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Item Ships From: Florida
Four Chairs at Poolside
By Debbie Carfagno
Located in Miami, FL
This work is the study for Pool Chairs. It is different chairs and also brightly colored but painted on board and framed. This work is an indoor work only and is beautifully framed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in original frame measuring 2...
Category
1980s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
“Geraniums”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well painted original watercolor on archival paper of potted geraniums with metal watering can and garden gloves. Signed in pencil by the artist Peggy Dressel lower right. The S...
Category
1980s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Doble Standard 17 and 14 Diptych. From The Doble Standard Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Doble Standard 17 and 14 Diptych, 2023 by James Bonachea
From The Series Doble Standard
Watercolor on cardboard
Overall size: 58 cm H x 80 cm W
Individual size: 58 cm H x 40 cm W
U...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
“Still Life with White Roses”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor by Jessie Harris Bone Charman. Signed lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Under glass. Beautifully matted and framed. Overall framed mea...
Category
1940s Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Dancing Animal Critters on a Top Hat, Bear, Frog, Owl, Crane Bird, Bee, Snail
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...
Category
1980s American Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Pensando en ti, Marzo 13, Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pensando en ti, Marzo 13, 2014 by Celso Castro
Watercolor on archival paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each ca...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Recordando el gran artista Alberto Riano "Mangos" Marzo, Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Recordando el gran artista Alberto Riano Mangos Marzo, 2014 by Celso Castro
Black paint, and pastel on archival paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
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Undefin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Acrylic
Barca de Refugiados, Figurative Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Barca de Refugiados, 1999 by Celso Castro
Crayon and pastel on archival paper
Image size: 45 H in. x 59 in. W
On the back of the painting:
Maranones "Lunes 23 de mayo 2016"
Pencil...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Crayon, Archival Paper
Marañones Lunes 23 de mayo, Still-life Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Maranones "Lunes 23 de mayo 2016" by Celso Castro
Pencil, crayon, and pastel on archival paper
Image size: 59 H in. x 45 in. W
On the back of the painting:
Barca de Refugiados, 199...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil
Modern Polish Jewish Pencil Drawing Modernist Landscape
By Jehudith Sobel
Located in Surfside, FL
Jehudith Sobel (1924-2012 ) Polish/Jewish artist (also known as Judyta Sobel)
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow, Poland in 1924. After Word War II she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland from 1947-1950, where she studied with the famous Abstract Constructivist, Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Stefan Wegner from whom she learned the principles of Modern Art as per the European Cubists. She was also part of the First Exhibit of Modern Art in Krakow in 1948/1949. From Poland she emigrated to Israel, where she exhibited and was collected by the major art museums of Israel including the Museum of Modern Art at Haifa.
In 1956, Sobel came to New York on a scholarship and before that she lived in France for two years. Same year she received the First Prize at the Exhibition in the Saks Gallery...
Category
1960s Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
PELICANS
By W Stanley Proctor
Located in Tallahassee, FL
Original. Part of Artist's Personal Collection.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Modernist Vibrant Watercolor Painting of Flowers
By Sir Jacob Epstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees, living on New York's Lower East Side. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's 1902 book Spirit of the Ghetto. Epstein used the money from the commission to move to Paris.
Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England.
In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures The Rock Drill.
Between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, numerous works by Epstein were exhibited in Blackpool. Adam, Consummatum Est, Jacob and the Angel and Genesis, and other works, were initially displayed in an old drapery shop surrounded by red velvet curtains. The crowds were ushered in at the cost of a shilling by a barker on the street. After a small tour of American fun fairs, the works were returned to Blackpool and were exhibited in the anatomical curiosities section of Louis Tussaud's waxworks.
Bronze portrait sculpture formed one of Epstein's staple products, and perhaps the best known. These sculptures were often executed with roughly textured surfaces, expressively manipulating small surface planes and facial details. Some fine examples are in the National Portrait Gallery. He completed a bust of Winston Churchill...
Category
1930s Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Algodón de Seda. FIne art drawing Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Algodón de Seda, 1978 by Amelia Cajigas
Image size: 3 H x 2.75 W inches.
Frame size: 12 Hx 11.5 W x 1 D inches.
