E. Ambrose Webster was among our first and most forceful modern painters, and is one of America’s greatest interpreters of Fauvism. His masterworks are in such public collections as the Corcoran and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In recent years his work has figured prominently in publications and exhibitions at Babcock Galleries’ E. Ambrose Webster: A Retrospective of Paintings and The Armory Show Years of E. Ambrose Webster, in the High Art Museum’s The Advent of Modernism, 1987 and in William Gerdts’ 1997 landmark work The Color of Modernism: The American Fauves and, more recently in 2007–08, the Greenville County Museum of Art’s retrospective exhibition E. Ambrose Webster: Pioneer Modernist. Webster’s dynamic career spanned 40 years and found him consistently in the middle of the Modernist movement. He traveled and exhibited widely, knew important artists everywhere, was acclaimed by his peers and created some of the finest and most adventurous paintings of his time.
Webster was a consummate American Modernist painter. After initial studies under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson in Boston, he spent nearly three years in Europe absorbing the latest developments in the Post-Impressionist art world. By 1900 he returned to the United States, and, having developed his own original idiom, became a prominent member of the progressive art community. Over the years he traveled widely in France, Spain, Italy, North Africa, the Azore Islands, Jamaica and Bermuda, seeking the sunlight-heightened color which inspired him. In 1906, while painting in the Caribbean, he exhibited a work which secured the Musgrave Silver Medal from the Institute of Jamaica. By 1913 he was exhibiting in Boston and Cleveland with Charles Hovey Pepper, Carl G. Cutler and Maurice Prendergast. Webster also participated in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show) and showed in New York thereafter.
(Biography provided by Driscoll Babcock Galleries)
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA.)
By E. Ambrose Webster
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA) Graphite on paper, 1931 Signed with the artist's initial "W" lower right corner (see photo)...
Graphite
$235
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study Drawing by Chicago Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figu...
Graphite, Paper
$235
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study Drawing by Chicago Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figu...
Graphite, Paper
$235
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Graphite on Paper Figure Study by Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Seated Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figure...
Graphite, Paper
$3,200
H 17 in W 16 in
John Lear Male Nude American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Gay Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
John Brock Lear, Jr., an American Modernist artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the D...
Graphite
$3,500
H 29 in W 19.5 in D 1.25 in
“Standing Nude, c. 1930” American Modernist Early Female Nude Drawing Signed
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Yardley, PA
“Standing Nude, c. 1930” by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) This wonderful early pencil drawing by Nevelson represents a nude figure, rendered with simple and confident lines that empha...
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
$235
H 24 in W 20 in
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study Drawing by Chicago Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio draw...
Paper, Graphite
$1,200
H 37.5 in W 26.5 in
Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude) /// Figurative Girl Lady Pencil Drawing Woman Art
By Hendrik Paulides
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hendrik Paulides (Dutch, 1892-1967) Title: "Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude)" *Monogram signed and dated by Paulides in pencil lower left Year: 1958 Medium: Original Graphite Penc...
Pencil, Graphite
$650
H 21.5 in W 19 in
Portrait of a Woman, Modern Graphite Drawing by Wallace Putnam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wallace Putnam, American (1899 -1989) - Portrait of a Woman, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed in pencil lower left, Image Size: 10 x 8.5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 ...
Graphite
$6,500
H 20 in W 23 in
"Female Nude" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Elegant Flowing Forms, Sweeping Line
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson Female Nude, circa 1935 Pencil on paper 9 15/16 x 13 7/16 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California Priva...
Paper, Pencil
$235
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study Drawing by Chicago Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figu...
Graphite, Paper
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed). John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,850
H 32 in W 27 in
Study of a Woman, Abstract Graphite on Paper by Remo Michael Farruggio
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904 - 1981) Title: Study of a Woman Year: 1955 Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed and dated Size: 24 in. x 1...
Graphite