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 (polo player on horseback)
By Henry George Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist
William McGill (Keller's student)
Image size: 4 3/8 x 5 ...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Abres à Noyelles (Trees in Noyelles)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower left
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
Noyelles, where this drawing was created, is a small town in the Somme department of Northern France ...
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20th Century Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
By Charles Demuth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, c. 1934
A beautiful Provincetown beach scene, included in the catalogue raisonne.
Please see Babcoc...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
PROVINCETOWN HOUSES
Located in Portland, ME
Cadmus, Egbert (American, 1868-1939). PROVINCETOWN HOUSES. Watercolor on heavy paper. Signed in watercolor, lower left. The scene depicts a dune with a group of houses beyond, and then, further away, the water. 18 x 22 1/8. inches (sheet). A small loss to the paper at the left edge, else in excellent condition.
Egbert Cadmus is remembered as the father of Paul Cadmus, though he had a distinguished career in his own right. There is a portrait of Paul by Egbert dated 1926, and we've seen other Provincetown drawings dated 1927, so apparently the family summered there for several seasons. In 1931 Egbert Cadmus moved to Lyme Connecticut...
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Atlas Cornice Drawings 1 — Vienna Secessionist
By Heinrich Brad Schmidt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Heinrich Brad Schmidt, two early 20th-century German Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot ...
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1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cle Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
702 CLE Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and the urban neigh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
CASTLE ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HILL McKAY (1875-1941)
ARCH ROCK - SANTA MONICA, CA c. 1925-30
Watercolor, signed lower right. Sheet 14 x 18 inches.. Additional full sheet study on verso.. Generally good c...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Conference of the Birds)
By Beatriz Vidal
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beatriz Vidal, 'Untitled (Conference of the Birds)', gouache and watercolor, 1998. Signed and dated in the image, lower right. A meticulously r...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Catchin' a Mount on a Frosty Morn –
By Gordon Phillips
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gordon Phillips, 'Catchin' a Mount on a Frosty Morn', graphite, c. 1980. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, spontaneous rendering, on white, wove bri...
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20th Century Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Woodland Reflection — Mid-Century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Irving Lehman, Untitled (Woodland Reflection), watercolor, c. 1955. Unsigned, with the artist's estate stamp verso: 'Original Artwork By: IRVING G. LEHMAN Russian/American 1900-1982'...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
PORCH - MONHEGAN
By Henry Kallem
Located in Portland, ME
Kallem, Henry. PORCH - MONHEGAN. Ink on paper, not dated. Signed in ink within the matrix, lower right. 16 x 20 inches, the full sheet. In excellent condition.
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
'Gloucester' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nathaniel Dirk, Untitled (Gloucester), watercolor, with fresh colors, on watercolor paper; in fine, original condition, with the artist's tack holes (barely visible) at the sheet edg...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Circles)
Graphite on wove paper, 2007
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 16 15/16 x 14 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Pete...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #3
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #3. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Nude Seated in Chair
By William H. Bailey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Seated in Chair
Graphite on paper, 1976
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976 (see photo of label)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 14 ...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Chicken Ride
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chicken Ride
Pen and ink on paper, c. 1940
Unsigned
Annotated by the artist with his color intentions
Preliminary study for "Chicken Ride," watercolor, 1940, in the collection of Mr...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Self Portrait sketching with Vignette in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait sketching with Vignette in Profile
Graphite on thin wove paper, c. 1940's
Unsigned
Condition: Small nicks in the right margin, not affecting the image
Sheet size: 14 1/2 x 10 inches
Provenance: Paul Cadmus
Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018)
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends,
and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket
over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s
sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus,
particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed.
In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed
with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again
in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome,
with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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 "Magic Realism," French was ...
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1960s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Glen Orchy.
By David Young Cameron
Located in Storrs, CT
Glen Orchy. c. 1925. Watercolor, pencil and conte crayon on paper. 9 1/4 x 13 (sheet 10 3/8 x 13 1/4). Ex-collection L.G. Duke,purchased at Sotheby's, London '10.12.70'. Mat line; ot...
