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Untitled (Midday)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
In Colin Hunt’s new paintings, myriad tiny rocks, grains of sand, and strands of rockweed form a coastal beach, while lush forests pierce a crystalline sky. Elsewhere, palpable mists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Moss)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
In Colin Hunt’s new paintings, myriad tiny rocks, grains of sand, and strands of rockweed form a coastal beach, while lush forests pierce a crystalline sky. Elsewhere, palpable mists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
72nd Street and Broadway
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN•24, titled (at lower left):
72ND STREET AND BROADWAY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
9th Street and Sixth Avenue
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN•24, titled (at lower left):
9TH STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discoverin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Bethesda Fountain Esplanade
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN•24, titled (at lower left):
BETHESDA FOUNTAIN ESPLANADE
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discoverin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Broome Street
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamorphosis. The city is his muse and his primary s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Dawn, Provincetown Bay
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN ’23; titled (at lower left): DAWN, PROVINCETOWN BAY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Flyer's Boat Rental, Provincetown
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN ’23, titled (at lower left): FLYER’S BOAT RENTAL, PROVINCETOWN
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, disco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor, Paper
Grand Street and Broadway
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN 21
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Bethesda Fountain Terrace
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN 22
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamor...
Category
2010s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Wonder
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN•20
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamor...
Category
2010s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Along the Boardwalk
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN; titled (at lower left):
Boardwalk, Coney Island
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor, Paper
Belvedere Castle
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed (lower right): Brosen 21
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamorphosis. The c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Graphite
West 74th Street
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamorphosis. The city is his muse and his primary s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Graphite
Many-Worlds Interpretation (C.D.H.S.c)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.L.V.b)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.C.E.c)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.C.E.d)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bedtime Story
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Wounded Beast
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Untitled [Birthday]
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Birthday]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677009428537/M_10378D_087_master.jpg?width=240 "jeanne brousseau")
Everyone Wants Me (Self Portrait)
Located in New York, NY
Colored markers on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Untitled [Horizontal Figure]
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Horizontal Figure]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677007796267/M_10378D_081_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [Horizontal Figure]")
Untitled [Catch Me If You Can...]
Located in New York, NY
Ink, colored marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Catch Me If You Can...]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677006665273/M_10378D_076_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [Catch Me If You Can...]")
Untitled [Large Central Dragon Form]
Located in New York, NY
Ink, colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Large Central Dragon Form]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677006043306/M_10378D_074_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [Large Central Dragon Form]")
Untitled [Small Figure Enveloped]
Located in New York, NY
Ink, colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Small Figure Enveloped]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677005807307/M_10378D_069_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [Small Figure Enveloped]")
Untitled [Open Mouthed Dragon]
Located in New York, NY
Ink, colored marker on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Open Mouthed Dragon]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677005428336/M_10378D_068_master.jpg?width=240 "jeanne brousseau")
Untitled [Black Forms]
Located in New York, NY
Marker on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [Black Forms]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677005272577/M_10378D_065_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [Black Forms]")
Long Time No See... Almost 9 Months
Located in New York, NY
Ink, watercolor, colored marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
He Did It
Located in New York, NY
Colored ink marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
He's a Real Butt Headed Devil
Located in New York, NY
Ink, colored marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Colored ink marker on paper
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker, Ink
The Gossips
Located in New York, NY
Colored ink marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
Untitled [House and Road]
Located in New York, NY
Colored ink marker on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
![Untitled [House and Road]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1677003759648/M_10378D_033_master.jpg?width=240 "Jeanne Brousseau - Untitled [House and Road]")
Abstract Still Life with Lute
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on black paper
Category
Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"WALK, RACK" (COPPER BOTTOM) / "TALK. ABOUT. NONSINCE, BRIMMER" [277/
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
"JOHN, CLIDESDALE" / "LEVATHAN AND COPPER BOTTOM" [275/276]
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
