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'Abstract in Red and Ochre', AWS, NWS, Who’s Who in American Art, Albuquerque
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Carole Barnes AWS' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
Carole Barnes has exhibited widely and with success and is the r...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Gouache
'Vestal Virgin', Danish Modernism, Art Deco Figural, Mythological, Neo-classical
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'F. Sedivy' for Franz Sedivy II (Danish, 1888-1973) and dated 1959.
A dramatic figural painting of a young woman, shown naked and hold...
Category
1950s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
'Hong Kong from Victoria Harbor', Society of Western Artists, Bohemian Club
By William Howard Knowles
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'W.M. Knowles for William Howard Knowles (American, 1909-1998), titled, 'Hong Kong' and painted circa 1965.
Born in San Francisco, William Knowles studied at the Masachussets Institute of Technology and, later, at UC Berkeley. He exhibited widely and with success and was a member of the Society of Western Artists, Bohemian Club...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Reclining Nude', Mid-century German Expressionist, Düsseldorf, Venice Biennale
By Kurt Craemer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signer lower right, 'Craemer' for Kurt Craemer (German, 1912-1961) and dated 1954.
Born in Saarbrucken, Craemer first attended the Academy of Cologne in 1928 where he worked under Friedrich Ahlers-Hesterman. He later traveled to Paris with his teacher, where he was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. From 1930-33, Craemer lived in Düsseldorf where he studied at the Art Academy under Paul Klee. With the Nazi's ascent to power late that year, Craemer moved to Italy and lived there at the Art colony in Ischia until the end of the war when he moved to Positano.
Throughout the 1950's, Kurt Craemer continued to live in Italy exhibited with success internationally, including at the Venice Biennale...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), dated 1954 and inscribed with roman numeral, '4'; additionally stamped verso with certification of authenticit...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Carmel Mission', Santa Clara, California, Society Western Artists, Historical
By Henry Hank Volle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Henry Volle' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975.
A substantial and lyrically painted watercolor view of the original Spanish colonial church and mission buildings at Carmel on the coast of California with a view beyond towards the Carmel highlands.
Henry "Hank" Volle first attended the University of Illinois and subsequently studied in Europe, including at the Klinger Institute, Vienna. Upon returning to the United States, Volle began to study with the water-colorists of the California Bay area. Essentially a plein-air painter, Hank Volle painted along the California coast where he exhibited with success. He was also a member of the Santa Clara Watercolor Society and the Society of Western Artists.
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Woman in a Kimono', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
'California Landscape', Royal Danish Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "E Hansen" for Ejnar Hansen (American, 1884-1965) and dated 1936.
Ejnar Hansen studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Art before moving to the United States in 1914 and settling in Pasadena in 1924. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher at the Chouinard School, the Otis Art Institute, the John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts.
He exhibited widely and with success, including in Denmark and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the 1939 World's Fair and at the Cincinnati Museum. Ejnar was a member of the Academy of Western Painters, the Los Angeles Art Association, the California Art Club, the California Watercolor Society, Pasadena Society of Artists and the Foundation for Western Art. Ejnar Hansen's works may be found in numerous public and private collections including LACMA, the Pasadena Art Institute and the San Diego Fine Art Society.
Reference:
Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 484; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1449; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 2, p. 371; Revyen, Chicago 23.12.1916; 17.2.1917; 8.12.1917; 2.2.1918; 16.3.1918; Vore Herrer, okt. 1918; Internat. Studio, juli 1920; Ekstrabl. 14.2.1921 (G. Nygaard); Tidens Kvinder, maj 1934; Fr. Graae: Fra Sydhavsøerne, 1934, 133-45; Art Digest, aug. 1937, dec. 1944, maj 1945; Da. Tid., Chicago 3.9.1937; Arts and Arch., apr. 1938; P. Uttenreitter: Olaf Rude...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
'Woman Standing', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A bravura pencil study of a young woman in an overcoat, shown stand...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
An atmospheric and psychologically penetrating figural drawing, sho...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Cubist Kitchen Interior', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A Cubist derived still-life in an interior showing fruit in a bowl ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Gouache
'University Village, Berkeley' Carmel, California, Woman Post Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled 'University Village', dated 1958 and with inscription verso, 'Demonstration painting- horizontal and verti...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Lighthouse at Point Pinos', Pacific Grove, California Woman Post Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Pt. Pinos' and dated 1953.
A bright and fresh watercolor showing a view...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Taos', American Watercolor Society, Chouinard, New York, Art Student's League
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James Vance, AWS', (American, 1919-2007), titled 'Taos' and painted circa 1950.
