Ernest-Louis Lessieux Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Colorful figurative landscape watercolor painting of Columbia, California, showing two men in cowboy hats. By Lillie Eesther (Hillman) Heebner, a Monterey Bay area artist. Signed "L....

Evocative watercolor of a figure reading outside a doorway by California Watercolor artist G. Robinson (American, 20th Century). Signed "G Robinson...

Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...

Drypoint etching rawing of a coastal scene with figures drawing a net or boat form the sea by Sir Francis (Frank) Job Short (British, 1857 - 1945) Sir Frank Short, Royal Academy*, was a printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public. Signed "Frank Short" lower right with monogram in the print "S within a shield" Titled lower left "Rough Weather at Blatchington" Lower left "Trial Proof" Image, 8.5"H x 10.88"W Mat, 16"H x 20"W x 0.13 Professionally cleaned and ph nuetral washed by our paper conservator. (new images posting) Francis Job Short was born on 19 June 1857 in Britain, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer. He was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connection with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. In 1883 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the South Kensington School of Art*, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred...

Vivid watercolor of a country house and grove of trees in a rural landscape of rolling green hills, with farm animals in the distance, by California artist Rene Weaver (American, 189...

Charming small-scale watercolor painting of figures sitting outside an old building in a small California gold town by R. E. Baker (American, 20th Century). The warm color palette of...

Beautiful mid-century small-scale watercolor landscape of fishermen with their boats on the shore by unknown artist. Signed lower left corner illegibly. Circa 1940's. Unframed. Image...

Rowboat Outing - Fall Landscape with Rowboats in Watercolor on Paper Serene lakeside landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). Two birch trees with bright yellow leaves are gro...

This artwork titled "St Emilion" c.1970, is a watercolor by American artist Wayne Ensrud, b.1934. It is signed at the lower right side by the artist. The artwork size is 19 x 24 inches, framed size is 22.75 x 27.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden ornate gold frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist:. Wayne Ensrud was born in Minnesota where he received his BFA from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. As a student he met Oskar Kokoschka, the artist-in-residence at the Institute, who profoundly influenced Ensrud's work and has remained his friend and mentor ever since. When Pablo Casals conducted his Master Class Series at Berkeley. Wayne Ensrud had the honor ot being invited to execute drawings of the great cellist during those sessions. and this year when the New York Chamber Society celebrated its 10th anniversary.Ensrud was asked to sit in on rehearsals and sketch the world famous violinists ltzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. Actress Jayne Mansfield, novelist Alex Waugh, wine connoisseur Alexis Lichine are among others who have been portrayed by Ensrud. Mr. Ensrud has been a free-lance art director and animator for ABC, CBS, and IRM IBM contracted him to he the series, "Computer and the Mind of Man", which has been translated into 18 languages and won several international awards. For ABC he created the film animations for the Gemini Space Programs. He taught film animation at Pratt Institute for tour years. Ensrud was Art Director at the University of California at Berkeley for the Department of Motion Pictures and Television and he was Executive Art Director of Channel 13-TV, New York City. Mr. Ensrud has art directed over 30 films and lust completed a film for television starring Richard Basehart. He has illustrated the writings of Odgen Nash, John O'Hara, and John Fowles...

This artwork c.1950 is a watercolor by noted Oregon artist Maude Walling Wanker ( American, 1882-1970) It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 16.25 x 21.25 inches, framed size is 25 x 29 inches. Framed in a dark wood frame, with gold color bevel. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor scratches. About the artist. Maude Walling Wanker (1882-1970) was born on October 22, 1882 in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She studied art at the Museum Art School with Clara Jane Stephens, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936 with John Bernard Hinshaw, at the University of Oregon with Steinhof, and in Vienna. She specialized in watercolors and oils. Maude Wanker grew up in the Tualatin Valley, where she began she began sketching as a child. After her marriage in 1901 and the birth of a child, she began attending the Museum Art School on an irregular basis. In 1939 she was one of the three artists chosen to represent Oregon at the fourth National Exhibition of American Art, held in New York's Rockefeller Center. Wanker moved to the Oregon Coast...

Horse in the fields, a figurative watercolor landscape by Louis John Stellman (American, 1877-1961), c.1935. Presented in a wooden frame with linen liner. Signed "Stellman" lower right. Image size, 15"H x 19"W. Stellman moved to CA in 1901. By 1920 he had settled in San Francisco where he worked both as an artist and a writer for the Call-Bulletin newspaper. He later moved to the Monterey Peninsula where he remained until his death. Married to artist Edith K. Stellman (1877-1957). Works held: de Young Legion of Honor. His books include: Mate o'dreams and Other Poems Mother Lode; The Story of California's Gold Rush Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Said the Observer Sam Brannan, Builder of San Francisco; A Biography That Was a Dream Worth Building; the Spirit of San Francisco's Great Fair Portrayed in Pictures and Words The Vanished Ruin Eta; San Francisco's Classic Artistry of Ruin Depicted in Picture and Song Stellmann was a protegé of Arnold Genthe...

A lush, historic watercolor figurative landscape by C. Harry Allis (American, 1870-1938). Signed and dated "C. Harry Allis 1919" lower right. Displ...