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Item Ships From: Florida
Shtetl Village Doodka Player Judaica Jewish California Modernist Artist Etching
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris deutsch was born in krasnagorka lithuania june 4 1892 died in los angeles 1978.Entered the polytechnic school in riga 1905.School of applied arts berlin 1912. Settled in l.A. 1...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Whimsical Illustration Hiking Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
By William Steig (b.1907)
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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1930s Naturalistic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
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
5.5 X 17.75
Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mac...
Category
1950s American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Freddy Wittop “Bajour” Dress Illustration / Drawing
By Freddy Wittop
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Freddy Wittop (1911-2001)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s)
Country of origin; materials: Dutch/American; mixed media on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 18.5"h, 14.5"w; 24.5"h, 20"w frame
Additional Information: Freddy Wittop's drawing depicts one of the costumes he designed for "Bajour." Provenance: Freddy Wittop Estate / Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida, by descent.
Freddy Wittop was a Dutch-American costume designer best known for his award-winning work on Broadway...
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1960s Feminist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
By Isaac Lichtenstein 1
Located in Surfside, FL
Extremely rare work of art from the early Bezalel School of Boris Schatz in Ottoman Palestine. it depicts an Orientalist Arab Sheik in traditional Headwear.
YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN ...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
XIV From The Red Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interfe...
Category
2010s Feminist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
XVII From The Red Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interfe...
Category
2010s Feminist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
XVI From The Red Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interfe...
Category
2010s Feminist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
“The Pink Parasol”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed oil pastel on archival paper done in the style of the French Impressionists. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Illegible signed lower left. Possibly the arti...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
WW1 1925 Original Artwork
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare example of WW1 art signed and dated 1925. Image shows either a French or American soldier after having shot a German soldier.Signature is illegible.. Piec...
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1920s Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie & Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Emilio Cruz (1938-2004)
Bonnie and Clyde
Pastel on paper
Hand signed lower right
Dimensions Framed H 15-7/8" W 18-1/2", Sight H 13-1/2" W 16-1/8"
Emilio Antonio Cruz (1938 – 2004) was a Cuban American artist who lived most of his life in New York City. His work is held in several major museums in the United States.
Emilio Antonio Cruz was an American Artist of Cuban descent. He was born in the Bronx on March 15, 1938. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, George Grosz and Frank J. Reilly and at The New School in New York City, and finally at the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. As a young artist in the 1960s, Cruz was connected with other artists who were applying abstract expressionism concepts to figurative art such as Lester Johnson, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson and Jan Muller. He combined human and animal figures with imagery from archaeology and natural history to create disturbing, dreamlike paintings. Cruz received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the late 1968, Emilio and wife Patricia Cruz moved to St. Louis to work with Julius Hemphill and the Black Artists Group. He served as director for the visual arts program, which also included painters Oliver Jackson and Manuel Hughes. In addition to artistic contributions, the couple participated in city-wide civil rights protests and rent strikes.
Cruz moved to Chicago and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1970s, where he exhibited widely and was represented by the Walter Kelly Gallery. He wrote two plays, Homeostasis: Once More the Scorpion and The Absence Held Fast to Its Presence. These were first performed at the Open Eye Theater in New York in 1981, and later were included in the World Theater Festival in Nancy and Paris, France, and in Italy. In 1982 he returned to New York where he began to exhibit again. In the late 1980s he resumed teaching at the Pratt Institute and at New York University.
Harry Rand, Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, described Emilio Cruz as one of the important pioneers of American Modernism of the 1960s for his fusion of Abstract Expressionist art with figuration. Geno Rodriguez, Curator and Executive Director of The Alternative Museum, wrote in 1985, "Emilio Cruz, is a brilliant and impassioned artist whose current paintings are monumental, imbued with intelligence, fury and an apt sense of irony. They reflect the turbulent world within which we live."
Geoffrey Jacques wrote in 1990, "Emilio Cruz paints humanity’s essence. Mythology and archeology are the foremost concerns of the painter Emilio Cruz. Dinosaurs, skeletal humans and fossil-like images are used in his work as metaphoric signposts in a consideration of the basic questions of existence." Art historian and curator Paul Staiti wrote in 1997, "Emilio Cruz's Homo sapiens series is a strange and haunting genealogy of the modern soul... What is at stake here more than biopolitical culture, is the remystification of the body and mapping of consciousness ... For all the trauma, explicit and implicit, Cruz's style is masterful, classical, even beautiful."
