Sylvia Spicuzza Art
American
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Education Northwestern University, MFA, Illinois(Biography provided by David Barnett Gallery)
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Artist: Sylvia Spicuzza
"Milkweed Pod I #528" Original Charcoal Drawing
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of two milkweed pods, bursting forth with cotton. Examples like this show the ability of Spicuzza to draw in a naturalistic style, where most of her work is usually in a highly stylized, graphic mode. The richness and depth of the black charcoal makes for a moody image.
8 x 5 inches, artwork
18 x 14.5 inches, frame
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Summertime Fun at Big Cedar Lake" original charcoal drawing
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young women relaxing on a dock in a lake. A dinghy floats beside them as other boats traverse the water. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, who is better known for landscapes in the Impressionist style.
12 x 9 inches, artwork
18.63 x 15.75 inches, frame
Stamped with artist's signature, lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Charcoal
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1950s Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
'Head of Woman With Collar #781' Felt tip pen, signed by artist
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 9"x11-1/2"
Frame: 16"x18-5/8"
Felt tip pen, signed lower right Sylvia
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1960s Surrealist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Felt Pen
'Under The Sea - Sea Shell & Plants' Finger painting w/stamped signature
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Finger painting w/stamped signature
Art: 22"x 16"
Frame: 31"x 24"
c. 1940's-1950's
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Fra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Four Figures' Charcoal drawing, signature stamped lower left
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 11"x15"
Paper: 12"x16"
Frame: 20 1/2"x24 1/2"
Charcoal drawing, signature stamped lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Charcoal
'Robin With Tulips' Pastel, stamped signature lower right
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 12"x18"
Frame: 20 1/2"x26 1/2"
Pastel, stamped signature lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
'Two Faces With A Bird #339' signed watercolor
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 17 3/4"x 15"
Frame: 31" x 26 3/4"
Signed Watercolor
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Clown Close Up' Watercolor, signed in ink lower right
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 23" x 18"
Frame: 33" x 29 1/4"
Watercolor, signed in ink lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1940s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Birds in Futuristic Urban Landscape' abstract black marker on cream sketchbook
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 9-1/2"x12-1/2"
Frame: 17-1/4"x 20-1/4"
Abstract black marker on cream sketchbook paper.
Signed Sylvania lower right.
Silk lined matting and glazed in UV Clear Glass that filte...
Category
1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Permanent Marker
'Elephant' Pastel on Cream Wove Paper
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Pastel on cream wove paper.
art: 12" x 10.13"
framer: 21.75" x 20.25"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Abstraction' Original Watercolor Signed by Artist
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Watercolor on cream wove paper, signed by the artist.
Art: 17.75" x 12"
Frame: 25.63" x 19.13"
Estate sale stamp on reverse
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted ...
Category
20th Century Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Merry Christmas' original color woodcut on paper, signed in block
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 5 1/2 x 4 3/8"
Frame: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8"
Original color woodcut on paper, signed in block.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1950s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Figural Abstraction' original black and white block print by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Figural Abstraction' is an original block print by American artist and teacher Sylvia Spicuzza. The image, printed in white ink against a grey paper, presents bold and graphic figur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Noel' Linocut with estate signature
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
4.88 x 6 inches, folded sheet - David originally printed this as a greeting card in 2008 from Sylvia's block. In 2022 he had it cut down to the image size and stamped on face with es...
Category
Early 2000s Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Linocut
"Still Life with Fruit" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of two apples, still clinging to their leaves. Examples like this show the ability of Spicuzza to draw i...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Billy the Brownie With Flowers #407" original tempera by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a pair of flowers. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
10 x 8 inches, artwork
17 x 13.13 inches, frame
stamped with artist signature lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Tempera
"Long Beaked Bird" original signed pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
12 x 18 inches, artwork
20.5 x 26.5 inches, frame
Signed upper right
Stamped with artist's signature, lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Fran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
"Winter Wonderland (Snowman, Pine Tree, Rabbit), " signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Winter Wonderland (Snowman, Pine Tree, Rabbit)" is a gouache and collage on paper bag signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. A winter scene showing a happy snowman that was created with arms up in the air and a top hat upon his head. In the foreground sits a bunny looking at the snow man...
Category
1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Ebb and Flow" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this pastel drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic view resembling waves and rolling hills. The colors of the repeating patterns and softness of the undulati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
"Trillium" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves.
10 x 7.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 17.25 inch...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Farmer with Cows' original Regionalist painting on board Midwestern landscape
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...
Category
1930s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Pansies" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves.
4.5 x 8 inches, artwork
13 x 15 inches, fram...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Art Deco Daisies, " Original Floral Crayon signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Daisies" is an original crayon drawing on brown paper by Sylvia Spicuzza with a stamped signature long the center lower edge. Framed in delicate lines, the orange daisies r...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
"Petie (Duck)" conte crayon drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a duck in a watery landscape, rendered in her elegant modernist style. Other forms in the drawing appear to shoot up like le...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Conté
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...
