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Item Ships From: Manhattan
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene - Light)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address. Gattus...
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1930s Ashcan School Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Monotype

Venice
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Singed (at lower left): Jane Peterson
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...
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1930s American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Ocean Cove unique signed pastel painting by America's foremost landscape painter
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Ocean Cove, 1996 Pastel on paper painting Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right Frame included: matted and framed in a wood frame with UV plexiglass This u...
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1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Oil Pastel

Scottish Village by Alexander P. Thomson, R.S.W.
Located in New York, NY
Alexander P. Thomson, R.S.W. (Scottish, 1887-1962) Plockton (Ross-shire, Scotland), 20th century Watercolor on paper 15 x 22 in. Framed: 25 1/16 x 32 in. Signed lower left: A.P. Thom...
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20th Century English School Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Olive Grove - Black and White Landscape of Greek Island
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes's Landscape with Olive Tree is a 21.5 x 28.5 inches black and white monotype representing a Greek landscape. Olive trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties he visited Kythira, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Barbara Regina Dietzsch Watercolor Painting of White Primrose, ca. 1730
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1706-1783 White Primrose, Japanese Quince, a Beetle, and a Butterfly, ca. 1730 Opaque watercolor painting inscribed on...
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1730s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Tree and Fence, East Hartford, Connecticut (New England Landscape)
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and gouache on paper
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Mid-19th Century American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, by Charles Burchfield, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28 Watercolor and gouache on paper
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1920s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Sailing Ships in Motion
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink

Edge of the Galaxy
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
"Edge of the Galaxy" watercolor on paper 16"x20" signed on reverse This is a beautifully painted, highly detailed depiction of a view from the edge of the Galaxy. Warm whites in th...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army. It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

"So Natural II" 2025 watercolor on paper
By Katie DeGroot
Located in New York, NY
Katie DeGroot So Natural, 2025 watercolor on paper 40 x 25 in. (groo126)
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Landscape with Olive Tree - Black and White Landscape of Greek Island
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes's Landscape with Olive Tree is a 22 x 24 inches black and white chalk painting on canvas representing a Greek landscape. Olive trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties he visited Kythera, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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2010s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Charcoal

"Caught" 2025 watercolor on paper
By Katie DeGroot
Located in New York, NY
Katie DeGroot Caught, 2025 watercolor on paper 40 x 26 in. (groo122)
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Nope" 2025 watercolor on paper
By Katie DeGroot
Located in New York, NY
Katie DeGroot Nope, 2025 watercolor on paper 40 x 26 in. (groo125)
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Edward Laning, Sketch for Sheraton East Hotel Mid-Century Mural of Ancient Myths
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American! Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink. Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...
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1950s American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

GVW 92, 000
By Ken Ragsdale
Located in New York, NY
28"x34" (graphite and charcoal on paper) available unframed From the series: "The Hundred Acre Wood" Ragsdale’s process begins with sketches of places and things from his past...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