Exhibitions
Cruz held his first solo exhibition at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York in 1963. Afterwards his work was included in many group and solo exhibitions, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in 1986 and 1991, museum exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1987, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1997. In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador. Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Framed to 15 X ...
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1980s Folk Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Sylvia Sneidman was originally a fashion illustrator, but assumed the helm of the famous jazz-age panel cartoon "Flapper Fanny Sa...
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1940s American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
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
6.5 X 18
Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be.
Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant...
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1950s American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Old Yishuv, Israel, Watercolor Gouache Painting Israeli Modernist Kibbutz Artist
By Aharon Giladi
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed in English and in Hebrew Abstract Expressionist bold, vibrant, colorful watercolor painting.
Aharon Giladi, Israeli painter, born in Russian Empire, 1907-1993
Aharon Golodetz...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
UNTITLED (ORIGINAL DRAWING)
By Roberto Matta
Located in Aventura, FL
Original color drawing on paper. Hand signed lower front by Roberto Matta. Image size 12 x 16 inches. Frame size approx 23.25 x 27.5 inches.
Artwork is in overall excellent co...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Afternoon Rest (Watercolor)
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front by Tarkay. Sheet size 12 x 9 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (Israeli, 1935–2012) was a painter known for his Post-Impressionist portraits done in watercolor and acrylic. Influenced by the work of both Henri Matisse and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Tarkay’s expressive, use of color lent a dream-like quality to his serigraphs, prints, and paintings. Born in 1935 in Subotica, Serbia, Tarkay and family settled in Israel after Allied forces freed them from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The artist went on to study at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and later the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. Later in life, Tarkay mentored younger Israeli artists, including Yaacov Agam and Yuval Wolfson...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Metro to Bleeker Street.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings base...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Painted faces, greenwich Village New york. Poetry, based on poem or song lyrics.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Large Photo Realist Pop Art Watercolor Painting Children's Toys Teddy Bear Block
By Michael Beck
Located in Surfside, FL
Michael Beck (American, b. 1943)
Watercolor painting on paper, 1986
"First Fruits",
Hand signed, dated and titled along lower margins
Gallery label verso,
Matted and framed under plexiglass,
Dimensions: 38"h x 58"w (sight), 48"h x 67"w (frame)
Provenance: Property from a Major Corporate Art Collection; Corporate Art Directions, NYC
Michael Beck (b. 1943) ( American Photo Realist artist) was born in San Diego California. In 1971, he attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and was awarded the James D. Phelan Award in the Visual Arts, juried by artists Wayne Thiebaud and June Livingston. In June of 2014, he was awarded a Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation award.
Michael Beck was part of the early Photo Realist Movement in California among other contemporaries like Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes and Audrey Flack. Choosing vintage childrens toys as his subject matter. Michael Beck’s artwork stands out for its distinct subjects of toys and objects from a previous era. These unique items include vintage rocking horses...
Category
1980s Photorealist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry piece. Based on poem or song. Washington Square New York
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Greenwich Village Bar. The Pickup
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
By Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
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20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry piece. Based on poem or song. Paris, France
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced water...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman Judaica Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Synagogue interior. reading the Torah. Jewish Prayer. Judaica piece.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Surrealist Latin American Mixed Media Watercolor & Ink - Woman Holding Purse
By Armando Villagran
Located in Surfside, FL
Armando Villagran lived from 1945 to 1995 in Mexico. He was a self-taught artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. He has been considered by Mexican ar...
Category
1970s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Times Square, New York. The Carpetbaggers
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
By Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Based on a poem or song. Poetry piece
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Bilbouquet sporting painting
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings based ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Donna Librea, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Drawing
By Alex Beard
Located in Surfside, FL
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gesturalpainting, which he has coined “Abstract Naturalism.”
Raised in a family that fostered philanthropy, creativity and exploration, Alex has traveled extensively around the world. The diverse cultures, colors, and climates of Africa, India, China, the Americas, and Australia have profoundly influenced both his professional and artistic practice.
While earning his BA from Tufts University, he studied painting and drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In his early twenties Alex moved to New Orleans to continue his formal training at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
Fueled by curiosity about the cultures and wildlife he had been exposed to in his early years, Alex has spent much of his life traveling to the some of the world’s most remote wildlife outposts - paintbrush in hand. His time in nature enables him to continually hone his style – creating complex compositions in which abstraction and figuration collide, while exploring themes of cultural and environmental interconnectivity.
