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Item Ships From: Louisiana
Ella
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Bebe
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Foam Board, Vellum
Celby, Raven & Rebecca
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Roxanne
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Vellum, Foam Board
Master Plan Study, Monroe
By Grover Mouton
Located in New Orleans, LA
Architect and artist Grover Mouton brings utilizes hand drawings to illustrate urban design proposals. Acting as a catalyst to explore design concepts, Mouton's works on paper demons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Land Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Color Pencil, Mixed Media
French Quarter Scene (Behind St. Louis Cathedral - New Orleans Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Nestor Fruge watercolor of a French Quarter scene. Born in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana in 1916, Nestor Hippoyle Fruge spent parts of his painting career ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude woman lying
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil drawing with ink wash
Tom Leveritt (1976) was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, got a first at Cambridge, an Army Scholarship i...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink
The Buttonhole By Charles Spencelayh
By Charles Spencelayh
Located in New Orleans, LA
Charles Spencelayh
1865-1958 British
The Buttonhole
Signed “C.SPENCELAYH” (lower left) and inscribed “This Drawing was accepted into the Royal Academy but crowded out for want of ...
Category
20th Century Academic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Piccadilly Circus by Fortunino Matania
By Fortunino Matania
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fortunino Matania
1881-1963 Italian
Piccadilly Circus
Signed “Matania” (center, on bus)
Watercolor and gouache on paper
This exceptional watercolor and gouache composition by fam...
Category
Early 20th Century Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Sunlit Woods
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Clay, Board
This Might Do
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Clay, Board
From the Beginning
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Clay, Board
March Wind
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Clay, Board, India Ink
Long Nights
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Clay, Board
Scavenging Together
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kate Samworth is a Maryland-based artist who works with scratchboard, an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for engraving into a thin layer of white China clay that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Clay, Board
Le Fondeur De Bronze By Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
1865-1953 French
Le fondeur de bronze
Signed "Levy Dhurmer" (lower right)
Pastel on paper
French painter Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer was one of the leading artists of...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Caricatures Of Queen Victoria And Edward VII By Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (Spy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (aka Spy)
1851-1922 British
Caricatures of Queen Victoria and Edward VII
Charcoal on paper
These satirical caricatures of Queen Victoria and Edward VII of...
Category
Early 20th Century Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Lola I
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
La Place de la Concorde, Paris by H. Claude Pissarro
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hugues Claude Pissarro
b.1935 French
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower right)Pastel on card
The architectural beauty of La Place de la Concorde is captured in all of its glory in this resplendent Parisian cityscape by Hugues Claude Pissarro. The celebrated artist renders the site's notable landmarks in detail along with pedestrians in brightly-hued attire, showcasing his deft skill and signature vibrance in the pastel medium. Pissarro captures the detailed edifices in the distance and the sculptural beauty of the square's fountain, using speckled swathes of lavender and orange to render the light of the afternoon sun reflecting from the cobblestone streets.
Hailing from a long lineage of artists, including Impressionist Camille Pissarro, Pissarro's artistic talents were cultivated at an early age. He exhibited his first works at the young age of 14 and later studied in Paris at the École du Louvre and École Normale Supérieure. A 1959 White House commission to paint the portrait of President...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Dish
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Roman Facade, Italy (Exquisite 19th-c. Original Watercolor, Signed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sorry for the reflections on the glass, but I didn't want to take this lovely frame apart. The close-ups are much better. This is a highly accomplished, superbly detailed watercolor of a the facade of a building in Rome, depicting Corinthian columns, a frieze and a free-standing tributary sculpture above. Image area itself is 10.5" x 6.25", framed size is 19.5" x 14". Matted and presented in a pretty antique wood frame that has some flaws from an apparently long history but is perfectly serviceable, as you can see. Exquisite detail, so hard to accomplish with watercolor. Came from august Houston...
