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Item Ships From: California
Pond #4
By Ursula Schneider
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pond #4" 1984 is an original soft pastel on paper by Swiss/American artist Ursula Schneider, b.1943. It is unsigned. The artwork size is 15 x 22 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 24.5 inches. Custom framed in a black metal frame. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
The work of Ursula Schneider include pastel drawings, paintings, small-scale sculptural paintings and woodcuts, working on one medium at a time. These processes complement and enrich each other by stimulating a fresh approach and allowing for experimentation. Drawing from observation in the landscape has been the basis for the work.
She attended Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and Keramische Fachschule in Bern and holds an Undergraduate Degree in Ceramics from Switzerland.
In 1968 she moved to the United States and graduated in 1972 with an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.
She lived and worked in New York from 1980-2004 and taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union and Sarah Lawrence College.
Grants And Awards:
1985 National Endowment for the Arts. Major Fellowship Grant
1976 San Francisco Art Festival Award
1974 The Oakland Museum. The New Talent Award
1968 Swiss Government Grant: Kunststipendium
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Kunstmuseum Bern Switzerland
UC Art Museum Berkley, CA
Oakland Museum, CA
Forum Febicus, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Forth Worth, TX
Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum, NY
San Francisco Museum, CA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Rockland Center for the Arts, NY.
Collections:
UC Berkley Art Museum,
Di Rosa Preserve in CA,
U.S. Department of State,
Auditorium Netzwerk, Germany,
The Union Bank of Switzerland,
UBS Security,
Bell Savings Art Plus,
Security Pacific Bank, CA,
Swiss Bank...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Early 20th Century Peking Bell Tower
By William Clothier Watts
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant scene of visitors arriving by camels at the Peking Bell Tower by William Clothier Watts (American 1967-1961). This piece is unsigned, bu...
Category
1920s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,275 Sale Price
35% Off
The Duck Hunter
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Duck Hunter" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back....
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Old Barn
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Old Barn" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back. The i...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bridge over the Canal - Landscape
By Elizabeth Stiles
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed watercolor by Elizabeth Stiles (20th Century). Signed "Elizabeth Stiles" in the lower left corner. Presented in a new antuque white mat. No frame. Image size: 11"H x 15.25"W
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$280 Sale Price
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Barn and Carriage
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Barn and Carriage" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back. The image size is 6 x 7.75 inches, framed is 13.35 x 14.65 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past, especially the daily life in San Francisco Chinatown. No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions. Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision.
For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets. He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century California. Less well-known were his representations of the many places historically linked to the Chinese of the state and the West. To this day, few in America know about Chinese work in the fisheries, in the early wine industry, in 19th century urban industry, and in the colorful cultural life of San Francisco in the years before the Great Earthquake. At a time when most Americans thought Chinese Americans had just been laundrymen, houseboys, or Charlie Chan, characters they saw on television.
As a visual historian, he connected us with the past, but foremost he was an artist. He presented appealing scenes for the visitor to San Francisco who wanted a visual memento. He mastered Western...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sailboats in the Harbor Seascape
By Ramona Hammerly
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene seascape of sailboats in the harbor by Pacific Northwest Artist Ramona Hammerly (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood fram...
Category
1980s Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$584 Sale Price
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Boys in a Boat "The Admiral and 1st Mate" Going Down the River by Charles Harmon
Located in Soquel, CA
Boys in a Boat "The Admiral and 1st Mate" Going Down the River by Charles Harmon
Lovely early work of two boys in a boat going down a fast moving stream by Charles Henry Harmon (Ame...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
"Monument Valley Arizona" - Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed watercolor of Monument Valley by Albert DeRome (American, 1885-1959). The viewer is looking out over the valley from a high vantage point, with towering mesas in the distance. In the foreground, there are some shrubs and a small tree to the right side of the composition. DeRome has created a sense of vast distance by rendering the far background with a hazy quality while keeping the foreground in clear focus.
Signed "Albert DeRome" in the lower right corner.
Inscription on verso as a gift to the artist's mother.
Purchased from the estate of the artist Patterson's Antiques, Los Gatos.
Presented in a wood frame with a new white mat.