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20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$1,250 Sale Price
50% Off
2 STUDIES FOR REVOLUTION II (Grosvenor School Color Linocut)
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (British 1872-1951)
STUDIES FOR THE COLOR LINOCUT REVOLUTION II, 1931
Pencil on thin wove paper. Unsigned. Consists of two 3 inch square pencil drawings on one sheet of thin wove paper 10 x 7 3/8 inches. Preliminary studies for Power's Grosvenor School...
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1930s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$1,240 Sale Price
20% Off
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #4
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #4. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
By Martin Lewis
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #2
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #2. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Fannie Hillsmith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage and crayon drawing, 1967
Signed and dated lower center (see photo)
Condition: Small imperfections from the creative process
Small tear on the left sheet edge (repai...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
By Charles Despiau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right: C Despaiu (see photo)
Sheet size (folded format): 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Condition: Very good
Sheet fol...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Here and There #4
By Kate Shepherd
Located in Houston, TX
Kate Shepherd
Here and There #4, 2020
Enamel and transfer on paper
12 1/2 x 19 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Minou-Study of Head
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minou-Study of Head
Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1984
Signed and dated in pencil by the artist
Minou was Barnet's feline companion throughout many of his most prolific years. It has been said that if you entered Barnet's studio and Minou did not like you Barnet lost interest and dismissed you almost immediately.
Provenance:
Susan Teller Gallery, prior to 2005 (one of Barnet's friends and dealers)
Babcock Galleries, 2005-2008
This drawing is related to a similar composition reproduced in the Richard Boyle catalog for Babcock Galleries.
References:
Boyle, Will Barnet Drawings, related to works reproduced on pp. 21, 41 (see photo of page 41)
Minou is the cat on the back right.
Condition: Excellent
Stray ink and paint consistent with a working studio drawing
Archival framing with DEN Glass (see photo)
Image size: 9 x 11 7/8 inches
Frame size: 17 x 19 inches
Will Barnet
Born May 25, 1911, Beverly, Massachusetts, US
Died November 13, 2012 (aged 101), New York City, US
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.
Biography
Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher and Cy Twombly. Barnet continued his love of teaching with positions at the Cooper Union, at Yale University, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City. Barnet had three sons, Peter, Richard, and Todd Barnet, by his first wife Mary Sinclair. Barnet later married Elena Barnet, with whom he had a daughter, Ona Barnet.
Death
A longtime resident of the National Arts Club, Barnet died in New York City on November 13, 2012, at the age of 101.
Works
Barnett's works span the various "movements" of their era, from his early social realist work to his final signature style of clean lines and carefully placed volumes of solid color in a kind of minimalist representational approach. His work is concerned with humanity, yet at his core he always remained a formalist, cerebral in his approach to the elements that make up a good picture. In his interviews he articulated his well thought out principles regarding color use, composition and subject matter, in a professorial manner reflecting the theoretical acumen he brought to his teaching. Like many American painters of his generation he was digesting the evolving trends in Europe and integrating the new visual vocabulary into his American style while remaining universal, referencing his own personal history with images of his wife, his daughter, and their family pets. As James Thomas Flexner wrote, Barnet's work "makes us experience the interplay between the personal and the universal." While remaining representational, the simple elegance of the figures and their flat surfaces reflect his exploration with abstraction.
Will's artistic output spans eighty years. Few artists, other than Picasso or Monet, can claim such a long continuous period of inspired art making, nor the logical progression of moving through artistic phases: in the 1930s he was a social realist, in the 1940s a Modernist, in the 1950s an Abstract Expressionist and in the 1960s and onward he settled on a representational minimalism honed from the refinement of his earlier explorations. His early work is decidedly social realist, with sullen portraits done in dark tonalities that suggest both the struggle of the depression era and the hope in the simple love of family life. He moves out of this phase with the improving economy and in the 1940s adds vibrant color and more abstract figures, suggesting a lifting of the depression era malaise. He was a key figure in the 1940s New York movement called Indian Space Painting, artists who based their abstract and semi-abstract work on Native American art; a striking movement which had a handful of practitioners (notably Steve Wheeler...
