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TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3 10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy. Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell. Background on the Drawing Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive. The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him. Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East. In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people. He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...
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1930s American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Sumac, colorful Abstract Impressionist landscape gouache
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield found peace and inspiration in regular solitary walks through nature throughout the pandemic. Her most recent body of work diaristically documents her constitutional...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

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

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Gouache

Boats in Tunisia - Drawing Ink on Paper Unique Post Impressionist, 1920
By Albert Marquet
Located in New York, NY
Albert Marquet Boats in Tunisia, ca. 1920 Ink on paper 5 7/10 × 5 1/5 in l 14.5 × 13.3 cm Hand-signed by the monogram lower right
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1920s Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Three Women, black and white work on paper, landscape
By Charles Buckley
Located in New York, NY
We are delighted to debut Charles Buckley’s most recent series of ink drawings, based on photographs sourced from the mid-20th century. Buckley ...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

UNTITLED (lake)
By Deborah Cornell
Located in New York, NY
pastel drawing on paper of a lake with trees in brown frame
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1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Boats in Tunisia - Drawing Ink on Paper Unique Post Impressionist, 1920
By Albert Marquet
Located in New York, NY
Albert Marquet Boats in Tunisia, ca. 1920 Ink on paper 7 7/10 × 5 3/10 in l 19.5 × 13.5 cm Hand-signed by the monogram lower right
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1920s Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Mom (Lake Hemet?), black and white portrait of woman looking out at landscape
By Charles Buckley
Located in New York, NY
Charles Buckley sources images from the fifties and using acrylic ink, carefully renders familiar scenes of the everyday with lines of varying thicknesses. The subjects run the gamut...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Kathleen Beausoleil, Renew, 2018, blue ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
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2010s Abstract Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

PLUM ISLAND GRASS
By Deborah Cornell
Located in New York, NY
pastel on paper landscape brown wood frame
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1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

5-15-22, Impressionist, abstracted landscape drawing with colored pencil
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield brings her magical abstracted landscapes to a new medium in her recent colored pencil drawings. Loose, delicate lines scramble over one another, bringing a diffuse, ...
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2010s Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color Pencil

TOWER BRIDGE
By Valerie B Hird
Located in New York, NY
watercolor, gesso, and gilding on BFK paper. Gold Leaf. Depiction of the Tower Bridge in London. Medieval figures.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Old Tree and September Wind Clouds
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in New York, NY
Old Tree and September Wind Clouds, 1961, by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) Conte crayon on paper 13 ½ x 19 ½ inches unframed (34.29 x 49.53 cm) 19 ¾ x 25 ½ inches framed (50.165 x 6...
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1960s American Modern Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Conté

"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

TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2 10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....
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1930s American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Black Sky (The Cave Series), 4
By Panos Familis
Located in New York, NY
Black Sky (The Cave Series), 4 graphite on paper 77 x 112 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

William Johnstone, Autumn Landscape, 1970
By William Johnstone
Located in New York, NY
William Johnstone OBE (1897-1981) watercolour of "Autumn Landscape" signed lower right, c.1970 Dimension: 22" W x 18.5" H x .63" D; sight 14" W x 9.75" H Provenance: Duncan R. Mille...
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20th Century Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Riverbank 3, photorealist graphite landscape drawing, 2021
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

Flowering Hillside, grayscale photorealist graphite landscape drawing, 2018
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
In her newest landscape drawing, Flowering Hillside, Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray in her movement from the mome...
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2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park 2003
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamorphosis. The city is his muse and his primary s...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Firewood Series No. 3, hyperrealist nature still life, colored pencil drawing
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
In "Firewood Series No. 3," David Morrison uses colored pencils to capture the finest details of a frayed and peeling piece of birch wood. With his careful and methodical handling of...
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2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color Pencil

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

Italian Pen and Ink Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Italian pen and ink landscape. Antique pen and ink scene of a villa along the river in period gilt frame, Italy, early 19th century. Dimension: ...
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Late 19th Century Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Floral Watercolor Landscape on Paper
By Renelio Marin
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Floral Weather Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Renelio Marin
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Color Pencil

Lunar Landscape
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor painting by Thomas Broadbent depicts Apollo 11 Lunar Module on the Moon. On July 20 at 4:18 p.m. EDT, the Lunar Module touched down on th...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Linda Cunningham, 'Still Structures II', 2011, Pastel, Ink
By Linda Cunningham
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink

Pen on Paper Drawing by Sonja Shoemaker, Untitled, 2010
Located in New York, NY
Sonja Shomekaer is an artist and designer based in California. She creates large-scale drawings on paper that incorporate iconography of natural life. Here, Sonja weaves in an out of...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pen