The Fall Print
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Pigment

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory, color theory, and philosophy, a writer of art criticism both in German and English, and, above all, a practicing artist. Bluemner was an intense man, who sought to express and share, through drawing and painting, universal emotional experience. Undergirded by theory, Bluemner chose color and line for his vehicles; but color especially became the focus of his passion. He was neither abstract artist nor realist, but employed the “expressional use of real phenomena” to pursue his ends. (Oscar Bluemner, from unpublished typescript on “Modern Art” for Camera Work, in Bluemner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as cited and quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner [1991], p. 60. The Bluemner papers in the Archives [hereafter abbreviated as AAA] are the primary source for Bluemner scholars. Jeffrey Hayes read them thoroughly and translated key passages for his doctoral dissertation, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory [University of Maryland, 1982; UMI reprint, 1982], which remains the most comprehensive source on Bluemner. In 1991, Hayes published a monographic study of Bluemner digested from his dissertation and, in 2005, contributed a brief essay to the gallery show at Barbara Mathes, op. cit.. The most recent, accessible, and comprehensive view of Bluemner is the richly illustrated, Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhib. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.]) Bluemner was born in the industrial city of Prenzlau, Prussia, the son and grandson of builders and artisans. He followed the family predilection and studied architecture, receiving a traditional and thorough German training. He was a prize-winning student and appeared to be on his way to a successful career when he decided, in 1892, to emigrate to America, drawn perhaps by the prospect of immediate architectural opportunities at the Chicago World’s Fair, but, more importantly, seeking a freedom of expression and an expansiveness that he believed he would find in the New World. The course of Bluemner’s American career proved uneven. He did indeed work as an architect in Chicago, but left there distressed at the formulaic quality of what he was paid to do. Plagued by periods of unemployment, he lived variously in Chicago, New York, and Boston. At one especially low point, he pawned his coat and drafting tools and lived in a Bowery flophouse, selling calendars on the streets of New York and begging for stale bread. In Boston, he almost decided to return home to Germany, but was deterred partly because he could not afford the fare for passage. He changed plans and direction again, heading for Chicago, where he married Lina Schumm, a second-generation German-American from Wisconsin. Their first child, Paul Robert, was born in 1897. In 1899, Bluemner became an American citizen. They moved to New York City where, until 1912, Bluemner worked as an architect and draftsman to support his family, which also included a daughter, Ella Vera, born in 1903. All the while, Oscar Bluemner was attracted to the freer possibilities of art. He spent weekends roaming Manhattan’s rural margins, visiting the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, sketching landscapes in hundreds of small conté crayon drawings. Unlike so many city-based artists, Bluemner did not venture out in search of pristine countryside or unspoiled nature. As he wrote in 1932, in an unsuccessful application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, “I prefer the intimate landscape of our common surroundings, where town and country mingle. For we are in the habit to carry into them our feelings of pain and pleasure, our moods” (as quoted by Joyce E. Brodsky in “Oscar Bluemner in Black and White,” p. 4, in Bulletin 1977, I, no. 5, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut). By 1911, Bluemner had found a powerful muse in a series of old industrial towns, mostly in New Jersey, strung along the route of the Morris Canal. While he educated himself at museums and art galleries, Bluemner entered numerous architectural competitions. In 1903, in partnership with Michael Garven, he designed a new courthouse for Bronx County. Garven, who had ties to Tammany Hall, attempted to exclude Bluemner from financial or artistic credit, but Bluemner promptly sued, and, finally, in 1911, after numerous appeals, won a $7,000 judgment. Barbara Haskell’s recent catalogue reveals more details of Bluemner’s architectural career than have previously been known. Bluemner the architect was also married with a wife and two children. He took what work he could get and had little pride in what he produced, a galling situation for a passionate idealist, and the undoubted explanation for why he later destroyed the bulk of his records for these years. Beginning in 1907, Bluemner maintained a diary, his “Own Principles of Painting,” where he refined his ideas and incorporated insights from his extensive reading in philosophy and criticism both in English and German to create a theoretical basis for his art. Sometime between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner’s life as an artist was transformed by his encounter with the German-educated Alfred Stieglitz, proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue. The two men were kindred Teutonic souls. Bluemner met Stieglitz at about the time that Stieglitz was shifting his serious attention away from photography