White Frame
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Amelia Cajigas. Artist. He was born in 1932 in Paz de...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Small, Charming, Fauvist Painting Michel Henry French Modernist School of Paris
By Michel Henry
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel-Henry was born in Langres in 1928 and has shown strong passion for drawing since his childhood. Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in French contemporary art. From 1952 his work has periodically been singled out for France's highest prizes and awards. The French Government, the City of Paris , the Museum of Valence , Bogota and the Museum of Alencon are among the distinguished institutions who have acquired his work for their permanent collections.
Born in Langres in 1928 the aspiring artist attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later studied with Narbonne , Georg, Chapelain-Midy and Legueult. In 1957 he became a member of the House of Descartes in Amsterdam and the following year was named member of the Casa Velazquez in Madrid , honors which are exceptional for a young painter.
He is a member of the Salon d'Automne as well as a member of its jury, he also exhibits in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon Comparisons, and the Salon Terres Latines. In 1976 he shared in the honor of presenting the Salon d'Automne exhibition in Japan .
Michel-Henry blends delicate tones and strong and fascinating accents into his compositions of flower still life, landscapes and marines. An avid interest in nature is the predominant quality of his luminous works.
As a French artist whose works are known internationally, Michel-Henry over a period of twenty eight years has earned the status of a goodwill ambassador in a universal world of cultural exchanges. For his dedication and unselfish contributions to art and artists from all lands he was honored by his country by being awarded the prestigious - la Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur - on January 1, 1981 by the French Minister of Culture Mr. Jean Philippe Lecat. Michel Henry exhibited at prestigious galleries in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) alongside such artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard. He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Leni-Dael, Raoul Dufy, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche...
Category
1960s Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Alexander Pernot Couard Tropical Still Life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alexander Pernot Couard: 1891-1960. He was an American painter, printmaker and book illustrator. he studied at the Art students League in NYC. He often visited Florida after the 1940s where he most likely painted this fabulous colorful tropical still life...
Category
Mid-20th Century Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Roses in a Porcelain Vase”
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very well executed oil pastel on archival paper by the well known French artist, Marcel Vertes. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1930. The artwork was done early in the artist’s career; most likely in Paris during his time studying at the Academie Julian. The artwork is housed in its original frame under glass. The ornate gold frame has been recently restored and is in good condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 26.5 inches. Provenance: A Pennsylvania estate.
Marcel Vertès (born Marcell Vértes), was born on August 10, 1895 in Budapest, Hungary. His first commercially successful works of art were sketches of corpses, criminals and prostitutes he did for a sensationalist magazine in Budapest. He then did illustrations for many of the clandestinely printed publications opposing the Hapsburg monarchy at the end of WWI.
After the war he moved from his native Hungary to Vienna, Austria and then to Paris, where he was a student at the Academy Julian, living and working in the famous Latin Quarter. Vertes quickly established himself as a regular in the Paris art scene and his work became lighter and more lyrical. In Paris he concentrated on illustration, painting and printmaking, especially lithography. In 1935 he made his first trip to New York to make contacts. Two years later he had his first one-man show in New York.
At the end of WWII he returned to New York with his wife, escaping the Nazi invasion of Paris by two days. He then began to divide his time between New York and Paris. Ten years later, he returned to his beloved Paris and spent the remaining years of his life there.
While in the United States he became a consultant to the Producers and Set Designers of the 1952 Award Winning film Moulin Rouge, about the life and times of artist Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). He won two Academy Awards for ‘Best Art Direction’ and ‘Best Costume Design’. Interestingly, Marcel Vertès originally earned his tuition money for his European education by making forgeries of Lautrec's works. As such, his expertise was exhibited in the film when his hand is used as the hand of Toulouse Lautrec as he drew, and his images were accordingly used in the film and given appropriate credit in the trailer to the film. Vertes also appeared in the British production credits as Color Production Designer, and Costume Designer for the film, with Schiaparalli (the same of Paris, and Italy). They both jointly won the British Academy Film award in 1952 for Best Costume Design for Moulin Rouge.
Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City and for those in the Peacock Alley...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Doble Standard 17. From The Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Doble Standard 17, 2023 by James Bonachea
From The Series Doble Standard Series
Watercolor on cardboard
Image size: 58 cm H x 40 cm W
Unframed
The more...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Doble Standard 14. From The Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Doble Standard 14, 2023 by James Bonachea
From The Series Doble Standard Series
Watercolor on cardboard
Image size: 58 cm H x 40 cm W
Unframed
The mor...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
“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 Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Hummingbird IX
By Keith Carrington
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Hummingbird IX 40x26 unframed
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has honed his skills, clarified his vision, experimented, explored and expanded his expression steadily over the years, the results of which thus far culminate here. Clearly, Keith’s extensive travels have roots in the luminous quality of his work, eminently holding the utmost possibilities of beauty and significance.
Keith’s most recent paintings explore a spiritual path, he integrates them with transformative healing energies and infuses his enthusiasm into these dynamic pieces that you see here today.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Renata Fine Arts, Hudson, New York
2013 @60″ New York, NY
2012 @60″ New York, NY curated sale with Harry Heisman
2011 KL/Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida & Beverly Hills, California
2003 Dupont Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
1994 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Ambassador Galleries, New York, NY
1992 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1983 Manor House Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 & 2015, 2010: C. Bell, Palm Beach, Florida
1995: Luxe Energy Aesthetics, West Palm Beach, Florida
1991: Time Warner Publishing, New York, NY
1990: Imperial Hotel Gallery, Chestertown, Maryland
1988 & 1987: National Symphony Show House, Washington, DC
1986: International Jumping Derby, Jockey Club, Newport, Rhode Island Elijah Locke House, Rye Beach, New Hampshire
1984: Washington Design Center, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bovis Inc., New York, NY
The Kiplinger Collection, Washington, D.C.
The International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. Hopkins & Sutter, Washington, D.C.
McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo, Washington, D.C. Oliver T. Carr Company, Alexandria, Virginia
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
RuPaul, Beverly Hills, California
Kelly Klein, New York, NY
Governor & Mrs. Bruce Sundlun, Providence, Rhode Island Mr. & Mrs. William Aylward...
Category
2010s Minimalist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Springtime Floral Bouquet
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel, circa 20th century
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Watercolor Still life Painting Vegetables Claus Hoien Greengrocer Kitchen Series
Located in Surfside, FL
Delicate watercolor of vegetables. Japanese eggplant and radishes and a squash gourd.
Framed 18 X 20 image is 11 X 13.5
Claus Hoie was a Norwegian-American...
Category
20th Century American Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Maple Leaves Watercolor Painting 19th C. American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper of maple leaves against the sky,
Hand dated and inscribed "Papaw - E.H....
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pumpkin Vine Watercolor Painting 19th C. American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting a pumpkin on a flowering vine
Hand dated and inscribed "Lyme ...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual paper is 7.5 X 5.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
1950s Expressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Still Life (New Hope Mid-century Modernist drawing)
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful still life drawing by American artist, Lloyd Raymond Ney (1893-1964). Ink on paper, 14.5 x 21 inches; 25.5 x 31.5 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Signed lower right.
Birth place: Friedenburg, PA.
Addresses: New Hope, PA, 1925-64
Profession: Painter, lecturer, teacher
Studied: PAFA with H. McCarter, 1914 -18 (Cresson Scholarship; traveled in Europe 1918-21; Paris in 1924)
Exhibited: AIC, 1937; Guggenheim Museum, 1941-56; PAFA Ann., 1941, 1951; numerous group shows in Europe.
Work: Guggenheim Museum, NYC. WPA commission, 1941, mural for New London, Ohio Post Office (Citizens of New London petitioned WPA administrator Edward Bruce to allow Ney to paint the mural)
Comments: Abstract painter. He spent many years in Paris, where he was friendly with Pascin, Foujita, Frieske, H.O. Tanner, W. Pach and Roger Fry...
Category
1950s Abstract Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Plants, Bristol 1863 Watercolor Painting American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper depicting several plants in close proximity
Hand dated and inscribed "Br...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Summer Bouquet Watercolor on Paper
By Joan Brady
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Summer Bouquet,
watercolor on paper size 24x30 framed 32x38
Joan Brady 20th Century American artist is known for her watercolors.
Exhibition :
Custom House Museum
Key West Art...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
“Spring Bouquet 2”
By Rosalind Oesterle
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by Rosalind Oesterle. Circa 1970. Signed lower left by the artist. Oval format. Condition is excellent. Profe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
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1950s Expressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
“Spring Bouquet”
By Rosalind Oesterle
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by Rosalind Oesterle. Circa 1970. Signed lower left by the artist. Oval format. Condition is excellent. Profe...
