With a fondness for life drawing, Peter Collins ARCA was perhaps a natural choice for the bikini-clad inhabitants of the pages of a holiday brochure. Collins's first job was at an advertising agency, in the commercial studio, while he attended evening art classes. World War II interrupted his career and he joined the Royal Artillery (of the British Army), teaching painting and drawing in the Education Corps, while simultaneously teaching at St Martin's School of Art, part time. Following the war, Collins studied at the Royal College of Art, winning a scholarship. Leaving in 1950, he then worked as a commercial artist producing some well-known posters for clients including British Railways and British European Airways. He was the Art Director at Odhams Press and spent time designing for both ICI and Shell. With his wife Georgette, he created the 'Bacombe Galleries' in Sussex, converting a group of buildings. In 1975, they again converted buildings, this time Stanley Studios in Chelsea, which were scheduled for redevelopment; many artists had worked there, probably the most famous being Elizabeth Frink. Combining an artist's studio and a single residence at Stanley Studios, the Collins’ were immersed in Chelsea's art scene and proceeded to fill the place with art, antiques, sculptures and curios.
Elegant Figures in Deckchairs with Boaters watercolour: Peter Collins ARCA
By Peter Collins ARCA
Located in London, GB
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Watercolor
$777
H 10.63 in W 16.93 in D 0.04 in
St. Gregory in Rome - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
By Jan Peeter Verdussen
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gregory in Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741. Ink and watercolour on brown paper. In very good codition. Dated on the lower margin. The origin...
Ink, Watercolor
$468
H 9.85 in W 14.18 in D 0.04 in
Landscape - Drawing by Eliane Diverly - Early-20th Century
By Eliane Diverly
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized in the Early-20th Century. Pencil and Watercolor. Good condition.
Watercolor, Pencil
$250
H 10 in W 8 in
Chapel and houses along a lake, New England Landscape - American School, 19th C
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on buff wove watercolor paper, 10 x 8 inches (255 x 203 mm). In good condition with overall minor toning. Some watercolor paint splatters on the verso, contem...
Watercolor, Pencil
$4,250
H 24.25 in W 21.5 in D 1 in
Turner B. Messick 1938 Colorado Winter Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This refined 1938 watercolor by American modernist Turner B. Messick captures the quiet stillness of a winter landscape, likely set in Colorado. A solitary bare tree anchors the fore...
Watercolor
$55,000
H 9 in W 10 in
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance Arthur Dove (1880-1946) "Barns" 5 x 7 inches Watercolor on paper, 19...
Paper, Watercolor
'Gloucester' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nathaniel Dirk, Untitled (Gloucester), watercolor, with fresh colors, on watercolor paper; in fine, original condition, with the artist's tack holes (barely visible) at the sheet edg...
Watercolor
Tropical Moonlight
By Joseph Stella
Located in London, GB
Born in the hillside town of Muro Lucano, southeast of Naples, Italy, Joseph Stella immigrated to the United States in 1896. Having demonstrated remarkable talent as a young boy, he ...
Watercolor, Gouache
$1,200
H 23.5 in W 19.5 in
1930's Tremont Temple, Judaica Watercolor, Bronx New York City
By Ben Ganz
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed Judaic synagogue watercolor by Jewish American artist Ben Ganz. He depicts the front gates of the Tremont Temple, Bronx New York from 1939. The artist uses local colors and g...
Watercolor
$875
H 15 in W 19.25 in D 0.25 in
"Elkhorn Slough" - Cyanotype / Watercolor Landscape
By Cheryl Trotter
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this cyanotype and watercolor titled "Elkhorn Slough" by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th century), c.1980's....
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Photographic Paper
$3,250
H 27 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
Bert Van Bork Second Mesa Hopi Pueblo Southwest Mixed Media Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant Southwestern mixed media landscape by Bert Van Bork titled Second Mesa, depicting the Hopi Pueblo of northern Arizona through a bold, modernist...
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Watercolor
$608
H 30.75 in W 23.25 in D 1.5 in
Mid-Century Watercolor of Trees at Buckfast Abbey, Signed, 1960s
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 1960s work on paper of a group of trees at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, by Alban Atkins. Signed bottom left, titled and dated to the reverse. There is also a collection or accession number to the backboard. Atkins has captured the sculptural nature of the tree trunks as they have grown in the landscape giving the work a feeling of living, writhing things as well as an abstract feel in the composition. Atkins was one of the group of important artists chosen and commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark...
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Barberini Square, Roma - Watercolor - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Barberini Square is an original painting in watercolor realized by an Italian Anonymous artist of the 19th Century. In good conditions. Light, and brilliant landscape of the fount...
Watercolor