William A. Drake (1891-1979) Watercolor On Board, City Scape Phila. Pa. 1932

Watercolor on board depicting a green structure in the center beneath a leafy green tree, a red brick walk in the foreground, partially obscured structures in the background. Unframe...

Watercolor on paper depicting a wharf scene with vessels casting their colorful reflections onto the water. The large rusted hull of a cargo ship in the foreground with cranes and ma...

Marc Vaux is a British artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. His work was included in the seminal Situation exhibition of 1960 alongside Robyn Denny, William Turnbull and Bernard Cohen among others. This exhibition was a direct reaction by British abstract artists to the recent exhibitions in London of the American Abstract Expressionists in particular the Tate's 1959 exhibition The New American Painting. This painting is an early work and was given to the vendor by Marc Vaux’s wife . It explores Vuax’s early fascination and love of colour. Using a minimal palette Vaux extracts so much information from what he’s seeing putting it down on board in the most effervescent and exquisite manner In 1986, Vaux was appointed Head of Painting at the Central/St Martins College of Art and Design in London where he stayed until he retired in 1989 to concentrate full-time on painting Vaux's work has variously been described as minimalist and constructivist although since his primary interest is in colour and light he has more in common with the American west coast artists than the New York minimalists...

Caswell, William Frederick (United Kingdom, Act 1870-1914). "Landscape". Watercolor on paper. Signed with initials in the lower right corner. . In this work Caswell offers an evocati...