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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Spring Composition no. 2
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Composition no. 2' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 6 x 7.5 inches, framed size is 12.5 x 13.65 inches. Custom framed in a gold frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Claire K. Frindell (American) "Maine Waterfall" Original Watercolor c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Claire K. Frindell (American, 1912-2009)
"Maine Waterfall" Original Watercolor C.1970
Approximate Dimensions 10" x 8"
Approximate frame measures 14" x 12"
Signed in the lower right corner
Claire K. Frindell was a member of the Dallas chapter of the Southwest Watercolor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Carolyn Bullis Blish
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Carolyn Bullis Blish, born 1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17 x 26 inches, framed is 28 x 37 inches. Framed in his original wooden gold and mahogany color frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, with very minor small dents and scratches, hardly visible.
About the artist.
A former model, actress, and newscaster, artist Carolyn Blish is known primarily for her watercolor landscapes. She received a very short training in painting under the tutelage of artist Edgar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sonia B. Ochre
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Untitled, Nude
By June Felter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: June Felter (1919-2019)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1964
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 20 x 14.25 inches.
Framed size: 29.25 x 23 inches
Signature: Si...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Zoe
Located in Burlingame, CA
A cake top realistically depicts a cake by female baker, Zoe.
Colored pencil on paper. 'Zoe' is 11 x 14.75 inches and professionally framed measuring 12 x 15.75 inches.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Down in Mexico Way
By Stanley M. Long
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Down in Mexico Way" 1955 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Stanley M. Long 1892-1972 It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 13.25 x 18.5 inches, framed is 23.5 x 28 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Stanley M. Long spent his childhood on a ranch in Napa where he broke wild horses. He began sketching when quite young and at 15 enrolled at the San Francisco Institute of Art. He continued at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was awarded a scholarship for further study at Académie Julian in Paris.
He served in the camouflage corps in both world wars. Long taught art in San Francisco at Mission High School and for 17 years at Polytechnic High School. His western illustrations were featured in Sunset Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Having worked with horses all his life, they were to become the main theme of his paintings.
Long died in San Carlos, CA on March 29, 1972.
Member: Society of Western Artists, Napa Valley Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jewish Family
By Boris Deutsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Jewish Family" 1968 is an acrylic and ink on wove paper by noted Lithuanian artist Boris Deutsch, 1892-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left corner by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Angelo
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: Angelo
Year: c.1980
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 22.5 x 15.5 inches...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Quadrants Ephemeral
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Quadrants Ephemeral' from Irene Zweig, where intellect, science, mathematics and order are at play in shades of green, blue, grey and white, in the abstract mixed media painting tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Charming early 19th century Graphite Portrait of a Young Boy with Birds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming early 19th century Graphite Portrait of a Young Boy with Birds
A young child sits with a bird on his finger and a nest of birds on his lap
A wonderful antique drawing - Po...
Category
Early 19th Century Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Spirit', 1992 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Tall Tulips' bespoke watercolor
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tall Tulips' original watercolor painted in 2021 in subtle shades of pink with hints of yellow in a clear blue vase from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over 40 years. Bukovnik’s art conveys a monumental quality. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity.
The paper is 40 x 20 inches. Ships flat and unframed. Although professional framing is available upon request. This is a stunning and wonderful work of art from Gary Bukovnik.
In 2003 and 2005, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to
attend the academy as a Visiting Artist and provided him with a room and studio for six weeks. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan.
Solo exhibitions include Caldwell Snyder Gallery in San Francisco and in St.
Helena, CA; Trajan Gallery in Carmel, CA; Campton Gallery in New York City; Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA; Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery and A.C.T. Gallery in San Francisco, the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland and the Erickson Fine Art Gallery in Healdsburg. Other recent exhibitions have been organized by the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Neuhoff Gallery, New York; Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis; Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg; the Southern Alleghenies.
Museum of Art, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Chin Show Cultural Center, Taipei; Takashimaya, Tokyo; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; and Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, Florida. Among the artwork displayed at the Brevard Museum of Art was a tapestry based on a Bukovnik watercolor and hand-woven in Aubusson, France by Atelier Raymond Picaud, weavers since the eventeenth century. Atelier Raymond Picaud has been at the forefront of progressive tapestry firms since the 1930s, focusing on images of modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Bukovnik’s watercolors and monotypes are the subject of Flowers: Gary Bukovnik Watercolors & Monotypes, published by Harry N. Abrams, New York. This book includes a foreword by James J. White, curator at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; an interview with the artist
by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and an essay about Bukovnik and the depiction of flowers in art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1998 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Camellia no. 1 - original watercolor
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia no.1' original watercolor painted in 2021, a singular camellia flower in pink with hints of yellow with beautiful green foliage from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Landscape
Year: 1992
Medium: Pastel on paper
Paper: Wove paper
Image size: 10.5 x 13.25 inches
Fram...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2007 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Infanta Madre Tierra (Mother Earth)
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Madre Tierra (Mother Earth)' features the face of a young woman with flora motif (top) and series of birds and flora motif (bottom) representing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
The Yellow Phone
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Yellow Phone, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 14 inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled #3
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #3" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 21.75 x 16.75 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
By Ralph Ledesma
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ralph Ledesma – American (1910-1993)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 14.5 x 21.5 inches.
Framed size: 21.75 x 28.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower left
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in original frame. Frame in fair-good condition
This evocative watercolor is by California watercolor artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Raccourcie
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
State Capitol at Night, Sacramento, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "State Capitol at night, Sacramento, California" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he low...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Peter Kitchell (b.1950) Large Scale Abstract Watercolor c.1979
Located in San Francisco, CA
Peter Kitchell (b.1950) Monumental Abstract Watercolor c.1979
Impressive large scale watercolor by listed artist Peter Kitchell.