Image size: 5.75"H x 8"W
Frame size: 11"H x 14"W
Born in Cayucos, California, Albert De Rome (American, 1885-1959) became a California landscape painter, especially of natural landscapes formations, seascapes and marine scenes near Carmel and Monterey. Usually his palette was bright in both oil and watercolor, but he did the occasional nocturne. Scholars have compared his painting style and subjects to those of Thomas Hill and Albert Bierstadt. However, Albert De Rome never affiliated with any formal group of painters, although he had many close friends including Percy Gray, Gunnar Widforss and Will Sparks.
As a young man, Thomas De Rome worked at the Congress Spring Hotel in Saratoga, and in San Francisco at the Globe Foundry, owned by an uncle. He studied art under Arthur Mathews, John Stanton and Lorenzo Latimer...
Category
1950s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,202 Sale Price
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Livermore Valley Ranch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Livermore Valley Ranch" c.1960, is a watercolor on paper by American artist Dale Allen Miller, 1917-2005. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Winter Landscape
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992)
Title: Winter Landscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor
Size of image: 15 x 20 inches
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hilltop Through the Trees, Modernist Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant modernist landscape watercolor by Laguna Beach, California artist Nevalda Bartolini Liberi (Italian/American, 20th Century). This lovely and bright watercolor features a view of a beautiful hillside, seen through a grove of twisting trees. A charming house is glimpsed in the distance.
Signed "Nevalda Bartolini" lower right.
Displayed in a new white mat. Unframed.
Paper size: 15"H x 22.25"W.
Nevalda Bartolini Liberi was an Italian-American artist active in New York in the 1960's, and later in Laguna Beach, California. She was married to the prolific painter, sculptor, and former Laguna Beach gallery owner Dante Liberi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,072 Sale Price
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Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape" 1975, is a watercolor on paper by Latvian artist Paul Duskins, 1928-1996. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California lands...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
$760 Sale Price
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"Sur la rivière (Marne)" - On the River Marne - Hand Colored Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sur la rivière (Marne)" - On the River Marne - Hand Colored Lithograph
Serene depiction of a house along the Marne River by unknown artist "Charlot." This piece was commissioned and printed by Camilla Lucas Publishing in New York. A two-story house with a red roof sits on the bank of the river. Lush trees line the banks, some of which are depicted with orange-brown leaves, indicating that autumn has arrived. The color in this piece was added by hand.
Titled "Sur la riviere (Marne)" in the lower left corner.
Signed "Charlot" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a wood frame with a double mat.
Frame size: 20"W x 16"W
Image size: 11.5"H x 9"W
In 1928, Hungarian-born Sidney Zoltan Lucas founded "Camilla Lucas Publishing" which encompassed a wholesale art publishing house and a retail art gallery. This business was both wholesale and retail and dealt in reproductions of antique, modern, and contemporary prints. It also sold original art including etchings, lithographs, and paintings. Starting in the 1930's and continuing into the 1950's, Sydney Lucas traveled to Europe periodically and contracted with French and Flemish artists to publish their work under the banner of the "Paris Etching Society."
During his career, Sydney published many thousands of images. He brought art into the homes of people at all levels of income through his etchings, serigraphs, woodblock prints, restrikes and reproductions. The various subjects included Redouté and Prevost Flowers, Barraband and Gould Birds, Piranesi, French Landscapes, Urban Scenes, Women, Children, Animals, Hunting and much more.
Later on in the 1950s, Sydney and his wife Phyllis Lucas became the first North American publishers of original signed, limited edition lithographs by the famous surrealist artist Salvador Dali. They worked directly with Mr. Dali over several years and the three created such fine images that in 1985 the Lucas’ Collection of limited edition lithographs from Salvador Dali’s paintings were displayed alongside his original paintings at the Salvador Dali Museum...
Category
1930s Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$372 Sale Price
20% Off
Coastal Scene in Tobermory, Mull, Scottland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Coastal Scene in Tobermory, Mull, Scottland" c.1940 Is a watercolor on paper by noted British artist William Lyons Wilson, 1892-1981. It is signed at the lower right co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled II" 2001 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the middle right by the artist. The artwork size is 13.5 x 16.75 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by Finns/Canadian artist William Edward De Garthe, 1907-1983. It is signed a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Approaching Storm", Mid-1930s California Rainstorm Landscape Watercolor
By Leslie Bruner Wulff
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-1930's watercolor landscape of a vast valley with a rainstorm far in the distance by California artist Leslie Bruner Wulff (American, 1890-1968). The atmosphere and fee...
