1910s Drawings

Refined charcoal drawing on paper depicting a study of a male head in profile. The work is striking for the plastic force of the modeling and the skillful use of chiaroscuro, which g...

'Pagliacci - The Clowns. A study in Ink. Signed Cagnoni and drawn in 1910/1920. One clown rests nonchalantly against a wall while the other is doing a rope trick. Ink on paper. In or...

An antique vintage lithographic portrait of an engraving of Abraham Lincoln by William Edgar Marshall (after). Printed in 1917, Chicago: Berkley-Cardy Co. This engraving was praised ...

Typical Eilshemius (1864-1941) 'erotic' pencil drawing of two nudes ( nymphs ) with a snake in the woods. Sight size: 13.25" x 9". Matted and framed: 21.50" x 17.75".

This charming portrait is by the French artist named Jeanne Asimand Lahaye. It is dated 1911. The portrait shows a young man in profile, looking like a shepherd. It is done in pa...

Female nude life drawings in Cubist style are early 20th century drawn in pencil and framed with grey linen passe par-tout. In these drawings foreshortening, modelling, movement and ...

Wonderful drawing of a Spanish dancer by Karl Hagedorn. Displaying the characteristic futurist, cubist and Bauhaus influences reminiscent of his early work. Signed and dated 19...

"Pencil signed antique etching by Edward Borein of the San Antonio de Padua (Saint anthony of Padua) mission in California 1917. “Born in San Leandro, California in 1872, Edward Borein became one of the most popular artists of western scene painting, equally adept at ink drawing, watercolor, and etching. He was raised in San Leandro, a western cow town, in a family where his father was a county politician. Edward had many childhood memories of herded cattle and their cowboys, which he began sketching at the age of five. He was educated in the Oakland, California schools, and at the age of 17 began working on a ranch near Oakland and then drifted and sketched as a working cowboy throughout the Southwest, Mexico, and Guatemala. It was said that he practiced his art on anything he could find from bunkhouse walls to scraps of paper. At age 19, he enrolled at the San Francisco Art School, his only formal art training, and there he met Jimmy Swinnerton and Maynard Dixon who encouraged him in his art career. The first person to purchase his work was Charles Lummis, editor of The Land and Sunshine magazine in California, and the two became life-long friends. Borein and Lucille Maxwell were married in the Lummis home. Borein, a typical westerner in dress and manner, also became close friends with Charles Russell, actor Will Rogers, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Borein often traveled north to visit Russell in Great Falls, Montana and to travel among Indian tribes. In 1899, Borein visited Arizona while returning from Mexico. By 1902, he was a successful illustrator in San Francisco for the San Francisco Call, and in 1907 to enhance his illustration skills, went to New York to learn etching techniques. There he enrolled in the Art Students League and was a student of Child Hassam. In the theatre district, he opened a studio that became a gathering place for 'lonesome' westerners such as Charles Russell, Will Rogers, Olaf...

Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Framework oil on panel depicting a portrait of a girl of good pictorial quality. Painting showing on the back of the panel a...

Herbert Dicksee's mountain lion with cubs. A striking image of a mother mounting lion protecting her two cubs. The etching is signed in pencil by the artist, Herbert Dicksee. The extra information printed around the image states 'Published at 8 Clare Street...

Horizontal giltwood framed illustration titled "Her First Drawing". Signed and dated 1911. Amazingly intricate drawing of a little girl doctoring a dog. Stunning attention to detail....

Etching by Richard Müller.