Maine - Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Born in Clinton, Missouri, in 1876, Louis Frederick Berneker was a painter, illustrator and graphic designer. Berneker’s early art training was at the St. Louis School and Museum of ...

William Henry Cotton was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1880. He studied painting with Joseph DeCamp and Andreas Anderson at the Cowles Art School in Boston, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens. Cotton was a founder of the National Association of Portrait Painters and a member of the Newport Art Association. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York City; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Saint Louis Art Museum. He was among a number of American artists invited by the government of France to exhibit at the Musée du Luxembourg. After a successful career as a portrait painter, Cotton worked for Vanity Fair from 1931 to 1936 as an illustrator. Eleanor Roosevelt called his drawing of her for Vanity Fair, "her favorite character picture." Beginning in 1932, he was an illustrator for the New Yorker. In 1931 the New York Repertory Company produced a comedy Cotton wrote, "The Bride the Sun Shines On." He also painted mural decorations for New York City theaters...

José de Creeft was born in Guadalajara, Spain in 1884. At 13 years old de Creeft apprenticed under a local wood carver, an experience that cemented his decision to become an artist. ...

Zuniga, Francisco. EL BANO (THE BATH). Charcoal on Ingres Fabriano laid paper, 1979. Signed and dated, lower left. 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches, 699 x 495 mm. Provenance: from the artist t...

Born in New York City in 1917, artist Nathaniel Kaz was awarded the Michigan Sculpture prize at the age of twelve, and at fourteen, began his formal art education at the Art Students...

Born in Chatou, France, painter, sculptor, printmaker and theatrical designer André Derain studied under French Symbolist artist, Eugène Carrière, where he met fellow pupil, Henri Ma...

Marcel Vertes was born in Hungary and studied at the Academy Julian in Paris. Following his time at the Academy, Vertes lived and worked in the Latin Quarter, following French Impres...

Born in Dundee, Scotland in 1877, painter, illustrator and writer Penrhyn Stanley Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws after immigrating to the United States in 1901. Stanlaws studied at Princeton University and at the Academie Julian in Paris under Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant...

Born in Halberstadt, Germany in 1895, artist Emil Ganso immigrated to the United States and studied at the Art Students League in New York City. Ganso’s initial exhibitions with the Society of Independent Artists and Salons of America caught the attention of Weyhe Gallery, who represented the artist for more than twenty years. Ganso spent the summer of 1926 at the Woodstock Art Colony in New York where he made connections with fellow artists George Ault...