Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Birds & Flowers — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum s...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
One of several works with a Covid inspired composition.
A masterpiece of American watercolor.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Image size: 26 1/16 x 19 1/8 inches
Frame size: 33 x 25 inches
“First Responder” is a piece that celebrates the hard working doctors and nurses that are working around the clock, risking their lives for others. My daughter dresses up in her doctor custom everyday. Doc McStuffins is her favorite cartoon to watch, she carries her doctor kit...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bömmels belonged to the co-founders of the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit , which also included Hans Peter Adamski , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Gerard Kever and Ger...
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1980s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
Watercolor on paper mounted on rag paper support, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate Stamp B
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Next Door Neighbor
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Next Door Neighbor
Oil pastel and ink on handmade paper, 2012
Signed vertically lower left in image (see photo)
Series: 99%
Exhibited: Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Hiden in Pla...
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2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Crayon
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Las Vegas Date
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Las Vegas Date
Watercolor, c. 1965
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil upper left (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches
Provenance: Jo...
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1960s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1955
Signed in ink, dated and titled in pencil (see photos)
Condition: 1'' repaired tear left edge, along with other minor tears.
Tape stains from previous matting visible in the four corners
Image/Sheet size: 19 3/8 x 15 5/8 inches
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend and
patron of Longstreet
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show.
In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
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By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
E
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Sheet/Image size: 30 x 38 inch...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$8,500
The Red Dress
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Red Dress
Watercolor on paper, mounted on board by the artist, 1926
Signed and dated, 1926 lower left (see photo)
Condition: Mounted on support board by the artist
...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
STUDY FOR "IN FRONT OF THE 42D STREET LIBRARY."
By Isabel Bishop
Located in Portland, ME
Bishop, Isabel (American 1902-1988). STUDY FOR "IN FRONT OF THE 42D STREET LIBRARY." Drawing, pencil on paper, circa 1927. Initialed in pencil, lower right. 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (ima...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Hells Angel on his Hog
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hells Angel on his Hog
Pen and ink on paper, 1969
Signed 'Longstreet' lower right (see photo)
Titled and dated upper right
Condition: excellent
Image/Sheet size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Pr...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Amorous Couple
By Philibert-Louis Debucourt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Amorous Couple
Watercolor on laid paper, c. 1810
Unsigned
Provenance: Emile Wolf (1899-1996)
The art collection of Emile Wolf was dispersed by Sotheby and Stair Galleries.
Condition: Excellent
22K gold leaf finishes corner frame (see photo)
“Mr. Wolf’s collection reflects a lifelong commitment to the arts. Although a mainstay of the Old Masters art scene in New York, Mr. Wolf’s collection spanned centuries and genres. He was an impassioned collector, and his Fifth Avenue apartment was filled with paintings and drawings that hung from floor to ceiling in every room. Space void of art was lined with an extensive library of art books that fueled his ardent collecting. Mr. Wolf took great joy in sharing this collection and his ideas with art historians, collectors, dealers and university students.
The Wolf collection included masterworks from every influential and groundbreaking Impressionist and modern artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ranging from an outstanding grouping of works on paper by Picasso, Pissarro, and Cezanne to a Renoir oil...
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1810s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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")
Reclining Female Nude
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal on paper, c. 1933
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941)
Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted c...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
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By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
O
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Note: The Series MORE? is centered around the artist’s family.
There are two images of the artist’s s...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$8,500
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE").
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
Cassatt, Mary. WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE").
Drawing, Pencil, circa 1878.
5 x 8 1/2 inches (sheet). With the estate stamp "Mary Cassatt - Collection Mathilde....
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1870s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Ballarina having make up applied by Cupid
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ballarina having make up applied by Cupid
Watercolor and gouache on heavy wove paper, c. 1905
Signed in ink lower right
Titled in pencil, verso
Condition: Aging to sheet
Colors...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Emily At 1 (Study #1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Emily At 1 (Study #1)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
The image depicts the artist's daughter Emily.
Exhibited: Occupying A Sp...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia
(The Birth of Jupiter)
Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700
Unsigned
Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
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18th Century and Earlier Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
By Charles Despiau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right by the artist, see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Note:
Despiau ...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Series: The Get Up (4 plates)
Exhibited: Occupying A Space, Swope Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
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, ...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Girl in Profile
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl in Profile
Lithographic crayon and watercolor on thin wove paper, c. 1930
Signed twice in pencil (see photos)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Edward Somme...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Stolen Moments, Attitude, Angle #1
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Excellent color and condition
Archival framing with OP3 acrylic, floated in a white gallery frame matchin...
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2010s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Color Pencil
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Believe in Jesus and be saved from everlasting Hell
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Ink on paper
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Sumi Ink
UNTITLED (TWO MEN)
By Pablo O'Higgins
Located in Portland, ME
O'Higgins, Paul or Pablo (Mexican, born USA, 1904-1983). UNTITLED DRAWING (TWO MEN).
Watercolor on paper, not dated. Signed "Paul O'Higgins," lower right, so ...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Graphite on paper, 1925
Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925
Created while the artist was studying at the ...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Double folio; ink, color and gold leaf, c. 1900
Unsigned
Script: Khmer (Cambodian) These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Paired devas (lesser gods) on throne-like plinths addorse Khmer (Cambodian) script containing tales of Phra Malai, a Sri Lankan arhat or Buddhist saint known for his travels to hell. There, the compassionate monk gave teachings and comfort to sufferers. Phra Malai stories taught the karmic effects of human actions to the faithful as well as conveying Maitreya's message of hope for attaining nirvana.
Though known in neighboring countries, the stories of Phra Malai achieved their greatest popularity and influence in Siam (present day Thailand)
Condition: Very good
Sight window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-5/8 x 34-7/8 x 3/4 inches
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pigment
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Untitled (Lesson 4)
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist in ink, lower right
Annotated in ink lower left: Plate 19. Sec. 1. Lesson 4
Note: A very early student work by Dehn
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Two Studies of Henriette (Head of the artist's wife & The Artist's wife writing
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Studies of Henriette (Left: Head of the artist's wife, Right: The Artist's wife writing a letter)
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1928-1930
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Image/sheet size: 9 3/8 x 11 inches
Condition: Excellent
Colors fresh and unfaded
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Cornucopia
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in ink lower right
Preliminary sketch in reverse for the 1928 lithograph "Cornucopia," part of Dehn's Paris Lithographs portfolio
An unsigned sketch of tw...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp
Exhibited: LA Art, 2020
Condition: Excellent
Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
