebrun, Rico. FIGURE STUDY. Ink and wash on heavy paper, 1961. Signed
and dated "'61" in the margin, lower left. 19 1/4 x 10 inches on a
sheet of handm...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Original Drawing for the NEW MASSES - 19.5" x 15"
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLF DEHN (1895 – 1968)
ORIGINAL ART FOR THE COVER OF THE NEW MASSES, c.1930. Original ink drawing. Signed in ink lower right. Sheet and image 19 1/2 x 15...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Nude Man and Woman (Desire and sexual tension)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Is it lust? Is it love? A pencil drawing shows a nude man and a nude woman on the same page. Sexual tension and desire are paramount in this composition.
Tom Leveritt...
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING - TWO DRAWINGS.
By Cassilly Adams
Located in Portland, ME
Adams, Cassilly (American 1843-1921). NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING -
TWO DRAWINGS. Charcoal and watercolor, not dated. One signed
within the matrix of the drawing, lower right. Each about 7 x 10
inches. Both with a tack hole top and and bottom, center, and
with residue from an old mount, verso. One wih a 1/2 x 1/2 inch
loss at the top right corner. The images fresh. One shows two
hunters with grass head-dress disguises, crouched behind low
grasses,each with a rifle, a killed deer between them, and a herd
moving across the field on the far side of the grasses. The other
depicts two hunters wearing animal-skin disguises, each with a
rifle, crouched behind grasses, beyond which a small herd of
bison grazes. The Pair: $1750.00
The following is from American Western Art...
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Late 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
After the Storm — Turn-of-the Century Impressionist Watercolor, Coastal Brittany
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hayley Lever, 'After the Storm' (gallery title), also 'Sunny Afternoon', watercolor on watercolor paper, the full sheet, the image extending to the sheet edges; in very good conditio...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'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
Lower East Side Crowd
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lower East Side Crowd
Ink and ink wash on paper, c. 1910
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the initials lower right corner (see p...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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....
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Early 1900s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
'Fenway Park, Boston' — c. 1920 watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Fenway Park, Boston', watercolor, c. 1920. Signed and titled in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous work, with fresh, undiminished colors...
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1920s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
FLOWERS - Monotype from 1997 Smithsonian 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
SCHOOLGIRLS
By F. Luis Mora
Located in Portland, ME
Mora, F. Luis (Amwericn, born Uruguay, 1874-1940). UNTITLED (SCHOOLGIRLS). Drawing, pencil on paper. Not dated, but circa 1890-1910. Signed in pencil. 5 x 4 7/8 inches. Framed to 10 ...
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Tree Peonies
By Chao Chung
Located in Storrs, CT
Tree Peonies. Watercolor and sumi ink on paper mounted on silk. Image: 29 x 11 1/2. Signed with the artist's red seal. Text: "You can smell the fragrances with the spring breeze touc...
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Late 20th Century Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
St. Astruell, England — 1910 watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
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1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Hyde Park, England, 1904
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Hyde Park, London, England, 1904', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated in pencil, in the bottom left margin....
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Conté, India Ink
Standing Nude with Japanese Lanterns
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Nude with Japanese Lanterns
Ink drawing on wove paper, mounted on wove paper support, c. 1916
Signed with the estate stamp B
Provenance: Esta...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
East Gloucester, Massachusetts — 1930's watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'East Gloucester, Massachusetts', watercolor, c. 1930. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous watercolor, with fresh, undiminished colors, on off-white w...
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1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Splashes of Ohio City (No. 3)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Splashes of Ohio City (No. 3)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2012
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled and dated on verso
Part of a series of watercolors commissioned by the Cleveland Cl...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Caribbean Island [untitled].
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
The location of this early oil pastel drawing was identified by other pieces from the same drawing book. The oil pastel was a new invention - just on the market in 1921 and it appea...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
![Caribbean Island [untitled].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_3312/1494618712916/85973_master.jpg?width=240 "beal island")
Landscape with buildings and trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with buildings and trees
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 1...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Next Door Neighbor
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Next Door Neighbor
Oil pastel and ink on handmade paper, 2012
Signed vertically lower left in image (see photo)
Series: 99%
Exhibited: Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Hiden in Pla...
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2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon
Standing Female Nude
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Match stick and ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed with the estate stamp B
Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches
Created at the Kakoon Arts Klu...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper, c. 1971
Unsigned
Provenance: From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition i...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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
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Pencil
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Series: The Get Up (4 plates)
Exhibited: Occup...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very early original red conte drawing is signed "Jack L. Nesbitt, 4/21/34". On the back of the drawing, Nesbitt has written "Quick sketch from fountain on Plaza". Jack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute during this period. The figure on the drawing is of a nude young boy with both arms in the air. A very rare early work by this fine artist.
Jackson Lee Nesbitt, a noted printmaker and painter of the American Scene, dedicated his artistic career to the portrayal of ordinary people going about the business of their lives. A native of Oklahoma, Nesbitt created scenes from the Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s, but in the 1950s, when interest in his work diminished, he moved to Atlanta and established a second career in advertising. Thirty years later, Nesbitt sold his business and resumed his artistic career from Atlanta.
He was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, on June 16, 1913, the only child of LuCena Grant and Howard Nesbitt. The family resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where his father owned a commercial printing business. Jack, as Nesbitt was known, helped out in the family business until 1931, when he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Two years later Nesbitt enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. As a first-year student, he learned etching from John deMartelly, attended Ross Braught's painting class, and met his future wife, Elaine Thompson, who was a costume design student. Thomas Hart Benton, who joined the faculty in the fall of 1935, quickly became a close friend and mentor to the younger artist.
In 1937 the management of the Sheffield Steel Corporation contacted deMartelly concerning an etching commission. Because Nesbitt was an outstanding student, his teacher suggested him for the job. When Nesbitt arrived at the plant one afternoon, he was taken to the open-hearth furnace area, where he diligently sketched anonymous workers in that dramatic setting until five o'clock the following morning. On the strength of his sketches, he was commissioned to create a series of etchings illustrating different phases of the steel industry. The commission launched Nesbitt's career as a professional artist.
The commission with Sheffield Steel Corporation provided the financial security that enabled Jack and Elaine Nesbitt to marry on June 1, 1938. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute about the same time. Working as a freelance artist, Nesbitt augmented his commissioned work with genre scenes of the Midwest, and he routinely went with Benton on sketching trips to rural Arkansas.
Beginning in 1939 Nesbitt's work gained widespread recognition. Open Hearth Door, a Sheffield Steel Corporation painting, was chosen to represent Missouri in the American Art Today exhibition at the New York World's Fair. Associated American Artists selected one of his etchings, Watering Place, for an edition of 250 prints that were sold through subscription. Having a print published by the association ensured national distribution, and four more of Nesbitt's works, all of rural southern genre scenes, were later selected by the print publisher.
Over the next decade Nesbitt's work was exhibited in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma. He was awarded the Eames Prize by the Society of American Etchers in 1946, and his work was included in the book American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century, by Albert Reese. Major corporations with operations in the Midwest, including Brown and Bigelow, Butler Manufacturing Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Omaha Steel Works, Pratt and Whitney...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house...
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1940s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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