Category
19th Century Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Concours de Chiens au Promenade by Otto Eerelman
By Otto Eerelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Eerelman
1839-1926 Dutch
Concours de Chiens au Promenade
Watercolor on paper
Signed “O. Eerelman 1904” (lower left)
A tour de force watercolor by celebrated Dutch artist Otto Eerelman, one of 19th-century Europe's most popular and important animal portraitists, this charming composition captures a bustling cross-section of fashionable elites walking their equally fashionable canine companions. Eerleman takes care to render the detailed attire of his subjects, complete with plumed hats and layers of lace trim. The artist paints the plethora of pets in equally painstaking detail, capturing the nuances of each different breed represented.
Eerelman mastered the art of depicting not only the dogs’ physical characteristics but also their unique expressions and personalities. His wealthy clientele would bring their pets to his home in The Hague where they would live for a period of time while having their portraits done, allowing for a remarkably true-to-life portrayal. This energetic watercolor, with its profusion of color and texture, harnesses the affluence of its subjects and the leisurely whimsy of their luxurious lives.
Hailing from Groningen, Netherlands, Eerelman was dubbed the “Northern Rembrandt” during his lifetime. He received his artistic training at the Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and then private lessons in the studio of the great Lawrence Alma Tadema. He successfully captured the attention of the Dutch court, particularly Princess Wilhelmina...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sweet Tea
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Three Tier
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Two Women (Contemporary Female Figurative Nude Drawing))
Located in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans/Washington State artist Lue Isaac shows off her remarkable draftsmanship with this classical nude figure drawing. Note that this is from her ske...
Category
2010s Academic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Aggregate #23 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, House Paint, Charcoal, Pastel
Beauregard House, New Orleans
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Oscar Griffith (1875-1956) was an American painter known for his etchings, paintings, and aquatints of landscapes, especially scenes of Brown County, Indiana, New Orleans, LA and Texas. Griffith was born in Indiana in 1875 but later moved to Dallas, TX with his family. As a teen, he took art lessons with acclaimed landscape artist, Frank Reaugh...
Category
1910s Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Let Peace Begin with Me
Located in New Orleans, LA
For thousands of years, in many different cultures, white doves have been a symbol of peace. The peace lily acquired its name because of its resemblance to ...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Portrait d'homme à lunettes by Tamara De Lempicka
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tamara De Lempicka
1898-1980 Polish
Portrait d'homme à lunettes
(Portrait of a Man Wearing Glasses)
Signed “Lempicka” (bottom right)
Pencil on paper
Th...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Cobb's Creek (Large Signed Original Watercolor, c. 1905, Penns. Academy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sorry for the reflections on the glass - I did not want to disassemble the ornate antique gold frame in order to photograph the art. At any rate - this is a beautifully accomplished turn-of-the-century watercolor by the American painter Frank English...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Work for Justice
Located in New Orleans, LA
The persistent woodpeckers illustrate the diligence and energy necessary to achieve justice for the oppressed. Their hammering motion represents the relentless message of justice. The lotus flower is symbolic of perseverance. A medieval king once affixed yellow Scotch flowers to his helmet to aid his troops in following him into battle. Thereafter, the flower served as a call to action.
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Aggregate #24 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic
Winter Shadows, New York by Stefan Bleekrode
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stefan Bleekrode
b.1986 Dutch
Winter Shadows, New York
Black ink and watercolor on paper
Signed and dated "S. Bleekrode '18-'20" (upper right)
Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Click
Located in New Orleans, LA
JOHN ISIAH WALTON was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works as a fine artist. He attended St. Augustine H.S. (1999-2002) and graduated from Sarah T. Reed H....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Untitled #27-1997-22
By Ardeshir MOHASSES
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Anxiety Bank and Trust
Located in New Orleans, LA
JOHN ISIAH WALTON was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works as a fine artist. He attended St. Augustine H.S. (1999-2002) and graduated from Sarah T. Reed H....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Young Lady With Coiffure - Ellsworth Woodward Antique Graphite Drawing
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
A Study of Two Models by Sir William Russell Flint
By William Russell Flint
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S.1880-1969 Scottish
A Study of Two Models
Signed "WRussell Flint" (bottom right)
Ethereal and sen...
