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Item Ships From: Continental US
As a Special Privilege the Zealot Bore it in Blazing
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1903
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Sight Size 24.25" x 15.50", Framed 31.35" x 22.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Scribner's Magazine story illustration, November 1911, 1903
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Early 1900s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
ITZCHAK TARKAY "PARK CAFE" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15" ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: "PARK CAFE"
Size: 15 X 22 INCHES
Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Edition: ORIGINAL
Description: Hand signed by the artist
The artwork is in e...
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Early 2000s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for "The New Masses"
By Hugo Gellert
Located in Boston, MA
Hugo Gellert (Hungarian-American, 1892-1985), Study for "The New Masses". Mary Ryan Gallery 4. Signed in ink lower left: "Hugo / Gellert"; inscribed in crayo...
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20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Wax Crayon
Féminine Mystique Ink on Paper
By Keith Carrington
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Feminine Mistique, ink on archival paper.
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor and ink. He has honed...
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2010s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Polished", Figurative Oil Pastel and Pen Drawing, Portrait of Legs
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative drawing titled "Polished" is an original artwork by Lauren Rinaldi made of oil pastel and ballpoint pen on Arches paper. This piece measures 18"h x 11"w framed. The p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ballpoint Pen
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
By America Martin
Located in 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 Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Twelve Miles to Go, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Twelve Miles To Go" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a lone figure walking through...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
American flag collage with a 19th century engraving of an eagle
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America.
Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works.
His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied.
Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes..
He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city or style.
Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him.
Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts.
These set of collage...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
$1,510 Sale Price
20% Off
In Two Minds
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Mr. George Payne & Admiral Rous Turf Characters
Located in Bristol, CT
Charming watercolour, heightened w/ bodycolour and gum arabic by Richard Deighton (British 1795-1880) depicting Admiral the Hon. Jenry John Rous (1795-1877) who held the position of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mother and Children watercolor painting by John E. Costigan
By John Costigan
Located in Hudson, NY
Painting measures 22" x 28" and framed 26" x 32" x 2"
Hand-signed "J.E. Costigan NA 1952" lower left.
About this artist: John Costigan was a self-taught painter distinguished by h...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled: Women in Bath
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/Unidentified Artist, "Untitled: Women In Bath", Signed Figurative/ Nude Watercolor, Charcoal (Mixed Media) Painting on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1967
Colors: Black,...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Nero's Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
"Female Nude" Charcoal Sketch, Nude Female
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
"Nude Female" by Eric Saarinen is an intimate portrait of a female that appears to be in the throes of orgasm. It is aesthetically re...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Seductive Platinum Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Pin Up in Turquoise Hat
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Miami, FL
Study of a sultry and seductive reclining platinum blond Pin Up with a wide-brimmed sun hat. Most likely done for Playboy. This work is very finely rendered and looks better the ...
Category
1960s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Suitor with Voyeur
By Roy Carruthers
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Carruthers is a brilliant mix of George Tooker and Fernando Botero but with unexpected charm.
"The Suitor with Voyeur", A variation of this concept was done in oil twenty years later. "The Venus of Ponte Vedra...
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Boating Party, 1899
By Albert Beck Wenzell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Ink on Paper
Signature: Signed, Dated and Inscriber Lower Right
Category
1890s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
BLACK CHAIR (ORIGINAL GOUACHE)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache and ink painting on paper. Hand signed and dated by Alexander Calder. Executed in 1969, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York,...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Six Figures Rising from Rocky Terrain 1000 - 3D Sculptural Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as defenders in battle and symbols of pacifism.
In 2019, Stein re-conceived her Kni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Cotton, Board, Magazine Paper
$5,600 Sale Price
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Hold On1, Original Contemporary Minimalist Nude Figure Study Watercolor Painting
By Elizabeth Becker
Located in Boston, MA
Hold On1, Original Contemporary Minimalist Nude Figure Study Painting, 2022
20" x 16" (HxW) Watercolor on Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
A modern figure study of the divine feminine, this composition by artist Elizabeth Becker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Children Playing with the Baby /// Victorian Watercolor British Flowers Cottage
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ada L. Dennis (English, Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century)
Title: "Children Playing with the Baby"
*Initial signed by Dennis lower right
Circa: 1900
Medium: Original Water...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Board
Two Nudes Figure Study
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Figure study drawing with two nudes by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Signed with the initials "MWE" in the lower right co...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
$332 Sale Price
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Divers
By Jay Alan Babcock
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Jay Alan Babcock is a St. Louis-based graphic designer and painter. His work exhibits his interest in the visual language of Americana, including old ...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Edward Laning, Sketch for Sheraton East Hotel Mid-Century Mural of Ancient Myths
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American!
Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink.
Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dressing Up
By Norman Meredith
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Norman Meredith was British painter and illustrator, born in Liverpool (1909 - 1985) England. He studied at the Liverpool College of Art. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Ro...
Category
1980s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Punch as Bosch Boy - Funk Art drawing by San Francisco Bay Area artist
By William T. Wiley
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: William Wiley – American (1937- 2021)
Title: Punch as Bosch Boy
Year: 2003
Medium: Graphite and/or crayon on paper
Size: 12 x 9 inches.