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1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Double Pyramid Thought Form
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Double Pyramid Thought Form, 2019
Oil on aluminum
25 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (64.8 x 48.9 cm)
JPHB 5837
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
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: Estate of the Artist
...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Barrer, Gertrude (American, 1921-19920. UNTITLED. Pencil and ink on paper. 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 223x298 mm., framed to 16 x 19 inches. Provenance: The Artist; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY. This work was exbibited at Snyder Fine Art, NY, Works on Paper from the 1940s by Gertrude Barrer...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
$4,200
Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Monotype in colors, 1936
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936"
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago
Hans Hermann...
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1930s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
$1,250
Untitled (seated female nude)
By Henry Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Femake Nude
Graphite and chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Signed "Keller" and signed again with the artist's initials in a cypher
A finished life drawing most probably exhibited at...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1936
Signed "Ganso" right (see photo)
Illustrated: Esquire Magazine, "Emil Ganso, Handy Artist", July 1938, pages 58...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Crayon
UNTITLED (FARM SCENE)
Located in Portland, ME
Smith, Jules Andre (American, 1880-1959). UNTITLED (FARM SCENE). Watercolor on heavy paper. Not dated. Signed, lower right 13 x 18 inches. In very good condition.
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jazmen
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jazmen
Pen and ink on paper, 2013
Signed and titled lower right (see photo)
Annotated: “I want to go to Dunbar,…because my friends are there…”
Series: The 99% - Highland Hills
Exhib...
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2010s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Dead Tiger
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Cattle
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
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18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Building New York
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Building New York
Watercolor on paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Partial watermark: "MADE IN ENGLAND... LINEN FIBER"
Excellent, COLORS FRESH AND VIBRANT
Br...
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1910s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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.
Im...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled (Hot Air Baloon Ascent and Spectators)
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Hot Air Balloon Ascent and Spectators)
Sepia wash on wove paper, 1985
Signed and dated in ink lower right corner
From the artist's 1985 sketchbook
Probably a view of Cape C...
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1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord...
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord for Patience and Stregnth"
Verso: "I was in for a technical violation. I spent 65 days, but I thank the Lor...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Homage to Morandi
By Phyllis Sloane
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homage to Morandi
Watercolor, c. 1990
Signed lower right: Sloane
An important exhibition size watercolor by the artist.
Acquired by the Cleveland Clinic, de-accessed in 2021
Conditio...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Jack Davidson
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Davidson
Untitled, 2008
Gouache on paper
22.5 x 15 in (57.2 x 38.1 cm)
JPHB 5682
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled
By Shoichi Ida
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
molded mud-dried paper with collage elements, 1996
Signed and dated lower edge (see photo)
Annotated and titled verso
Sheet size: 24 x 7 inches
Provenance: Ralph Drake, fir...
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1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Trapping the Bird (Attraper l'Oiseau)
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right
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Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Three Graces
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Graces
Pentel marker on paper, 1965
Signed and dated by the artist lower left (see photo)
Part of a series of 100 drawings, this number 97 (annotated lower right corner)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 20 x 15 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Martha A. French Trust
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Headdress Procession
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Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Signed by the artist in ink, lower right
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #1. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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By Louis Lozowick
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Signed in ink lower left by the artist’s widow “AL” (Adele Lozowick)
Original label from early exhibition verso at The Art Corner
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Tiny tear upper right near hinge (repaired and bearly visible)
Sheet size: 4 5/8 x 3...
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By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
References And Exhibitions:
With the artist's own original presentation (frame and matting)
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #15
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
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By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Ink on paper
Signed by the artist with his initials lower left "AB"
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1950s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Located in New York, NY
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By Will Henry
Located in Houston, TX
Will Henry
The Ecstasy of St. Bess, 2021
Gouache on paper
9 x 12 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance:
FAR Gallery, New York, NY
Private Collection, New Jersey
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