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Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...
Category
1920s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.054
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.054 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.054 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Geoffrey Holder
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Antonio Pippolini
Geoffrey Holder
11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Framed Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (36.2 x 27.3 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Veneer" Figurative Drawing, Color Pencil, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Veneer" is an original oil pastel, ballpoint pen, color pencil, and graphite on arches paper work by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships in the pictured archival custom frame. The pape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil, Graphite
Family, Signed Watercolor and Ink on Paper Folk Art by Jovan Obican
By Jovan Obican
Located in Long Island City, NY
Family
Jovan Obican
French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986)
Date: circa 1980
Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 13 in. (40.64 x 33.02 cm)
Frame Size: 24.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
1980s Folk Art Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
By Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
Category
1940s Feminist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original TV Guide Illustration Caricature Esther Williams John Raitt Dinah Shore
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
Original TV Guide Illustration Caricature Esther Williams John Raitt Dinah Shore. Published December 25, 1957 in TV Guide as an editorial to promote the Di...
Category
1950s Performance Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Drawing for Tiziani, Signed
By Karl Lagerfeld
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019)
Marking(s); notes: signed
Materials: heavy card stock
Dimensions: 21.75"h, 10.5"w, 1.25"d (frame)
Additional Information: Fashion design s...
Category
1960s Feminist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Vogue Magazine Illustration
By Edouard Garcia Benito
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco "Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," accompanied by corresponding issue of Vogue magazine...
Category
1930s Art Deco Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flora Scottish Female Illustrator Glasgow Girls Pre-Raphaelites
Located in Miami, FL
Annie French was part of the Glasgow Girls group of artists and illustrators who worked in a delicate, feminine, and detailed Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite style. This work, "Flora," is masterfully rendered and decorated with sumptuous floral patterns in the most detailed way. It is signed twice in the upper right quadrant. The mat has a hand-painted decorative border. The work presents better in person, and the viewer can marvel at the minute detail.
The Video is overexposed and light and not representative of color. Use still...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Mindy
By Wladyslaw T. Benda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Drawing, ca. 1915;
Category
20th Century Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mughal School, 18th cent – Emperor Jahangir & Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger Hunt
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful composition depicting Empress Nur Jahan on a tiger hunt, an act of feminism.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and oxblood, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with overall toning and minor creasing, all consistent with age. The color is rich and and fresh with bright yellow illumination. In the distance we see the Jahangir Mahal Agra, as well as a sage meditating in his hut. A beautiful composition.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
Category
18th Century Rajput Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
"Washington DC" By Ed Fairburn, Original Pigment Ink on Antique Map Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
Washington DC is a beautiful original pigment ink illustration, created by Ed Fairburn on a medium of an antique 1800s map, depicting a woman drawn through the streets and topography gazing to the east.
Artist Biography:
Born 15th November 1989 in Southampton, UK.
Ed Fairburn is an English artist whose ability to combine the geography of our facial features with the geography of the earth leads to a startling and compelling synthesis of the two. Fairburn has become known in Europe for his evocative portraits, which produce complex human features from the apparently random patterns found in mundane topographical and astrological maps...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pigment
Side Profile of Asian Man with Ponytail
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This side profile portrait features an Asian man with a neatly tied ponytail, capturing a moment of quiet contemplation. The artist skillfully emphasizes the graceful lines of his pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of a Young Handsome Man (Army GI)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful WWII era portrait of a young man by Louis Krupp (1888-1978). Charcoal on paper measures 16.5 x 22.5 inches, 25 X 30 IN MATTING. Signed and dated...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of Woman, Contemporary Crayon Drawing by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Portrait of Woman, Year: 1973, Medium: Crayon on paper, Size: 24 x 19 in. (60.96 x 48.26 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Amerindian (Dakota)
Located in Miami, FL
In the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC I learned that all indigenous peoples in Latin America, from Alaska to Patagonia, are connected through their DNA. In o...
Category
2010s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
John Ridge, A Cherokee Indian & Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1838 John Ridge A Cherokee Indian and Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts John Ridge, a Cherokee interpreter, by Charles Bird King (American, 1785 - 1862), published 1838. Compared to other indian portraits in tribal regalia, King's rendering of John Ridge appears to be different. King portrayed John Ridge in Anglo-American clothing, sitting at a desk with a document and pen in hand—hinting at Ridge’s education and career as tribal leader and politician. King was known for his realistic and sensitive renderings of his sitters, and his ability to capture their physical features and attire with dignity and attention to detail.
Condition: Good; tonal aging due to age; previous mat tonal aging marks
Presented in new conservation mat
Paper size: 19.75"H X 14"W
Image size: 15"H x 10"W
Mat size:24"H x 16"W
John Ridge received his education at Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut and served as clerk of the Cherokee National Council. When King painted...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Jaider Portrait. Watercolor, Ink and Pastel on Archival Paper.
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jaider by Celso Castro-Daza
One of a kind
Watercolor, ink, and paster on an archival paper
Sheet Size: 19.50 H x 13.75 W
2018
Unframed
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pastel, Archival Ink
Portrait of Broadway star Dorothy Dionne
By Howard Chandler Christy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 16.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed and Titled
For the Broadway play "Young Sinners"
Dianne starred in the play “Young Sinners” in 1933.
Category
1930s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Ka-Na-Pi-Ma, An Ottowa Chief Hand-Colored Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
KA-NA-PI-MA, AN OTTAWA CHIEF., from History of the Indian the Indian Tribes of North America, ca. 1842, hand-colored lithograph
The lithograph by Charles Bird King depicts Ka-na-pi...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Two Women, Modern Ink Drawing by Nan Hoover
By Nan Hoover
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nan Hoover - Two Women, Year: 1960, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed and dated in pencil, Image Size: 8 x 10.25 inches, Size: 11.5 x 15 in. (29.21 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
By Jean Baptist Le Prince
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
Category
18th Century Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 20.00" x 28.50;" Framed 32.50" x 41.25"
Cover Art for Unidentified Title
Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait, which was the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication that merged the world of pin-up and burlesque with the envelope pushing film culture emerging from Hollywood before enforcement of the notorious Hays code put an end to overt expressions of sexuality or immorality on screen. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist's hand as seen. Beautifully framed and matted behind glass in a handsome gallery frame and ready to hang.
Verna Hillie was a Monograph Pictures star who appeared in The Marx brothers comedy "Duck Soup...
Category
1930s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Saudi Arabia King Faisal Time Magazine Cover - Man of The Year Study
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Master portrait artist and illustration legend Bob Peak captures the likeness, dignity and essence of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal for Time Magazine Cover ...
Category
1970s Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
'Girl in Red', Guggenheim, LACMA, Rome, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice Biennale
By Carlo Maria Mariani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'C. Mariani' for Carlo Maria Mariani (Italian, 1931-2021) and dated 1959.
Framed dimensions: 22.5 x 1.5 x 17.5 inches
A native of Rome, Carlo Mariani first studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts where he was influenced by the prevailing styles of Hyper-Realism and Conceptualism. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he began to paint figural landscapes in a traditional, neo-classical style. The 1990s brought Mariani wide recognition and numerous honors, as he represented Italy three times at the Venice Biennale. Additionally, in 1998, he received the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Award for lifetime achievement in painting.
Mariani continues to be best known for his refined and painterly, Renaissance technique. He was a central figure in Rome’s avant-garde in the 1970s and is widely regarded as an influential forerunner of 1980's Postmodernism. He achieved an international reputation, beginning in the early 1980s, for his arcane and, often, controversial paintings...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Man in Tie
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Drawing
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude Study XXXI
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald is an artist of unusual depth and complexity. Sculpture has become his primary means of expression, yet this ability was built upon the foundation of a rigorous tra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
A Compelling 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is unframed, matted/...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Sensitive, Finely Rendered 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is un...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Flowers in Hair"
Ink on Paper
24.5” x 22.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Bonaparte Bride I - Royal Queen Female Portrait Gold Tiara Crown Blue, 2016
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary portrait drawing in graphite and colored pencil on paper is a powerful depiction of a regal woman wearing a gold crown and ornate blue/gray dress. Signed, dated and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Black Power, Attica Prison Riot Prisoners Racial Justice - African American Art
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Vincent D Smith makes a statement about racial justice. In this work from 1972, he depicts three African American prisoners with their faces pushed up agains...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Bully - Narrative Art by Female Illustrator Golden Age of Illustration
By Maginel Wright Enright Barney
Located in Miami, FL
The present work exhibits a storytelling and illustration art style created before the mass communications age. It was rendered in a flat linear style by the highly talented Maginel ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Board
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Italian School, 16th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish ink and grayish ink wash with white heightening on handmade cream laid paper, 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (267 x 208 mm)(matrix). Scattered minor losses to top sheet edge (outside...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Middle Eastern Man with Turban and Blue Cloak in Profile against Yellow
By Joseph Stella
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait in primary blues and yellow of perhaps a Persian man. He is in profile set against a decorative yellow background with floral elements. The work...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Dream Walking 2 - Blue figurative collage of torn photograph on paper
By Keun Young Park
Located in New York, NY
Keun Young Park depicts the body in a state of transformation. Her works on paper show floating figures, faces, draped arms and cupped hands, which appear to be disintegrating and re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Actress June Knight
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Miami, FL
Celebrity portrait sketch of
actress June Knight but James Montgomery Flagg on card stock in two colors.