Original watercolor o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rebuilding Goya 24 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Rebuilding Goya 24 (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper — Unframed
Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary my...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Interior with Daffodils and Blue Chair
By Bruce Cohen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bruce Cohen is known for engaging his viewers with intriguing interiors in his distinctive, crisp, realist style. Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and Surrealism he orchestrat...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Hello Tulips in a tall vase 1
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Hello Tulips in a tall vase 1' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting
Beautiful river landscape. The river flows through a mountain forest setting.
Watercolor dimensions 23" wide x 16" high
The ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Carl Martin Western Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carl Martin Western Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting c.1970
Outstanding watercolor signed Carl Martin
Original watercolor on paper
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Carnival Suburbian / 2008 framed figurative painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue and grey with peach abstracted figurative painting in neutral cool colors from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache
Bright Camellias
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bright Camellias' original watercolor painted in 2021 in beautiful shades of pink, green with hints of blue and yellow from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
By Sun Ying
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco" c.1975 is a watercolor on paper by noted Chinese/American artist Sun Ying, 1919-2016. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 15.5 x 22.5 inches, framed is 27.5 x 34 inches. It is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
1919
Sun Ying 孙瑛 ( 1919-2016 ) known as (Sun Dashi 大石) was born on November 8,
in a poor family, in Gaotang Xian, Shandong Province, in China.
1949
Based in Taipei, he devoted himself entirely to painting and influenced the world of art
by creating several painting societies as the Chinese Association of Ink Painting .
Taiwan awarded him the Golden Cup Award.
1960 / 1970
He exhibited his works in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and United States.
1974
He went to live in the United States.
1982
After a visit to his family, he returned to China.
1984
With Qi Baishi...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Camellia Study no. 2
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia Study no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th c. Watercolor "Portrait of a Child in a White Dress" After Mary Cassatt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original Watercolor "Portrait of a Child in a White Dress" After Mary Cassatt C.1890
Gorgeous original painting by mystery artist. The painting is fain...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape
By Edwin C. Siegfried
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" c.1940 is a pastel on paper by noted California artist Edwin C. Siegfried 1889-1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
For Nicolai / Head Study No. 88
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
For Nicolai / Head Study No. 88 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in blue. The work is created with mixed media on paper, including stabilo pencil, g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Gouache
Untitled
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Paul Jenkins Untitled, 1971 conveys a strong sense of movement through a bold central composition dominated by shades of yellow, purple and black...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Signe Best
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Oxford cityscape #1
By Ken Messer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Oxford Cityscape #1" 1972 is a watercolor by noted architectural British artist, Ken Messer 1931-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 20 x 11.25 inches, framed is 26,85 x 17.75 inches. It is custom framed in his original wooden gold and green frame. Artwork and frame are in very good condition.
About the artist.
After attending City of Oxford High School for Boys, where he excelled at rugby and cricket, he started work as an accountant in the city.
He then moved on to become a steward for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In the 1960’s Mr Messer was involved in a car accident which would end his sporting career and change his working life.
When he left his job with BOAC he became a graphic designer at Pergamon Press, owned by Robert Maxwell, which allowed him time to pursue his real passion which was painting watercolours.
He rose through the ranks at Pergamon to become studio manager and when he could progress no further he decided to become a full time artist, a role from which he never retired.
He quickly became well-known for his paintings of Oxford...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lands End 2005 No. 4 / blue watercolor, beautifully framed
By William Stanisich
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric cobalt blue Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that refle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman of St. Victoire / 2007 framed
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue and grey with peach abstracted figurative painting in neutral cool colors from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache
Magic Marij
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Gouache
"Danzantes de Colores" from the "Colcha" series
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danzantes de Colores from the "Colcha" series, 1989, is a watercolor and ink on hand made paper by noted American artist Amado Maurilio Pena...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Cattle
By Raphael Senseman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Cattle" c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower right ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ochre Hair
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Oxford Cityscape #2
By Ken Messer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork " Oxford Cityscape #2" 1972 is a watercolor by noted architectural British artist, Ken Messer 1931-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 10.5 x 13.65 inches, framed size is 15.85 x 19 inches. It is custom framed in his original wooden gold and green frame. Artwork and frame are in very good condition.
About the artist.
After attending City of Oxford High School for Boys, where he excelled at rugby and cricket, he started work as an accountant in the city.
He then moved on to become a steward for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In the 1960’s Mr Messer was involved in a car accident which would end his sporting career and change his working life.
When he left his job with BOAC he became a graphic designer at Pergamon Press, owned by Robert Maxwell, which allowed him time to pursue his real passion which was painting watercolours.
He rose through the ranks at Pergamon to become studio manager and when he could progress no further he decided to become a full time artist, a role from which he never retired.
He quickly became well-known for his paintings of Oxford...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winter Blooms, Original Painting
By Karin Johannesson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A bouquet of flowers in a wintery palette of blues and pink. Free flowing watercolor, excited brushwork and strong diagonals create a dynamic composition. On ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Silhouette Portrait of Elegant Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Silhouette Portrait of Elegant Man
Stamped Barret 148 Holborn London
6.75"H x 5.5"W x 1"D
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Quadrants Quadrille
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Quadrants Quadrille' from Irene Zweig, where intellect, science, mathematics and order are at play in shades of calm blue, silver, grey and white, in the abstract mixed media painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century
Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
Fort Stephenson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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