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Cove, Moriches Bay
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Hoping for One More Cut
By Natasha Isenhour
Located in Denver, CO
Open field with tree and building
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2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

"SECRET GARDEN 1", watercolor, flowers, foliage, day, night, sky, sparkling, wet
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SECRET GARDEN 1 is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". Note the complexity of the composition, the suggestion of one specific place in a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Original Winter Trees Landscape Watercolor - Rocky Mountains, Early 20th Century
By Charles Partridge Adams
Located in Denver, CO
This original early 20th-century watercolor is by Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942), a celebrated American artist known for his exceptional depictions of the Colorado landscape and...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

“Seaside Cliffs, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original pastel on archival card stock from Paris of the craggy seaside cliffs of California by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Bremerton. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. Under glass. The artwork is housed in its original ornate scroll designed frame. Overall framed measurements are 33 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate. George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
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1870s Hudson River School Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

American ships being re-supplied possibly off the coast of Brazil or Barbados
Located in Woodbury, CT
American ships off either the coast of Brazil or Barbados from the 1860's
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1860s Victorian Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

Canal
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "Lifschitz 85" at lower right The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 26 1/2 x 32 3/8 inches.
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1980s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum NEWS: A printed copy of this magazine is included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibition, “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” Antonio Petruccelli...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Board

"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...
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2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Maisons dans l'Allier
By Louis Neillot
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right and dedicated: "a Madame Bertram amicalement" Madame Bertram is the wife of Abel Bertram (1871-1954), a post-impressionist artist who with his wife were close frie...
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20th Century Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

October Afternoon Sparkle, Original Painting
By Catherine McCargar
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine shares a peek into the beautiful autumnal woodlands of California, presenting her keen eye for color an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Landscape with Houses, large watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with House" c.1970 is a watercolor on paper by American impressionist artist Jen Sorensen, 1920-2005. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 21 x 28 inches, framed size is 29.5 x 36 inches. Custom framed in a wooden rustic grey frame, with light grey matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Jean Sorensen...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...
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1930s American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Margie Dickson "Pueblo 2" Original Pastel on Paper 20th Century
By Margie Dickson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Margie Dickson "Pueblo 2" Original Pastel on Paper 20th Century Dimensions 18.5" wide x 14.5" high The frame measures 29.25" wide x 25.25" high Signed and titled lower left Good ...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Wintry Landscape, Landscapes Watercolor by Ari Gradus
By Ari Gradus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Wintry Landscape, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor, signed, Size: 15 in. x 20 in. (38.1 cm x 50.8 cm), Frame Size: 2...
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1970s Folk Art Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sketch 22
By Jennifer Nehrbass
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nehrbass' landscape paintings display a narrative similar to magic realism where ambiguity, realism, and fantasy all play a role.
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21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

The Crooked Steps / Astoria
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
Brian Cobble’s landscapes tend to particularly focus on the interplay of man and his surroundings, whether natural or built. A signature attention to the liminal aspects of a scene, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Landscape with Boat and House, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Boat and House, California" is a watercolor by California artist Catherine Rubino Eaton Baca, 1907-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 17 x 23 inches, framed size is 25 x 31 inches. Framed in original dark wood and gold frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist: Born in Oakland, CA on Jan. 18, 1907. Catherine Rubino studied at the CCAC and with Phil Paradise...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fragmented Ocean of Gold
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Porcelain, Ink

"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 ...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flat Rock (Santa Ana Rescue)
By Anne C. Weary
Located in Dallas, TX
“Anne Weary, who grew up as a Texas cowgirl, is at home in the outdoors and knows its ways and its language. There is a sort of very quiet but very powerful mysticism in her work, a ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Conté

Night Light
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Night Light" is a watercolor on paper by noted Indian artist OM Prakash Sharma, 1932-2019. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner. The artwork size is 15 x 11 inches, framed size is 22 x 17.85 inches. Framed in a black frame, with black and white matting. it is in excellent condition. About the artist: Om Prakash Sharma (born 14 December 1932) is an Indian painter, visual artist, professor, writer and sitarist based in New Delhi, India. He was bestowed with National Award for Painting of Lalit Kala Akademi in 1969, by the President of India. Sharma has won All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society's Annual Art Exhibitions thrice in 1966, 1967 and 1969, and has been awarded with multiple awards at various state exhibitions. Sharma was born in 1932, in Bawal, Haryana. He attended Meerut College where he graduated in drawing and paintings in 1951. Sharma earned The National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1958 from Delhi Polytechnic with First Class and Distinction. From 1964 to 1966, Sharma attended Columbia University and Art Students League of New York as a Fulbright scholar where he completed his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts and Art History Om Prakash Sharma's career as an artist spans over six decades. His work as an artist has been centered around New Delhi. Sharma is known primarily as a practitioner of a uniquely Indian visual style. Sharma started his career as an artist in 1956 during annual exhibition at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society in Delhi. His paintings has been exhibited at over 100 solo and group exhibition. His art works has been part of permanent collections at various art galleries and museums including Berlin Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Moscow and Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan. He is regarded as the one of the founders of the Neo-Tantra art...
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Late 20th Century Modern Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