Category
1930s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Torre Annunziata, Italy - Mid Century Marine Seascape with Portrait
By Giovanni Gallo
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor depiction of the Liberty Class Dry Cargo Ship "Charles Scribner" docked in Torre Annunziata, Italy, with a portrait of a man in pencil in the upper left corner, by Giovanni Gallo...
Category
1940s Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
“Two Points of View” Original Pastel Drawing, 1997
Located in Soquel, CA
“Two Points of View” Original Pastel Drawing, c. 1997
This pastel drawing shows the artist’s command of perspective in landscape and architecture. An impressive lodge stands strong ...
Category
1990s American Realist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with House
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with House" 1973 is a watercolor on paper by American artist Rachel Bentley, 1894-1991. It is signed and dated at the lower righ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Breaking Through, Original Painting
By Catherine McCargar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The place that inspired this watercolor painting is among the many lovely locations that are the foothills of Mt. Diablo in the East Bay Area near San Francis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Twilight on the Balcony - Original Watercolor by Rachel Mason Burger
Located in Soquel, CA
Twilight on the Balcony, Original Watercolor
This minimalist architectural painting, by Rachel Mason Burger (English-American, 20th Century) creates wonderful line in 1-point perspe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
English Mansion by the Cemetery - Late 1800s Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
English Mansion by the Cemetery - Late 1800s Watercolor on Paper
Dramatic and detailed landscape by Lucy Cooper (British, 1853-1929). A large home is shown on the left, with a red r...
Category
1890s Academic California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,000 Sale Price
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Bakery
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bakery, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 18 inches and 33 x 27 inches professionally fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Nature Walk" Forest Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, with Note from the Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Nature Walk" Forest Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, with Note from the Artist
Dramatic sunset landscape by notable watercolorist Douglas W. Trowbridge (American, b. 1960).
Signe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"North of Turku" Finland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "North of Turku" Finland, c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner by the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled I" 1998 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left by the artist. The artwork size is 14 x 17 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Rural, Victorian Brick House - Mid Century Spring Landscape
By Dorothy Violet Bywater-Schust
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely watercolor landscape of a rural scene with a Victorian brick house and blooming trees in spring by Canadian artist Dorothy Violet Bywater-Schust ((1918-2010. Signed by the art...
Category
1960s Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Carmel Mission Basilica
By Jeanne A. Ocker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Carmel Mission Basilica" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Jeanne Ocker, born 1922. It is signed and dated at the...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Empty Booth - iconic watercolor - Red Devil Fireworks
Located in Burlingame, CA
Empty Booth - an iconic American original watercolor painting - 36 x 24 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Empty Booth depicts the inside of an empty fireworks booth with a Red Devil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
19th Century Maritime Seascape, USS Steam Frigate Niagara
Located in Soquel, CA
19th century maritime seascape of a naval ship similar to those used in the war of 1812, by William B. Hoff (American, 1846-1903). This miniature wat...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Frozen Pond Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Frozen Pond Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Serene watercolor of a pond in winter by an unknown artist named Stow. Signed "Stow" in the lower right co...
Category
1980s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Fishing Village in Gloucester Harbor, 1950 - Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Village in Gloucester Harbor, 1950 - Watercolor on Paper
In earthy tones, the fishing harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts is captured with an ethereal fog hovering over the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
California Coast with Cypress Tree
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: California Coast with Cypress
Year: c.1980
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 16 x 18.75 inches
paper: 16...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape #II
By Merton Clivette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape II
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Watercolor
Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mori Point II
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Mori Point II', original watercolor by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson measures 20 x 38 inches and framed 29 x 46 1/2 inches.