Framed size: 17.5 x 14.25 inches
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
"Natalia" sepia watercolor gesture painting of a nude female figure laying back
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timel...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Head of Woman with Stars, " Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Head of Woman with Stars" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features the profile of a woman's head with various ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Upscale Couple Illustration Puck magazine Interior - Mexican Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marius de Zayas was born in Veracruz, Mexico and emigrated to New York with his family in 1907. He joined the art staff of the New York Evening World newspaper and quickly became kno...
Category
1910s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Sea of life II
By Idoline Duke
Located in Fairfield, CT
I was born in Manhattan, but the most important places in my life have been here on Long Island by the ocean and in the mountains and forests of Vermont. I love to surf, I love to sk...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Family Time (Blue Grey Watercolor Cityscape with Impressionistic Family Figures)
By Susan Hope Fogel
Located in Hudson, NY
Tonal, impressionist figurative watercolor by Susan Hope Fogel
watercolor on Arches heavy-weight paper
35.5 x 50.75 x 2 inches in a dark silver shadowbox frame with anti-reflective, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Baby" - Original Acrylic Painting of Woman and Deer by Mary Carroll
By Mary Carroll
Located in Denver, CO
Mary Carroll's "Baby" (2024) is a deeply evocative acrylic painting, measuring 24 x 18 inches, ready to hang even without a frame. This poignant artwork captures a somber yet tender ...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Between Hope and Doubt
By Leone M. Bracker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919
Medium: Charcoal on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story illustration, image of a young woman confiding in elderly religious man.
Category
1910s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Marina Abramovic, Original hand signed hourglass drawing in Beaux Arts monograph
By Marina Abramovic
Located in New York, NY
Marina Abramović
Untitled hourglass drawing, 1992
Original drawing done in black marker, hand signed and annotated and held inside the softback catalogue for the artist's 1992 Beaux ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model (Back)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Handsome Young Black Man in Profile
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Handsome Young Black Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A wonderful executed studio figure study portrait depict...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Dolly Dingle's Halloween, Original Paper Doll Illustration
By Grace G. Drayton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original illustration for a paper doll design, featuring Halloween-themed outfits, including a witch costume, a black cat, and a pumpkin jack-o-lantern.
Medium: Watercolor and Ink o...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.006
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.006 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.006 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and ...
Category
2010s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal drawing by Haydon...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A corner at Fashion Desginer Dries van Noten’s home. Watercolor interiors
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed ea...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s char...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 193...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Summertime - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Summertime", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Artist Statement
"I started by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
ON THE BEACH original art Paula Craioveanu Female Nude FRAMED
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“On the Beach”, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper, frame included.
Framed size 35.8x24in shipped framed. Check 1stDibs free shipping code for items over $500.
This drawing is a d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper
Standing Figure, figural abstract expressionist ink drawing, 20th century
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Figure
1955
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower center
9 x 12 inches
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. In 1...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
She Makes Me Want to Get My Shit Together - Contemporary Narrative B&W Artwork
By Danny Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Dan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The Future is in the Past - Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Collage Artwork
By Danny Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Dan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" is a watercolor on heavy rag paper by noted Arkansas artist Bruce Roy Anderson, 1907-1985. It is signed at the lower left corner ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled: Portrait of A Blond Male
By Frank Campanella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Campanella (American, 1922-2016), "Untitled: Portrait of A Blond Male", Figurative Portrait done in Charcoal on Brown Charcoal Paper Unsigned, 20 x 14, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black, Red, White, Gray, Blue, Brown, Yellow
"Untitled: Portrait Of A Blonde Male" is a Modern Figurative Portrait capturing a side profile of a young but mature male subject with a distinctive mustache. He's dressed in a red shirt with white pinstripe on the shoulder. His hair is a light dirty blond with lighter beige highlight with light bluish-grayish eyes, pointed nose with fuller lips.
Frank Campanella is a listed artist known for New Jersey landscapes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
"Spring at Window" 18th Century Antique realism Watercolor painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1858
Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German painter known for his charming and detailed portrayals of domestic ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Ruby R
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'The Ruby R', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, on off-white watercolor paper; the image extending to the sheet edges....
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...
Category
1940s Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
North Cornwall Coast line, United Kingdom
By Edward Nevil
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cornwall Coast Line, United Kingdom" c.1880 is a watercolor on paper by British artist Edward Nevil, 1813-1901. It is signed at the lower left corner by the arti...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 editi...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22.5 x 27.75 inches
27.75 x 34.5 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Seated Woman Reading Julia Maud De Forest, Late 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ora Coltman (American, 1858-1940)
Julia Maud De Forest, 1898
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper left
9.25 x 12.75 inches
15 x 18.25 inches, framed
Ora Coltman was born in 18...
Category
1890s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$125 Sale Price
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'Untitled Sketch Men with Oxen' by Harold Stevenson, Pencil Drawing on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 45" x 31" work was drawn by Harold Stevenson in 1983 and is presented in a multi-matted black frame. The drawing depicts three standing figures, each adorned in classical-style ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Fine Orientalist Pencil and Watercolor Reclining Middle Eastern Beauty
By Francesco Ballesio 2
Located in LA, CA
Francesco Ballesio (Italian, 1860-1923). A fine orientalist pencil and watercolor heightened with gum Arabic on paper figure of "A Middle-Eastern Beauty at Rest" depicting a young ma...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