St. Raphael, Quebec, Canada - Hyper Realistic Windmill Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing of a windmill on a farm in Denmark by M. Mayer (20th Century). A large rustic windmill attached to a barn is the central focus of the piece. The landscape and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Illustration Board, Pencil

“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 ...
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1990s American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Vintage Sunset Seascape Watercolor Point Lobos, Carmel
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Scenic watercolor seascape of the Point Lobos, Carmel coast at sunset by California artist Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Stone Barn on the Hilltop, 1970's Landscape Watercolor
By Gretchen Guard
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-1970's landscape watercolor of a stately stone barn on a hilltop surrounded by trees by Gretchen Guard (American, 20th Century). The artist uses clean lines and decisive areas of color to render the barn in crisp detail and make it pop from the soft landscape around it. Signed "Gretchen Guard" and dated "76" lower left. Displayed in a new off white mat and rustic wood frame. Image size: 13"H x 18.5"W. *Please note: The signature and date on the lower right are partially obscured by the mat. The last photo shows the full signature and date with the mat removed. Gretchen Guard lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Cape Cod, Mass. She majored in studio art at Stanford University under Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell and Mat Kahn. And at Santa Fe Art Institute with Wolf Khan...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

First Tracks, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Maurice Dionne shows a view of the Rocky Mountains under a thick layer of snow. The skier, enticed by the vast expanse of pristine white powder, gracef...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

South San Francisco
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "South San Francisco" 2003 Is a watercolor on paper by Filipino artist Ephraim Samson, b.1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

America's Cup - 1967. Wing Mark, Intrepid and Dame Pattie.
By Joseph Webster Golinkin
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. WING MARK. INTREPID - DAME PATTIE [AUS]. This Joseph Webster Golinkin watercolor of the 1967 America's Cup depicts the...
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1960s Naturalistic Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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 ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mountain Reverie Series 10, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Siyuan Ma exhibits an abstract landscape of dark misty mountains. The imagery takes the viewer into a dreamlike world of meand...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Roman Ruins
By Joseph Lindon Smith
Located in Milford, NH
A fine watercolor painting of Roman ruins attributed to American artist Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950). Smith was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and after attending Brown Universit...
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Early 20th Century Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

