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A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent cond...
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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
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
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Sumi Ink
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. 26190
Con...
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1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Sprinchorn, Carl (American, 1887-1971) UNTITLED. Drawing, pastel and ink wash on paper, not dated. Signed, lower right. 8 x 5 inches, framed to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance, Tom Veille...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
$1,500
The Duomo, Florence
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Duomo, Florence
Watercolor, 1914
Signed and dated lower center edge (see photo)
Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches
Frame size: 24 1/4 x 22 inches
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada on November 9, 1876. His family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1890 where he began to experiment with different art media; watercolor, oil painting and finally, etching – with a few attempts at lithography. He spent much of his early years at the Boston Public Library studying the work of printmakers, from Durer and Rembrandt to the 18th century English, French and Italian masters.
Like many American artists of the time MacLaughlan traveled to Europe to study in Paris, enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied further with Jean Leon Gerome and Jean Paul Laurens. In 1899 he began producing etchings, which became his major interest until his death in 1938. He became acquainted with James NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and other artists who created etchings and spent time studying the etchings of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and other old masters in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Both Rembrandt and Whistler would have major influences on his art. In 1900 he created a set of 25 etched views of Paris and in 1901 exhibited two etchings in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He returned to the U.S. in 1903, then went back to Paris the following year.
He traveled extensively in Europe, visiting England, Switzerland, Italy and Spain as well as various locales in France. His etched views of Venice were well-known. MacLaughlan exhibited views of Paris, Rouen, Normandy and Italy in 1906 in a solo show at the American Art Association Galleries in Paris. He also displayed his work in the 1906 exhibitions of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français. MacLaughlan even instructed other expatriate Canadian artists then living in Paris, most notably Clarence...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
Graphite and colored pencils on wove paper, 1975
Signed and dated lower left center (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Slight waviness visible only on reverse
Image size: 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent
Mary Spain (Colie)
(1934-1983)
Mary Spain was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She taught art in Chagrin Falls...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Woman on a Patio
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio
Pastel on paper, c. 1915
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr
By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess
David Saltzman
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art
Thomas French Fine Art
Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio
Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed)
Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery.
One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68)
Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils.
The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke.
One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68)
In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works.
In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University.
Courtesy, AskArt
“Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany.
Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
Art Studies in Europe
In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian.
Giverny and American Impressionism
Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
UNTITLED COMPOSITION
By De Hirsch Margules
Located in Portland, ME
Margules, De Hirsh. UNTITLED COMPOSITION, Ink on paper, 1962. Inscribed and signed in pencil within the image. 28 x 37 inches, 711 x 940 mm. In very good condition.
Margules (1899-1...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
Stolen Moments (4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments (4)
Ink on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 x 11 inches
Darius Steward is establishing hi...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
ACROBATS
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. ACROBATS. Ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 1922. Signed, lower right. c. 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; framed to 28 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. In excellent condition.
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Ink, Gouache
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
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
UNTITLED (WOMAN LOOKING IN PURSE).
By Isabel Bishop
Located in Portland, ME
Bishop, Isabel. UNTITLED (WOMAN LOOKING IN PURSE). Ink on cardstock, not dated. Unsigned. 5 x 5 inches. A fast, likely unposed sketch of a passerby. In excellent condition.
Isabel Bishop, 1902-1988.
Isabel Bishop was born and raised in the Midwest. She came to New York in 1918 where she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and the Art Students League, where her teachers included Kenneth Hayes Miller and Guy Pene du Bois. In 1934 she rented a studio in Union Square where she worked for the remainder of her career, often taking as her subjects the men and women who worked in the shops and offices on the square, or who walked or sat in Union Square Park.
She was a great draughtsman, and much of her graphic work is devoted to studies of the human figure in motion or at rest within the context of their activities in Union Square or similar settings. Bishop made etchings throughout her career, producing more than 80 prints between 1925 and 1982.
