Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
American
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Education Northwestern University, MFA, Illinoisto
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Artist: Sylvia Spicuzza
"Biomorphic Flowers" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. This example takes on the appearance of a flower, while the ...
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1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...
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1960s Color-Field Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
"Rembrandt Artist's Pastells" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Here, Sylvia Spicuzza has taken the opportunity to create a geometric, crystalline composition of color while testing a set of Rembrandt artist's pastels. Her fractured planes of col...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
"Biomorphic Abstraction II" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
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1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Abstraction' Original Watercolor Signed by Artist
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Watercolor on cream wove paper, signed by the artist.
Art: 17.75" x 12"
Frame: 25.63" x 19.13"
Estate sale stamp on reverse
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted ...
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20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
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1950s Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
"City Lights" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Examples like this of Sylvia Spicuzza's work offer a chance to see a musical composition, with repeating curvilinear lines and patters dancing across the image like Jazz music though...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
"Abstract With Clouds, " Original Pink Ink signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Abstract With Clouds" is an original ink drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, stamped with her signature in the lower right. The drawing is done entirely in pink with a combination ...
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1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
"Art Deco Interior Abstraction, " Original Crayon signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Interior Abstraction" is a color crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza, signature stamped in the lower right corner. The abstract composition ...
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1950s Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
'Birds in Futuristic Urban Landscape' abstract black marker on cream sketchbook
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 9-1/2"x12-1/2"
Frame: 17-1/4"x 20-1/4"
Abstract black marker on cream sketchbook paper.
Signed Sylvania lower right.
Silk lined matting and glazed in UV Clear Glass that filte...
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1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker
"Coral Rocks" original watercolor composition by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small work, we can see Sylvia Spicuzza experimenting with watercolor, trying to achieve a jagged, rock-like texture. The image is dominated by warm ochres and browns.
5.75 x...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Art Deco Abstract, " Conte Crayon in Black & Sepia signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing,"Art Deco Abstract," Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with abstracted biomorphic forms in her elegant modernist style. Dominant in the image are two lilies, their ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Conté
"Art Deco Abstract" original drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work represents the part of Sylvia Spicuzza's oeuvre where she explores purely abstract, non-representational imagery. In the image, the viewer is presented with colorful...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Crayon
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Petie (Duck)" conte crayon drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a duck in a watery landscape, rendered in her elegant modernist style. Other forms in the drawing appear to shoot up like le...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
"Ebb and Flow" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this pastel drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic view resembling waves and rolling hills. The colors of the repeating patterns and softness of the undulati...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
"Billy the Brownie With Flowers #407" original tempera by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a pair of flowers. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
10 x 8 inches, artwork
17 x 13.13 inches, frame
stamped with artist signature lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
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1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Tempera
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1950s Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
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