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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Rave Heads X
Located in London, GB
Rafael Melendez's artwork titled "Mosh Pit X" is a captivating exploration of human interaction and the juxtaposition between the energetic atmosphere of a mosh pit and the confines ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Fuzzy Fish
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Ross
Fuzzy Fish, 2020
Graphite on paper
11 1/4 x 15 inches
28.6 x 38.1 cm
Signed, titled and dated (verso)
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Best known for his mysterious biomorphic paintings...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Notre-Dame de Paris
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Notre-Dame de Paris, 1909, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper, mounted on Cardboard
Inscription: Dated, inscribed and signed "Pari...
Category
20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
In Full Bloom
Located in MADRID, ES
In Full Bloom
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Alexandra
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
“Christmas Tree Sale”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache artwork on archival paper of a Christmas scene used by the Fravessi Card Company as a holiday card. Signed lower left. Artist name and address and da...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Watercolour Estuary Landscape Victorian
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
just purchased more information to follow
Cypher lower right
Within a grey mount, 14cm high, 28cm long
The gilded cavetto moulded frame 28 cm high, 41 cm long, 3.5cm deep
Category
1850s Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled-042 pastel on paper by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-signed and dated "H Burkhardt '63" lower right.
Provenance: The artist to his daughter Elsa. By descent to her son.
Chronology of the artist:
1904 Hans Burkhardt was born in ...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Fly Over New York City Illustration - Optimism - Empire State Building
Located in Miami, FL
If people don't swat you . . . then something else happens." Illustration for Blechman's popular book Franklin the Fly (Mankato, MN: Creative Editions, 2007). Watercolor, pen and ink...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Pen
Pullman Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, 1946
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor Painting
Signature: Signed on Verso
Sight Size 10.00" x 13.00;" Framed 17.00" x 21.00"
Saturday Evening Post Advertisement
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"I Love You" Pin-Up, 1952
By Earl MacPherson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Center and Dated Lower Right
Framed dimensions: 30.00" x 27.00"
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
French Artist Drawing Sanctuary of San Luca Bologna 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing depict the Sanctuary of Madonna di San luca in Bologna.
It can be attributed to a French artist because it's written "Bologne" (the french name of...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Megalopolis Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Man and his Father, 1916
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board, Framed Under Glass
Signature: Signed and Dated on the Back
Sight Size 30.50" x 20.50," Framed 35.50" x 26.50"
Great condition, bad glare from glass in thi...
Category
1910s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain)
Executed between February 20 and March 2, 1918
Double sided drawing in graphite pencil on paper
Images: c. 33 x 5...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
White Heron
By Idoline Duke
Located in Fairfield, CT
India ink on paper
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
huemul
Located in MADRID, ES
huemul
Category
Late 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Modern Woman"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980)
Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks Count...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
In my Mind by Annemarie Ambrosoli Watercolor on Paper Pop Art
Located in Kiens, BZ
In my Mind (2018), Watercolor on Paper Fabriano 600 g, 46,5x67,5 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist)
This watercolor comes...
Category
2010s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winchester Cathedral, 20th Century Watercolour
By Gordon Scott
Located in London, GB
Gordon Noel Scott A.R.C.A
1914 - 2016
Winchester Cathedral
Watercolour
Image size: 13 ½ x 8 inches
Original frame
GORDON SCOTT EXHIBITION AT DARNLEY FINE ART
11th - 18th November 2017
Gordon Scott was trained at the RCA (1934-38) under Gilbert Spencer, Alan Sorrell and Charles Mahoney. A reserved and highly principled man, during WWII he was a conscientious objector, stationed at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain. His defined role is unknown, but during his time there he produced a number of sketches and paintings of soldiers...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boy with Clarinet, Cover for Children Magazine, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Gouache on Board
Signature: "Alice Beach Winter" Lower Right
"Boy with Clarinet" is a cover illustration for Children Magazine, ...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pastel, Board
Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals.
Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp.
Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation.
Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133).
Two Wood Ducks...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Leda and the Swan
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1897-1986
Reuben Nakian, born August 10, 1897 in College Point, New York enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative spirit and creativity over mor...
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Terrace Positano, 2002
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dr. Albert Hibbs on "Exploring"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Dr Albert Hibbs on NBC-TV`s Saturday morning educational progra...
Category
1960s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
No. 13
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Piccillo is a skilled draftsman, and his nuanced use of shadow and scale highlight this ability. Joseph Piccillo’s signature graphite and charcoal drawings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Attributed to; Design for the Battle of Brooklyn Heights Scene in 1924 Film
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Graphite on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned, Christies Stamp Verso.
In silver molded frame, french-lined mat, glazed. OS: 18 1/2" x 22", SS: 11" x 15". Shinn took over from Joseph Urban as the Art Director on the William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures film, shot in New York City and Tarrytown, NY. Directed by E. Mason Hopper, starring Marion Davies...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Watercolor, Graphite
Casablaca
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, White Pastel on Canson MiTientes Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pastel
Hannukah at Valley Forge
By Greg Harlin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Hannukah at Valley Forge
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Patricia Morison in "Kiss Me Kate"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of the lovely Patricia Morison recreating her...
