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Item Ships From: California
"Danielle" Nude Figurative Drawing in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold nude pastel drawing by Albert Hutson (American, 1923-1994). A woman is reclined on a soft red surface, leaning up against a yellow pillow. The model is skillfully sketched, with quick but confident marks. Hutson has captured the character of the model in her expression and posture, both of which appear relaxed and natural.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper.
Signed, dated, and titled twice in the lower right corner ("Al Hutson Danielle 89")
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size:
Paper size: 19.75"H x 25.5"W
Albert L. Hutson (American, 1923-1994) had two careers: first as a professional military officer, and second as an artist and member of the Board of the Graphic Arts Council in San Francisco. He was born in 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, into a family with a long military tradition. His father and maternal grandfather were Annapolis graduates, and his paternal grandfather served in the Civil War. Colonel Hutson graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1941 shortly after World War II began. He later earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Nebraska in the late 1960s. As a young second lieutenant in World War II, he served with the First Armored Division in the Italian Campaign, starting with the Battle of Anzio, and participated in the liberation of Rome. His interest in art began at this time when his commanding officer introduced him to Italian art.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper. A graduate of the Fine Arts Museums docent [tour guide...
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1980s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Pink Palms, Rainforest Beach', Hawaiian Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tremewen' for Ian Tremewen (Australian, born 1954), additionally signed, verso, dated 1993 and titled, 'Poster Idea, #9328, Pink Palms, Rainforest Beach'
A watercolor and gouache study for a gallery exhibition at the Village Gallery, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
Ian Tremewen began showing his watercolors with Village Gallery in 1976 while living on Maui. Born in Montreal and now based in Australia, Tremewen has spent much of his life in the Caribbean and Hawaiian tropics. Tremewen's work reflects the interest he feels for light, space and shadow working in sculpture, contemporary glass and textiles. His abstract interpretation of the amorphic shapes of nature, coupled with his design and composition enable him to present his work with a view that is distinctly his own.
Artist's Statement: "As an artist, I can experiment with many aspects and combinations. I've always been fascinated by the psychedelic colours hidden in rainforests. For me, these elements invite abstraction, where a shape, along with colour and texture, defines an object. There now appears to be a refreshing openness emerging in the art world. I feel there is a freedom to stretch and explore ideas and alternatives like never before using mediums and concepts that are expanding the world of art and design.”
Solo Exhibitions:
Napua Gallery, USA
Village Gallery Contemporary, USA
Karratha Art Centre, Australia
Metro Arts, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Grand Orbit, Australia
Paperworks Gallery, Canada
Corporate Art West, USA
Budds Beach Gallery, Australia
Pandanus Art, Australia
Tremewen@Marine, Australia
Group Exhibitions:
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Australia
Ritz-Carlton, USA
Contemporary Art Gallery, USA
Parliament Building, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Nordstroms, USA
Tattersalls Club, Australia
Honolulu Academy of Art, USA
Federation...What About the Nation? Museums and Galleries Foundation, Australia
Selected Awards:
Hui Noeau, USA
Suncorp Biennial, Australia
S.O.S. Festival, Australia
Hawaii Watercolour Society, USA
Heritage Art Festival, Australia
R.E.I.Q. Bicentennial, Australia
Woven Image, Australia
Art Maui, USA
Courier Mail Art Prize, Australia
Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Paradise Art Award, Australia
Commissions:
Sydney Airports Corporation, Australia
Lloyds Of London...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Abstract Landscape Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with loosely defined landscape elements by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed on...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Botanical Study Autumn Grape Leaves #2
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful study of grape leaves in autumn with abstracted elements and a pink/magenta background by California artist Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the est...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Half Dome in Pastel Colors, Yosemite National Park Fauvist Landscape Watercolor
By Karen Druker
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright Fauvist landscape of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, with beautiful use of color by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Presented in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Abstracted Bouquet
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright watercolor of several flowers by Marge Shugart a California watercolor artist (American, 20th Century). Several flowers are depicted against a multicolor background, with a slightly abstracted quality.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Dated "12/93" on verso, with notes from the artist about color.
Presented in a warm grey mat.
Paper size: 15"H x 22"W
Mat size: 20"H x 28"W
Marge Shugart was a San Louis...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - 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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
'Pink Daisies', California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
By Beverly Fields
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of numerous medals and juried awards. Beverly Fields first studied with Zoltan Szabo and later with Charles Reid...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Ships at the Harbor - Nautical Seascape with Seagulls in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Ships at the Harbor - Nautical Seascape in Charcoal on Paper
Detailed and layered harbor scene by Maude Folmar Ramsey (American, 1908-1993). The viewer is looking out at the harbor, across the water from the docks, buildings, and ships. The pillars, buildings, and masts are jumbled together in a pleasing manner that is almost abstract. Despite the simplified shapes, this piece is full of detail. This piece is executed in a rectilinear style frequently seen in American mid-century modern compositions.
