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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Portrait of Dr. Auguste Soins
By Henri Edmond Cross
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Dr. Auguste Soins
Black chalk on paper, c. 1883
Signed with the artist’s estate stamp, Lugt 1305a lower right (see photo)
Note: This possibly is the preliminary drawing f...
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1880s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Abstraction
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center
Provenance:
Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The "Hair Pin" Road, and Studies of a Well Head and Candleholder, Capri
By Margaret Jordan Patterson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Annotated with title under the landscape
Provenance:
James Bakker, Boston
James Bergquist, Boston
Two images on one sheet: horizontal "Hair Pin" Road; vertical: studies
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Pen, ink and graphite with gray and brown washes on laid watermarked paper, c. 1740
Signed by the artist lower left of image: "Chate...
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1740s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
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Graphite
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
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Ink, Pencil
$4,200
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
By Julio de Diego
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
A folio from the artist's sketchbook. Done while the artist was in Florida.
Conditio...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
PORTRAIT OF HAROLD STERNER
Located in Portland, ME
Sterner, Albert (American. 1863-1946). PORTRAIT OF HAROLD STERNER. Charcoal and pastel on paper, not dated, but 1912, as the subject is stated to be aged 17. Signed, lower right. 16 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, framed to 26 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches. In very good condition.
Albert Sterner was born in England, and studied in Paris. He worked as a magazine illustrator, but is best known for his paintings and prints.
Harold Sterner (American, 1895-1976). Architect, painter; New York, N.Y. Born 1895, died 1976...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
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
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Permanent Marker
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude in a Mirror
Ink and wash on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 153, a monograph on the artist's drawings
Note: a cop...
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1960s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Loge de Theatre (Preliminary study for a painting)
By Charles Dufresne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Loge de Theatre (Preliminary study for a painting)
Graphite on paper
Signed in pencil lower left
Annotated with color notations by the artist (see photo)
A early Parisian theme work ...
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1910s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Collection of Jan Cowles
Jan Cowles was married to Gardner Cowles owner of Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) which owned newspapers, magazines and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The company operated Cowles Business Media, Cowles Creative Publishing, and Cowles Enthusiast Media units.
Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998, other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstraction)
Ink on textured paper, c. 1958
Signed lower right "Scarlett" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 30 inches
Frame size: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches
Note: A rare mid to late 1950s example of the artist's abstract expressionist style.
Provenance: estate of the artist
Private Collection, Hudson River Valley, New York
Rolph Scarlett
B. 1889, GUELPH, ONTARIO; D. 1984, WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK
Born on June 13, 1889 in Guelph, Canada, and into an artistic family, Rolph Scarlett spent his teenage years as an apprentice in his uncle’s jewelry firm and briefly studied at the Art Students League, New York. While working in the jewelry industry, Scarlett found time to paint and design theatrical sets in his free time, including one for the 1928 world premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s drama Lazarus Laughed (1926). In 1923, while on a business trip to Switzerland, Scarlett had met the artist Paul Klee and soon after abandoned his figurative painting style in favor of an abstract language that suggested more universal, cosmic truths.
In 1937, after permanently settling in New York, Scarlett became acquainted with the artist and curator Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952). Rebay provided Scarlett with a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to paint full-time and obtained several of his paintings for the museum’s collection. From 1940 to 1946, Scarlett served as the museum’s chief lecturer, giving Sunday afternoon talks on art. Through Rebay, Scarlett became acquainted with the nonobjective works of Rudolf Bauer and Vasily Kandinsky and further refined his abstract style. Works from this era such as Yellow Bar (1942) are defined by overlapping geometric planes of bright, primary colors set against mute backgrounds. Scarlett avoided any reference to the outside world and believed that nonobjective painting was an act, in his words, of “pure creation.”
During his lifetime, solo shows of his work were held at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York (1949); Sioux City Art Center, Iowa (1951); and Washburn Gallery...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
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: Occupying A Space, Swope Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Black and White Cat
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black and White Cat
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 737)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 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...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor
TYSON WINS BY A KNOCKOUT
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936). TYSON WINS BY A KNOCKOUT. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent c...
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2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Frame size: 15 x 21 inches
Provenance: Jan Cowles
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
UNTITLED (KEEP SMILING)
By John Heliker
Located in Portland, ME
Heliker, John. (American, 1909-2000). UNTITLED ("KEEP SMILING). Ink on paper, not dated, likely 1930s. The image is of two men in a workshop, one possibly the customer, the other wor...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
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.
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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Charcoal, Gouache
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The Pinks and the Blues
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Pinks and the Blues
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1954
Signed and dated in ink lower left, titled in pencil verso.
Provenance: Gift of the Artist
Privat...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Takin' a Break
By Gordon Phillips
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gordon Phillips, 'Takin' a Break', graphite, c. 1980. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, spontaneous rendering, on white, wove bristol, the full shee...
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20th Century Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Plum Branches and Flowers
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plum Branches and Flowers
watercolor on wove paper, 1985
Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner
From the artist's 1985 sketchbook
Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy.
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches
Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter
1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS
The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows.
O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.”
Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.”
“The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.”
When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.”
O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.”
Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes.
As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Study of a Seated Woman and Two Smaller Studies of the Same
By Henirich Schwemminger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of a Seated Woman and Two Smaller Studies of the Same
Unsigned
Annotated: "Roma" (Rome)
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff wove paper
Sheet size: 11 x 8 1/2 inche...
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19th Century Academic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk
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
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Conté
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo)
Condition: E...
