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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Untitled
By Mark Fox
Located in Houston, TX
Mark Fox
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic ink and wax crayon on paper
50 x 38 inches
Framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Acrylic
$10,000
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
IPSWICH SHANTIES
By Arthur Wesley Dow
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW (American 1857-1922)
IPSWICH SHANTIES ca. 1892
ink wash on paper, 13 7/8 x 11 inches (sheet). Signed lower left “Arthur W Dow”. Ex. co...
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1890s Tonalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
Crayon on paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Condition: three vertical folds created by the artist to transport the drawing from the tennis match ...
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1910s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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
Still Life with Tromp L'Oeil
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life with Tromp L'Oeil
Graphite and watercolor on a book page.
Signed in ink by the artist lower right corner
(see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 00916 verso)
Ray Sommer (the artist's son)
Joseph M. Erdelac (No. 18 JME verso)
Book page verso is an illustration of a Durer woodcut...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Winter - Seeming Summers Night
By June Wayne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011)
A WINTER - SEEMING SUMMER'S NIGHT, 1957 From the John Donne Series. (Conway 122, Basket 106: Gilmour 50)
Lithograph signed, title...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
The Lumber Wharf
By Gordon Grant
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) created the watercolor entitled “The Lumber Wharf” in circa 1947. It is signed in the lower left 1 inch above the paper edge. The watercolor paper size ...
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1940s Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"East Gloucester, Massachusetts' — Cape Ann Regionalism
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 colors on off-white watercolor paper...
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1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
BARK
By David Hutchinson
Located in Houston, TX
David Hutchinson
BARK, 2021
Unique archival inkjet print
24 x 18 inches (16 x 45.7 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Inkjet
Untitled (Double sided watercolor) Recto: Figures seated at a table
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper
Most probably related to the artist's creation of images surrounding Haggadah (Passover) which he started in 1930 and finished with the publication of his book in...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
New York
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This watercolor of New York City bursting with energy in the 1960s is typical of Lersy's colorful and exuberant style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
Watercolor and graphite on paper , c. 1895
Signed in script lower right (see photo)
The scene depicts the Augustus Saint-Gaudens bro...
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1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Archibald Russell.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Archibald Russell. 1935. Pencil and watercolour on watercolour board. 20 7/8 x 28 5/8. Mat line from a previous mount; otherwise excellent condition. Signed and dated in ink, low...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$3,000 Sale Price
40% Off
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
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
$900 Sale Price
45% Off
Birds & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & 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, unframed.
Image size 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers 3 — 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
Butterfly & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & 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, unframed.
Image size 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fish & Underwater Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & 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 st...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
SELF PORTRAIT IN A GERMAN MANNER - Large Monotype
By Karl Schrag
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL SCHRAG (German - American 1912 - 1995)
SELF PORTRAIT IN THE GERMAN MANNER, 1991
Monotype, Signed titled, dated and annotated "Monotype with touches of Oil color, I /I"
Plate an...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
'Cape Ann Harbor View' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nathaniel Dirk, 'Cape Ann Harbor View', vintage watercolor on watercolor paper, 1948. A fine, spontaneous rendering, with fresh, undiminished colors, in very good condition; the arti...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Fish & Underwater Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & 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, unframed.
Image size 3 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 13 x 10 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
By Peter Grippe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966
Signed in ink lower center (see photo)
Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts, May 14-22, 1966 (see label)
...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Fish & Underwater Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & 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, unframed.
Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 13 x 10 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954)
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 - THE ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso. THE 1921 UC BERKELEY YEARBOOK CONTAINED SEVERAL LEMOS PASTEL REPRODUCTIONS.
Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture.
He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department,
From Wikipedia:
Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.....
In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
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1910s Tonalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$2,500
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Graphite on wove paper
Unsigned
Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010
Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches
Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York
The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre.
"Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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1890s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Bach Cello Suite No.3 in C Major - III Courante
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bach Cello Suite No.3 in C Major - III Courante
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
A masterful example of the artist's series of music inspired works of art. Haas had the condition known as synesthesia.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 acrylic
Image size: 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Frame size: 27 1/4 x 21 inches
Synesthesia: Throughout her lifetime Haas had a condition known as synesthesia. Synesthesia, as defined by Wikipedia, is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Many famous artists, poets, musicians and authors throughout history have had synesthesia including Vincent Van Gough, Duke Ellington, Billy Joel, and Vladimir Nabokov. Haas' form of synesthesia is known as 'projective synesthesia'. With projective synesthesia Haas saw colors, shapes and/or forms when experiencing audio stimulation. Haas used...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
By Eugene Berman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
Watercolor on heavy wove paper, 1943
Signed with the artists initials, lower center of image; Dated 1943, lower center of image
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2007, realized $2,640
Condition: Excellent. Fresh colors. Framed with conservation glass.
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/4"
Frame size: 20 3/4 x 17
Berman brothers (painters)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Nude woman lying - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
A pencil drawing with ink wash
Tom Leveritt (1976) was ...
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Characters from the Sketchbooks (from September Storm plus Self Portrait)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a page from the artist's sketchbooks. Six pencil drawings show figures that might have been in preparation for future lithographs, Certainly the woman with the umbrella could have been an early iteration for September Storm. There is also a self portrait of Nesbitt. Clearly the works are authentic if unsigned. Provenance: from the Nesbitt studio.
From workers wrestling with heavy machinery to a lone horseman traveling down a rut-filled country road; from the animated crowd at a livestock auction to the dignified worshippers at a serene Sunday service; Jackson Lee Nesbitt chose to represent the essence of humanity and the nobility of ordinary folk striving to get along as best they can. He studied with Thomas Hart Benton and John Demartelly...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Illustration of landing anti-tank guns and jeeps by parachute.
By Bryan De Grineau
Located in New York, NY
Original charcoal and gouache illustration for Illustrated London News. London, 1944.
Category
1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
W. H. AUDEN
By David Levine
Located in Portland, ME
Levine, David. W. H. AUDEN. Drawing, ink on paper, 1970. Signed "D.
Levine 70, lower right, and inscribed on the verso, "Auden Look July
14, 1970," indicating that this caricature d...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
$5,000 Sale Price
33% Off
The Ruby R
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'The Ruby R', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, on off-white watercolor paper; the image extending to the sheet edges....
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Children Sleeping)
By Amalia Polleri
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No. XIX
By Michael Tracy
Located in Houston, TX
Michael Tracy
In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No XIX, 1992
22 1/2 x 30 in (57.2 x 76.2 cm), unframed
25 1/2 x 33 1/2 in (64.8 x 85.1 cm), framed
JPHB 5649
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona. 1920. Watercolor on watercolor board. Study for Seeber 189. 10 3/8 x 14 1/4. Signed lower left; titled verso. An exquisitely subtl...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Veillee Sepulchrale; Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
By Eugene Berman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veillee Sepulchrale
Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
Pen and ink on rose colored Canson watermark paper, 1944
Signed in ink with the artist's initials lower center (see photo)
Dated 1944 lower center;
Titled in ink upper left corner (see photo)
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2010, realized $900.
John Popplestone (1928-2013), Akron, OH collector, noted psychologist and author
Berman brothers (painters)
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Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Pen
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
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Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache
$900 Sale Price
45% Off
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")
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Man and Woman (Desire and sexual tension) - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
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
Untitled (Seated Young Woman)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Seated Young Woman)
Graphite on Veritable Papier d'Arches wove paper, 1970
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/sheet size: 15 x 11 1/4 inch...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Along the Avenue
Located in Storrs, CT
Ruben Gelardi's depiction of a yellow tram in Copenhagen. Pastel on paper measures 15 7/8 x 20; frame dimensions measure 22 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 1 1/4. Artist'...
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1950s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Maisons dans l'Allier
By Louis Neillot
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right and dedicated: "a Madame Bertram amicalement"
Madame Bertram is the wife of Abel Bertram (1871-1954), a post-impressionist artist who with his wife were close frie...