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Ink
"Plain Black and White, " Saturday Evening Post, October 13, 1923
By John Gould
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Small Contemporary Dessert Watercolor of Pink Strawberry Cupcake with Pistachios
By Nancy Lamb
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Nancy Lamb, Strawberry Blip, 2020, Watercolor on Paper, 5.5 x 3.5"
Contemporary American Still Life of Strawberry Cupcake, Dessert Treat.
This fantastic ...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
Alfred Drake in the Lead Role of Barnaby Goodchild in "Sing Out, Sweet Land
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Alfred Drake in the lead role of Barnaby Goodchild for 1944 Broadway musical revue `Sing Out, Sweet Land`. Directed by Walter Kerr & Leon Leonidoff, designed by Albert R. Johnson & Lucinda Ballard, the show ran 12/27/44 - 3/24/45, for 102 performances at the International Theatre...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
T. C. Jones on Broadway in "Mask and Gown"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On 20.00" x 13.00" illustration board with an image that measure to 14.00" x 10.00." Illustration includes blue to indicate halftone.
Caricature by George Wachstster (1911-2006) of Female Impersonator T.C. Jones on Broadway in `Mask and Gown` at the Golden Theatre. Ran 9/10-10/12/1957. Jones impersonated Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Mae West, Judy Holliday, Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn and Ethel Merman...
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
"Cash and Carrie, " Saturday Evening Post Illustration, April 3, 1926
By John Gould
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Interior with coffee pot
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Interior with coffee pot, 1892, Pen drawing
Technique: Pen drawing on Paper
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left: "Leo 5. Jan. 1892"...
Category
19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Studebaker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned
Artist Unknown
20th Century American Illustration
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint
Diagonal I - 21st Century, Contemporary, Architecture, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fortunato Duranti Workshop Renaissance Madonna Drawing 19 century bistre paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing, bistre on paper, depict a typical Renaissance style Maesta, so the Virgin enthroned with Jesus on her lap. The echoes are clearely referable to the school of Filippo Lippi...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Joseph McCarthy as Baby New Year on a Hobbyhorse
Located in New York, NY
ink on beige
sight size: 254 x 317 mm.
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist by
Edward Laning (who inherited Marsh's studio) to
Jack Henderson...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Female Sexual Nude
Located in Miami, FL
Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Pink Lines
Located in Fairfield, CT
watercolor on arches paper
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Forgiveness
Located in London, GB
THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN 1859-1923
Lausanne 1859-1923 Paris (Swiss/French)
Title: The Forgiveness, ca. 1901
Technique: Original Stamped Pencil Drawing on paper.
size: 21 x 2...
Category
Early 1900s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
1940s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Abstract vs. Figurative Watercolor of Marble Sculpture with Engine
By Alain Pino
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract Red, Black & White Watercolor of Marble Sculpture with Engine
Unique 100% Original Watercolor
Alain Pino’s new works continue his exploration on the intersection between...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink, Graphite, and Watercolor on Paper Mounted
Signature: Signed Lower Right
circa 1881
Exhibited: Kennedy Galleries, with their label suggesting the creation date of 1881.
Category
1880s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
The Big Garden - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Drawing, Charcoal
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors.
“The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.”
Francisca Ahlers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby, 1949, by Chaim Gross (1902-1991)
Ink on paper
10 ½ x 7 ½ inches unframed (26.67 x 19.05 cm)
1...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Solitary, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An interesting lone prominent dead tree dramatically present in the foreground of a country feild setting. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Empire"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1962-63 NBC-TV`s Modern-Day One Hour Western Series `Empire`, starring Richard Egan as Jim Redigo, general manager of the 500,000-acre Garrett Ranch in New Mexico. A precursor to `Dallas`, the series debuted Sept 25, 1962 but underwent several changes to maintain its various storylines and characters. For its 2nd season, the series was renamed `Redigo` and shortened to a half-hour, which made it difficult to develop complex, in-depth characters, and it was cancelled Dec 31, 1963. Appeared as cover of Aug 11, 1963 New York...
Category
1960s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Swimmers and Divers - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Barbara Nessim is an artist/ illustrator who has contributed to Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time, Ms among others.
She ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
'Readers Digest' Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 15.75" x 13.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Readers Digest Cover Woman in Yellow Riding Crop
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Pastel
George Jessel, circa 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image.
Caricature by George...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Illustration Board
Purchasing a Hawk, 19th Century Graphite Orientalist
Located in London, GB
CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER
1808 - 1894
Purchasing a Hawk
Graphite on Paper
Carved giltwood frame
Image Size: 12 x 18 ½ inches
SKETCHES OF CARL WERNER EXHIBITION
AT OUR GALLERY...
Category
19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Salón Rojo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Drawing, Charcoal
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors.
“The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.”
Francisca Ahlers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Elm Along The Bayou
By Beth Secor
Located in Houston, TX
Beth Secor, Elm Along The Bayou, 2014-2015
Ink, gouache and pencil on paper
overall diptych 20 x 28 inches 20 x 14 inches each
Beth Secor understands tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Gouache
Abstract Composition Inspired by Bach, Framed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Pink
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage watercolor painting by twentieth century San Francisco woman artist, Hildegarde Haas (1926-2002). "Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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