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Item Ships From: Continental US
Bayus
By Nicholas Conrad Miller
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media work by Contemporary American artist Nicholas Conrad Miller.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Gouache, Watercolor

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor painting Rabbinical Talmudic Discussion Hand signed 17 x 29 framed, paper 10 x 22 Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, Israeli President, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. He also did some important Hebrew medals. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work.In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Scripture Tapestry, collage with woman and Biblical quotes
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage fabric These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Fabric, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Love & Peace & Sisterhood
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chikako Okada’s autobiographical works of art bridge traditional realism with magical realism and surrealism. The artist uniquely addresses questions of the human condition through h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Growing Pains
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chikako Okada’s autobiographical works of art bridge traditional realism with magical realism and surrealism. The artist uniquely addresses questions of the human condition through her meticulously detailed, and patterned imagery. The work is mesmerizing, rich in symbolism, and reference feminine power, vulnerability, sadness, longing, and desire. Often featuring adolescent girls and boys that are mysteriously posed, the artist leaves the circumstances of her subjects to the viewer's interpretation. Chikako Okada is inspired by the paintings of European masters, Mexico's Frida Kahlo, and the American surrealists. The drawing is 23 1/4 X 18 1/4 inches. Professionally matted and framed in a museum quality rose gold wood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Aquarius
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Aquarius' features the face of a young woman with flowering succulents, thorns and a turbulent sky surrounding her body and is a complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. From Japanes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil, Graphite

"Portrait of La Goulue, " Auguste Grass-Mick, pastel, portrait, impressionist
By Auguste Grass-Mick
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Paris, France in 1873, artist Auguste Grass-Mick apprenticed under lithography engraver Auguste Lemoine, the Dangler brothers and painter Georges Lavergne. A patron of Paris's cabarets, Le Chat...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Jerusalemite Yeshiva Scholar, Judaica Watercolor
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaica watercolor portrait, Israel, signed l.r.
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20th Century Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled (Man at Desk)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Man at Desk) Pen and ink on paper, 2012 Signed lower right Series: Portraits of Community: Hidden in Plain Sight, 2012 References And Exhibitions: Illustrated: Swarthmore College video for their exhibition "Hidden in Plain Sight," Jan 24- Feb 24, 2013. Born in Fort Worth in 1975, Huckaby has been creating some form of art since his childhood. In 1995, he began his formal art studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After a brief stay he transferred to Boston University, where he received a BFA degree. He then earned a MFA degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Huckaby is known for his powerful use of color and his exploration of cultural roles and the heritage of the African American family. His work has evolved from portraiture to objects and interiors that venerate his personal family legacy rooted in Fort Worth, Texas. Portraying these familiar subjects on a large scale and pushing his use of materials, Huckaby defines the significance of family and tradition while touching on the subject of ethnographic stereotypes in our culture. For the past few years he has concentrated his efforts on a series of quilt paintings. One of the series he created is a tribute to both of his Grandmothers and a celebration of the African American quilting tradition. He used the actual quilts sewn by family members as models for his paintings. These quilts document significant events in his family history. According to Huckaby, the paintings represent an artistic family legacy. The colorful, rhythmic abstracted patterns come together like the musical notes in African American musician John Coltrane's famous jazz composition, A Love Supreme, from which the painting series acquired its name. He has earned national acclaim for his work over the past several years. Huckaby has received the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award. More recently, he was the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Award, which allowed him to travel the country and paint African-American quilts from private and public collections. Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African American Art in Atlanta, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work, including a painting titled Study for Little D and the Dollar, in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, can be found in important collections throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. Currently, Huckaby’s 18-by-14-foot oil painting Hidden in Plain Site (2011) is on view in the Amon Carter Museum’s atrium through October. Public Collections: Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, American Dad African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, Grandmother’s Quilt The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The 99% - Highland Hills The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, "Girl World" Study for Sustenance Installation Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, "The Truth about Hip Hop" Study for Sustenance Installation Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The 99% - Highland Hills City of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, The Welcome Space Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Corporate Aviation, Texas, A Place Between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Texas, William Madison (Gooseneck Bill) McDonald Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas, Hazel Harvey Peace Portrait Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Cobby Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Selection from The 99% Holdworth Center, Austin, TX, Selection from The 99% Jesuit Dallas Museum, Dallas, Texas, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Sha” Kansas African American Museum, Wichita, Kansas, Self Portrait (2) McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Untitled (Anthony) Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Untitled) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Enocio Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Big Momma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Pair of Framed Chinese Ancestor Portraits, Ink and Pigment on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Believing that the departed continue to hold influence over the lives of the living, many Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which came into vogue in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, were commissioned specifically for ancestor worship and were believed to house the spirits of the deceased. When properly cared for, one's ancestors were believed to be a powerful source of honor, protection, and good luck. This pair of ancestor portraits was hand-painted in the 19th century and beautifully depicts a Qing-dynasty couple. While some ancestral portraits offer a more stylized representation of one's ancestors, this particular pair is painted with incredible realism and life-like expressions. Rather than depict the pair in a regal hall wearing elaborate finery, the couple is shown in a quiet home environment, seated at either end of a square tea table. Their surroundings are minimal, practically undecorated, and they wear simple, matching blue silk robes...
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Late 19th Century Qing Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pigment, Ink, Paper

Head of a Gentleman sketch, mid modern
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Greenwich, CT
A superbly executed work, this work would have been done for reproduction in a book or magazine. Simkhovitch received quite a number of illustration jobs and could adapt his style t...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Eclipse
By Tricia Butski
Located in Buffalo, NY
hrough drawings rendered in charcoal and ink, my recent work examines issues related to memory by exploring its limitations and aestheticizing the instability inherent in portraiture...
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2010s Photorealist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper

Pew Musicians, red work on paper with dog and horse
By Angela A'Court
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on paper. Framed: 15" x 18" My work comes from observation, memory and imagination. Collective daydreams that make another world out of this world--the experience of ‘in...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Mulberry Paper, Monotype

"My Yellow Pet" Acrylic and pen by Devie
By Devie Elzafon
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

The Rabbis, Judaica portraits
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
the piece without the original frame measures 18X7.5 inchesThis is a wonderful watercolor by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God." Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyya from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire...
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1960s Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Chinese Lunar New Year Painted Scroll
Located in Chicago, IL
In celebration of the lunar new year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered 19th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...
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Mid-19th Century Qing Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Lacquer, Paper, Pigment

Portrait of a Girl
Located in Austin, TX
Charcoal portrait drawing of a woman by Miles Mathis. 27.75" x 18.25" About the Artist: Miles Mathis is an American artist known for his nude portrait pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Archival Paper

Christus am Oelberg - Christ on the Mount of Olives
By George Grosz
Located in Miami, FL
This work is accompanied by a Photo-certificate and essay from Ralph Jentsch who will include it in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné Signed lower right. Estate stamp on v...
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1930s Dada Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Woman sitting - Pencil on Paper Unique Drawing Post Impressionism, 1910
By Henri Edmond Cross
Located in New York, NY
Henri Edmond Cross Woman sitting, ca. 1910 Pencil on paper 5 1/10 × 3 9/10 in l 13 × 10 cm Frame included - 9 x 7 in l 23 x 18 cm Stamped 'HEC' lower right Condition: Excellent cond...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Watchmaker, Drawing, Inventor, Work on Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Tan, Yellow
By Krzysztof Pastuszka
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watchmaker is an original Ink and Watercolor Pencil drawing on paper. It is 16x24, unframed. Krzysztof Pastuszka is an interdisciplinary artist who spans sculpture, drawing, engineering, and computer design. Much of his work focuses on the complexity and tension in transition/transitioning, giving voice to his experience growing up as a trans kid in the late 90s -2000s. His process consists of idea generation and the testing and creation of prototypes to generate a multitude of parts. He focuses on mechanical movement and the interplay between parts to visualize the intricacies of change and focus on the necessity of each component's ability to cooperate with another and create movement. He uses motion as a way to expose all the micro-operations and mental acrobatics involved in navigating and rejecting the unchanging nature of cisnormativity. He combines his array of skills to envision and compose an elaborate trail of blueprints archiving the hidden and unseen essence of his trans experience--building documentation that didn't exist in his childhood. His current body of work consists of multiple assemblies within one mechanical sculpture...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil

Portrait of Young African American Man in Yellow Rain Jacket
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This vivid pastel portrait features a young African American man wearing a bright yellow rain jacket. The artist’s use of pastel captures the jacket's luminous color with striking in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head) Graphite on laid paper Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist by descent to his Grandson Depicts the artist's wife Carolyn. Most probably created in Nashville, Indiana Related to the painting entitled "Maiden" in the Haan Museum, Lafayette, IN (see photo) Condition: Excellent Archival framing with TruVue Conservation Clear glass Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches Frame size: 18 7/8 x 16 inches Louis Oscar Griffith (1875-1956) Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club. He made his first trip to Brown County...
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1920s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Early Portrait of a French Woman
By Emile Lejeune
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic portrait of a french woman with a styled hair cut. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
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1930s Naturalistic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil, Graphite

"Sleeping Infant" Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan 5" x 5" Pencil on Paper Framed Size: 15.75" x 14.5" 1944 This sketch by Gustav Likan portrays a sleeping infant. This piece is one of a series by Likan depicting the...
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1940s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Pencil

Rufus Crested Coquette, realist gouache miniature bird portrait, 2020
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina introduces a sense of movement to her gouache Bird by Bird series with her miniature portrait, Rufus Crested Coquette. Wings spread, beaks open wide, and legs hover in the air. ...
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2010s Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Anthony
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Watercolor on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Kachina Burial
By Nathan Cartwright
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bic Pen drawing
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen

La bambola
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on paper
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Stolen Moments #3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right From the Series: Stolen Moments Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp lower right Note: Darius Steward is establishing himself...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled Poodle by Susumu Kamijo
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Rare and huge work by Susumu Kamijo! Untitled oil pastel and pastel pencil on paper 72 x 94” 2019 signed framed EDUCATION 2000 BFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Oregon 2002 MFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Washington SOLO SHOWS 2024 When You Come Home, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2023 The Motherland, Venus over Manhattan, New York, USA The Sun Inside, Perrotin, Paris, France 2022 Jack and Venus, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA Jack and Venus, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA Alone with Everybody, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea I will tell you later, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2021 How was your summer? , Harper’s Gallery, East Hampton, USA Beyond The Hills, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2020 Lick Me Till Dawn, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA Lick Me Till Dawn, Marvin Gardens, New York, USA 2019 I Will Follow You To The Sunset, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany When You Came At Dawn, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2018 Walk With Me To The Sea, Sakurado Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan I Will Walk You Tomorrow, Harpers Books, New York, USA Poodles, Tortoise, Los Angeles, USA 2017 Poodles, Sotheby’s S2, New York, USA 2016 I Think So, Marvin Gardens, Queens, USA GROUP SHOWS 2022 Koichi Sato...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pencil

Great Great Grandpa's Grandpa
By Courtney Reid
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Watercolor
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21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Power Couple romantic couple subject soft warm pastel color blue gray tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Portrait of a couple with much history between them. Mounted on archival foam board for future framing options
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2010s Expressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Untitled Naturalistic Portrait of a Musician
By Stanley Clark
Located in Houston, TX
Untitled naturalist portrait of a musician with a guitar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner and the work is not currently framed. Art...
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Late 20th Century Naturalistic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Self Portrait, Graphite Drawing
By Elizabeth Zanzinger
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Self Portrait" is a graphite drawing that depicts the artist. Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
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2010s Academic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Two Reclining Nudes, Females, Highly Detailed Pencil Drawing on Paper
By Oliver Hazard
Located in Chicago, IL
The two nude female figures appear to be asleep. The calmness of the piece is accentuated by the fine pencil drawing. The piece is unframed. Contact the gallery for framing option...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

"Nursing Mother" Ink Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan 7" x 7" Ink on Paper 1944 Framed Size: 16" x 15.5" This intimate piece depict a mother nursing her infant. This piece is part of Likan's portrayals of his wife Barb...
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1940s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Great Grandfather's Father As A Baby In The Garden
By Courtney Reid
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Watercolor
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Going Places #2 (Baggage Claim)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo Signed by the artist DRS #1, lower right.
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Planes of the Head
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
"Planes of the Head" by Lu Haskew Graphite on Paper 14x12" framed, 10x8" image size ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu considered it a must to work with live models once ...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

Un Enfant
By Joseph Ramanankamonjy
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed, lower center: Joseph / Ramanankamonjy / un enfant / Madagascar / “sanguine sur soie” Provenance: Private Collection, Paris Private Collection, Florida Sometim...
Category

20th Century Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Silk, Watercolor

WHAT A GREAT JOKE
By Paton Miller
Located in New York, NY
charcoal drawing of a group of friends telling jokes on canvas.
Category

1980s Expressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal

Original 1971 Fillmore East Art program cover pencil drawing Rock and Roll
By David Edward Byrd
Located in Southampton, NY
For Rock and Roll art collectors this is one incredible work of art. It is the original 1971 drawing for Bill Graham's Fillmore East program cover art created by Rock and Roll and Broadway superstar artist David Byrd. framed size 22x17". I have included in this listing an image of an actual program cover for reference purposes, it is not part of the sale. David Byrd created some of the most memorable Classic Theatre and Rock and Roll images from the 1960s and 70s. This is the first time that this rare original one of a kind drawing has been available for sale since it was first created over 40 years ago. This is the actual drawing that was presented for approval of the final artwork. David created ALL of the Art for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, including their Program covers and Rock posters, the art for Jimi Hendrix’s first Fillmore East appearance, The Rolling Stones 1969 World Tour art, The Who’s Performance of Tommy at the New York Metropolitan Opera House and The Fillmore, and The Grateful Dead Swell Dance Concert to name only a few. He also created the poster art for the original location of the 1969 Woodstock music festival . His memorable images were also used for classic Broadway shows like Godspell, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar to mention only a few. These museum quality drawings are rarely made available for sale, they are not only wonderful rare works of art, but are truly historically important works in the field of Theatre and Rock and Roll collecting. It has been framed with archival double matting. David Byrd's poster art is in many museum collections, including : The Louvre, in Paris, Victoria & Albert in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Smithsonian in Washington, DC. We have included an image featuring some of the memorable art David Byrd has created for the Rock and Roll industry and classic Broadway shows. A large coffee table book is in the final edit and getting ready to go to press of the art of David Byrd titled "Poster Child...
Category

1970s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Vellum, Pencil

THE ENDURING SPIRIT NEW YORK
By Richard Lindner
Located in Aventura, FL
Original graphite, watercolor on paper. Hand signed top left front by Richard Lindner. Artwork size 14 x 12.25 inches. Frame size approx. 22.75 x 20.75 inches. Artwork is in o...
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Mid-20th Century Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Female Nude in Profile
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman Pen and ink on paper, c. 1925-1928 Signed in pencil lower left Exhibited: Akron Art Institute (Akron Art Museum), William Sommer Retrospective, Oct. 25 to Nov. 29, 1 970 Illu...
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1920s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Gentleman with Mustache (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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1890s Romantic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

DRS2 at 7
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower right Color ink on Yupo paper Framed in a white shadowbox presentation. Image: 12 x 8 7/8"
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Miss Messias
Located in New York, NY
Original colored pencil on Bristol artwork by Chris Cortez on view for The Queer Show Pt II at Hal Bromm Gallery.
Category

2010s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Color Pencil

Fragmented
By Stephen Namara
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fagmented', A sublime d drawing. A brilliant and original work of art from Kenyan born African-American artist Stephen Namara who is widely known for creating paintings and masterful drawings with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pigment

19th century color portrait pencil pastel female subject realism
By Constance de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lady Mary Stanhope" is an original pencil and pastel drawing by Constance de Rothschild. This piece depicts a woman facing to the right. The artist also cre...
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1860s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Pencil

"Red Lips" Ink & acrylic Original Drawing on handmade Paper, 21" x 17" by Devie
By Devie Elzafon
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered. Th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Untitled (large original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, oil and charcoal on paper. Hand signed lower front by Luis Caballero. Artwork size: 25.56 x 25.56 inches. Frame size: 35 x 36 inches. Artwork is in excellent con...
Category

1970s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Charcoal, Pencil

Openings (Catherine) / figurative work, contemporary woman
By Stephen Namara
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Openings (Catherine)' is a brilliant and original work of art from Kenyan born African-American artist Stephen Namara who is widely known for creating paintings and masterful drawin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pigment

Face and Body / figurative work, woman in a museum
By Stephen Namara
Located in Burlingame, CA
Face and Body is a stunningly gorgeous original work of art from Kenyan born American artist Stephen Namara who is widely known for creating paintings and masterful drawings created ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pigment

Lady of the Temple, Nude Female Figure, Highly Detailed Pencil Drawing, Framed
By Oliver Hazard
Located in Chicago, IL
The female figure in Oliver Benson's "Lady of the Temple" is drawn in exquisite detail. This fine drawing is floated on a mat board and framed in a silver frame measuring 11h x 8.25...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Archival Paper

Infanta Dolor - graphite pencil drawing - woman with cactus and succulents
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Dolor' features the face of a young woman with succulents and cactus in an intricately patterned and complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. from Japanese artist Chikako Oka...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Memorial to Mr. Morris / woman's head study - drawing painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Memorial to Mr. Morris' is created with stabilo pencil, ink, gouache, walnut ink and charcoal on paper. Comes in an archival crystal clear storage sleeve. The young woman's head wit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

BLIND SELF PORTRAIT 12
By Gregg Louis
Located in New York, NY
ink drawing on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Ink

THE BAMBINO
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).THE BAMBINO. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent condition. Ori...
Category

2010s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic

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