James Vance grew up in Los Angeles and first applied ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Venice, Bacino di San Marco', Venetian Vedute, St. Mark's Place, Santa Maria
By Félix Ziem
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Attributed to Felix Ziem and painted circa 1900.
Bearing signature, lower right, 'F. Ziem' for Felix Francois Georges Philibert Ziem (1821-1911)
Framed dimensions: 13.75 x 18 x .75 ...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Main Street, Port Costa', California Woman Post Impressionist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed twice, lower right, 'Muriel Backman' (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Main Street, Port Costa' and dated May, 1968.
Muriel ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Pot-Bellied Stove', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
'Abigail, by the Light of the Pool', San Diego Artist, Psychological Portraiture
By Daniel Camp
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Daniel M. Camp' (American, born 1947) and painted circa 1985.
A luminously atmospheric portrait of the artist's daughter, Abigail, at the age of three.
Daniel ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Birdwalk', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Scotland, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1963; titled verso, 'Birdwalk'.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Pointillist Still Life', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1966.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others.
Selected Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984:
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition
Selected Solo Shows:
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
'Pink Daisies', California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
By Beverly Fields
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of numerous medals and juried awards. Beverly Fields first studied with Zoltan Szabo and later with Charles Reid...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Still Life, Lilac and Jade', Mississippi Modernist Woman, Peabody Collection
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Layton', for Gray Layton (American, 20th century) and created circa 1965.
An exuberant and brilliantly colored, Post Impressionist collaged still-life painting comprising a bouquet of lilac blossoms, shown informally arranged in a patterned vase and set beside a jade glass bottle of absinthe and a ripe, yellow Boscobel pear, all contrasted against a background of scumbled and stippled rectangular elements in muted tones of ochre, violet and amethyst.
Gray Layton first studied with Elizabeth Hazeltine at the University of Chicago and George Dutch at Peabody College. She furthered her training with Eliot O'Hara before studying watercolor with William Hollingsworth...
Category
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Adhesive, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
'Summer Clouds, East Beach, Santa Barbara', California, Instituto Allende
By Tom Henderson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tom Henderson' (American, born 1949) and painted circa 2000.
Inscribed verso with artist's name and titled, 'Summer Clouds, East Be...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Nude Study', Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Montevideo, Grupo de los 8, Benezit
By Carlos Paez Vilaro
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of authenticity stamped, verso, for Carlos Paez Vilaro (Uruguayan, 1923-2014) and painted circa 1984. Dedicated verso on old backing, 'To Arlene', signed and dated 1984...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Fishermen at Monterey Wharf'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Katherine Wengi' for Katherine Wengi O'Connor (American, 1936-1984); additionally inscribed verso with artist information.
This listed Oregon artist was a membe...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'San Francisco and the Bay', Early California Woman Artist, Palo Alto Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elva Senter' (American, 1891-1973) and painted circa 1975; additionally inscribed verso.
Born in Callao, Missouri, Elva Senter moved to Oklahoma with her famil...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Saskatchewan Rain', Art Institute of Chicago, California School of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'W. ZImmer' for Warren William Zimmer (American, 1914-1998) and dated 1982. Additionally signed verso, dated and titled, 'Saskatchewan'.
Born in Beloit, WI in 19...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Fall Landscape', Suffolk Woman Artist, London, Paris, Norfolk Art Circle
By Dorothy Garrett
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dorothy Garrett' (English, 1908-2000) and painted circa 1955; additionally inscribed verso, 'Griffith'.
Born Dorothy Mabel Ellen Herring, Dorothy Garrett studie...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Mother and Child', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'After the Storm', Carmel, California, Paris, Academie Julian, New York, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Herbert Lewis' (American, 1893-1962) and inscribed 'Caques 1928 and Tucson 1950'.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Herbert Taylor Lewis was known as a painter of abstracts, still lives and figure studies painted with a vivid palette in a bold Modernist style. Lewis first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and, subsequently, in Europe including at the Academie Julian in Paris during the birth of Modernism and Cubism in the early part of the 20th century. Upon his return to the United State, he kept a studio in New York City for several years but, by 1920, was living and painting in Arizona. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis was working as an art instructor at Rockford College, Illinois, and, from 1943 to 1954, was a resident of Tucson. By the early 1930s, he lived part time in California...
Category
1950s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Fiberboard, Watercolor
'San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge', Oakland Museum, SFAA
By Robert Kaess
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed lower right, 'R. Kaess' for Robert Kaess (American, 1923-1991) and dated ''64'.
Robert Kaess studied at the University of California under Margaret Petersen and Erle Loran, receiving his B.F.A. in 1948 and M.F.A. in 1950. He traveled in Europe from 1952-3 to continue his art studies and paint. In the late 1950's, he developed an allergy to oil paint and, not caring to paint in another medium, he returned to the University of California at Berkeley to study medicine. After graduation, Robert Kaess practiced medicine for almost thirty years but, in his short and successful career as an artist, he painted many fine and original paintings.
One man Exhibition: London, 1953
Selected Exhibitions:
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951;
Oakland Art Gallery annuals;
J...
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
'Garden Landscape with River', 19th Century Kano School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A finely-drawn Kano School watercolor and gouache showing figures in kimonos on a bridge and seated beside a stylized river flowing through a graceful garden. An elegantly formal com...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Seated Nude', Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ament' for Janet Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and titled, 'Helene'; additionally bearing artist's estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Woodland Stream in Spring', San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, California
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Phillips" for James March Phillips (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
A profusion of autumn-tinged, California flora is shown growing beside the lush banks of a forest stream.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Jean Turner Art Academy and, later, under Alfred Owles...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Spanish Bridge, Segovia', Woman Artist, Paris Salon, Cooper Union, ASL, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elizabeth Gowdy Baker' (American, 1860-1927) and painted circa 1910.
Exhibited: New York Watercolor Club, Circa 1900
After graduating from Monmouth College, Elizabeth Gowdy Baker furthered her studies at New York's Cooper Union...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper
'Tropical Lagoon', Impressionist Landscape with Palm Trees and Bougainvillea
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'B. Metcalf'; additionally signed verso and painted circa 1975.
An idyllic tropical landscape showing palm trees and scarlet bougainvillea in the foreground wit...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Woman with Guitar', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988).
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity.
Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 13.5 x 1 inches
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz,...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Reclining Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Di Gesu Estate Stamp verso for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
An elegant, freehand sketch of a young woman with a bob cut, shown naked and reclining on...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Mother and Child', Bolivian-American Modernist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Norha Beltran (Bolivian-American, 20th century). Accompanied by old label from Hourian Gallery, San Francisco and with comprehensive artist bi...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
'U.S.S. Love', Swimming with Mermaids, Merman
By Roberta Loach
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Roberta Loach' and dated '79'; additionally signed verso and dated.
An enigmatic and whimsical drawing of a young woman in swimming costume and cap preparing to...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
'Abstracted Lake Landscape', Wisconsin artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'C. Riter' for Carl Frederick Riter (American, born. 1915) and dated '6-'67'.
Stamped verso with certification of authenticity...
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Glue, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen
'Rural Mailboxes', California Woman Artist, Society of Western Artists
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Burnham SWA' for Jane Burnham Crawford (American 1926-2016) and painted circa 1985.
A substantial and loosely painted view of five d...
Category
1980s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Classical Modern', Stylized Figural by Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Dawn O'Malley (American, 20th century), circa 1975 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso.
A bright and harmonious figural painting in the Mycenaean style ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Casein
'Napoleonic Guard at the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor', Moscow, French Militaria
By Charles Hoffbauer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.H.' for Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (French, 1875-1957) and painted circa 1900.
Accompanied by the original artist-signed mat, original backing with inscription and newspaper clipping from Los Angeles Times' review of Hoffbauer's 1949 Legion of Honor Exhibition.
Mat dimensions: 12.75 x 13.5 Inches
An exceptionally fine and detailed, cabinet-sized gouache showing members of the Napoleonic guard relaxing in the courtyard of the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor during France's brief occupation of Moscow during the fall of 1812.
Born in Paris in 1875, Charles Hoffbauer studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon and Gustave Moreau and, during his studies, became acquainted with Matisse, Rouault, and Marquet. He was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including an Honorable Mention in the Salon of 1896, and prizes at the Salons of 1898 and 1899. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 and, in the same year, a French government scholarship, the Prix National du Salon, that allowed him to travel and study in Italy, Greece and Egypt. In 1902, he won the Prix Rosa Bonheur. At the Salon of 1904, the French government purchased 'Champs de Bataille' for the Musée du Luxembourg and Hoffbauer was elected a member of the Legion of Honor.
Hoffbauer served in the French Army as an official war artist during the first world war, winning the Croix de Guerre and acting as liaison officer to the American camouflage section. On the recommendation of the mural painter, James Wall Finn, Hoffbauer received the 1935 commission to paint the murals for Battle Abbey, the Confederate memorial in Richmond, Virginia. He revisited America to accept a commission for the mural in the Missouri State Capitol, and was appointed to membership of the jury of the 1937 International Exposition. Two years later, he became an American citizen and settled in Rockport, Massachusetts. Charles Hoffbauer's work may be found in the permanent collections of numerous national museums including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1585; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 17/18, p. 246; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 7, p. 105; Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S.: Colonial to 2002, Bob Creps, Dealer’s Choice Books, Inc. 2002, Vol. 1, p. 643; Steen, James T. "The Story of a Painting," Carnegie Magazine 31/32 (February 1957): 57-59; Charles Hoffbauer (1875-1957). Drawings, Temperas & Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Somerville, MA: Gropper Art Gallery, 1977; Glueck, Grace. New York: The Painted City. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Horizon Rise', American Figurative Abstraction, Native American
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Vigil' for Veloy Vigil (American, 1931-1997).
Previously with: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Born in Denver, Colorado,...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'A Young Goatherd', Orientalism, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Royal Academy, Benezit
By Frederick Goodall R.A.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed lower right, 'F.G.' (1822-1904) and dated 1888; additionally accompanied verso by a Fine Art Society label.
Born in London, Frederick Goodall studied painting under his ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Industrial Landscape in Blue', California, Marin Society of Artists, Nassau
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'S.K.' for Stewart Kelly (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990. Accompanied by exhibition label and old exhibition catalog. Titled on old backing, "...
Category
1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Reclining Nude', Bay Area Figurative School, CSFA, San Francisco, California
By Elmer Nelson Bischoff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'E. Bischoff' for Elmer Nelson Bischoff (American, 1916-1991) and dated ''64'".
Previously with:
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California
Framed Dimensions: 21.75 H x 18.5 W x .75 D Inches
This work is accompanied by a First edition volume of 'Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint' by Susan Landauer & Bill Berkson, University of California Press, 2001.
A key figure in the California Bay Area abstract and figurative movement following World War II, Elmer Bischoff graduated in 1939 from the University of California. As an art student there, he had been strongly influenced by Margaret Peterson...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
'Rainbow Abstract', San Francisco Bay Area, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hourian Hamid' (Iranian-American, 20th century) and dated 1985.
A large, flowing abstract by the brother of the artist, Mohammed Hourian.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Burmese Water Pageant', California Post-Impressionist, PAFA, AIC, Carmel
By William Clothier Watts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'W C Watts' for William Clothier Watts (American, 1869-1961), titled verso 'Water Pagent (sic), Burma' and painted circa 1930.
A characteristically kaleidoscopic work by Watts showing a view of brightly caparisoned boats and gaily-dressed participants in a traditional Burmese Water ceremony.
Watts began painting early and, by the age of 18, he had exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he also studied under Thomas Anshutz and Robert Vonnoh...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market', Capitalism Satire
By Antonio Manganaro
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Manganaro' for 'Antonio Manganaro (Italian, 20th Century), and titled lower center, 'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market'.
Matted Dimensions: 16 x 20
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pen, Graphite
'Portrait of a Young Woman', 19th Century Academic Realism
By Mary Gunn
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A compelling and period mid-19th century portrait of a young woman with braided hair, wearing a shawl and shown three-quarters on. Signed lower right, "Mary Gunn" (American, 19th cen...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Paper
'French Courtyard', Large School of Paris Drawing, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon
By Denis Paul Noyer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Denis Paul Noyer' (French, b. 1940) and created circa 1975.
An exceptionally finely-detailed, silver point and colored pencil drawing showing a view of a Parisia...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Metal
'Carmel Mission', California Impressionism, Woman Artist, New York School of Art
By Edda Maxwell Heath
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'E.M.Heath' for Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874-1972) and painted circa 1930.
A lyrical and romantic view of this early California mission and picturesque land...
Category
1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
'Abstracted Figure', Sydney, Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Bonorat' and painted circa 1980
An elegant, modernist figural painting and early work by this Sydney-based Mexican artist who studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1982-84) and, subsequently, at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1986).
STUDIES
1982-1984 Painting and Drawing Ateliers – National School of Fine Arts, Mexico City
1985-1986 Artistic Experimentation – Carrillo Hill Museum, Mexico City
1986 Metal Engraving – Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo Brazil
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Art Gallery of Santos Municipal Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988 Art Gallery of Porto Alegre Municipal centre, R.S. Brazil
1991 Gallery Casa de la Cultura, Morelia Mexico
1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1996 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1996 Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane
1997 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
2019 ‘Golden Trinity’, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney
2019 ‘Continuous Thread, GAFFA Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1985 Mail Art Network Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto Japan
1987 Banespa Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil
1988 IV National Contest of Fine Arts, Cubatao Brazil
1992 NCA Gallery, Sydney
1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1994/5/6 Selected for the “Fisher’s Ghost” Art...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