!["JOHN, CLIDESDALE" / "LEVATHAN AND COPPER BOTTOM" [275/276]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1661456235897/M_10163D_122_master.jpg?width=240 "James Edward Deeds Jr. - \"JOHN, CLIDESDALE\" / \"LEVATHAN AND COPPER BOTTOM\" [275/276]")
"FINE FARM STOCK" / "BRIMMER" [269/270]
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
!["FINE FARM STOCK" / "BRIMMER" [269/270]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1661456131322/M_10163D_119_master.jpg?width=240 "James Edward Deeds Jr. - \"FINE FARM STOCK\" / \"BRIMMER\" [269/270]")
"DIXEY ARKTECTURE"/ Steamer Ship [175/176]
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
!["DIXEY ARKTECTURE"/ Steamer Ship [175/176]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1661456015495/M_10163D_083_master.jpg?width=240 "James Edward Deeds Jr. - \"DIXEY ARKTECTURE\"/ Steamer Ship [175/176]")
"MISS. MARTIN"/ "GRAY. EAGLE" [64/65]
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
!["MISS. MARTIN"/ "GRAY. EAGLE" [64/65]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1661455900247/M_10163D_033_master.jpg?width=240 "James Edward Deeds Jr. - \"MISS. MARTIN\"/ \"GRAY. EAGLE\" [64/65]")
"ENDIA STEAMER / "SANTAFEE. LADY" [42/43]
By James Edward Deeds Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Graphite and crayon on ledger paper.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
!["ENDIA STEAMER / "SANTAFEE. LADY" [42/43]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_23/1661455657872/M_10163D_022_master.jpg?width=240 "james edward deeds jr")
Woodstock
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (in white gouache, at lower left): Winold Reiss; (with estate stamp, at lower right): Winold /
Reiss
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Portrait of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Girl
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
By Charles Houghton Howard
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His fat...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Bitter Quassia, a native of Surinam
By Frances Jauncey Ketchum
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): FJK
Category
Early 19th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Annual Lavatera a native of Spain
By Frances Jauncey Ketchum
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): FJK [partial]
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
African Agapanthus, or Blue Lily, a native of the Cape
By Frances Jauncey Ketchum
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): FJK
Category
Early 19th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Arm
By Frantisek Kupka
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Lily and Bird
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
Silverpoint and colored pencil on paper, 29 x 23 in.
Signed (at lower right): Joseph Stella
Executed about 1919
EXHIBITED: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 23, 1985–January 4, 1986, American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints, pp. 6, 46 no. 47 illus. // (probably) Richard York Gallery, New York, October 5–November 17, 1990, Joseph Stella: 100 Works on Paper, no. 36
EX COLL.: [Dudensing Galleries, New York]; sale, Christie’s, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 324; [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984]; to private collection, 2006 until the present
An independent-minded artist who adhered to the credo “Rules don’t exist,” Joseph Stella explored a range of styles, media, and themes, willfully ignoring the “barricades erected by ... [the] self-appointed dictators” of the art establishment (Joseph Stella, “On Painting,” Broom 11 [December 1921], pp. 122–23; Joseph Stella, “Discovery of America: Autobiographical Notes,” Art News 59
[November 1960], p. 41). By doing so, he produced a diverse and highly eclectic body of work, ranging from realist figure subjects, pulsating Futurist cityscapes, and modernist religious...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Bailey 1977
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Venice
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Singed (at lower left): Jane Peterson
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Gouache
The Air We Breathe 2, Suite of 5
By Elizabeth Turk
Located in New York, NY
Suite of 5 drawings
Charcoal and Getty Fire Ash on paper, 24 x 18 in. (each)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Air We Breathe 5 and 6
By Elizabeth Turk
Located in New York, NY
Pair of drawings
Charcoal and Getty Fire Ash on paper, 24 x 18 in. (each)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Air We Breathe 1, Suite of 3
By Elizabeth Turk
Located in New York, NY
Suite of 3 drawings
Charcoal and Getty Fire Ash on paper, 24 x 18 in (each)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Edam, Holland
By Thomas Fransioli
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty.
Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.”
This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them.
Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists.
During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
Category
20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled
By Charles Houghton Howard
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His fat...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Hemlock--Selden's Neck, Lyme, Connecticut
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in New York, NY
Framed, 5.25 x 8.5 x 1.5 in.
Category
19th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals.
Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp.
Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation.
Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133).
Two Wood Ducks...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Franconia, New Hampshire
By David Johnson
Located in New York, NY
David Johnson was a stalwart of the New York art world in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the fifty years between 1849 and 1899, Johnson exhibited over fifty paintings at the National Academy of Design, where he was an academician. In 1867, Johnson visited a spot above West Point on the Hudson River to paint a view that had long been a favorite of the landscape artists comprising the so-called “Hudson River School.” John Kensett had painted from the same vantage point ten years earlier, describing the area in a letter of 1854 as being “in the midst of the beautiful highlands of the Hudson, which I think for their peculiar kind of beauty there is nothing to surpass” (Kensett to his uncle, John R. Kensett, March 30, 1854, as quoted in Natalie Spassky and Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845 [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985], p. 33). The Kensett painting, now called Hudson River Scene...
Category
19th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