Signed in the lower right corner "Maude Folmar"
Presented in a wood frame with a double mat.
Frame size: 25.25"H x 29.25"W
Image size: 17"H x 21.5"W
Maude Love (Folmar) Ramsey (American, 1908-1993) studied at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the director of the Laguna Gloria Art Museum from 1968-1972. Ramsey was one of the charter members of the “Waterloo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Late 19th Century California Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful late 19th-century watercolor landscape in the style of Elmer Wachtel (American, 1864-1929), by an unknown 19th-century artist. This small watercolor...
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1880s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'St Mark's Square, Venice', Paris, Post-Impressionist, Charlottenborg Palace
By Victor Isbrand
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and titled, 'Venedig' (Venice).
Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Grazing Cattle - Miniature Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Small landscape with cows by Carmel artist Cetin (20th Century). Two cows are grazing in the foreground. Beyond the cows, a field stretches out towards a...
Category
1980s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Postcard
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
By Irene Pattinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
A two-page spread in India ink pen and watercolor by Irene Pattinson (Ameri...
Category
1950s American Modern California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
'Sunny Room in Aix-en-Provence', New York, San Diego Museum of Natural History
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'R. Landay' for Ruth Landay (American, 1917-2006) and dated, verso, 1971. Titled on verso, "Sunny Room in Aix-en-Provence".
A luminous, Post-Impressionist watercolor showing a view of a sunlit room interior with a view beyond a balcony to sailing boats and an emerald ocean. This New York-born Modernist exhibited in California during the 1960s-1980s, including at the San Diego Museum of Natural History.
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1970s Modern California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th century Italian figurative landscape of a traditional wheat field harvest scene, by S. Frosini (Italian, 20th Century). This figurative landscape in gouache depicts in gre...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Large-Scale Vertical Abstract Geometric Pastel with Red, Black, & Orange
By Renee Harwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract large-scale vertical pastel with textural red, black and orange forms in a sweeping diagonal composition by Renee Harwin (Austrian, b. 1924). Tag on verso with artist's name, title, and mediums. Unsigned and unframed. Image size: 54"H x 33.5"L.
As a young Viennese woman, Renee Harwin found her artistic development interrupted by Hitler's arrival to her city. Soon after, Renee and her family left and moved to the United States. Harwin says that while "one can drawn his or her own conclusions from my work, I believe that the tremendous impact of change from Nazism to free America has left deep impressions on me that are played out on these canvases."
Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and San Francisco Art Institute instructor Jack Jefferson...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Masonite
Two Lovers - 1957 Original Watercolor on Paper
By Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Lovers - 1957 Original Watercolor on Paper
Original 1957 watercolor depicting two nude figures, a man and a woman, laying together by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). The m...
Category
1950s Expressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper
Bright and colorful abstracted figural painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Bra...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Ocean Path Through Sand Dunes - Florida Landscape
By Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape of a path to the ocean through sand dunes by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in the lower right corner. On verso is written "Gift painted...
Category
1970s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'New to the World', Hans Hoffmann, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran, Parson School, ASL
By Frances Pratt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Frances Pratt' (American, 1913-2003) and dated 1947.
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Frances Pratt moved to New York City where she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Woman (1930-33), and, subsequently, at the Arts Students League (1933-35). She then met her first husband, Christopher Ritter, with whom she opened Laurel Gallery in Greenwich Village and printed the Laurel Folios.
Frances Pratt taught drawing and painting at the Ballard School from 1942 into the early 1950's. She also taught mixed media and watercolor techniques at the Parsons...
Category
1940s Modern California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache
Teapot & Flowers Still-Life, Coastal Seascape Double-Sided Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Two-sided watercolor with teapot-and-flower still life on one side and Carmel coast on the other by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anders...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid-Century Scenic House with Tree Landscape Watercolor
By Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor landscape of a charming house with porch rendered in crisp detail, and a sprawling verdant green yard with large tree and sheds by Joseph Yeager (ear...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Cent. Figurative -- Fontainebleau Forest and Women Gathering
By C. Harry Allis
Located in Soquel, CA
A lush, historic watercolor figurative landscape by C. Harry Allis (American, 1870-1938). Signed and dated "C. Harry Allis 1919" lower right. Displ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Natalie's" - Plein Aire Pastoral Landscape in Pastel on Sandpaper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Natalie's" - Plein Aire Pastoral Landscape in Pastel on Sandpaper
Serene plein aire landscape with cows by Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958). This composition depicts a farm in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a large white barn at the top of the hill. There are several cows grazing in a bright green pasture. A partially broken fence is directly in front of the viewer - a symbol of the artist's desire to portray the realism of the scene, including imperfections. This piece is executed on sandpaper, a trademark of Tyler's work.
