Pen and Ink Modernist Painting

Martha Visser't Hooft (1906-1994) Martha Hamlin Visser't Hooft was an artist and teacher whose family was deeply involved in the arts and sciences. Her father, Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, was one of Buffalo’s most influential civic leaders and planners, and an attorney known for his activism in museums. Her mother, Emily Gray Hamlin, was a social activist with interests that extended to the arts and philosophy. Martha Visser’t Hooft studied art in Paris in the 1920s at the Académie Julian, and explored exciting new European developments, such as cubism and surrealism, Russian ballet, and modern music. In 1926 she moved to New York to study briefly at the Parsons School of Design before transferring to the John Murray Anderson School of Theater Design. She took several trips to Taos, New Mexico, meeting several prominent artists of the area, including Buffalo-born patron Mabel Dodge Luhan...

"On the Beach" by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980) ink drawing, on very thin paper, unframed paper: 8.25 x 10.75 inches provenance: the artists estate, Paris Fin...

Ink study of a religious statue by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original ink and watercolor on paper image size: 9.5 x 4.75 inches mat...

Town scene and coastal cottage (there is a painting on both sides of this sheet) by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021) watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed coastal scen...

by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century). signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper, unframed. Size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Co...

By Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper board, unframed size: 14 x 10 inches co...