Category
1960s Color-Field Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
"Old Cabin Near Big Cedar Lake" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a lakeside cabin under the shade of a massive tree. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, wh...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Charcoal
"The Dance" original crayon drawing inscribed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza cavalry takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous paintings titled "La Dance" that hang in the Hermitage Museum ...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"City Lights" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Examples like this of Sylvia Spicuzza's work offer a chance to see a musical composition, with repeating curvilinear lines and patters dancing across the image like Jazz music though...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Pastel
"Coral Rocks" original watercolor composition by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small work, we can see Sylvia Spicuzza experimenting with watercolor, trying to achieve a jagged, rock-like texture. The image is dominated by warm ochres and browns.
5.75 x...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Two Women In Oriental Costume" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a bust-length view of two elegant women dressed in East Asian costume. Their faces reflect the ideal of beauty during the 19...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Seated Cat, " Charcoal Drawing with Stamped Signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...
Category
1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Charcoal
"Abstract Figure With Bird" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision. The scene is dominated by the figure of a woman in a ...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Conté
"Vase of Flowers on Chartreuse Tablecloth, " Watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Vase of Flowers on Chartreuse Tablecloth" is a watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. This watercolor is of a simple flower arrangement. There are red tulips, blue, red, and pink chr...
Category
1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Milkweed Pod II #528" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of a milkweed pod, bursting forth with cotton. Examples like this show the ...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Woman in Dress & Fancy Hat" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." This influence is more pron...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Teacher (The Echo, Milwaukee Normal)" original ink drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents us with something of a self portrait, showing an instructor at the head of a classroom, her students looking forward intently. Sylvia hersel...
Category
1940s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Ink, Pencil
"Calla Lily, " Original Watercolor Botanical Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Calla Lily" is an original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece "Miss Spicuzza" in the lower right. This piece depicts a calla lily blooming in various greens....
Category
1940s Neo-Expressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Rembrandt Artist's Pastells" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Here, Sylvia Spicuzza has taken the opportunity to create a geometric, crystalline composition of color while testing a set of Rembrandt artist's pastels. Her fractured planes of col...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Trampoline-WI State Fair Park" original signed drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a view of children jumping on a trampoline near the entrance to the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Still Life with Artist's Hand" original watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This still life is an unusual example of Sylvia Spicuzza's work, as most of her most significant output are geometric and biomorphic abstract images. The objects in the image - a sea shell, a pitcher, a heavy necklace - are objects the artist likely had at home and staged for the image. But of particular significance is the insertion of the artist's hand, as though she was reaching into the still life while she was painting. The hand has been a significant symbol of the artist throughout art history as a source of creation: Albrecht Dürer's 'Self Portrait at the Age of Twenty-Eight' (1500) highlights the artist's hand much like traditional images of Christ giving gestures of blessing. Likewise, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 'Self Portrait as a Soldier' (1915) shows the artist in military uniform but with a severed hand as a symbol of helplessness during the First World War. Another important comparison, given Spicuzza is a Midwestern artist, is Ivan Albright's magic realist work 'That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)' at the Art Institute of Chicago. The massive painting...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Fish" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an excellent example of one of Sylvia Spicuzza's rare 'finger paintings': not only is it remarkably large, but it also shows her mastery of the...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paint
"Biomorphic Flowers" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. This example takes on the appearance of a flower, while the ...
Category
1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Young Woman in a Landscape" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this intimate drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a young woman crouched down in a garden. The image is framed by foliage and fields of color.
3.75 x 5.25 inches, ...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Five Actresses" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene from the theater or opera, showing five women on stage. Three of the women have their backs to the viewer, while one...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
"Two Women Bathers at the Beach #403" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza is clearly taking influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." Like in that pa...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Crayon
"Red Vase of Flowers on Orange Tablecloth, " Watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red Vase of Flowers on Orange Tablecloth" is a watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. This simple still life shows a vase on a table. Some of the flo...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Snowman" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This winter scene painting is unusual in the work of Sylvia Spicuzza, but is one of the finger paintings that she produced probably in conjunction with...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Paint
"Downtown Lakefront" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Conté
"Landscape with Two Figures" original monotype and drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...
Category
1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Graphite, Monotype
"Woman in Fancy Costume Estate #752, " Watercolor & Graphite signed by Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman In Fancy Costume Estate #752" is a watercolor and graphite signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. A woman stands with arms stretched out. The lady is wearing a red and white stripped outf...
Category
1950s American Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
"Self-Portrait With Student Creating a Mobile" watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this watercolor, Sylvia Spicuzza presents us with a self portrait, constructing a mobile with one of her young students. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of ...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
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Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction II" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
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1960s Abstract Sylvia Spicuzza Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Woman in Coat & Fancy Hat, " Graphite Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman in Coat & fancy Hat" is a graphite drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. An older woman is sketched as she stands. She is wearing a winter coat and quite a large hat.
Art: 8.25...
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1950s Modern Sylvia Spicuzza Art
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Graphite
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Find a wide variety of authentic Sylvia Spicuzza art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sylvia Spicuzza in paint, watercolor, crayon and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Sylvia Spicuzza art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Ron Blumberg, Alberto Ziveri, and Michela De Vito. Sylvia Spicuzza art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $770 and tops out at $17,275, while the average work can sell for $2,160.
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