The River Barge
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The River Barge Pen and ink on paper on laid paper, mounted in English drum mount , c. 1810 Unsigned Condition: Slight sun staining to sheet and mount in the window (see photo) Image/sheet size: 5 1/4 x 6 11/16 inches Sight: : 5-3/4 x 7-1/4" Frame: 13-3/8 x 14-3/8" Provenance: Colnaghi, London (see photo of label) David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter. His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist. Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804 Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites while recovering from a broken leg. By the late 18th century Birmingham had developed a network of private academies teaching drawing and painting, established to support the needs of the town's manufacturers of luxury metal goods, but also encouraging education in fine art, and nurturing the distinctive tradition of landscape art of the Birmingham School. Cox initially enrolled in the academy of Joseph Barber in Great Charles Street, where fellow students included the artist Charles Barber and the engraver William Radclyffe, both of whom would become important lifelong friends. At the age of about 15 Cox was apprenticed to the Birmingham painter Albert Fielder, who produced portrait miniatures and paintings for the tops of snuffboxes from his workshop at 10 Parade in the northwest of the town. Early biographers of Cox record that he left his apprenticeship after Fielder's suicide, with one reporting that Cox himself discovered his master's hanging body, but this is probably a myth as Fielder is recorded at his address in Parade as late as 1825. At some time during mid-1800 Cox was given work by William Macready the elder at the Birmingham Theatre, initially as an assistant grinding colours and preparing canvases for the scene painters, but from 1801 painting scenery himself and by 1802 leading his own team of assistants and being credited in plays' publicity. London, 1804–1814 In 1804 Cox was promised work by the theatre impresario Philip Astley and moved to London, taking lodgings in 16 Bridge Row, Lambeth. Although he was unable to get employment at Astley's Amphitheatre it is likely that he had already decided to try to establish himself as a professional artist, and apart from a few private commissions for painting scenery his focus over the next few years was to be on painting and exhibiting watercolours. While living in London, Cox married his landlord's daughter, Mary Agg and the couple moved to Dulwich in 1808. David Cox Travellers on a Path, pencil and brown wash. In 1805 he made his first of many trips to Wales, with Charles Barber, his earliest dated watercolours are from this year. Throughout his lifetime he made numerous sketching tours to the Home Counties, North Wales, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Devon. Cox exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1805. His paintings never reached high prices, so he earned his living mainly as a drawing master. His first pupil, Colonel the Hon.H. Windsor (the future Earl of Plymouth) engaged him in 1808, Cox went on to acquire several other aristocratic and titled pupils. He also went on to write several books, including: Ackermanns' New Drawing Book (1809); A Series of Progressive Lessons (1811); Treatise on Landscape Painting (1813); and Progressive Lessons on Landscape (1816). The ninth and last edition of his series Progressive Lessons, was published in 1845. By 1810 he was elected President of the Associated Artists in Water Colour. In 1812, following the demise of the Associated Artists, he was elected as associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colour (the old Water Colour Society). He was elected a Member of the Society in 1813, and exhibited there every year (except 1815 and 1817) until his death. Hereford, 1814–1827 In the summer of 1813 Cox was appointed as the drawing master of the Royal Military College in Farnham, Surrey, but he resigned shortly afterwards, finding little sympathy with the atmosphere of a military institution. Soon after that he applied to a newspaper advertisement for a position as drawing master for Miss Crouchers' School for Young Ladies in Hereford and in Autumn 1814 moved to the town with his family. Cox taught at the school in Widemarsh Street until 1819, his substantial salary of £100 per year requiring only two-day's work per week, allowing time for painting and the taking of private pupils. Cox's reputation as both a painter and a teacher had been building over previous years, as indicated by his election as a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and his inclusion in John Hassell's 1813 book Aqua Pictura, which claimed to present works by "all of the most approved water coloured draftsmen". The depression that accompanied the end of the Napoleonic Wars had caused a contraction in the art market, however, and by 1814 Cox had been very short of money, requiring a loan from one of his pupils to pay even for the move to Hereford. Despite its financial advantages and its proximity to the scenery of North Wales and the Wye Valley, the move to Hereford marked a retreat in terms of his career as a painter: he sent few works to the annual exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours during his first years away from London and not until 1823 would he again contribute more than 20 pictures. Between 1823 and 1826 he had Joseph Murray Ince as a pupil. London, 1827–1841 He made his first trip to the Continent, to Belgium and the Netherlands in 1826 and subsequently moved to London the following year. He exhibited for the first time with the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1829, and with the Liverpool Academy in 1831. In 1839, two of Cox's watercolours were bought from the Old Water Colour Society exhibition by the Marquis of Conynha for Queen Victoria. Birmingham, 1841–1859 Greenfield House in Harborne, Birmingham – where Cox lived from 1841 until his death in 1859 . In May 1840 Cox wrote to one of his Birmingham friends: "I am making preparations to sketch in oil, and also to paint, and it is my intention to spend most of my time in Birmingham for the purpose of practice". Cox had been considering a return to painting in oils since 1836 and in 1839 had taken lessons in oil painting from William James Müller, to whom he had been introduced by mutual friend George Arthur Fripp. Hostility between the Society of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Academy made it difficult for an artist to be recognised for work in both watercolour and oil in London, however, and it is likely that Cox would have preferred to explore this new medium in the more supportive environment of his home town. By the early 1840s his income from sales of his watercolours was sufficient to allow him to abandon his work as a drawing master, and in June 1841 he moved with his wife to Greenfield House in Harborne, then a village on Birmingham's south western outskirts. It was this move that would enable the higher levels of freedom and experimentation that were to characterise his later work. The elderly Cox pictured by Samuel Bellin in 1855. In Harborne, Cox established a steady routine – working in watercolour in the morning and oils in the afternoon. He would visit London every spring to attend the major exhibitions, followed by one or more sketching excursions, continuing the pattern that he had established in the 1830s. From 1844 these tours evolved into a yearly trip to Betws-y-Coed in North Wales to work outdoors in both oil and watercolour, gradually becoming the focus for an annual summer artists colony that continued until 1856 with Cox as its "presiding genius". Cox's experience of trying to exhibit his oils in London was short and unsuccessful: in 1842 he made his only submission to the Society of British Artists; one oil painting was exhibited at each of the British Institution and the Royal Academy in 1843; and two oil paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844 – the last that would be exhibited in London during his lifetime. Cox showed regularly at the Birmingham Society of Arts and its successor, the Birmingham Society of Artists, becoming a member in 1842. Cox suffered a stroke on 12 June 1853 that temporarily paralysed him, and permanently affected his eyesight, memory and coordination. By 1857 however, his eyesight had deteriorated. An exhibition of his work was arranged in 1858 by the Conversazione Society Hampstead, and in 1859 a retrospective exhibition was held at the German Gallery Bond Street, London. Cox died several months later. He was buried in the churchyard of St Peters, Harborne, Birmingham, under a chestnut tree, alongside his wife Mary. Work Early work In the spring of 1811 Cox made a small number of notable works in oils during a visit to Hastings with his family. It is not known why he didn't continue working in this medium at the time, but the five known surviving examples were described in 1969 as "surely some of the most brilliant examples of the genre in England". Mature work Cox reached artistic maturity after his move to Hereford in 1814. Although only two major watercolours can confidently be traced to the period between Cox's arrival in the town and the end of the decade, both of these – Butcher's Row, Hereford of 1815 and Lugg Meadows, near Hereford of 1817 – mark advances on his earlier work. Later work Cox's later work produced after his move to Birmingham in 1841 was marked by simplification, abstraction and a stripping down of detail. His art of the period combined the breadth and weight characteristic of the earlier English watercolour school, together with a boldness and freedom of expression comparable to later impressionism. His concern with capturing the fleeting nature of weather, atmosphere and light was similar to that of John Constable, but Cox stood apart from the older painter's focus on capturing material detail, instead employing a high degree of generalisation and a focus on overall effect. The quest for character over precision in representing nature was an established characteristic of the Birmingham School of landscape artists with which Cox had been associated early in his life, and as early as 1810 Cox's work had been criticised for its "sketchiness of finish" and "cloudy confusion of objects", which were held to betray "the coarseness of scene-painting". During the 1840s and 1850s Cox took this "peculiar manner" to new extremes, incorporating the techniques of the sketch into his finished works to a far greater degree. Cox's watercolour technique of the 1840s was sufficiently different from his earlier methods to need explanation to his son in 1842, despite the fact that his son had been helping him teach and paint since 1827. The materials used for his later works in watercolour also differed from his earlier periods: he used black chalk instead of graphite pencil as his primary drawing medium, and the rough and absorbent "Scotch" wrapping paper for which he became well-known – both of these were related to his development of a rougher and freer style. Influence and legacy By the 1840s Cox, alongside Peter De Wint and Copley Fielding, had become recognised as one of the leading figures of the English landscape watercolour style of the first half of the 19th century. This judgement was complicated by reaction to the rougher and bolder style of Cox's later Birmingham work, which was widely ignored or condemned. While by this time De Wint and Fielding were essentially continuing in a long-established tradition, Cox was creating a new one. A group of young artists working in Cox's watercolour style emerged well before his death, including William Bennett, David Hall McKewan and Cox's son David Cox Jr. By 1850 Bennett in particular had become recognised as "perhaps the most distinguished among the landscape painters" for his Cox-like vigorous and decisive style. Such early followers concentrated on the example of Cox's more moderate earlier work and steered clear of what were then seen as the excesses of Cox's later years. During a period dominated by sleek and detailed picturesque landscape, however, they were still condemned by publications such as The Spectator as "the 'blottesque' school", and failed to establish themselves as a cohesive movement. John Ruskin in 1857 condemned the work of the Society of Painters in Water-colours as "a kind of potted art, of an agreeable flavour, suppliable and taxable as a patented commodity", excluding only the late work of Cox, about which he wrote "there is not any other landscape which comes near these works of David Cox in simplicity or seriousness". An 1881 book, A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius, was based on a manuscript by Cox's friend William Hall, edited and expanded by John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post. There are two Blue Plaque memorials commemorating him at 116 Greenfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham, and at 34 Foxley Road, Kennington, London, SW9, where he lived from 1827. It can also be seen at the David Cox exhibition in Birmingham. His pupils included Birmingham architectural artist, Allen Edward...
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1810s Romantic Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Biddeford Pool, Maine, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
By Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Biddeford Pool, Maine, Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 7 in. x 21.5 in. (17.78 cm x 54.61 cm), Description: A New England vacatio...
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1950s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cobblestone Passage with Flowers, Original Watercolor by Peruvian Artist
By Altino Villasante
Located in Doylestown, PA
The artwork is a 22 x 30 inches, original watercolor painting of a cobblestone passage, adorned by brightly colored, overgrowing flowers. This stunning and charming townscape was painted by Peruvian artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Seaside Town, Modern Watercolor by Emile Rampelberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Emile Rampelberg, French (1911 - 2001) - Seaside Town, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower right, Size: 19.5 x 26.75 in. (4...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Lake Tahoe
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992) Title: Lake Tahoe Year: c.1960 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 17 x 22.5 inches paper size: 17 x 22.5 inches Signature: Signed lower right in red pencil by the artist Condition: Excellent, some glue residue remaining on the back at the sheet edge. 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...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cape Ann Harbor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower left: H. Gasser / Demonstration / 1951 Provenance Private collection Painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author, Henry Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on...
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20th Century American Modern Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Low Cloud - Watercolor Seascape and Tree of Canoes on Paper, Framed
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid Low Cloud watercolor on paper 4.50h x 2w in FRAMED DIMENSIONS 14h x 11w x 1d in 35.56h x 27.94w x 2.54d cm CMH003 Artist's Statement Tiny Sanctuaries There has alw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Vintage Watercolor Landscape -- Falling Water, Peaceful Forest Stream
By Don Kitz
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene, beautifully executed watercolor, using a wide spectrum of color with a delicate and subtle hand, by Don Kitz (American, 1939-2019), c.1970. Feel the peace and serenity of thi...
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1970s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Windmills and Sailboats
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink

White Rock Lake
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
Brian Cobble’s landscapes tend to particularly focus on the interplay of man and his surroundings, whether natural or built. A signature attention to the liminal aspects of a scene, ...
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2010s Photorealist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Stella Maris and Down Patrick Head
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade: “Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
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Early 2000s Academic Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Birch Trees - Landscape in Watercolor on Paper by John Salminen
By John T. Salminen
Located in Soquel, CA
Birch Trees - Landscape in Watercolor on Paper by John Salminen Expressive watercolor by John T. Salminen (American. 20th Century). Signed "John T. Salminen" in the lower right cor...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Blue Thunbergia - watercolor flower and landscape on paper - Christina Haglid
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid Blue Thunbergia watercolor on paper 7.25h x 4.50w in 18.41h x 11.43w cm FRAMED DIMENSIONS 16.75h x 13.75w x 0.75d in 42.55h x 34.92w x 1.91d cm CMH008 Artist's S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Valentine's Day with Bleeding Hearts: Feb. 2015 Variation, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Valentine's Day with Bleeding Hearts: Feb. 2015 Variation" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower left and used ink, watercolor, and ir...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Abstract Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Abstract Landscape s" c.1970 is a watercolor on paper by California artist Robert Holdeman, 1912-1994. It is hand signed at the lower rig...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Mountain Reverie Series 9, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Siyuan Ma presents a snow-capped landscape enveloped by light fog. The abstract imagery takes the viewer into a dreamlike worl...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Misty Dunkeld Scotland Hills w. Sheep, Late 19th Century Scottish Landscape W/C
By H. L. Radford
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning late 19th century landscape of misty purple hills dotted with small sheep in the Scottish highlands near Dunkeld by Boston artist Miss H. L. Radford (19th Century). Signed a...
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1890s American Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

