Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The Lithuanian-American artist Irving Norman was a social Surrealist who painted large-scale and highly detailed critiques of contemporary life with hopes that viewers would consider the consequences of their actions and change their behavior.
Influenced by the dire conditions of the Great Depression, Norman’s massive canvases feature armies of clone-like figures behaving in the clockwork manner in which they have been programmed. He moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1934 before helping to defend the Spanish Republic from the fascist Franco dictatorship.
Norman survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settled on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities he had witnessed. In 1940, he moved to San Francisco and had a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art two years later. Norman then traveled to Mexico City and saw the murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros before moving to New York City to study at the Art Students League from 1946 to 1947. He returned to San Francisco in the late 1940s. In 1988, fire destroyed Norman’s home, studio, artwork and personal papers.
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(Biography provided by Heather James Fine Art)
Mid-20th Century Post-War Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1980s Pop Art Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Victorian Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Late 19th Century Realist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1970s American Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1940s American Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1870s Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Rag Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Gouache
Sir Frank ShortRough Weather at Blatchington Pulling in the Fishing Nets on the English Coast, 1870s
1970s Modern Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Post-War Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Archival Paper
1920s Cubist Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-War Irving Norman Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite