Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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The Mouth of Honey
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Mouth of Honey
Lithographic crayon and mixed media on paper mounted to support paper
Initialed by the artist "GB" bottom center on image. (see photo)
Titled in pencil in bottom m...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Crayon
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
Unsigned
Graphite on tracing paper, 1930-1934
Sheet size: 6 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches
Created while the artist was woring in Paris, c. 1930
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Regarding the artist:
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
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1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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
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Graphite
Quick Change
By Honore Guilbeau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change
Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931
Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau
Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project
Graphite, charcoal and wash on tracing paper, c. 1930-1940
Signed upper left and lower left (see both photos)
Created while the artist was l...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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
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
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Gouache
Untitled Art Nouveau Rondelle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, France, late 19th century
Anonymous c. 1900 Rondelle on antique laid paper
Ink, Watercolor and or Gouache
Unsigned
An Art Nouveau preliminary design for a decorative ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
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 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 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
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Mixed Media
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
Couple Embracing
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Couple Embracing
Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928
Signed lower right: Shinsui (early variant signature)
Most probably an illustration for one of the four volum...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
THE WALL AT UNIONSQUARE
By Isabel Bishop
Located in Portland, ME
Bishop, Isabel (American 1902-1988). THE WALL AT UNION SQUARE Drawing, pencil on paper, not dated. Signed in pencil, lower right. 4 x 5 inches (main image), 7 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches (she...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Hai (Abba) (Hebrew translation: Hey Father)
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hai (Abba) (Hebrew translation: Hey Father)
Signed in ink lower left by the artist’s widow “AL” (Adele Lozowick)
Original label from early exhibition verso at The Art Corner
Graphit...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Headdress Procession
By Honore Guilbeau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Headdress Procession
Watercolor, c. 1950's
Signed by the artist in ink, lower right
The Headdress Procession occurs every year as part of the Christmas celebrations in Oaxaca.
Guilbe...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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
Seated Couple
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inspiration (Seated Couple)
Graphite on paper, c. 1967
Signed twice in pencil by the artist on recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 16 inches
Note: Although not t...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Chilly Chicken
By Emma Lane Payne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Exhibited:
I Don't Have Time to be Lonesome When I'm Painting: Emma Lane Payne 1857–1943 ... Cleveland Artists Foundation, June 22, 200...
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Early 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Prelude to Transition
By Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Prelude to Transition
Pastel on paper, 1953
Signed and dated lower left (See photo)
Image size: 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Frame size: 24-5/8 x 1-1/2 inches
Exhibited and Illustrated: Zimmerli Museum, 1988, "Benjamin Benno: A Retrospective Exhibition, Sept. 11-Nov. 20, 1988 (A copy of the catalog accompanies the work)
Catalog 82, reproduced page 25
Housed in a silk matting with a 22K gold leaf frame
Benjamin BENNO (1901-1980)
Birth place: London, England
Addresses: NYC, 1912
Profession: Painter, sculptor
Studied: Ferrer School, NYC, 1912-15, with Robert Henri and George Bellows; Beaux-Arts Inst., NYC, 1914-17, with Solon Borglum...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
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
Materials
Graphite
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
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1960s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Read the Signs, No. 13
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs, No. 13
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
Signed lower right corner (see photo)
Series: Read the Signs (22 watercolors)
Exhibited: William Busta Gallery, Read the Signs, 2014
Canton Museum of Art, Our Separated Selves, 2018 (label)
Note: Depicts Randy, a student at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, where the artist taught
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 12 x 9 inches
Frame size: 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches
Darius Steward Biography
Darius Steward is establishing himself as a master of the medium of watercolor and large public murals. In 2018, Steward created two large public murals, “Breaker of Chains”, a 200’ by 6’ in height mural for the Midtown Cleveland/Cleveland State University and “Support” on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. A new mural “Waiting Room” has been finished at SUMMA Health Care Tower, Akron, Ohio. Darius is currently working on a public sculpture commission for the Cleveland Public Library...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
NUDE IN ARMCHAIR
By Philip Evergood
Located in Portland, ME
Evergood, Philip (American 1901-1973). NUDE IN ARMCHAIR. Pencil on paper, 1950. Signed and dated, lower right, and inscribed, lower left "For David Rust July '52 P.E." 22 1/2 x 18 5...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
By Charles Maurin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
Graphite on paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Lucien Goldschmidt (1912-1992), noted art
...
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1890s French School 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
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
Untitled (Man at Desk)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Man at Desk)
Pen and ink on paper, 2012
Signed lower right
Series: Portraits of Community: Hidden in Plain Sight, 2012
References And Exhibitions:
Illustrated: Swarthmore College video for their exhibition "Hidden in Plain Sight," Jan 24- Feb 24, 2013.
Born in Fort Worth in 1975, Huckaby has been creating some form of art since his childhood. In 1995, he began his formal art studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After a brief stay he transferred to Boston University, where he received a BFA degree. He then earned a MFA degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Huckaby is known for his powerful use of color and his exploration of cultural roles and the heritage of the African American family. His work has evolved from portraiture to objects and interiors that venerate his personal family legacy rooted in Fort Worth, Texas. Portraying these familiar subjects on a large scale and pushing his use of materials, Huckaby defines the significance of family and tradition while touching on the subject of ethnographic stereotypes in our culture.