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1970s Contemporary Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Watercolor Painting Drawing Pots, Pans
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Composition, Kitchen Utensils.
Ink and watercolor of kitchen implements. Hand signed in Hebrew upper left. Dimensions: (Frame) H 25" x 18" (Sight) H 18.5" x W 11.75"
Bergner, Yosl (Vladimir Jossif) (b Vienna, 13 Oct 1920). surrealist, surrealism. belongs to the generation of people uprooted from childhood landscapes and forced by circumstance to build a life elsewhere. Uniquely, he became an Israeli without shedding his Jewish cosmopolitan-refugee identity, an identity he zealously guarded in the melting pot of Israel of the "fifties" and "sixties". In the years that have passed since he acquired his art education at the Melbourne National Gallery Art School in Australia, concepts in the art world have changed many times over. from the Jewish paintings and the depictions of Australian Aborigines through the children of safed, the wall paintings, the masks, the angels and kings, the still lifes, the "Surrealistic" paintings, the toys and flowers, the paintings inspired by the Bird-head Haggadah, the Kafka paintings, the Pioneers, the Kimberley fantasy (about his father's excursion in 1933 to northern Australia, in search of a "territory for the Jews"), Brighton Beach and the seascapes inspired by Eugene Boudin, through the chairs in the "Kings of Nissim Aloni" episode to the "Zionists" and the recent "Tahies". "During the six years that Bergner has lived in Israel," wrote Eugene KoIb, Direct. or of the Tel Aviv Museum, in the catalog of the Bergner exhibit in 1957, "he has established himself among Israeli artists." Bergner was indeed one of the artists who represented Israel in the Venice Biennial (1956; 1958) and in the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1957; this, in spite of the fact that Yosl Bergner did not harness his art to serve the Zionist ethos, that being, at the time, the order of the day (his paintings were in fact rejected at first as being those of a "Diaspora Jew"); he didn't "naturalize" himself by alliance to the country's landscape or its special light, nor did he turn to abstract painting. Painter of "the Jewish condition". the painter involved in Nissim Aloni's theater and the popular illustrator of poetry books and literary texts, he stuck to the narrative which drew its images from his childhood world, from Yiddish and from the Jewish culture of Poland in whose bosom he grew, with its literature, theater and fantasy. From this point of view his position as an "outsider", first in Australia and later in Israel, like that of the European Jew on the periphery of the dominant culture, afforded him a special dialectic vantage point from which to view his human and cultural surroundings. He was and remains a figurative painter even when he verges on the abstract. Israeli painter of Austrian birth, active in Australia. He grew up in Warsaw. His father, the pseudonymous Jewish writer Melech Ravitch, owned books on German Expressionism, which were an early influence. Conscious of rising anti-Semitism in Poland, Ravitch visited Australia in 1934 and later arranged for his family to settle there. Bergner arrived in Melbourne in 1937. Poor, and with little English, his struggle to paint went hand-in-hand with a struggle to survive. In 1939 he attended the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school and came into contact with a group of young artists including Victor O’Connor (b 1918) and Noel Counihan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Watercolor
19th Century Italian Floral Wallpaper Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Architectural Floral Wallpaper Fragment
19th Century Italian hand painted floral designd wallpaper lined with linen, in beautiful gold leaf framed.
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19th Century Italian School Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Linen
Bird Bath
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is a humorous original still life watercolor painted in the realist tradition. The rubber duck was a gift from my wife and the porcelain bowl was my mom's that she used many years ago to give me and my brother baths. The pedestal is yard furniture. I enjoy making people smile with my art.
About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.
Bird Bath...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Improversation #3
By John Sennhauser
Located in Miami, FL
Gallery tags on verso. Work is frame an in very good condition.
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Copenhagen Nest
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is an original watercolor painted in the realist tradition. It depicts a Copenhagen chair with a nest in the seat. I use a nest with a single egg in ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alpine Meadow
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Alpine Meadow is an original watercolor still life painted in the realist tradition. It is composed of found objects from aroun...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Italian Wall Paper Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Wonderful Italian Floral Wallpaper Fragment
19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in beautiful gold leaf fra...
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19th Century Italian School Florida - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Handmade Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
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