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20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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
$595 Sale Price
30% Off
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
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Ink, India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$1,350 Sale Price
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'Fenway Park, Boston' — New England Post-Impressionism
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
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Watercolor
$2,700 Sale Price
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A Self Portrait
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
A Self Portrait. c. 1932. Ink drawing on wove paper. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 (sheet 10 x 7). Provenance: the artist's daughter. Unsigned. A unique silhouette housed in an archival French doubl...
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Early 20th Century Renaissance Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
CLE Series: Under and Beyond
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
"Under and Behind"
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and urban neighborhoods surrounding him,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled (Wizard Fantasy)
By Morris Louis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Wizard Fantasy)
Pen and ink on paperboard, 1948
Signed and dated by the artist lower right
Extremely rare "Middle Period" drawing. One of two drawings that were given by the artist to Jeanette Kear, Chevy Chase, MD which were signed and dated by the artist. All others in the exhibition are from sketchbooks and have the estate stamp and numbering.
Exhibited at National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Dec. 6 1979-Feb. 3, 1980
and
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Feb. 22-April6, 1980
Illustrated twice in the resulting catalog, The Drawings of Morris Louis, by Diane Upright Headly, Harvard Univeristy and author of the catalog essay and entries. (See photos)
Condition: Mounted to paper board by owner, Jeanette Kear for framing
Glazed with glass
Image size: 13 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches
Frame size: 20 x 23 x 3/4 inches
Provenance: Jeanette F. Kear, Chevy Chase, MD
Illustrated: National Collection of Fine Art, 1979: "The Drawings of Morris Louis,"
Catalog No. 1, illustrated D1, reproduced p. 73
Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed an art movement that is known today as the Washington Color Schoo
Early life and education
From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts (now Maryland Institute College of Art) on a scholarship, but left shortly before completing the program. Louis worked at various odd jobs to support himself while painting, and in 1935 was president of the Baltimore Artists' Association. From 1936 to 1940, he lived in New York City and worked in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. During this period, he knew Arshile Gorky, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jack Tworkov. He also dropped his last name.
Work
Color field painting
He returned to his native Baltimore in 1940 and taught privately. In 1948, he pioneered the use of Magna paint—a newly developed oil-based acrylic paint made for him by his friends, New York paintmakers Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden. In 1952, Louis moved to Washington, D.C. Living in Washington, D.C., he was somewhat apart from the New York scene and he was working almost in isolation. During the 1950s he and a group of artists that included Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Anne Truitt and Hilda Thorpe...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso)
Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940
Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo)
Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil
Untitled (Study for The Aerialists)
By John Steuart Curry
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Study for The Aerialists)
Graphite on paper, 1932
Signed lower right in pencil: "John Steuart Curry"
Dated: 1932 in pencil
Exhibited:
Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC (label), Master Drawings, Oct. 13, 2011-Nov. 12, 2011 (see photo of label)
Arkansas Arts Center (label), 44th Collector Show & Sale, Nov. 30-December 30, 2012, Offered at $22,000.
(see photo of label)
This drawing is closely related to a painting by Curry entitled The Aerialists, 1932, once in the Erskine Collection, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is part of a group of preliminary drawings and three finished paintings executed by Curry around 1932 which were based on The Flying Cadonas. The painting The Flying Cadonas is an icon of American art purchased by the Whitney Museum of Art and now on permanent exhibition.
There are other know studies for these works, nos. 199 through 222 and in John Steuart Curry: Rural America, page 32 (Mongerson Wunderlich, Chicago, 1990.
Provenance:
Mrs. Kathleen Curry (artist’s widow), included in the estate schedule of works
Treadway Toomey Auction, Oak Park, Illinois, 2009
Don Joint, New York
An important American Regionalist drawing.
Like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry was a major American scene painter of the 1930s. His subjects were taken from American history and his most famous mural, The Tragic Prelude...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
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
'Meeting Hall, Rockport' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A fine spontaneous rendering in watercolor, with fresh colors, on watercolor paper. Signed lower right, with the artist's notation verso H 12, indicating his 12rd work of 1950. A mid...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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