Alex’s work figures prominently in several private and public collections and he has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and abroad in Hong Kong.
An impassioned conservationist and philanthropist, in 2012 Alex established The Watering Hole Foundation – a public charity engaged in saving endangered wildlife and preserving their environments. His documentary, Drawing the Line, fused his artistic talent with his dedication to preservation, chronicling the plight of the endangered Wild African Elephant, as seen through the eyes of a conservationist artist.
In addition to producing a series of short films, Alex has authored and illustrated a critically acclaimed trilogy of storybooks published by Abrams. The series, Tales from the Watering Hole, includes The Jungle Grapevine (2008), Monkey See Monkey Draw (2009), and Crocodile Tears (2010).
Along with other New Orleans artists Raine Bedsole, Dr. Bob, George Dunbar, Mitchell Gaudet, Alan Gerson, Thomas Mann, Steve Martin, James Michalopoulos...
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1990s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Israeli Surrealist Painting Female Circus Performer Acrobat with Cat
By Haya Graetz Ran
Located in Surfside, FL
Voluptuous, ala Fernando Botero, female circus performer with spectators and cat. Haya Ran was born in Holon, Israel in 1948 on the same date as the State of Israel was founded. From 1968 to 1973 Ran lived on Kibbutz Sasa. After her stay on the Kibbutz, she took courses on Graphics at The Technion 1975-1978. Tel Hai Institute
Ran paints with water colors, using a multilayer method, which creates an illusion of tempera. Ran came up with this technique herself, influenced medieval painters. Ran says that the reds, browns, and golds in most of her feminist works are inspired by the performing arts: the circus, clowns, acrobats, dancers, and the fantastic. Haya Ran doesn’t identify today with any particular artistic school. Her works are born out of personal experiences and feelings. They come from the remembrances of her past, of her life and her experiences as a child, and from the fantasies she entertains about them. Her subjects emanate from her private, inner world. Haya Ran focuses on the world of the female. Her women are a peculiar lot. Their dimensions are offer wide, distorted, and grotesque, yet their poses and settings are as enticing and charming as they are sexually arousing. Others of Haya Ran’s women remain attached to elements of a lost childish innocence; dolls, wooden horses, masks, and wooden birds. Her works are executed with watercolors on paper. Her technique resembles that of Renaissance tempera. She superimposes strata and blends them together to create the impression of a past era. She creates not by putting down on paper her sudden impulses, but by devoting painstaking attention to the smallest details over countless hours.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“Izraeliyot” / Dwek Gallery, Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim,
“Plowing” / Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Ora Krauss.
“Suricattas” / Seemann Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Hagai Segev.
“Encrypting” / The Israeli Artists Gallery, Kabri. Curated by Drora Dekel.
Tokyo, Japan Museum of Art “O”
“Calligraphy” / HaGalleria, Moshav Shoevah. Curated by Tirtzah Yallon Kolton.
ESPACE RACHI, Paris, France. Curated by Hana Landau.
Brucke Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany
Gallery Vandorn, Paris, France
Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Grafica 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Select Group Exhibitions:
Group Exhibitions
The Second Biennale for Israeli Ceramics Eretz Israel Museum, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv
Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists:Reuven Rubin, Chaya Graetz Ran, Dorit Feldman, Anna Ticho, Abraham Hadad.
Israeli Portrait Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
Artists: Shoshana Heimann,Genia Berger, Avraham Ofek, Jean David, Jakob Steinhardt, David Sharir, Ruth Schloss Ruth Zarfati Rudi Lehmann and others
With this Ring - Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Art Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv
Artists: Nelly Agassi, Lital Dotan, Shai Azoulay,
Avraham Baron Gallery, Beer Sheva
Artists: Miki Kratsman, Adi Nes...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Provocative watercolor, gouache on paper Balinese tribal artwork. Not signed. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. No issues. Finely painted and meticulously detailed artwork of a ta...
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1950s Tribal Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a feast style celebration scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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1960s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
By Moses Bagel Bahelfer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Modernist Watercolor Painting, Portrait of a Man, Judaica Rabbi
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style.
Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia to Jewish parents. He emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. Walkowitz and his contemporaries later gravitated around photographer Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery, originally titled the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. During the 291 years, Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin (often referred to as "The Stieglitz Quartet").
