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Andrée Ruellan, Spring on Bleecker Street (Greenwich Village, NY), drawing 1938
By Andrée Ruellan
Located in New York, NY
Spring, Bleecker Street, Ruellan's conté crayon drawing from 1938, shows young people out in the world. And their world is Bleecker Street, New York City. The heart of Greenwich Vil...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Edward Laning, Sketch for Sheraton East Hotel Mid-Century Mural of Ancient Myths
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American!
Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink.
Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
J.B. Dolitro? Bedtime Story. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis, Drinks, Cigars
Located in New York, NY
Clearly an ironic title, 'Bedtime Story,' conjures up homey childhood experiences -- not over-sized, cigar-smoking, and alcohol-abusing, French soldiers.
The artist who made Bedti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
J.B. Dolitro? Company Party. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis and Dancing
Located in New York, NY
The artist who made Company Party. (Male French WWII Soldiers with Kepis and Dancing), about 1939, is unknown. It could be J. B. Dolitro, but that's just a guess and a deep Google se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Edward Laning, Joe Jones Asleep
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This is a World War II drawing of the Missouri artist Joe Jones (1909-1963) by the New York artist Edward Laning (1906-1981). A typed note reads “Drawn in th...
Category
1940s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #5), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 Hill attended the Brookl...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Edward Laning, (Male Figures)
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This pencil drawing by master draughtsman Edward Laning has religious over tones. Perhaps it's a study for a deposition. There are male figures, both nude...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Morris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing
By Morris Graves
Located in New York, NY
This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature.
Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, (Baseball Hitter and Pitcher -- The Philadelphia Phillies?)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, (Supper at the Oak Room, Plaza Hotel, NYC)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Bendiner always took drawing materials with him when he traveled. And a beautiful piece of 'found' paper was never wasted. (Once in Greece on a bus trip he had to acquire paper from ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Alfred Bendiner, Johnny Hodges (Johnny Hodges, Bass Fiddle & Traps)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Did Bendiner ever miss a performance, show, concert, play? Was there anyone he didn't know?
This double-side drawing in blue crayon shows Johnny Hodges (jazz saxophonist extraordina...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Alfred Bendiner, La Alsacienne (pair)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Leave it to the Bendiners to find an Alsatian restaurant in Paris (La Taverne Alsacienne) and use it's stationary to such a great end! And thank goodness that the paper required two ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Cooking Still Life: Bread, Olives, Potato, Mushrooms)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This drawing was probably for a magazine, perhaps House and Garden or House Beautiful. It is signed and dated in pencil on the...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Blanche Grambs, (Study for a Souffle)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
The symmetrical nature of the drawing suggests it was for a book or magazine project with facing pages -- possibly a cookboo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Shell Fish: Lobster, Crab, and Shrimp)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
This ink drawing with a lobster, crab, and a shrimp, was probably for a cookbook; the sheet is cut in a free-form, modernist...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Lazy Susan)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This was probably for a cookbook.
The dimensions are for the drawing. The sheet is somewhat larger, 7 x 6 1/2 inches.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Norman Barr, Farm, North Bronx (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Emil Ganso, (Reclining Nude)
By Emil Ganso
Located in New York, NY
A classic Emil Ganso nude. Quite large, the sheet is 14 1/8 x 21 inches and the image goes all the way across the sheet from left to right. Very delicately drawn - especially for Ganso.
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Alfred Bendiner, Avalon (New Jersey)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing! From Bendiner's Philadelphia the New Jersey beaches were an easy drive. Avalon is st...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, Santa Fe Cowhands (New Mexico)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing!
In this scene of a young 'cowgirl' is working a lasso while an 'old cowhand' looks on -- clutching a cigaret of...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Sanderson, Fascists
By William Sanderson
Located in New York, NY
Latvia-born William Sanderson became a contributor to the New Yorker and New Masses magazines during the 1930s. He was drafted into the Army during World Wa...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
George Drittler, (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
British-born, New Jersey-based, George Drittler was primarily know for landscapes. In this still life that expansive approach serves him well. Richly drawn, with pottery, books and a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
(Wounded Soldiers)
Located in New York, NY
While this is a World War II drawing, the barbed wire recalls the tranches of the First World War. A menacing tank at the upper left dominates the scene.
There is a black border and...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Curlee Raven Holton, Three Views of a Dancer
Located in New York, NY
A painter, draftsman, printmaker and master printer, Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) taught for twenty years at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Young Bird with Ferns)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. This charming piece places the yooun...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blanche Grambs, (Young Owl)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Although we use the word 'pencil' fo...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blanche Grambs, Eagle
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Here an eagle, a majestic bird-of-pr...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Gattuso, (Abstraction)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address on the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene - Light)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Paul Gattuso, (Young Woman)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Louis Bouché, (Standing Woman)
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
Louis Bouché was based in New York and taught at the Art Students League. The figure was an important subject in his oeuvre. An ink drawing on tan paper, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Worden Day, Sketch for Multi Media
Located in New York, NY
This abstraction composition, a mixed media piece, has collage, watercolor, and pencil. It is signed in pencil both with a signature and a cypher.
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army.
It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Alfred Bendiner, Baccaloni in Rosenkavalier
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
The Italian opera singer, Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969) often took comic roles. He worked with several opera companies in Philadelphia between 1951 and 1966. Bendiner was a world t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Fulton St. Fish Market, Crating (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Born in Czarist Russia Norman Barr (1908-1994) came to New York as a young boy and except for a few night classes at the school of the National Academy of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Richard Haas, (View of the Brooklyn Bridge, NYC)), about 1980, pastel
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
A classic Richard Haas (born 1936) New York City view. Signed in pencil lower right. The fact that it is signed within the image, the drawn-upon area, leads me to think the artist wa...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Dorothy Varian, Witness
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Varian (1895-1985) was based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. This is a courtroom scene that captures the intensity of the situation. It is s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blanche Grambs, Autumn Leaves
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, later developed a career in illustration. Her botanical illustrations are especiall...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, later developed a career in illustration. This drawing, watercolor and ink on trac...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dorothy Dehner, (Poster Design), mid-century, for Willard Gallery
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in New York, NY
This (Poster Design) was made for the exhibition 'Dorothy Dehner, Sculptures and Watercolors,' at the Willard Gallery, May 7 through 31, 1957.
It's a perfect mid-century American i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Dorothy Dehner, (Abstraction)
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in New York, NY
This large scale drawing is signed and dated ink and closely relates to her sculptures of this period. The dimensions of 23 x 31 inches are the siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Samuel Greenburg, Rural Scene Mural Study
Located in New York, NY
This Rural Scene Mural Study by Samuel Greenburg is scored in a manner indicating transfer to a larger format. However as yet no related image or mural is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
Mark Tobey, Rebus Letter
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
This ink drawing and writing by Mark Tobey also has writing in another hand, in pencil. The dimensions are for the sheet of paper.
Provenance: Willard Gallery, New York, NY.
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Beulah Stevenson, Three Small Sunflowers and Two Roses by the Window
By Beulah Stevenson
Located in New York, NY
This Three Small Sunflowers still-life by Beulah Stevenson (1890-1965) is a joyful modernist composition. With just touches of color she indicates a window and colorful curtains blow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Agnes Weinrich, Woman Facing Left
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions are for sheet size. The drawing is signed in pencil at the lower left.
Agnes Weinrich was one of the artists who settled in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at the t...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Agnes Weinrich, Head of a Woman
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions are for sheet size. The drawing is signed in pencil at the lower right.
Agnes Weinrich was one of the artists who settled in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at the ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