19th Century Watercolor by Samuel Phillips Jackson, RWS
By Samuel Phillips Jackson
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Phillips Jackson R.W.S. (British, 1830-1904) Untitled Landscape, 18th century Watercolor on Paper Sight size: 8 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. Framed: 17 1/2 x 22 in. Signed lower left: S.P. Jackson R.W.S. Samuel Phillips Jackson was born in the city of Bristol in September 1830, the son of the equally eminent watercolourist Samuel Jackson...
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18th Century English School Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager
By Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joseph Yeager" lower right. No frame. Estate of Joseph Yeager on verso. Image, 22.75"H x 30.25"W Signed, lower right "Joe Yeager" Provenance; from the Joseph Yeager estate. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"DALLAS CITYSCAPE" ILLISTRATION MID-CENTURY ARTIST BUCK SCHIWETZ DIED 1984
By Buck Schiwetz
Located in San Antonio, TX
Buck Schiwetz (1898-1984) Houston Artist Size: 10 x 15.5 Frame: 16.5 x 22 Medium: Charcoal on Paper unsigned from the collection of a Schiwetz Family Member. 1961 "Dallas" Cityscape....
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20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Orientalist Cairo Market Street Scene, Middle Eastern Bazaar
By Leonid Gechtoff
Located in Surfside, FL
In original period wormwood frame. Leonid Gechtoff was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then a part of Imperial Russia, in 1883, He received his art school training in Russia, where he proba...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

"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...
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1930s Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Vibrant German Watercolor of a Mill, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Mill), 19th Century Watercolor on paper 5 x 7 in. Mat: 8 x 10 in. Partial inscription verso
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19th Century Impressionist Continental US - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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