and toward contemporary art in a modernist idiom. Stieglitz encouraged and presided over Bluemner’s transition from architect to painter. During the same period elements of Bluemner’s study of art began to coalesce into a personal vision. A Van Gogh show in 1908 convinced Bluemner that color could be liberated from the constraints of naturalism. In 1911, Bluemner visited a Cézanne watercolor show at Stieglitz’s gallery and saw, in Cézanne’s formal experiments, a path for uniting Van Gogh’s expressionist use of color with a reality-based but non-objective language of form. A definitive change of course in Bluemner’s professional life came in 1912. Ironically, it was the proceeds from his successful suit to gain credit for his architectural work that enabled Bluemner to commit to painting as a profession. Dividing the judgment money to provide for the adequate support of his wife and two children, he took what remained and financed a trip to Europe. Bluemner traveled across the Continent and England, seeing as much art as possible along the way, and always working at a feverish pace. He took some of his already-completed work with him on his European trip, and arranged his first-ever solo exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, and Elberfeld, Germany. After Bluemner returned from his study trip, he was a painter, and would henceforth return to drafting only as a last-ditch expedient to support his family when his art failed to generate sufficient income. Bluemner became part of the circle of Stieglitz artists at “291,” a group which included Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. He returned to New York in time to show five paintings at the 1913 Armory Show and began, as well, to publish critical and theoretical essays in Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. In its pages he cogently defended the Armory Show against the onslaught of conservative attacks. In 1915, under Stieglitz’s auspices, Bluemner had his first American one-man show at “291.” Bluemner’s work offers an interesting contrast with that of another Stieglitz architect-turned-artist, John Marin, who also had New Jersey connections. The years after 1914 were increasingly uncomfortable. Bluemner remained, all of his life, proud of his German cultural legacy, contributing regularly to German language journals and newspapers in this country. The anti-German sentiment, indeed mania, before and during World War I, made life difficult for the artist and his family. It is impossible to escape the political agenda in Charles Caffin’s critique of Bluemner’s 1915 show. Caffin found in Bluemner’s precise and earnest explorations of form, “drilled, regimented, coerced . . . formations . . . utterly alien to the American idea of democracy” (New York American, reprinted in Camera Work, no. 48 [Oct. 1916], as quoted in Hayes, 1991, p. 71). In 1916, seeking a change of scene, more freedom to paint, and lower expenses, Bluemner moved his family to New Jersey, familiar terrain from his earlier sketching and painting. During the ten years they lived in New Jersey, the Bluemner family moved around the state, usually, but not always, one step ahead of the rent collector. In 1917, Stieglitz closed “291” and did not reestablish a Manhattan gallery until 1925. In the interim, Bluemner developed relationships with other dealers and with patrons. Throughout his career he drew support and encouragement from art cognoscenti who recognized his talent and the high quality of his work. Unfortunately, that did not pay the bills. Chronic shortfalls were aggravated by Bluemner’s inability to sustain supportive relationships. He was a difficult man, eternally bitter at the gap between the ideal and the real. Hard on himself and hard on those around him, he ultimately always found a reason to bite the hand that fed him. Bluemner never achieved financial stability. He left New Jersey in 1926, after the death of his beloved wife, and settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where he continued to paint until his own death in 1938. As late as 1934 and again in 1936, he worked for New Deal art programs designed to support struggling artists. Bluemner held popular taste and mass culture in contempt, and there was certainly no room in his quasi-religious approach to art for accommodation to any perceived commercial advantage. His German background was also problematic, not only for its political disadvantages, but because, in a world where art is understood in terms of national styles, Bluemner was sui generis, and, to this day, lacks a comfortable context. In 1933, Bluemner adopted Florianus (definitively revising his birth names, Friedrich Julius Oskar) as his middle name and incorporated it into his signature, to present “a Latin version of his own surname that he believed reinforced his career-long effort to translate ordinary perceptions into the more timeless and universal languages of art” (Hayes 1982, p. 189 n. 1). In 1939, critic Paul Rosenfeld, a friend and member of the Stieglitz circle, responding to the difficulty in categorizing Bluemner, perceptively located him among “the ranks of the pre-Nazi German moderns” (Hayes 1991, p. 41). Bluemner was powerfully influenced in his career by the intellectual heritage of two towering figures of nineteenth-century German culture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A keen student of color theory, Bluemner gave pride of place to the formulations of Goethe, who equated specific colors with emotional properties. In a November 19, 1915, interview in