Category
20th Century Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Aggregate #22 (Large Abstract Contemporary Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic
Study for a Seated Woman (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this wonderful pen-and-ink are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
She Ain't Heavy - She's My Lover (Contemporary Figurative Nude Drawing))
Located in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans/Washington State artist Lue Isaac shows off her remarkable draftsmanship with this classical nude figure drawing. Note that this is from her ske...
Category
2010s Academic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
From a Flying Fortress over England by Peter Hurd
By Peter Hurd
Located in New Orleans, LA
Peter Hurd
1904 - 1984 American
From a Flying Fortress over England
Signed, inscribed and dated: "Peter Hurd England 1942" (bottom left)
Watercolor on paper
Acclaimed American painter Peter Hurd demonstrates his mastery of capturing a specificity of place in his watercolor painting From a Flying Fortress over England. Hailing from his acclaimed “War Sketches,” Hurd’s trademark expressive brushwork and soft palette create an immersive, evocative scene.
The acclaimed “War Sketches” series began in 1942, when Hurd was invited by Life magazine to travel with the US Air Force as a War Correspondent. This assignment represented a convergence in Hurd’s interests, as the artist had graduated from the New Mexico...
Category
20th Century Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Marschlandschaft (mit drei Hausern) by Emil Nolde
By Emil Nolde
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emil Nolde
1867-1956 German
Marschlandschaft (mit drei Häusern)
Marshland (With Three Houses)
Signed “Nolde” (lower right)
Watercolor on Japan paper
A work of engaging richness a...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vision of Fission study #2
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
a small 8.5"x 11" pencil drawing entitled "vision of fission". This image came to me after
I read an article about the future of Fission as an energy source. This drawing has a litt...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Charles Richards (New Orleans) "Crouching Woman"
By Charles Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
A truly lovely nude by noted 20th-century New Orleans artist and extraordinary draftsman Charles Richards, whose work does not come up for sale often enough here in New Orleans. Sorr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Graphite
Big Moss 3 color Blue Black Orange
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This multicolor ink study is made with archival ink on bristol board. On the reverse it reads: #1012022 ( artist stock number) Big Moss Blue Black Orange ...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Nude Man and Woman (Desire and sexual tension)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Is it lust? Is it love? A pencil drawing shows a nude man and a nude woman on the same page. Sexual tension and desire are paramount in this composition.
Tom Leveritt...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Paying Attention
By Kathryn Keller
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Paying Attention" is a painting by Kathryn Keller. The painting is 20 inches high and 14 inches wide. It is not framed. "Paying Attention" is watercolor on paper and was completed i...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Bleakhouse 2-18-21
By Kathryn Keller
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Bleakhouse 2-18-21" is a painting by Kathryn Keller. The painting is 20 inches tall and 14 inches wide. It is not framed. "Bleakhouse 2-18-21" is watercolor on paper and was complet...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Bleakhouse 9-14-18
By Kathryn Keller
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Bleakhouse 9-14-18" is a painting by Kathryn Keller. The painting is 19 inches high and 13.5 inches wide. "Bleakhouse 9-14-18" is framed, the framed dimensions are 28 inches high, 2...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
La femme préhistorique (Prehistoric Woman)
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Tissot was among the most successful and critically acclaimed artists of the Victorian era. Although the artist is celebrated for his elegant scenes of fashionable life in Paris and London, this work is a fascinating rarity within his oeuvre. In this monumental pastel, Tissot depicts a prehistoric woman draped in a tiger skin, presented with a striking pose and heroic air. His delicate portraiture, combined with his fascination with conveying texture, demonstrates why he was one of the most revered artists of his generation, and La femme préhistorique illustrates the remarkable technique for which he was renowned.
