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Two Studies of Henriette (Head of the artist's wife & The Artist's wife writing
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Studies of Henriette (Left: Head of the artist's wife, Right: The Artist's wife writing a letter)
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1928-1930
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Image/sheet size: 9 3/8 x 11 inches
Condition: Excellent
Colors fresh and unfaded
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Next Door Neighbor
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Next Door Neighbor
Oil pastel and ink on handmade paper, 2012
Signed vertically lower left in image (see photo)
Series: 99%
Exhibited: Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Hiden in Pla...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
Cobwebs and Rocks
By Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cobwebs and Rocks
Watercolor, 1940
Signed, dated, and copyrighted lower right
Exhibited: Zimmerli Art Museum, Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum: Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Color Plate 14 copy copy of the catalog accompanies the watercolor
Condition: excellent
Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Ruth O...
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lets Find the Way #1
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lets Find the Way #1
Watercolor on Arches wove paper, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed, titled and dated in pencil verso
This watercolor is related to the ar...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Signed and dated lower left (twice), see photo
Watercolor on paper, 1935
A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the or...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Babies Taking Care of Babies, "The Real"
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Babies Taking Care of Babies, "The Real"
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower rig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Standing Female Nude in Profile, hand on hip
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude in Profile, hand on hip
Colored chalks on Strathmore Charcoal grey paper, c. 1980
Signed in chalk lower right (see photo)
In 1941, Fidelma Cadmus (Paul’s sister) married Lincoln...
Category
1980s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 14 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/sheet size: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lower East Side Crowd
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lower East Side Crowd
Ink and ink wash on paper, c. 1910
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the initials lower right corner (see p...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Natural
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Natural
Watercolor and pigments on Arches paper, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
An image of the a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Homage to Morandi
By Phyllis Sloane
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homage to Morandi
Watercolor, c. 1990
Signed lower right: Sloane
An important exhibition size watercolor by the artist.
Acquired by the Cleveland Clinic, de-accessed in 2021
Conditio...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The River Barge
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The River Barge
Pen and ink on paper on laid paper, mounted in English drum mount , c. 1810
Unsigned
Condition: Slight sun staining to sheet and mount in th...
Category
1810s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
Watercolor on laid paper, mounted to support of old Albumin photograph mount
Signed and dated lower left (see photo)
The watercolor is mounted on support that is the backing for a vintage albumin photograph of Moulin Huet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, c. 1850's
Condition: Mounted to verso of albumin photograph mount (see photo)
Glue residue outside of image/sheet on recto
Colors fresh
No other issues to note
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour.
Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter.
His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist.
Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804
Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines
Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites...
Category
1840s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Isadora Duncan
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Isadora Duncan
Graphite with grey wash on paper mounted to cardstock
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, f...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"And wasn't it good for a boy to be Out to old Aunt Mary's"
By Howard Chandler Christy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
"And wasn't it good for a boy to be Out to old Aunt Mary's"
Charcoal and watercolor on artist illustration board, 1900
Initialed and dated lower right: H.C.C. 1900 by the artist (see...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Amorous Couple
By Philibert-Louis Debucourt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Amorous Couple
Watercolor on laid paper, c. 1810
Unsigned
Provenance: Emile Wolf (1899-1996)
The art collection of Emile Wolf was dispersed by Sotheby and Stair Galleries.
Condition: Excellent
22K gold leaf finishes corner frame (see photo)
“Mr. Wolf’s collection reflects a lifelong commitment to the arts. Although a mainstay of the Old Masters art scene in New York, Mr. Wolf’s collection spanned centuries and genres. He was an impassioned collector, and his Fifth Avenue apartment was filled with paintings and drawings that hung from floor to ceiling in every room. Space void of art was lined with an extensive library of art books that fueled his ardent collecting. Mr. Wolf took great joy in sharing this collection and his ideas with art historians, collectors, dealers and university students.
The Wolf collection included masterworks from every influential and groundbreaking Impressionist and modern artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ranging from an outstanding grouping of works on paper by Picasso, Pissarro, and Cezanne to a Renoir oil...
Category
1810s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper, c. 1971
Unsigned
Provenance: From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition i...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Figures in a park)
By Lester Johnson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Figures in a park)
Watercolor on paper, 1991
Signed lower right of image (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 10 3/16 x 14 1/16 inches
Provenance: David Anderson Ga...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Read the Signs #29
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs #29
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
signed lower right: Darius Steward (see photo)
Series: Read the Signs
Depicts the artist's son Darius II an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Read the Signs #25
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs #25
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
signed lower right: Darius Steward
Series: Read the Signs
Depicts Gwen, the artist's sister
An early work b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Occupy A Space # 2 (Emily)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Occupy A Space # 2 (Emily)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Series: Occupy A Space
Exhibited: Occupying A Space, Swope Art Museum, January...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
M
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
M
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Note: The Series MORE? is centered around the artist’s family.
There are two images of the artist’s s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Occupy A Space #1 (Emily)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Occupy A Space #1 (Emily)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials
Series: Occupying A Space
Exhibited: Occupying A Space, Swope Art Museum, January 18-March 3, 2019
seenUNseen: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #3 (Emily with a Sippy Cup Smiling)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #3 (Emily with a Sippy Cup Smiling)
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp
Exhibited: LA Art, 2020
Condition: Excellent
Arc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Today's Sketches for Tomorrow, #1
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Today's Sketches for Tomorrow, #1
Watercolor, 2020
Series: Today's Sketches for Tomorrow
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's Yummy stamp lower righ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper. 1971
Unsigned
Sheet size: 24 x 19 inches
Condition: Excellent
From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007)
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Shoichi Ida
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
molded mud-dried paper with collage elements, 1996
Signed and dated lower edge (see photo)
Annotated and titled verso
Sheet size: 24 x 7 inches
Provenance: Ralph Drake, fir...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Courtship
By Robert Henri
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Courtship
Graphite and black crayon, c. 1905
Signed by the artist in pencil lower left (see photo)
Most probably inspired by a Paul Gavarni lithograph and executed while the artist w...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Pablo Casals
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pablo Casals
Graphite on paper, 1963
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 8 inches
Condition: glue residue in all four corners of the sheet
Drawn from life during an appearance at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Standing Female Nude
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Match stick and ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed with the estate stamp B
Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches
Created at the Kakoon Arts Klu...
Category
1920s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Head of a Woman (Margaret)
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Woman (Margaret)
conte on wove paper, 1925
Signed and dated lower right
Annotated "Margaret" in ink verso
A portrait of Margaret Cassidy Manship ( d. 2012), daughter in law...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Woman on a Patio
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio
Pastel on paper, c. 1915
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr
By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess
David Saltzman
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art
Thomas French Fine Art
Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio
Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed)
Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery.
One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68)
Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils.
The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke.
One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68)
In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works.
In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University.
Courtesy, AskArt
“Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany.
Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
Art Studies in Europe
In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian.
Giverny and American Impressionism
Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
Category
1910s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
untitled Woman by the Windows
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman by the Windows)
Unsigned.
Pastel on board, c. 1915
Created while the artist was in Giverny, France
Provenance:
Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr
by Descent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess.
David Salzman
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago
Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus
One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68)
Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils.
The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke.
One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68)
In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works.
In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University.
Courtesy: AskArt
“Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany.
Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
Art Studies in Europe
In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian.
Giverny and American Impressionism
Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
Category
1910s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Pen, ink and graphite with gray and brown washes on laid watermarked paper, c. 1740
Signed by the artist lower left of image: "Chatelain fecit" (see photo)
A finished drawing, signed by the artist, showing his inspiration by Claude Lorain (1600 or 1604/5-1682)
Provenance: Mathias Komor Works of Art
Mary Whelan Prue Warburg (1909-2009)
Mary Whelan Prue Warburg (1909-2009), widow of Edward M.M. Warburg, founding Trustee and Board member of MoMA (1932-1958); Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Trustee 1983-1992
Regarding the artist:
"Topographical draughtsman and printmaker; son of Huguenot parents named Phillippe (he probably took name Chatelain later), worked and died in London in 1758 (not 1771 as stated by earlier authorities).
Chatelain worked for notable London publishers, including John Rocque, Francis Vivares and Arthur Pond...
Category
1740s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Standing Female Nude
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Ink on paper
Signed by the artist with his initials lower left "AB"
Related to numerous drawings of the same model illustrate...
Category
1950s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Building New York
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Building New York
Watercolor on paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Partial watermark: "MADE IN ENGLAND... LINEN FIBER"
Excellent, COLORS FRESH AND VIBRANT
Br...
Category
1910s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
#45
By Alexandre Hogue
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#45
Ink on paper, 1970
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of a series of drawings, all made in 1970, which stemmed from Hogue's interest in Persian calligraphy. H...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
Graphite on paper, 1938
Initialed "B" by the artist lower right corner
Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison for his "Degenerate Art"
Image size: 7 x 6 3/4 inches
Housed in raw silk matting in a reproduction Gugenheim style frame with OP3 Acrylic
Frame dimensions: 16 x 17 x 1 1/2 inches
Condition: Folded in quarters by the artist to hide the drawing from the Gestapo
Irregular margins
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Phillips Auction, New York
Borghi Inc.
"Back in Berlin, Das Geistreich had become a lonely island of individualism in a menacing sea of Nazism. The Bauhaus had been closed down by the government in 1933, and artists such as Bauer were increasingly ostracized. Many had already fled the country. Rebay wrote Bauer in August 1937 to report that she had visited the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, which featured many artists from their Der Sturm days, including works by Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, and, of course, Bauer. Why Bauer lingered so long in this hostile environment remains a mystery. He was not Jewish, yet his patron was one of the richest Jews in the world. This association would not go unnoticed in Nazi Germany.
In July 1937 Bauer traveled to Paris because his work was included in an exhibition called Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, organized by the Musée du Jeu de Paume. In this large survey of the period, his painting was shown alongside the work of Picasso, Georges Braque, Léger, Chagall, and Joan Miró. It is believed that while he was in Paris he received word from friends that it was too dangerous to return to Berlin; yet he ignored the warning. According to the Rebay documentarian Sigrid Faltin, it is likely that his sister, a Nazi zealot who had disowned him, turned him in to the authorities for his art. Bauer was suddenly a prisoner in Berlin. Defiant, he scavenged scraps of paper and pencils while in prison, so that he could continue to draw."
Courtesy Weinstein Gallery...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Italian Cityscape
By Victoria Hutson Huntley
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Italian Cityscape
Pastel on Strathmore paper, 1968
Signed and dated lower right with the estate signature with the initials RH
Image size: 13 3/4 x 10...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Reclining Female Nude
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with colors, c. 1930
Signed with the artist's initials BLL lower left (see photo)
Sheet s...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstraction)
Ink on textured paper, c. 1958
Signed lower right: Scarlett
Note: A rare mid to late 1950s example of the artist's abstract expressionist style.
Provenance: Es...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Double sided crayon drawing in colors: Study for "The Shoe" (recto)
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double sided crayon drawing:
Front: Study for "The Shoe"
Reverse: Studies of Figures
Blue crayon, red and black crayons
Image size: 19.25 x 15.375 inches
Frame size: 30 x 25 1/2 inches
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 2312b, recto and verso
Annotated on verso in blue pencil: “On Demande des petites femmes...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Loge de Theatre (Preliminary study for a painting)
By Charles Dufresne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Loge de Theatre (Preliminary study for a painting)
Graphite on paper
Signed in pencil lower left
Annotated with color notations by the artist (see phot...
Category
1910s Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Minneapolis
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Note: Dehn was born in Minnesota. He attended the Minneapolis Institute of Art. This work is a view of the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis with the Pillsbury "A"-Mill in the backg...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Outgoing Fog (South Bristol, Maine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper, 1976
Painted in South Bristol, Maine
Signed by the artist lower left
Condition: Excellent
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Hillside in Spring)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Hillside in Spring)
Gouache on paper, c. 1965
Signed with the estate stamp lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Stolen Moments, Attitude, Angle #1
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Excellent color and condition
Archival framing with OP3 acrylic, floated in a white gallery frame matchin...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Eyes Wide
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Darius Steward is establishing himself as a master of the medium of watercolor and large public murals. In 2018, Steward created two l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Going Places #2 (Baggage Claim)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo
Signed by the artist DRS #1, lower right.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments #3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
From the Series: Stolen Moments
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
Note:
Darius Steward is establishing himself...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor - IV Gigue
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and titled recto
A masterful example of the artist's series of music inspired works of art. Haas had the condition known as synesthesia.
Frame: 19 1/2 x 22 3/4"
Image: 11 3/...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
untitled (Yellow Adobe Building with Bell)
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Estate Stamp Lower Left
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Road Trip
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Rudolf Lailson lower left
Graphite, charcoal watercolor and pastel
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (Lesson 4)
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist in ink, lower right
Annotated in ink lower left: Plate 19. Sec. 1. Lesson 4
Note: A very early student work by Dehn
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Category
1910s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"R"
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
From: MORE? Series (5 works)
Exhibited: Canton Museum of Art "Darius Steward: Our Separated Selves"
August 16 - October 27, 2018 (labe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
DRS2 at 7
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Color ink on Yupo paper
Framed in a white shadowbox presentation.
Image: 12 x 8 7/8"
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink