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Orange Envelope, Watercolor and pencil realist still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Birch Fragment No. 1, photorealist colored pencil nature drawing
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and also by working f...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Double Blind, Still Life with Sun Kissed Paper Lanterns & Blooming Flower
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
A single bloom is captured inside a paper lantern atop a table in Christina Haglid's "Double Blind". This small, exquisite watercolor is awash in sunlight streaming in through parti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Backyard Bench - original watercolor 1974-2016
Located in Burlingame, CA
Backyard Bench - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Car Wash - original unique watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Car Wash - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intagli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Afternoon Daisies" - Modernist Still Life Original in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Afternoon Daisies," Modernist Still Life Original in Watercolor on Paper
Still life watercolor by C. Borda (American, 20th C.) A beautiful vase filled with daisies in calming, neutr...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
What Lies (Framed)
By Paul Pitsker
Located in Fairfield, CT
"My watercolor paintings depict narrative dilemmas, light-hearted vignettes, or staged existential dramas on a microcosmic scale, as they might be seen through a shallow focus lens. ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary female artist still life watercolor fruit realism signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Persimmons, Tangerines & Blue Kerchief" is an original watercolor painting by Alicia Czechowski. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This painting depicts orange persimm...
Category
1960s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (cacti)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks gradu...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Corn Field 2, gray photorealist graphite still life drawing, 2019
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts seamlessly from branch to pebb...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sycamore Series 6, photorealist colored pencil drawing of wood branch, 2003
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison challenges the idea of what is cherished in nature by celebrating the beauty of the over-looked and the imperfect. Found broken branches, a peeling sycamore tree, bug-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Vase - Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Purple Glass Vessel, Pale Blue & Beige
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
A small purple vase floats on a dreamy background of pale blues fading into a warm beige. The artist achieves a remarkable delicate quality by multip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Tail Feathers / botanical watercolor
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tail Feathers' is a stunning botanical watercolor in warm rust, red and cream, created by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic and sophisticated floral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Rosa Bianca, green and purple abstract pastel fruit portrait, 2018
By Daisy Craddock
Located in New York, NY
A produce portraitist, Daisy Craddock's abstract oil pastel diptychs capture the skin and flesh of her subjects. Daisy Craddock examines her fruits and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Cactus Flower
By Joseph Stella
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Silverpoint and crayon on paper
4 11/16 x 3 inches
11.9 x 7.6 cm
Framed dimensions 8 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Provenance
The artist;
By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946;
By desc...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
White Emblem Orchid / botanical watercolor
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
White Emblem Orchid featured in a sophisticated monochromatic grey indigo botanical watercolor crated by artist Adrienne Sherman. Her poetic floral series is at once modern, fresh an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Still Life with Skull
By Nikos Kanarelis
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
Graphite on paper
18 1/2 × 27 3/5 in / 47 × 70 cm
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 he studied at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Passion Flower
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bronze warm sophisticated Passion Flower botanical watercolor crated by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic floral series is at once modern, fresh and contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Willow - Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper with Single Bud Vase and Tree
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
A single bud vase, a willow tree seeming to grow inside a confined vessel, all appearing to float upon a sea of moving water are the subjects of Christ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Firewood Series No. 3, hyperrealist nature still life, colored pencil drawing
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
In "Firewood Series No. 3," David Morrison uses colored pencils to capture the finest details of a frayed and peeling piece of birch wood. With his careful and methodical handling of...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
David Morrison, Stick Series No. 14, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, 2015
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
David Morrison, Sycamore Series No. 3, hyperrealist colored pencil drawing, 2003
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Canopy, Trees Emerging from a Vase, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Tree roots emerge from a vase to create a forest of trees in Christina Haglid's "Canopy". The artist invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Meticulous in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting.
Christina Haglid
Canopy
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
21.75h x 18w in framed
CMH033
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Pelargonium #3, Floral, Richard de Bas paper, realism, botanical
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor on handmade Richard de Bas "fleurs" paper
Agnes Murray has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public collections.
Ms. Murray is a p...
Category
2010s American Realist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
David Morrison, Sycamore Series No. 5, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, 2003
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yet abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Stick Series No. 4, Photorealist colored pencil drawing, still life, 2015
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
Artist David Morrison creates hyperrealistic, yes abstracted, finely detailed pencil drawings of found natural objects, both by observing the object itself under magnification, and a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Steam - Nasturtium Flower Encased in a Paper Lantern on Wayward Seas, Watercolor
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
"Steam", by Christina Haglid, is a small, exquisite watercolor. A single nasturtium is suspended inside a paper lantern, floating on turbulent water, the steam escaping from the lantern propelling it forward. The fragility of the environment has always played an important role in Haglid's work. As a child growing up on the East Coast, the ever changing seaside landscapes intrigued her. This fragile balance between nature and her subject matter is as delicate as a paper lantern floating on the ocean.
Christina Haglid
Steam, 2019
watercolor and gouache on paper
8h x 9w in
18.75h x 19w in framed
CMH034
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night which will return to its purpose during the day. My intention is to not show the failure because I imagine all these objects make it through to better times. Allegories of survival. Someone comes by and finds the paper crane, the rowboat owners return and see their boat undisturbed, and the slide during the day brings joy.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Tiny Sanctuaries", Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC [solo exhibition]
2004 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Small to Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 “Art of the 20th Century” NY Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, NY, NY
“Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Group Fusion” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 "Small & Mighty II" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Christina Haglid, New Work and Amy Lowry-Poole, Bugs and Buds" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 “Small & Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Views II” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Maleri” Galleri Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden
“1987 – 1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction” David Beitzel Gallery, NY, NY
“On and Off the Wall, Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 “Small Works” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL., Special Recognition Award
1994 “Unknown Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
“15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1993 “Graduate Summer Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Graduate Thesis Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI
1992 “Word of Mouth” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 “Drawing: A Covert and Private Affair” West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Senior Exhibition” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 “Fiber Exhibition” Fox Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Stars with Ocean No. 4 - Night Time Water Landscape with Stars, Original Artwork
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
The delicate hand of artist Christina Haglid is apparent in this small watercolor simply titled Stars and Ocean, No 4. The exquisite detail begs the viewer to come in for a closer l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Rain Lily, Acrylic Abstract Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Delicate Texas wildflower.
Keywords: Landscape and Nature
Artist Biography:
Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wisconsin, an old ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Eastern Bluebird
Located in Columbia, MO
Hannah Reeves
Eastern Bluebird
2024
13 x 11 framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Photographic Paper, Acrylic
Rainbow Shell - Watercolor of a Tiny Rainbow Colored Shell on a Blue Background
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rainbow", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a tiny sea shell painted on a blue starry background. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Gentle Winter - Geometric Organic Nature Scene, Watercolor & Gouache, Framed
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Contemporary watercolor photorealist car closeup painting reflection signed
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Cadillac" is an original watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. It reatures a shiny yellow car with its doors open sitting on a suburb...
Category
1990s Photorealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
One Potato - Tiny Original Still Life Painting of a Potato on Deckled Edge Paper
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
"One Potato", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a potato. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy white mat. The piece is framed in a white wood frame with a heavy white mat measuring 14h x 10.5w inches.
Christina Haglid
One Potato
watercolor and gouache on paper
4.50h x 2.50w in
11.43h x 6.35w cm
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night which will return to its purpose during the day. My intention is to not show the failure because I imagine all these objects make it through to better times. Allegories of survival. Someone comes by and finds the paper crane, the rowboat owners return and see their boat undisturbed, and the slide during the day brings joy.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Tiny Sanctuaries", Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC [solo exhibition]
2004 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Small to Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 “Art of the 20th Century” NY Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, NY, NY
“Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Group Fusion” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 "Small & Mighty II" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Christina Haglid, New Work and Amy Lowry-Poole, Bugs and Buds" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 “Small & Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Views II” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Maleri” Galleri Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden
“1987 – 1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction” David Beitzel Gallery, NY, NY
“On and Off the Wall, Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 “Small Works” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL., Special Recognition Award
1994 “Unknown Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
“15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1993 “Graduate Summer Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Graduate Thesis Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI
1992 “Word of Mouth” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 “Drawing: A Covert and Private Affair” West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Senior Exhibition” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 “Fiber Exhibition” Fox Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Blue Thumbergia, Botanical in Watercolor and Gouache, Matted and Framed
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid
Blue Thunbergia
watercolor on paper
7.25h x 4.50w in
16.75h x 13.75w in framed
CMH008
Christina Haglid
Artist's Statement
I used to write a lot of poetry, and it has shaped the narrative process in my artwork. Now painting has replaced writing. Objects in the painting are considered like words placed on a page. I use flowers, manipulated objects, and architecture together in compositions to symbolize the subtle conversations and interactions between them. They are placed in imaginary landscapes that are inspired by actual places and travels.
All the paintings are watercolor and gouache on stonehendge paper, and they are made up almost entirely of individual brushstrokes.
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL
2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled]
“Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Herony II
By Sylvia Beckman
Located in Chicago, IL
Sylvia Beckman, b. 1938, Detroit, MI
Education
University of Michigan, School of Arch. & Design
University of Wisconsin, Botany
Private apprenticeship in stone sculpture, bronze, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Terracotta Hu Figurine, China
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Terracotta Hu Figurine, China
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Terracotta Siren, Greek, c. 550-500 BCE
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Terracotta Siren, Greek, c. 550-500 BCE
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Clay Vessel, Minoan
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Clay Vessel, Minoan
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Janus, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, 2 Bud Vases with Purple Flowers
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Two bud vases seemingly defy gravity as they teeter upon a watery surface in Christina Haglid's "Janus". This meticulously detailed watercolor invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Intricate in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting.
Christina Haglid
Janus
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
21.75h x 18w framed
CMH031
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Pencil Automobile Car Drawing
By Jacques Villon
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Jacques Villon, born Gaston Émile Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville, France, was a pivotal figure in the development of modern art. As the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Villon was part of a family that profoundly influenced 20th-century art. He adopted the pseudonym Jacques Villon to distinguish himself from his siblings, and began his career as a cartoonist and illustrator. Villon's contributions to modern art were acknowledged internationally, with exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Indépendants, and the Armory Show in New York in 1913. His work influenced the trajectory of abstract art, and his legacy is celebrated in numerous museums and collections worldwide. While this drawing isnt common of his bolder cubist style, it shows his skill in sketching and shapes which add a dimension to the abstract nature of this automobile drawing...
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Branch Study No. 21, Original Minimalist Botanical Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Elizabeth Becker
Located in Boston, MA
Branch Study No. 21, Original Minimalist Botanical Watercolor Painting, 2020
16" x 20" (HxW) Watercolor on Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
A minimalist watercolor painting by artist Elizabeth Becker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Roses and Pansies”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor and gouache on heavy card stock of a spring bouquet composed of mainly roses and pansies. Unsigned. Circa 1915. Original gold painted wood frame. Under...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Floral Bouquet
By Ralph Farabee
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Floral Banquet"
Artist: Ralph Farabee
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 7" x 10"
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Korean Hanging Scroll of Bamboo, Prunus, and Orchids
Located in Chicago, IL
This Korean hanging scroll from the mid-20th century honors traditional calligraphy painting with delicate detail and a refined composition, thought to inspire clear and concise thinking. Expressing the beauty and resilience of nature’s flora, ink calligraphy artists traditionally select plants and flowers as the subjects of their works, each chosen for its auspicious meaning, literary resonance, or scholarly virtue.
This particular example depicts a quiet natural landscape of three plants growing side-by-side along a rocky hill. Strong bamboo stalks sway above a branch of delicate prunus branches, while elegant orchids blossom in the foreground. Each painted by a different artist, these sacred plants represent the cycle of the seasons: the plum blossom for winter, the orchid for spring, and the bamboo for summer. Brushed with black ink for a monochromatic expression, the painting relies on value rather than color to convey depth and texture within this simple setting. The collaborative painting is contrasted by a beautiful blue silk brocade border woven with a repeating pattern of blossoms and vines.
Each plant is signed individually in ink along with the artist’s seal.
Painting has been remounted. Includes a wooden scroll...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Paper, Ink
"Yellow Daises" - Watercolor on Illustration Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant, saturated watercolor of yellow daises and other flowers by Walnut Creek, California artist Olga Degles (French/American, 1911-1999). Several dais...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
"La branche de gui et le livre" (Mistletoe and Book Still Life)
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene and delicate still life by unknown artist "S. A." (likely French). A blue pitcher stands proud above an open book, with a branch of mistletoe draped across it. The objects are...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
"Ziggurat" Large Scale Contemporary Surrealist Still Life (books and ladders)
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
52"x 106" large scale watercolor on paper by award-winning New York artist Thomas Broadbent, signed on reverse. A Contemporary Surrealist Still-life painting of books and papers, wi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
STILL LIFE WITH BOWL OF FRUIT AND PITCHER
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Portland, ME
Ben-Zion. STILL LIFE WITH BOWL OF FRUIT AND PITCHER.
Watercolor on paper.
Signed within the image, right.
2 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches.
In excellent c...
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Mid-20th Century Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Dew Drops" - pastel drawing, landscape, bunny, animal, grass, green, flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 22 by 22 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Canvas, Oil Pastel
Red and Yellow Flower Arrangement - Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant still life by Free Dean (American, 1907-1987). Expertly executed depiction of yellow, red, and orange flowers arranged in a pot. To the left of the arrangement is a small jar...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Gathered Flowers' Original watercolor signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Gathered Flowers' is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that shape Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist's worl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Still Life with Lute
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on black paper
Category
Early 20th Century Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Riffed Pears" - Watercolor Still Life
By Kathy Garvey
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor of pears with surreal patterning by Kathy Garvey (American, b. 1949). Initialed "KG" in the lower right corner. Notes by the artist on verso, including date and ti...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Plant Study
By Anna Richards Brewster
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870-1952)
Plant Study
Pencil and gouache on gray paper, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (14.9 x 20 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: AMR Jul 28.
Provenance
The ar...
Category
19th Century American Realist Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
"Walk" - oil pastel drawing, figurative, nature, deer, optical mixing, colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 42 by 26 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Canvas, Oil Pastel
KK Kozik, Bookstack 2, 2016, Conté, Rag Paper
By KK Kozik
Located in Darien, CT
KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY.
Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicat...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Rag Paper
Hyacinth watercolor by Jessie Bone Charman
Located in Hudson, NY
American artist Jessie Bone Charman (1895-1986) was known for her expressive still-life paintings, landscapes and marine scenes, as well as her abstract watercolors.
The framed dim...
Category
1930s Modern Continental US - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