Prior to 1978 Bishop had editoned only a few of her prints; most of them were printed on an “as needed” basis only, by her, on her own press as gifts, or for sale. From 1978 on, Bishop collaborated with Sylvan Cole of Associated American Artists and the master printer Stephen Sholinsky...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Color Pencil
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
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Watercolor
Orange and Green Peppers
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing, circa 1995, is by Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and unsigned. Noted "Emilio Sanchez Foundation" on verso.
EMILIO SANCHEZ (1...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Color Pencil
UNTITLED ABSTRACTION
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Portland, ME
Scarlett, Rolph (American, born Canada, 1889-1984). UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Colored pencils on paper, not dated. Signed, lower right. 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (image), 6 x 8 3/4 inches, (s...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Original Japanese Watercolor and Woodblock Print of Orchid and Swallows
Located in Burbank, CA
Orchid and small swallows (Hokuri, kotsubame). Original preparatory watercolor next to the finished original Japanese woodblock print. This is a highly finished preparatory watercolo...
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1890s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
$1,900 Sale Price
32% Off
"And wasn't it good for a boy to be Out to old Aunt Mary's"
By Howard Chandler Christy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
"And wasn't it good for a boy to be Out to old Aunt Mary's"
Charcoal and watercolor on artist illustration board, 1900
Initialed and dated lower right: H.C.C. 1900 by the artist (see...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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
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
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
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, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art Digest (March 1, 1955); Pat Horner, “Big Heart, Timeless Art —Sam Spanier Retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock Times (July 1, 1999); Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Sam Spanier,” Arts Magazine (April 1960); Liam Nelson, “Human Force...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
untitled (Street Scene Mexico)
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Mexican Landscape (Man Walking on Street)
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Signed with the estate stamp lower right (see photo)
From the Estate of the Artist with the artist's estate stamp lower right.
C. 1960's
Condition: excellent
Image/Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans Mitchell. Soon, the Rorimer-Brooks design company, the developer Van Swerngen brothers, as well as the Sterling Welch and Halle Bros. department stores realized the extent of Grauer's talent and eagerly employed him. Grauer’s work during this time included architectural renderings for Shaker Square, Moreland Courts, and other many other projects commissioned by Cleveland architects. Grauer also remained true to his roots as a master designer of stained glass windows. With his work in such high demand, Grauer received a commission in 1921 to paint murals for the French Grill...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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Going Places #2 (Baggage Claim)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo
Signed by the artist DRS #1, lower right.
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
untitled (Lost Ship in a Misty Sea)
By Henry George Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower left
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Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Nude on a Stool
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude on a Stool
Ink on paper, c. 1970-80
Signed in red ink lower right
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 232 A copy of this hardbound books accompanies purchase
Condition: Excell...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA.)
By E. Ambrose Webster
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA)
Graphite on paper, 1931
Signed with the artist's initial "W" lower right corner (see photo)...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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
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Watercolor
untitled (Hillside in Spring)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Hillside in Spring)
Gouache on paper, c. 1965
Signed with the estate stamp lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
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1960s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Breaking Up of the Penelope
By Edward Dobrotka
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope
watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Exhibitions:
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso)
Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso)
"Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring.
Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Emily at Age 5, (Yummy in a hoodie)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Emily at Age 5, (Yummy in a hoodie)
Acrylic ink on Graphic Plastic Film, 2022
Signed with the artist's initials, lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 8 1/8 x 7 7/...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic
Standing Nude, hand on a plinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Nude, hand on a plinth
Graphite on paper, c. 1900
Signed with a double tri lobed symbol upper left corner (see photo)
Condition: excellent, slight surface dirt
Sheet size: 1...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Standing Female Nude
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Match stick and ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed with the estate stamp B
Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches
Created at the Kakoon Arts Klu...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Read the Signs, No. 7
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs, No. 7
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
Signed with the artist's signature lower right (see photo)
Series: Read the Signs (22 watercolors)
Exhib...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
Graphite on laid paper
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by descent to his Grandson
Depicts the artist's wife Carolyn.