This work was completed in preparation for a series of works exploring the Old Testament undertaken by Tissot from 1899-1902 that remained unfinished at the time of his death. A portion of this series focused on illustrations of Adam and Eve, and among these sketches were images of a nude Eve partially draped in animal furs. Towards the end of his life, following his conversion to Catholicism, biblical subjects became important to the artist. A few years before this work was completed, Tissot embarked upon a highly ambitious group of nearly 300 watercolors illustrating the New Testament, presenting the illustrated epic in its entirety at the Paris Salon of 1894. Both of these series were a critical artistic departure for the artist, stemming from a desire to create works separated from his typical images of modern society.
This pastel imagines Eve as the prototype of womanhood in the guise of a prehistoric woman. Tissot rarely painted the nude, and his skill as a draftsman highlights the figure's natural beauty, contrasting it with the stark landscape surrounding her. Although a study, this monumental work is incredibly well-finished and highly engaging, with the statuesque model commanding the majority of the canvas. Her pose is strong and theatrical, and she addresses the viewer with a direct, confident gaze.
The imagined historical subject of this drawing is grounded by Tissot’s exceptional attention to detail. A master of conjuring an array of textures, Tissot showcased this ability in this work by juxtaposing many types of fabrics and natural elements within one composition. The tiger skin with which the woman partially covers herself was a favorite studio prop of Tissot’s, appearing in many of his most influential works from the period, including several paintings of his partner and favorite model Kathleen Newton. It, in particular, showcases the artist’s understanding of texture, yet it also serves as an exotic element that elevates the sensuality of the scene when placed against the woman’s bare skin.
Born in 1836 in the port town of Nantes, Tissot traveled to Paris at the age of 20 in order to join the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. During this period, he became close with James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, and the impact of these friendships is reflected in his portraits of modern life. Having enjoyed considerable success in Paris during the 1860s, Tissot fought in the Siege of Paris, and after the fall of the Commune in 1871, he went to London, where he stayed for the next ten years. He was met with incredible success there, and he also met the love of his life, Kathleen Newton, a divorcée, with whom he lived from about 1876 until her death in 1882. Today he is regarded among the great masters of Belle Époque painting, and his works can be found in important collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Tate Gallery and many others.
This pastel remained in Tissot's private collection until his death in 1902 and is referenced in the posthumous 1902-3 valuation of Tissot's home at 64 avenue du Bois...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Pastel
"Eminences Grises" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received and much of that series is already sold, but my forms ...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Acrylic
Characters from the Sketchbooks (from September Storm plus Self Portrait)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a page from the artist's sketchbooks. Six pencil drawings show figures that might have been in preparation for future lithographs, Certainly the woman with the umbrella could have been an early iteration for September Storm. There is also a self portrait of Nesbitt. Clearly the works are authentic if unsigned. Provenance: from the Nesbitt studio.
From workers wrestling with heavy machinery to a lone horseman traveling down a rut-filled country road; from the animated crowd at a livestock auction to the dignified worshippers at a serene Sunday service; Jackson Lee Nesbitt chose to represent the essence of humanity and the nobility of ordinary folk striving to get along as best they can. He studied with Thomas Hart Benton and John Demartelly...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Four Original New Orleans Watercolor Scenes" Framed Late 20th Century Paintings
Located in New Orleans, LA
Four luscious original watercolors showing iconic scenes around New Orleans, by New Orleans/Missouri artist Hubert Hanush. "French Quarter Courtyard," with E.L. Borenstein Collection label on back - framed 17.5 x 21.5. Borenstein was an important New Orleans art dealer and the so-called "Father of Preservation Hall...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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1890s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Large Seated Male Nude" - Modern Pastel Portrait
By Kittie O'Meallie
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite nude by Kittie O'Meallie, an artist out of the famous Newcomb arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans which beginning in the early 20th century led the Southern "...
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Early 2000s Realist Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative Graphite Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Louisiana - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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