the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Abendblatt), he stated: I comprehend the visible world . . . abstract the primary-artistic . . . and after these elements of realty are extracted and analyzed, I reconstruct a new free creation that still resembles the original, but also . . . becomes an objectification of the abstract idea of beauty. The first—and most conspicuous mark of this creation is . . . colors which accord with the character of things, the locality . . . [and which] like the colors of Cranach, van der Weyden, or Durer, are of absolute purity, breadth, and luminosity. . . . I proceed from the psychological use of color by the Old Masters . . . [in which] we immediately recognize colors as carriers of “sorrow and joy” in Goethe’s sense, or as signs of human relationship. . . . Upon this color symbolism rests the beauty as well as the expressiveness, of earlier sacred paintings. Above all, I recognize myself as a contributor to the new German theory of light and color, which expands Goethe’s law of color through modern scientific means (as quoted in Hayes 1991, p. 71). Hayes has traced the global extent of Bluemner’s intellectual indebtedness to Hegel (1991, pp. 36–37). More specifically, Bluemner made visual, in his art, the Hegelian world view, in the thesis and antithesis of the straight line and the curve, the red and the green, the vertical and the horizontal, the agitation and the calm. Bluemner respected all of these elements equally, painting and drawing the tension and dynamic of the dialectic and seeking ultimate reconciliation in a final visual synthesis. Bluemner was a keen student of art, past and present, looking, dissecting, and digesting all that he saw. He found precedents for his non-naturalist use of brilliant-hued color not only in the work Van Gogh and Cezanne, but also in Gauguin, the Nabis, and the Symbolists, as well as among his contemporaries, the young Germans of Der Blaue Reiter. Bluemner was accustomed to working to the absolute standard of precision required of the architectural draftsman, who adjusts a design many times until its reality incorporates both practical imperatives and aesthetic intentions. Hayes describes Bluemner’s working method, explaining how the artist produced multiple images playing on the same theme—in sketch form, in charcoal, and in watercolor, leading to the oil works that express the ultimate completion of his process (Hayes, 1982, pp. 156–61, including relevant footnotes). Because of Bluemner’s working method, driven not only by visual considerations but also by theoretical constructs, his watercolor and charcoal studies have a unique integrity. They are not, as is sometimes the case with other artists, rough preparatory sketches. They stand on their own, unfinished only in the sense of not finally achieving Bluemner’s carefully considered purpose. The present charcoal drawing is one of a series of images that take as their starting point the Morris Canal as it passed through Rockaway, New Jersey. The Morris Canal industrial towns that Bluemner chose as the points of departure for his early artistic explorations in oil included Paterson with its silk mills (which recalled the mills in the artist’s childhood home in Elberfeld), the port city of Hoboken, Newark, and, more curiously, a series of iron ore mining and refining towns, in the north central part of the state that pre-dated the Canal, harkening back to the era of the Revolutionary War. The Rockaway theme was among the original group of oil paintings that Bluemner painted in six productive months from July through December 1911 and took with him to Europe in 1912. In his painting journal, Bluemner called this work Morris Canal at Rockaway N.J. (AAA, reel 339, frames 150 and 667, Hayes, 1982, pp. 116–17), and exhibited it at the Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912 as Rockaway N. J. Alter Kanal. After his return, Bluemner scraped down and reworked these canvases. The Rockaway picture survives today, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (color illus. in Haskell, fig. 48, p. 65). For Bluemner, the charcoal expression of his artistic vision was a critical step in composition. It represented his own adaptation of Arthur Wesley’s Dow’s (1857–1922) description of a Japanese...
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20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Beautiful large impressionist pastel by Francesco Spicuzza
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in New York, NY
Francesco Spicuzza (American, 1883-1962) Untitled Landscape, 20th century Pastel on paper Sight size: 24 x 30 in. Framed: 26 1/4 x 32 3/8 in. Signed lower right: Spicuzza Italian-born Francesco Spicuzza was primarily a Wisconsin painter who did portraits, still-lives and local landscapes. He spent the first part of his life in near-poverty to become a painter. An eternal optimist, in 1917, the artist reported: "I am happy and my only ambition now is to paint better and better until I shall have reached the measure of the best of which I am capable." (Spicuzza, 1917, p. 22). His predilection for beach scenes germinated early: reportedly, the five-year-old boy first drew the outlines of his father's fishing boat in the sand on the seashore near their home in Sicily. After setting himself up as a fruit peddler in Milwaukee, Spicuzza's father sent for his family when Francesco was eight years old. For the following six years the boy was unable to attend school because of his job in his father's fruit and vegetable business. The poor lad suffered a caved-in