For the past few years he has concentrated his efforts on a series of quilt paintings. One of the series he created is a tribute to both of his Grandmothers and a celebration of the African American quilting tradition. He used the actual quilts sewn by family members as models for his paintings. These quilts document significant events in his family history. According to Huckaby, the paintings represent an artistic family legacy. The colorful, rhythmic abstracted patterns come together like the musical notes in African American musician John Coltrane's famous jazz composition, A Love Supreme, from which the painting series acquired its name.
He has earned national acclaim for his work over the past several years. Huckaby has received the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award. More recently, he was the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Award, which allowed him to travel the country and paint African-American quilts from private and public collections. Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African American Art in Atlanta, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work, including a painting titled Study for Little D and the Dollar, in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, can be found in important collections throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. Currently, Huckaby’s 18-by-14-foot oil painting Hidden in Plain Site (2011) is on view in the Amon Carter Museum’s atrium through October.
Public Collections:
Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, American Dad
African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, Grandmother’s Quilt
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The 99% - Highland Hills
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, "Girl World" Study for Sustenance Installation
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, "The Truth about Hip Hop" Study for Sustenance
Installation
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The 99% - Highland Hills
City of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, The Welcome Space
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Corporate Aviation, Texas, A Place Between
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Texas, William Madison (Gooseneck Bill)
McDonald
Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas, Hazel Harvey Peace Portrait
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Cobby
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Selection from The 99%
Holdworth Center, Austin, TX, Selection from The 99%
Jesuit Dallas Museum, Dallas, Texas, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Sha”
Kansas African American Museum, Wichita, Kansas, Self Portrait (2)
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Untitled (Anthony)
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Untitled)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Enocio
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Big Momma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Mlle. Jeanne at the Window, No. II
By Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mlle. Jeanne at the Window, No. II
Charcoal on paper, 1933
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum, 1988, "Benjamin Benno: A Retrospective Ex...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Rocks along the Coast)
Gouache and watercolor on paper, c. 1950
Signed with the estate stamp signature lower left (see photo)
This is a preliminary study for a large exhibition painting...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Condition: excellent
Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches
Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
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1920s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Condition: Excell...
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20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Woman with child
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with child
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed with the estate stamp lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Marbella Gallery, New York
Illustrated: Robert Hallowell: An Artist Redi...
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1930s American Impressionist 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
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
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
Deco Woman
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deco Woman
Crayon on paper, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower left: "Wm. Sommer" (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Edwin Sommer (the artist’s son)
Jose...
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1910s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Crayon
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
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Unsigned
Mixed media, c. 2003-2004
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A life...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mixed Media
Animal Icon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Animal Icon
Pigment on cloth, c. 1940
Diameter 10"
Condition: Cracking to pigment in upper left (see photos)
Provenance: Cleveland Museum of Art (57.517)
De-Accessed 2013
Made i...
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1940s Rajput Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pigment
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
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed and dated lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
The Orange Chicken...
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1920s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].
By George Cruikshank
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil. [Punch and Judy].
Watercolor and drawing, undated, circa 1830. Paper size 10.25 x 14" (26.1 x 35.6 cm). On "J. Whatman" watermarked paper. Unidentified artist.
A 19th-century visual montage of Cruikshank's "Punch & Judy." The images are taken from the book "The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy." As told to John Payne Collier by Giovanni in 1827, illustrated by George Cruikshank and published by S. Prowlett, London 1828. The central circle illustrates a drawing showing two allegorical female figures with two putti. The text under this image: “E Musao Hugonis Howard Armig, from Guercino.” On top of that illustration is a handsome painting of a flintlock pistol. Trompe l’oeil is an art of illustration – the name translates to ‘Trick of the Eye.”
The puppet show of Pulcinella or Punch and Judy has a long and fascinating history. “A puppet play that would have featured a version of Punch was first recorded in England in May 1662 by the diarist Samuel Pepys. He noted seeing it in Covent Garden, London, performed by the Italian puppet showman Pietro Gimonde from Bologna, otherwise known as Signor Bologna.
The earliest script of a Punch and Judy show...
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1830s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
![Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1620315874402/Trompe_L_Oeil_Punch_87325_master.jpg?width=240 "trompe l'oeil art")
Oscillation
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
11 color screen print
Signed, dated, titled and numberedin pencil
Edition: 150 (9/150)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
By Decent
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1980s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Screen
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Signed with the artist's initials in pencil
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Francis M. Nauman (label)
Private collection, NY
A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia.
Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library.
Biography
Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything."
At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage.
By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris.
During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student".
In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe.
Paris
The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum.
Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia.
In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s.
Philadelphia
The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
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1920s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Watercolor, c. 1950
Signed by the artist in ink lower right: Wm. C. Grauer
Numbered in pencil verso: 152
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof, the artist's daughter
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 18 3/4 x 24 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...
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1950s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Collage on paper, 1987
Signed with the artist's initials and datedlower left
Condition: Good, with the ...
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1980s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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
DANCE MARATHON
By Phyllis (Pele) De Lappe
Located in Portland, ME
De Lappe, Pele (American, 1916-2007). DANCE MARATHON. Pencil, 1935. Signed in pencil. 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches. In very good condition, except for minor creases at the top and bottom ri...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Stolen Moments #3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
From the Series: Stolen Moments
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
Note:
Darius Steward is establishing himself...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Three Graces
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Graces
Pentel marker on paper, 1965
Signed and dated by the artist lower left (see photo)
Part of a series of 100 drawings, this number 97 (annotated lower right corner)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 20 x 15 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Martha A. French Trust
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
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
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
Materials
Color Pencil
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
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