"Torlakson's work depicts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fictional Bridge - Watercolor of Bridge and Town Architecture with graphite
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Fictional Bridge" is an imaginative watercolor by award-winning L.A. artist and architect Thomas W. Schaller. The watercolor painting depicts an architecturally stunning pedestrian bridge, towering over an active marketplace. A hillside town can be seen in the distance as the artist's graphite sketch becomes more visible and impressive. This watercolor painting of Italian inspired architecture is primarily painted in tan, brown, and navy blue colors. For more works by Thomas Schaller...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wyoming Mountains, Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape Watercolor
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Wyoming Mountains, Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape Watercolor
Energetic modern abstract watercolor in blue and orange hues, by Erle Loran (Ame...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,140 Sale Price
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The Triumphal Arch, Leningrad
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Triumphal Arch, Leningrad" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Gazebo
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Gazebo" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is signed and dated at the middle right corner by the artist. The image size is 14 x 17 inches, framed is 22.75 x 25.5 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past, especially the daily life in San Francisco Chinatown. No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions. Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision.
For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets. He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century California. Less well-known were his representations of the many places historically linked to the Chinese of the state and the West. To this day, few in America know about Chinese work in the fisheries, in the early wine industry, in 19th century urban industry, and in the colorful cultural life of San Francisco in the years before the Great Earthquake. At a time when most Americans thought Chinese Americans had just been laundrymen, houseboys, or Charlie Chan, characters they saw on television.
As a visual historian, he connected us with the past, but foremost he was an artist. He presented appealing scenes for the visitor to San Francisco who wanted a visual memento. He mastered Western...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape II
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992)
Title: Landscape
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Pastel
Paper: Sketch paper
Image size: 16.75 x 22 inches
paper size: 16.75 x 22 inches
Signature: Signed lower right in pencil by the artist
Condition: Very good
About the artist.
Bart Perry studied at the California School of Fine Arts, MFA, 1928. Fine Arts, Mills College, Berkeley, CA. 1955.
Selected Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery with Wm. Mayo, 1946; California School of Fine Arts, Roy DeForest...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery" c.1950 is an ink and watercolor on paper by Finns/Canadian artist William Edward De Garthe, 1907-1983. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figures on the Beach, Mid Century East Java Indonesia Coast Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century landscape watercolor of figures on a beautiful beach in Indonesia, and early work by Sufi artist Amang Rahman Jubair (Indonesian, 1931-2001). Four tall palm trees tower o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stormy Coast with Sailboats - Mid Century Seascape in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Stormy Coast with Sailboats - Mid Century Seascape in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Dramatic seascape by Werner Jurgens (German-Canadian, b. 1936). Three sailboats are anchored just off...
Category
1970s Modern California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Sandy Hook Farmhouse Landscape
By Dessie Wilcox
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm landscape by Dessie Wilcox (American, b. 1948). Signed with date and location in the lower left corner ("Dessie Wilcox '94 / Sandy Hook, Conn."). Presented in a deep wood frame ...
Category
1990s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
'The Cote d'Azur', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Post-Impressionist California Artist
By Irma Engel Grabhorn
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'The Cote d'Azur' by Irma Engel Grabhorn.
Paris, Salon d'Automne, Post-Impressionist California Artist
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Signed lower right 'Engel G' for Irma Engel Grabhorn (American, 1908-2003...
Category
1960s Expressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink
Turn of the Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful turn of the century figurative landscape by F.S. Mediary (American, Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "F.S. Mediary" lower right....
Category
1890s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$380 Sale Price
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"Boats at Low Tide", Early 20th Century Coastal Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic early 20th century seascape of small boats on the shore by Melvena M. Wade, pioneer California watercolor artist (Canadian/America...
Category
1910s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Wrong Side of the Tracks" - Mixed Media Figurative Landscape Collage
By Arn Ghigliazza
Located in Soquel, CA
Mixed media figurative landscape collage of pen & ink, photographs and drawing titled "Wrong Side of Tracks" by California artist Arn Ghigliazza (American, b. 1937), 2009. Titled and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Magazine Paper, Pen
Earl Scwaiger's Barn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Earl Scwaiger's Barn" c.1980 is a watercolor on paper by American artist W. Ralph Murray, 1932-2009. It is signed at the lower righ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962) Estate Signed Color Etching "Klosterneuburg"
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962) Estate Signed Color Etching "Klosterneuburg"
Early 20th century
16" x 24 unframed
26.5" x 32.5 framed
Category
20th Century California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
State of Grace
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: State of Grace
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
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Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Cypress
By Frank Serratoni
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Frank Serratoni (American, 1908-1970)
Title: Cypress
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor
Size of image: 15 x 21.75 inches
Size of paper: 15 x 21.75 inches
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Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Crashing Surf on Rocks Seascape
By Margaret Esther Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid-century California seascape watercolor of the crashing surf on the rocky coast by Santa Cruz, California artist Margaret E. Rogers (American, 1872-1961), c.1950. Rogers was one of the original "Jolly Daubers" who studied with Frank Heath and took wagon trips to the redwoods and Yosemite to paint.
Signed "M.E. Rogers" lower right.
Presented in a rustic giltwood frame under glass.
Image, 16.5"H x 18.5"L.
Margaret Esther Rogers' (1872 - 1961) early childhood was spent in England. The Rogers were a cultured family who came to California for the father’s health and settled on a ranch in the King City area. Margaret grew up in the curiously paradoxical world of early California, breaking her own riding horses and roping cattle during the day, doing a man’s work, riding a man’s saddle, then sitting down to the piano to play classics in the evening after high tea. Margaret’s mother had the only piano for 80 miles around. Her father, Robert J. Rogers, had been an importer of fine tea, coffee, and spices in England. In Monterey County, he raised sheep and cattle and the family lived under comparatively rustic and modest conditions. When Margaret wasn’t riding, tending a herd, plowing a field, or playing the piano, she was painting. Art was an early love.
Fame caught up with her early. She was written up in a San Francisco newspaper as “Monterey County’s pretty girl who rides a man’s saddle, marks and brands stock, breaks wild colts, plows and sows, plays classical music and paints in oils.” Margaret’s mother was her first music and art teacher; later she took art lessons from Kate Baldwin in Salinas.
She had suitors and several proposals, but never married. In the year 1898, Margaret’s “intended” put in 700 acres of grain, spending all he had plus money he borrowed. Not a spear of grain grew, she wrote, and their plans to marry when the crop was sold dried up with the weather.
When her mother died, Margaret and her father moved to Soquel, taking along her favorite saddle horse. Now living in Santa Cruz County, Margaret at once became involved in art circles which were unofficially headed by Frank Heath and his wife, Lillian Dake Heath. Frank Heath and Margaret together founded Santa Cruz Art League in 1919, and a few months later were joined in their efforts by a Dutch woman named Cor de Gavere who arrived in Santa Cruz.
The two women artists, Margaret and Cor, became fast friends and remained so until Cor’s death in July 1955, while she was visiting relatives in Holland. They painted together almost every day and shared many meals at each other’s cottages which were just a few blocks apart in the Seabright area. However, those Victorian ladies, raised in the era of rigid social conventions, always addressed each other as ‘Miss Rogers’ and ‘Miss de Gavere’ as long as they lived. Money was never in great supply for either lady, but Cor managed to buy a small automobile, and after six driving lessons the two of them took off for southern California. Cor and Margaret took many camping and painting trips in Cor’s automobile. Sometime later, Margaret herself got brave enough to buy an auto.
From 1925 to 1947, Margaret made her home in the basement of the Arts and Crafts Building. She managed the Art League’s first gallery, which was started there. Holding informal court for friends who called, Margaret would open a can of sardines, put out a plate of crackers, and conversation about art or music would follow. During World War II, Margaret raised rabbits in cages. In later years, Margaret purchased a small studio-home on Alhambra Street – still in the Seabright area, which both women clung to as home territory.
In 1929, Margaret helped found the Art League’s first Statewide Show, which became an annual event. She served as show chairwoman for more than 20 years. A fine painter of landscapes, Margaret became better known for her strong marine scenes. Once she explained that the ocean was “the real challenge, because it won’t stand still.” She served as president of the Art League from 1925 to 1947. Short, stocky, outspoken and very talented, Margaret gained many honors in her later years. With her short haircut and her dark dresses...
Category
1950s American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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On the Road
By Henry Waltermar Doane
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "On the Road" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower ri...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Concrete Plant
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: The concrete Plant
Year: c.1970
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 11.25 x...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
1942 Mid Century Finnish Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor landscape of Finland countryside in Winter during WWII by O. Makela (Finnish/American, 19/20th Century), 1942. Signed and dated lower right corner. Condition: ve...
Category
1940s Impressionist California - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