Signed "CL Tyler" in the lower left corner
Signed, notated, titled, and dated on verso (see photo).
Presented in a silver colored frame.
Frame size: 11.25"H x 14"W
Paper size: 9.5"H x 12"W
Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958) studied Fine Art and Design at Kent State University (Ohio) with a double major and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. Twenty years later after a successful design career, he is now known as one of the best Pastelists on a national level.
Master Member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico
Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society
2016 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Plein Air Festival, NM
2015 Best Quick Draw Award, Buffalo Bill Museum Art Auction, Cody Wy
2015 Best of Pastel Award, American Impressionist Society
2015 Brinton Museum, Invitational Miniature show. Sheridan. Wy
2015 Invitational Heart of the West, Masters art show. Coeur d’Alene Resort, Id
2014 Booth Museum Cartersville Ga. Acquisition and Teaching
2014 Coors Foundation purchase Aspen 3 series. Corporate Collection Denver, Co
2013 American Impressionist National Show, Award of Excellence.
2013 Artist Choice Award Easton Maryland...
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Early 2000s American Realist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Wander
By Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Black conte drawing of a male nude, part of ongoing series of drawings of the human form. Featuring a rear view and feet.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper - Unframed
This work (unframed) incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuit...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache, Graphite
"Mountain Climbers" - Mountain Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mountain Climbers" - Mountain Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Serene mountain landscape by Margie Westcott (American, 1931-2018). The viewer stands...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sunset on the Harbor, Vintage Double Sided Watercolor Seascape with Boats, 1969
By Marco Sassone
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful and rare double-sided watercolor by the prolific contemporary Italian painter Marco Sassone (Italian, b.1942). In this early work, created in 1969, Sassone depicts two different sunset harbor scenes on each side of the paper. On the front, the artist uses a warm color palette of orange and yellow hues to depict a glowing sunset illuminating boats in a harbor. A second view of the harbor with small boats in the foreground on verso. Sassone's signature painterly impressionistic brushstrokes can be seen in the way the artist depicts the water in both watercolors.
Signed and dated on verso, "M. Sassone 69".
Displayed in a dark wood frame with mat.
Image size: 10.5"H x 17"W.
“One of the foremost colorists working in America today, Sassone is an artist who developed his own personal, expressive vision early in his career, and who has steadfastly remained faithful to it while refining and developing it to the full power and maturity that is seen in his works today.”Janet Dominik, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1988.
Marco Sassone was born in Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan village, in 1942. The family moved to Florence in 1954, and there he met painters Ottone Rosai and Ugo Maturo, who encouraged him to follow his interest in art. In 1959 he enrolled at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, where he studied architectural drafting for several years. In 1963 he studied with painter Silvio Loffredo, a professor of art at the Accademia in Florence, himself a pupil of the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka.
Loffredo encouraged him to develop his own style and vision. For inspiration, Sassone studied the works of the 19th century Italian impressionists, the Macchiaioli – Giovanni Fattori, Vito D’Ancona and Silvestro Lega. He began exhibiting his first works at Lo Sprone Cultural Center in Florence.
In November 1967, soon after the flood had devastated his city, Sassone moved to California. He exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Dalzell-Hatfield Galleries in Los Angeles and became a regular exhibitor at the annual Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach.
Throughout the seventies, he exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad. In 1976 he collaborated with director John Wilson to produce an autobiographical documentary. The following year his work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. Marco Sassone received a gold medal in 1978 from the Italian Academy of Arts, Literature and Science. In 1979 the monograph Sassone by art historian Donelson Hoopes was published in concurrence with the artist’s exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum. With prescience, Hoopes had observed: “Sassone’s art has evolved from within, and such an organic, psychological and spiritual process may take his work along new and unforeseen paths.”
In 1981 Sassone moved his studio to San Francisco. During the 80’s his exhibition schedule continued along with his numerous lectures. In 1982 Marco Sassone was knighted by the president of Italy, Sandro Pertini, into the “Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic”. In 1987 Sassone received a commendation from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for his “contribution to the community through his art.” In March 1988, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery mounted his solo exhibition titled Sassone with the publication of a catalogue authored by Janet Dominik. The show travelled to Paris and was installed at the historic Bernheim-Jeune Gallery for the month of April.
By the late eighties, the artist had become increasingly concerned with social themes. He began extensive and personal research on the homeless and painted a series of large canvasses and charcoal drawings portraying the life he observed on the streets of San Francisco. A number of these works were exhibited at the Chicago International Art Exposition, the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, Body Politic at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Issue of Choice at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE).
In March of 1994, his exhibition “Home on the Streets” opened at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco. Kenneth Baker, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about his work: “There is true technical brilliance here…In the drawings, his technique seems to discover fresh descriptive possibilities each time out.” The exhibition traveled to Los Angeles in 1996 and Florence, Italy in 1997, where it was installed in the Cloisters of the Santa Croce Church. Paola Bortolotti, art critic for La Nazione, wrote: “The persistent theme however does not carry a denunciation of a social problem, but it is rather the pretext to pour forth onto canvas the urgency of the brush strokes loaded with pigment and light.”
In 1997 Marco Sassone received a commission to create a 200 square foot mural in downtown San Francisco. The finished work comprised five canvasses dedicated to the theme of Il Palio...
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1960s Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Gouache
'Basket of Apples', California League of Woman Artists, Sacramento, Boise Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Maria Winkler' (American, born 1946) and dated 1991.
Professor Emeritus of the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento, Maria Winkler earned h...
Category
1990s American Realist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Flowers in Hair"
Ink on Paper
24.5” x 22.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Chilmark Pond", Martha's Vineyard Plein Air Coastal Island Pastel Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
"Chilmark Pond", Martha's Vineyard Plein Air Coastal Island Pastel Landscape by Anne F. Cook
A lovely plein air pastel landscape capturing the natural beauty of New England's coastal island sunset views, by Martha's Vineyard artist Anne F. Cook (American, b.1962). This 1995 pastel, titled "Chilmark Pond", transports the viewer to the beautiful island of Martha's Vineyard, to bask in the soft light of dusk as the sun sets over the view of the island's coastal ponds.
Signed and dated "Cook 1995" lower right.
Titled "Chilmark Pond" lower left. Photo of title has been slightly enhanced to appear more legible.
Displayed in a decorative black and gilt-toned frame, with tan mat.
Image size: 18.5"H x 24.5"W.
Framed size: 26.25"H x 32.25"W x 1"D.
Anne Cook...
Category
1990s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Lock Ness" Lake Watercolor Landscape on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lock Ness" Lake Watercolor Landscape on Paper
Expansive landscape of Loch Ness by R.C. Lees (Scottish). The viewer looks out over Lock Ness, from a high vantage point. There is a l...
Category
1930s Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mid Century Abstract Watercolor -- "Slightly Out of Focus"
By Mae Franzen
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant yet soft multicolored abstract watercolor by Modesto, California artist, exhibitor and art teacher Mae Franzen (American, 20th century). Layers of color take on a glass-like appearance. Exhibition tag on verso with artist name and title "Slightly Out of Focus...
Category
1980s Abstract California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Still Life', Louvre, California Post-Impressionist, LACMA, Académie Chaumière
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Graphite
"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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
By Marilyn Thompson
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Delicate drawing of a woman in a white dress by Palo Alto artist Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015). Acquired with a colle...
Category
1990s Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Autumn by the Stream, Early 20th Century Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtly-toned autumn scene by Sydney Cooper (American, 19th-20th C.). This is piece is composed of subdued fall tones - tan, pale green, and coppery reds. A blue stream cuts through t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Figurative Charcoal Line Drawing, "Girl Walking Away"
By Mariellen Ehlers
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century figurative nude charcoal line drawing of a girl walking away by Moni (Mariellen) Ehlers (American, 1926-2007). Charcoal on...
Category
1950s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Abstract Surrealist Botanical
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed drawing of several flowers and geometric shapes by an unknown artist (20th Century). Signed (illegible) and dated on the right side. Presented in a new double mat (grey, and...
Category
2010s Surrealist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
'Dusty Rose Convertible' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1950 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Gouache
View of Tallinn, Estonia - Figurative Landscape Panoramic Charcoal Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
A sweeping view of Tallinn, Estonia by an unknown artist (20th Century). This detailed charcoal landscape drawing shows a panorama of the beautiful coastal city on the Baltic Sea, complete with small figures walking on a pier, boats in the harbor, and the iconic Alexander Nevsky...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Golden Irises', St. Martin's School, California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and vibrant, botanical watercolor by this well-listed and widely exhibited California woman artist. Signed lower right 'Sally Bookman' (Bri...
Category
1990s Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Four Panel Still Life, 1970s Artist's Studio with Succulent Plant & Blue Tile
By Noel Howard
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique four panel still-life depicting a snap-shot of the artist's 1970's studio by Noel Howard (American, 20th Century). A drawing within the drawing with colored pencils, some cl...
Category
1970s American Impressionist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Crayon, Laid Paper
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
The Old Town - Original Vibrant Abstract Neighborhood Landscape Collage Artwork
By Maria C. Bernhardsson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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 California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cyclamen - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of cyclamen, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style blending into line drawing by California artist Deborah E...
Category
1980s American Realist California - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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