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1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp
Exhibited: LA Art, 2020
Condition: Excellent
Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments, Attitude, Angle #1
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Excellent color and condition
Archival framing with OP3 acrylic, floated in a white gallery frame matchin...
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2010s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
The Navy of the Future.
By George Horace Davis
Located in New York, NY
Original monochrome gouache illustration for the Illustrated London News. London, May 12, 1956.
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1950s Post-War Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Red Peppers
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing by artist Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower left. "Emilio Sanchez Found...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Color Pencil
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia
(The Birth of Jupiter)
Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700
Unsigned
Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
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18th Century and Earlier Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk
untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/sheet size: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches
Regarding the ...
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1940s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sammy Lee Sleeping II
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sammy Lee Sleeping II
Graphite on sketchbook paper, 2007
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: "Sedrick Huckaby" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 x 12 inches
Fram...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
One of several works with a Covid inspired composition.
A masterpiece of American watercolor.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Image size: 26 1/16 x 19 1/8 inches
Frame size: 33 x 25 inches
“First Responder” is a piece that celebrates the hard working doctors and nurses that are working around the clock, risking their lives for others. My daughter dresses up in her doctor custom everyday. Doc McStuffins is her favorite cartoon to watch, she carries her doctor kit...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Couple Embracing in Street at Night
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928
Signed in the lower right corner (see detail)
Original illustration for the novel "Gunmo" (Hoi Polloi or Blind and Foolish Masses), volume 4 in the "Complete Works of Burafu Nakamura." Nakamura, a popular Japanese novelist and playwright, lived from 1886-1949.
Framed in acid free rag matting, OP3 Acrylic and a rounded corner metal leaf frame
Sight size: 6-3/4 x 5-3/8"
Frame size: 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 x 3/4"
Shinsui Itō...
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1920s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
One of several works with a Covid inspired composition.
A masterpiece of American watercolor.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Image size: 26 1/16 x 19 1/8 inches
Frame size: 33 x 25 inches
“First Responder” is a piece that celebrates the hard working doctors and nurses that are working around the clock, risking their lives for others. My daughter dresses up in her doctor custom everyday. Doc McStuffins is her favorite cartoon to watch, she carries her doctor kit...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Stages II
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stages II
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
Signed with the artist's Yummy blindstamp lower right
Signed, titled and dated in...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Joseph Pennell
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil verso
Titled "Joseph Pennell" recto
Annotated verso:
Adolph a Dehn
Oct. 5 1915
Tonight I saw a duplicate of Whistler -- "Joseph Pennell." Bu...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Girl in Profile
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl in Profile
Lithographic crayon and watercolor on thin wove paper, c. 1930
Signed twice in pencil (see photos)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Edward Somme...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude, arms raised
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Matchstick and ink drawing heightened with conte crayon
c. 1925
Signed with the Estate Stamp "B"
Provenance: Joseph A. Erdelac (1914 -2005), Cleveland
Acqu...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cobwebs and Rocks
By Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cobwebs and Rocks
Watercolor, 1940
Signed, dated, and copyrighted lower right
Exhibited: Zimmerli Art Museum, Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum: Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Color Plate 14 copy copy of the catalog accompanies the watercolor
Condition: excellent
Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Ruth O...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Graphite on paper, 1925
Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925
Created while the artist was studying at the ...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Double folio; ink, color and gold leaf, c. 1900
Unsigned
Script: Khmer (Cambodian) These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Paired devas (lesser gods) on throne-like plinths addorse Khmer (Cambodian) script containing tales of Phra Malai, a Sri Lankan arhat or Buddhist saint known for his travels to hell. There, the compassionate monk gave teachings and comfort to sufferers. Phra Malai stories taught the karmic effects of human actions to the faithful as well as conveying Maitreya's message of hope for attaining nirvana.
Though known in neighboring countries, the stories of Phra Malai achieved their greatest popularity and influence in Siam (present day Thailand)
Condition: Very good
Sight window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-5/8 x 34-7/8 x 3/4 inches
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Three Nudes in a Garden
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Nudes in a Garden
Graphite, c. 1928-1933
Initialed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, Aaron Bohrod: Figure Sketches, Fige 9, page 32 (see photo)
A...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo) No. 05535
...
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1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude
Charcoal on tan paper
Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo)
Provenance:
Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo)
Eric G. Carlson, 1985
Very good...
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19th Century Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo) No. 24680
Co...
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1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS)
By Joseph Webster Golinkin
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS).
“Beat to the Finish” is a 1967 watercolor by Joseph Webster ...
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1960s Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
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
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
Watercolor on paper mounted on rag paper support, 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
Materials
Watercolor
Standing Female Nude
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Colored chalks on tan Strathmore paper, c. 1975
Signed in chalk upper right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Housed in an 8 play acid free rag matting
S...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Graphite on paper, 1925
Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925
Created while the artist was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1925.
This is a preliminary drawing to a series of class assignments.
From a sketch book
Image/Sheet size: 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches
Condition: Excellent Slight syrface dirt
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Winchell Heirs
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper. 1971
Unsigned
Sheet size: 24 x 19 inches
Condition: Excellent
From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED (ARTISTS AND MODEL)
By Philip Evergood
Located in Portland, ME
Evergood, Philip (American 1901-1973). UNTITLED (ARTISTS AND MODEL). Drawing, pencil on paper, not dated. Signed, lower right. 15 1/4 x 13 inches, 381...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
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)
Two simil...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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