shoulder from carrying a heavy wooden crate. The young Spicuzza was aided by moral and financial support from a sympathetic Milwaukee businessman named John Cramer, publisher and editor of the Evening Wisconsin, who raised Spicuzza's salary as a newspaper assembler so that he could attend school. In 1899 or 1900, Spicuzza began studying drawing and anatomy under Robert Schade (1861-1912), a painter of panoramas who had been trained in Munich under Carl Theodor von Piloty. Spicuzza was also taught by Alexander Mueller (1872-1935), a product of the Weimar and Munich academies. Mueller realized Spicuzza was a colorist and encouraged that orientation (Madle, 1961). Spicuzza found it beneficial to accept an apprenticeship in a lithographic studio for $8 a week, which demanded most of his time. During the St. Louis Universal Exposition in 1904, still a struggling student, Spicuzza attended the fair, thanks to Cramer. It was not long before Spicuzza received a twenty-five dollar portrait commission, and this inaugural success led to new commissions and allowed him to continue as a painter. The earliest influences in his work appear to be from Edward H. Potthast and Maurice Prendergast, though Spicuzza never mentioned either artist. Already in August 1910, Spicuzza was described in a newspaper as "one of the most talented of Milwaukee's rising workers." He undoubtedly received lasting inspiration from his one summer study period in 1911 with John F. Carlson at the Art Students League's Summer School in Woodstock, New York. Certainly Spicuzza would have picked up spontaneity in handling the brush from Carlson. Although he executed numerous still-lives and an occasional religious work, Spicuzza is best known for his Milwaukee beach scenes populated with frolicking bathers in multi-colored attire, not unlike the images of Potthast, who used a similar technique. Many of these are small, preparatory works on canvas board executed between 1910 and 1915. Frequently with even greater animation than Potthast, Spicuzza produced moving images of youthful energy and uninhibited child's play. These beach genre scenes reflect the attitude of American impressionists who depicted the more pleasant side of life. Spicuzza manipulated a successful balance of rich pigment applied in varying degrees of impasto texture with subtle nuances of hue. Working all'aperto, he sought "the soft enticing shades of yellow, blue, green, pink and lavender . . . to get the effects of bright glistening summer air." (L.E.S., n.d.). As a painter whose color not only derived from direct observation but also from a personal theory of color symbolism, Spicuzza traded the linear approach of lithography for dynamic patches of brilliant color. Like Prendergast, he would often tilt the angle of the picture plane to bring the viewer's position above the scene. Spicuzza was unable to enter the 1913 Armory Show or the Panama-Pacific International Exposition two years later but he did submit work to the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and those of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first important award was the bronze medal presented by the St. Paul Institute in 1913, which was followed by the silver medal two years later. Before long, Spicuzza had acquired a greater sense of security in his profession and was described by a writer in International Studio (April 1917) as "an independent artist with an assured future. His pastels and water-colours are poetic and joyous bits of nature with a genuine out-of-door feeling." In 1918, his Spirit of Youth, exhibited at the National Academy of Design, sold for $112.50. Four years later, the artist achieved his greatest local recognition by winning the gold medal from the Milwaukee Art Institute. Spicuzza spent a great deal of time painting en plein air and by 1925 he began summering at Big Cedar Lake, near West Bend, Wisconsin to gather his subject matter. Easter Morning (1926) owes something to the Symbolist movement, with its figure of Christ appearing over a seascape. During the difficult era of the Depression, patrons came to Spicuzza's aid and during the 40s, he taught housewives, businessmen and students at the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Center, and in his private studio. In the following decade, although his kind of art was no longer popular in the "make-it-or-break-it" New York gallery world, Spicuzza enjoyed regular patronage and sales. His beach scenes became more static and he would experiment with modernist techniques. Spicuzza died at the age of seventy-eight. Sources: L.E.S., "Do Colors Change a Person's disposition? Experiments of a Milwaukee Artist...
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20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Tree and Sky, photorealist graphite landscape drawing, 2022
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly’s laborious method of toning her paper serves as the starting point for her intricate compositions. She begins by covering the entire sheet with up to eight smooth, unmod...
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2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Riverbank 2, photorealist graphite nature drawing, 2018
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts...
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2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Fragmented in Green with Cathedral and Flowers Print
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally drop...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink, Digital

Strawberry Island Sunset, black and white charcoal drawing of the ocean
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Unframed. Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This Land., at the start of the pan...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Tree
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
Olive trees and olive groves are often the main subject of Tzannes paintings. An American painter of Greek origins, Tzannes visited the Greek island of Kythera in his twenties. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

Wildflowers and Sky, Vermont Landscape Black & White Graphite Drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
This drawing reveals the artist's mastery of the medium and her connection to her subjects. In this one, we peek at a soft horizon line as we gaze though a patch of wildflowers near ...
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2010s American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

untitled (wildflowers)
Located in New York, NY
Focused on wildflowers spotted along rural roads in his native Minnesota, these paintings capture the delicate beauty of these native flowers against deep magenta backgrounds. Rangin...
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1990s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address. Gattus...
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1930s Ashcan School Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Monotype

Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
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1930s American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

untitled (wildflower)
Located in New York, NY
Focused on wildflowers spotted along rural roads in his native Minnesota, these paintings capture the delicate beauty of these native flowers against deep magenta backgrounds. Rangin...
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1990s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Fragmented in Blue between Nature and Intervention
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink, Plate Glass

Windmills and Sailboats
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Porcelain, Ink

The Nodes of Alvor Portugal
By Audrey Flack
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Flack The Nodes of Alvor Portugal, 1982 Watercolor on paper (bears original Louis Meisel Gallery label on the back) Pencil signed and titled by the...
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1980s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Dunes
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper Signed and dated in pencil, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at Universi...
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1970s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Japanese Brush Painting by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Brush Painting Watercolor on handmade paper 28 1/2 x 22 in. Framed: 32 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.
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20th Century Naturalistic Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Fragmented in Blue Print
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Pigment

Havana
By Jean Carzou
Located in New York, NY
Jean Carzou traveled to Havana as an artist to explore the world and he captured a ship from a earlier era.
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1950s Expressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Lois Dodd, Landscape painting by renowned female artist (signed and inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd Untitled Landscape, 1990 Colored chalk on grey wove paper Signed, dated and inscribed "For Beverly & Howard", lower right. Original artist's frame included This unique work...
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1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite

Old Door
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Old Door, 1953 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front 20 × 14 inches Unframed This unique and extre...
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1950s American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

America's Cup - 1967. Wing Mark, Intrepid and Dame Pattie.
By Joseph Webster Golinkin
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. WING MARK. INTREPID - DAME PATTIE [AUS]. This Joseph Webster Golinkin watercolor of the 1967 America's Cup depicts the...
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1960s Naturalistic Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled Watercolor : In the Country
Located in New York, NY
Mary Evelyn Whitehill (American) "Untitled Watercolor: In the Country", Impressionist/Landscape Watercolor Painting Framed and Signed on Paper, ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Two Navajo Colored Pencil drawings by Lois Rogers, New Mexico
Located in New York, NY
Two Navajo Colored Pencil drawings by Lois Rogers, New Mexico. Sight size: 3 x 4 2/3 in. Framed: 5 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. Both signed lower right, and inscribed verso: colored pencil, Lo...
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1950s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color Pencil