Signed and inscribed lower right. The work is unframed.
There
is a slight cr...
Category
1930s Academic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Driver's License Self Portrait - Original Drawing - Christopher Ganz
By Christopher Ganz
Located in Chicago, IL
Christopher Ganz
Driver's License Self Portrait
2005
lithograph
13.50h x 10w in
34.29h x 25.40w cm
CG0041
-ARTIST STATEMENT-
I depict my person in multipli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Man Undressing)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed, c.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now live...
Category
1970s Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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...
Category
1930s Dada Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding
By Victor Olson
Located in Miami, FL
An intense and powerful study of five undernourished and perhaps starving African children partly superimposed and partly integrated into the silhouette of the African continent...
Category
1970s Realist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Angelic Ruth Cobb Watercolor, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Ruth Cobb (American, 1914-2008)
Untitled, c. 20th century
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Sight: 19 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 33 1/2 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Signed lower right
Born ...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Sex in the city, Carrie Bradshaw in the kitchen with a hat. watercolor on paper
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Four young English girls with flowers are shown in a line and moving from left to right. They are pushed forward on the picture plane as if they were on a stage with a simple indica...
Category
1890s Academic Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique French Watercolor Portrait - Profile of Elegance (Woman)
Located in Houston, TX
Graceful watercolor portrait of an elegant auburn haired female in profile, 1912. Signed "Laure" and dated lower right. Over 100 years old.
Original vintage one-of-a-kind artwork on...
Category
1910s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fashion Illustration with Two Leggy Models in Monochromatic Greys
Located in Miami, FL
Two elegant and leggy models are rendered and meticulously designed in this illustration for Geoffrey Beene. Miyake's composition is one model as two or two models as one. We see th...
Category
1960s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Carbon Pencil
Woman with Dog, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Thomas Webb 1
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Watercolor
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 13th, 1937.
Category
1930s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
'Miss Personality' Calendar Illustration
By Frederick Alexander Duncan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Miss Personality", American Art Works original art for a calendar.
Category
1930s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
The Sunbonnet Babies - Modernist Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Bertha Corbett Melcher's The Sunbonnet Babies, with their flat, minimalist, semi-abstract, and symbolic style, are an early example of American Modernism/Surrealism by a lesser-known female artist/illustrator. The present work demonstrates a delicate balance between abstraction and representation and between the commonplace and the mysterious. Her signature use of a hat or sunbonnet to hide the identity of her subjects is a big conceptual and visual idea that has been overlooked in the fine art canon. The exact meaning of this is unknown, but 120 years after they were done, it resonates as somewhat surrealistic. Her work is a contradiction. She shows innocent children engaging in everyday activity but are depicted in vail of mystery. Why does she not show the faces of her subjects?
Watercolor on paper (each)
Six drawings in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each)
One signed; two initialed; three not signed.
Six drawing in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each)
One signed; two initialed; three not signed
The Sunbonnet Babies characters were created by illustration Bertha L. Corbett when she was challenged to create a faceless character who nonetheless was engaging and appealing. The characters were a wild hit and appeared in books, comics, and popular collectibles. They also became a popular motif in quilting. Few of Corbett's original drawings for the babies are known to survive, making this a rare offering.
From: Wikipedia
Sunbonnet Babies are characters created by commercial artist Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950). Sunbonnet Babies featured two girls in pastel colored dresses with their faces covered by sunbonnets. Sunbonnet Babies appeared in books, illustrations and advertisements between the years of 1900 and 1930. Sunbonnet Babies were later used as a popular quilting pattern also known as Sunbonnet Sue.[1] Melcher created a male version of the Sunbonnet Babies, named the 'Overall Boys' in 1905.[2][3]
History
Bertha L. Corbett Melcher
Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have also studied with Howard Pyle.[6] By the 1920s, Melcher had moved to Topanga, California.[7][4]
Melcher started drawing the Sunbonnet Babies in 1897. The origin of the signature style of the faces being covered by sunbonnets is contested by different members of Melcher's family and by Melcher herself. In an interview, Melcher's brother said their mother suggested Bertha avoid the difficulty of drawing faces by covering them with sunbonnets.[4] Melcher herself said that covering faces allowed her to communicate with body position.[4] Melcher has also said that the design came about in "answer to a friend’s challenge to convey emotion without a face."[2]
Melcher published her first book, The Sun-Bonnet Babies in 1900.[3] Later, she shopped her illustrations to publisher Rand McNally of Chicago, and nine subsequent books were written by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Bertha Corbett. In 1905, Melcher wrote The Overall Boys.[3] Many of these books were used as primers and used widely in primary schools in the midwest.
Melcher used the sunbonnet babies in advertising and later established the Sunbonnet Babies Company. She started a studio to illustrate and create merchandise of the Sunbonnet Babies.[2] The characters also appeared in a comic strip.[2]
Quilting
Melcher herself did not originate the use of the sunbonnet babies as quilting pattern. The Sunbonnet Babies quilting pattern appeared in textile art 1910's in the Ladies Home Journal 1911–1912 in a quilt stitched by Marie Webster. The pattern was popular during the Great Depression. In the American South, it was often known as "Dutch Doll" until the 1970s.[3] There was also a quilt pattern based on the "Overall Boys," known by the various names including “Overall Bill, “Overall Andy,” “Sunbonnet Sam,” “Suspender Sam,” “Fisherman Jim."[3] Many patterns for quilts and sewing were designed by Ruby Short McKim and published in nationally syndicated newspapers.[8]
Sunbonnet Sue became symbolic of 'female innocence and docility'.[9] Linda Pershing collected accounts from women quilters who depicted 'Sues' doing activities such as smoking, wearing more revealing clothing, and subverting feminine stereotypes.[10] In 1979, the “Seamsters Union Local #500," a group of quilters from Lawrence, Kansas, created “The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue," a quilt depicting the character murdered in a variety of ways.[3]
Collectibles
Sunbonnet Babies merchandise includes school books, valentines cards, postcards, china, and quilts.[2][5][11]
Sunbonnet Babies were adapted into three dimensional porcelain collectibles and pottery made by Royal Bayreuth Company in the early 1900s. The Royal Bayreuth China...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and gold, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with extraordinary color. We see Empress Nur Jahan making an offering to a sage in his hut, as Emperor Jahangir looks on from a tree stand.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
Category
18th Century Rajput Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
"Untitled 18, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 18" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"I Should Worry, " Cover for Judge Magazine, Feb. 28, 1914
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache with Graphite on Paper Mounted
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"I Should Worry." Cover illustration for Judge magazine, pu...
Category
1910s Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
2.1M TINTIN EN AMERIQUE. Drawing on paper
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
2.1M TINTIN EN AMERIQUE, 2023
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Frame size: 43 cm H x 34 cm W x 3 cm D
Image size: 30 cm H x 21 cm W
Unique
Ivory Wood ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Illustration of Jewish Laborers by Chaim Goldberg
By Chaïm Goldberg
Located in New York, NY
Chaim Goldberg (Polish-American, 1917-2004)
Untitled, 20th century
Ink and gouache on paper
Sight: 11 1/4 x 14 in.
Framed: 19 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 7/8 in.
Signed lower left: Chaim Goldberg...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
Rare 1950s Original Syndicated Ink Drawing Cartoon Strip Susie Q Smith Comic Art
Located in Surfside, FL
SUSIE Q. SMITH
Medium: Newspaper comics
Distributed by: King Features Syndicate
First Appeared: 1945
Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter
6 X 18.25
Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack,...
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Pierre Jacquemon Nature Goddess Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Jacquemon (French-American, 1936-2002)
Untitled, c. late 20th century
Mixed media with ink, pencil, wash, and metal leaf on paper
Sight: 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Framed: 17 1/3 x 1...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Continental US - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