Most probably created in Nashville, Indiana
Related to the painting entitled "Maiden" in the Haan Museum, Lafayette, IN (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with TruVue Conservation Clear glass
Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Frame size: 18 7/8 x 16 inches
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club.
He made his first trip to Brown County...
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1920s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Emily At 1 (Study 2)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Emily At 1 (Study 2)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
This image depicts the artist's daughter Emily
Exhibited: Occ...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Read the Signs #3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs #3
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
Signed lower right (see photo)
Series: Read the Signs (22 watercolors)
Depicts the artist's relative Jaylen
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Woman and Cat)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite on paper
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20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #2 (Emily with Sippy Cup)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #2 (Emily with Sippy Cup)
Watercolor on Twinrocker All Purpose Paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #1 (Emily and Sippy Cup Smiling)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #1 (Emily and Sippy Cup Smiling)
Watercolor on Twinrocker Multi Purpose paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lowe...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Stolen Moments No. 1 (Emily drawing with a green crayon)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments No. 1 (Emily drawing with a green crayon)
Watercolor on Twinrocker heavy height paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excell...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Influences #2
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials and dated lower right
Watercolor on Yupo paper, mounted to board
From Steward's Influences Series
Darius Steward is establishing himself as a mas...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #3 (Emily with a Sippy Cup Smiling)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #3 (Emily with a Sippy Cup Smiling)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed w...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Natural
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Natural
Watercolor and pigments on Arches paper, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
An image of the a...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
PLUM NELLIE - BEAR HUG
By Robert Reed
Located in Portland, ME
Reed, Robert (American, 1938-2014). PLUM NELLIE, BEAR HUG. Mixed media on paper, 1979. Titled, signed, dated, and further inscribed in the margin below the image. 22 1/2 x 34 1/2 inc...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper, c. 1971
Unsigned
Provenance: From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition i...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Occupy A Space # 2 (Emily)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Occupy A Space # 2 (Emily)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Series: Occupy A Space
Exhibited: Occupying A Space, Swope Art Museum, January...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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
Lori (Center Face)
By Fritz Bultman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Initialed and dated in the lower right
Provenance:
Martha Jackson Gallery, NY
David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo NY
David Anderson Grandchildren's Trust, Buffalo NY
Exhi...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Carbon Pencil
Baggage Claim (Sketch #4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From the series: Baggage Claim, inspired by the death of the artist's mother. The reference to "Baggage" is symbolic to all the emotion and weight one acumulates through life and ho...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
HIDE
By David Hutchinson
Located in Houston, TX
David Hutchinson
HIDE, 2021
Unique archival inkjet print
24 x 18 inches (16 x 45.7 cm)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Inkjet
Road Trip
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Rudolf Lailson lower left
Graphite, charcoal watercolor and pastel
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
DRS2 at 7
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Color ink on Yupo paper
Framed in a white shadowbox presentation.
Image: 12 x 8 7/8"
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled SF74-863
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
In the 1970s, the beginning of a new phase in Francis’ career was defined by the emergence of the ‘color blotches’. These spots of gritty, shimmering color were made through glazes, ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic
$75,000
Baggage Claim, Bags #2
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed "Rhonda V" in memory of the artist's mother
From the series: Baggage Claim, inspired by the death of the artist's mother. The reference to "Baggage" is symbolic to all the emotion and hurt one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weights down on the spirit.
Watercolor on Yupo paper...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Campbell Beach, Mentor
By Emma Lane Payne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist in ink lower left.
Annotated in pencil lower left: "Campbell Beach, Mentor"
Provenance:
By descent from the estate of the artist.
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Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Baggage Claim (Bags #1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Created in 2017 this series, Baggage Claim, speaks to the symbolic emotional weight one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weigh down the spirit. The artist used handbags...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Six Chinese Style Wash Drawings)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Sheet: 14 x 17";
Image: 4 7/16 x 12"
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
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