Unique, original hand Signed, dated Antiquity Drawing held in monograph Pop Art
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
Jeff Koons Untitled (Antiquity Drawing), 2009 Unique original drawing done in silver marker on the first front end page of Koons iconic monograph "Hulk Elvis". (Hand signed and dated...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Board

Sun's Rays, Westhampton Beach
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper Signed and dated, l.r. 9 x 12 inches This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at Univ...
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1970s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Charles Burchfield Preparatory Sketch, Early 20th Century
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) Untitled (Preparatory Drawing for Skyscape), Early 20th Century Pencil on paper 12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. Inscribed: blue / white / blue / RV Born in Ashtab...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Volcano by Michele Zalopany black and white large scale landscape painting
By Michele Zalopany
Located in New York, NY
Executed in black, grey and brown, this monumental charcoal and pastel painting conveys the mythic drama and beauty of an active volcano. Rising in the shape of a wide, low cone, the...
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1980s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pastel

Olive Grove
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
Olive trees and olive groves are often the main subject of Tzannes paintings. An American painter of Greek origins, Tzannes visited the Greek island of K...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Olive Grove with Hills in the Distance - Charcoal Drawing, Greek Island, Country
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
This 17.5 x 35 inches black and white chalk drawing on paper represents a Greek landscape. Two olive trees are in the foreground, with the countryside extending behind in the distant horizon. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties, he visited Kythera, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since then, the island has become the primary reference of his creativity. Using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-year-old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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2010s Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Charcoal

Fragmented in Green with Waterfall print
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink, Digital

Alfred Bendiner, Avalon (New Jersey)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing! From Bendiner's Philadelphia the New Jersey beaches were an easy drive. Avalon is st...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled (Ship at Sea)
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/Unidentified Artist Signature, "Untitled: Ships at Sea", Landscape/Seascape Pencil Drawing on Paper, 4.50 x 8 (10 x 13.50 Framed), Mid to Late 20th...
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Mid-20th Century Academic Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

Trees in the Mist - Black and White Greek Landscape with Cypress and Olive Trees
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes's Trees in the Mist is a 4 x 10 inches black and white monotype representing a Greek landscape. Olive and cypress trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

Wintry Trees 5, photorealist graphite landscape drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly’s laborious method of toning her paper serves as the starting point for her intricate compositions. She begins by covering the entire sheet with up to eight smooth, unmod...
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2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Colon [Panama]
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
Reynolds Beal painted this watercolor entitled “Colon” [Panama] in the spring of 1923. The paper size of this painting is 7 x 10" (17.7 x 25.3 cm). It is signed, titled, and dated ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977 Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker 14 × 11 1/4 inches Boldly signed in black marker o...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, India Ink

Lake 7 (cloud shadows), post-impressionistic landscape drawing
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield finds the consummate marriage of medium and subject in her latest enchanted landscapes. She narrows her focus to lake scenes, creating an almost palindrome-like comp...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Synthetic Paper, Color Pencil

Lisa Breslow "Central Park Blues 1"
By Lisa Breslow
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Breslow Central Park Blues 1, 2018 monotype 18 x 44 in. paper size: 24 x 50 in. This original monotype by Lisa Breslow depicts a dreamy cityscape / waterscape in subtle, painte...
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2010s Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Monotype

Early Morning, Maui black and white waterscape drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
This is the only drawing Mary Reilly has ever done of Maui - a gorgeous scene with breaking, frothy water captured in graphite pencil.
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2010s Naturalistic Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Graphite

The Race
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally drop...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Porcelain, Ink

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