Early Career and Training
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz - 1907 - Max Weber - Brooklyn Museum
Walkowitz was drawn to art from childhood. In a 1958 oral interview with Abram Lerner...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Tsingtao, China 1912”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on paper of a Tsingtao, China street scene in 1912 executed by the American illustrator, William Henry Drake. Copyrighted and signed and dated 1912 lower left. Condition is good. Recently professionally matted. Unframed. Overall mat size is 16 by 12 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.
William Henry Drake
Born: 1856 New York
Died: 1926 Los Angeles
Nationality: American
Education: Académie Julian, Art Students League of New York
Known for: Painting, illustration
Awards: National Academy
Biography:
Drake studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Henri Lucien Doucet.
Back from Europe, he studied at the Cincinnati School of Design, and would often go to the zoo, where he could draw the animal...
Category
1910s Academic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist
By Ben Zion Magal
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999)
Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait of a Rabbi
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris deutsch was born in krasnagorka lithuania june 4 1892 died in los angeles 1978.Entered the polytechnic school in riga 1905.School of applied arts berlin 1912. Settled in l.A. 1...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor
Israeli Judaica Original Painting "The Lovers" in Garden Polish Artist Arie Dubi
Located in Surfside, FL
Dubi Arie (born Poland, 1939)
"The Lovers"
Image: 11 3/4" x 10"
Original mixed media on paper painting,
Hand signed and dated lower right and signed and titled on reverse. depictin...
Category
20th Century Post-Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Man and Dionysus Heimrad Prem German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Art Brut
By Heimrad Prem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: Austria
Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 26 3/4" Heimrad Prem (1934 – 1978) was a German painter born in Roding, Oberpfalz. From 1949–1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf and then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich until 1956. While studying painting with Ernst Emil Schumacher at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, he formed Gruppe SPUR with Lothar Fischer, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer. After meeting Asger Jorn, SPUR joined the Situationist International. He was influenced by the Cobra artists Karel Appel and Otmar Alt.
In 1960 he won a scholarship of the Kulturpreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Cologne. From 1960–1962 he co-edited the magazine SPUR. In 1961 he visited Oerkelljunga, Sweden with Sturm, Zimmer and Dieter Kunzelmann staying with Jørgen Nash...
Category
1970s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left"
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
“Portrait of a Head”
Located in Southampton, NY
Late 18th century mixed media portrait of the head of an old man, perhaps the biblical figure Moses. Italian school . Composed of graphite, colored chalk, watercolor and gouache on ...
Category
1780s Academic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "The Dressers"
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May...
Category
1980s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise (original gouache on paper)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 15 x 10.5 inch...
Category
1950s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
RARE WPA ARTIST ISAAC FRIEDLANDER Judaica Drawing 1946
By Isaac Friedlander
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Friedlander, Isaac American (1890-1968)
Isac Friedlander Latvian-born American Printmaker, 1890-1968
was born in Mitau, Latvia. He studie...
Category
20th Century American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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 Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Charcoal, Pencil
Untitled, Lonely Abstract Landscape Italian Expressionist Oil Painting
By Ivan Kurach
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: oil
Surface: board
Country: Italy
unsigned
Ivan Kurach (1909 – 1968) Ukranian-Italian lived and studied in Italy. Born in the Ukraine...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Pastel, Ink Drawing Rocks And Cloud Landscape Jewish American Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Landscape
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol)
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Ana Adelaida. Figurative Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ana Adelaida, 2013 by Celso Castro
Crayon, watercolor on paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
____________
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the pres...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Erte (Roman de Tirtoff) Original Set Design for the Opera Dreams of Vienna
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Erte Roman de Tirtoff:1892-1990. Well listed and very important Russian artist. Most famous for his set decorations and art deco design. He has an auc...
Category
1940s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Modernist Watercolor Painting, Portrait of a Man, the Rabbi
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style.
Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia to Jewish parents. He emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. Walkowitz and his contemporaries later gravitated around photographer Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery, originally titled the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. During the 291 years, Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin (often referred to as "The Stieglitz Quartet").
Early Career and Training
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz - 1907 - Max Weber - Brooklyn Museum
Walkowitz was drawn to art from childhood. In a 1958 oral interview with Abram Lerner...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
Category
1940s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
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
5.75 X 19.75
Dated August 3, 1954 in top right corner.
Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be.
Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant...
Category
1950s American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
By Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Abstract Drawing Watercolor Painting Totem Column Jewish American Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Abstract Totem. Signed with initials.
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Wine & Cigarettes Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Reclining Woman Wine and Cigarettes
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Matted to 13 X 1...
Category
1980s Folk Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