Purple Haze (Glyph)
By Christina McPhee
Located in New York, NY
Purple Haze (Glyph), 2012 ink, watercolor, colored pencil, marker ink and fluid ink on synthetic paper 25 x 38 inches / 635 x 965 mm Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity. McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Color Pencil, Watercolor

Black Sky (The Cave Series), 2
By Panos Familis
Located in New York, NY
Black Sky (The Cave Series), 2, 2015 graphite on paper 77 x 112 cm
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Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Watercolor and Wood Cut Painting Titled "We're Still in the Hole", Atsuko Honda
Located in New York, NY
Atsuko Honda (b.1984, Osaka) utilizes traditional techniques and methods that are increasingly rare among 21st-century practitioners. Honda has been focusing on printmaking since 200...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Woodcut

Stepping Out, black and white drawing of a man on a deck
By Charles Buckley
Located in New York, NY
Charles Buckley sources images from the fifties and using acrylic ink, carefully renders familiar scenes of the everyday with lines of varying thicknesses. The subjects run the gamut...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Ice Chandeliers in Madawaska, black and white charcoal drawing of ice and snow
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...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Kathleen Beausoleil, Transverse 2023, pink ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
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2010s Abstract Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Original Woodcut & Printed Colors of York, Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1888-1964 York, 1920 Original woodcut, printed in colors 14 x 18 inches Signed in pencil
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1920s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Woodcut

Beyond Louise : landscape artwork on paper
Located in New York, NY
Yen Ha is an architect, artist and writer. Born in Saigon, she lives in New York City. Ha has been awarded residencies by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativi...
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2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen

Sledders - Winter Snow Scene - Kids playing on Sleds, Charcoal drawing c 1950-60
By Alice Kent Stoddard
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Alice Kent Stoddard 1885-1976 Sledders (circa 1950-1960) Black chalk on card Image Dimensions: 19.75 x 16 inches (50.2 x 40.6 cm) Framed Dimensions: 26.5 x 22.3 inches Signed lower right: Alice Kent Stoddard Alice Kent Stoddard was born in Connecticut, but spent much of her career as an artist in Philadelphia and on Monhegan Island in Maine. She studied with Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. While serving with the YMCA in France during World War I, Stoddard executed many drawings and paintings of the battlefield. However, she is most widely recognized for her bold landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Cardboard

Arbol I: Contemporary Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in New York, NY
Arbol I is the first of the 13 pieces from the series "Serie de Arboles" by Guillermo Araujo. Home decor with themes of trees and nature. Guillermo ...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

The Crew, photorealist graphite graffiti drawing, 2015
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
An homage to cannabis and weed culture, Mary Reilly works with both powdered graphite and graphite pencil on paper in her photorealist drawing, "The Crew." The artist memorializes tr...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Waves: Geometric Red White and Blue Watercolor Abstract Painting and Drawing
By Renelio Marin
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin Waves, 2018 28 x 39.5 in Watercolor Renelio Marin's watercolor waves geometric abstract waves make any room pop! This original watercolor painting and drawing is 28 x ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Hemlock--Selden's Neck, Lyme, Connecticut
By Charles De Wolf Brownell
Located in New York, NY
Framed, 5.25 x 8.5 x 1.5 in.
Category

19th Century American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Along the Boardwalk
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN; titled (at lower left): Boardwalk, Coney Island A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its l...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Plato Crater
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
"Plato Crater" watercolor on paper 47.5"x27" Signed on reverse by the artist. This large-scale watercolor on paper depicts the lunar surface of the moon in a greyscale with deep sha...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Conceptual Drawing: Plot Plan No. 170516
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170516 3-Ring Structure for Covert Spectacle With Self-Generating Concealment Mechanisms framed, signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fall, Bethesda Fountain
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN '23 A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Dissolution Drift (Gowanus)
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
Ink, watercolor, pencil, charcoal pencil on paper available framed Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite, Watercolor

Wonder
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): BROSEN•20 A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamor...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Compulsion Drift
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
watercolor, charcoal, graphite, ink on paper 19"x25" available framed Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates ou...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Graphite, Ink, Paper, Watercolor

Rigged Opulence Compartment
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
"Rigged Opulence Compartment With Temporal Resonance Modules" framed, with signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series...
Category

2010s Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pic Paradis Sunset Pastel Series 17, nature, landscape, colorful
By Christian Brechneff
Located in New York, NY
A series of paintings depicting the sunset views from Pic Paradis, the highest point on the island of St. Martin. The paintings capture nature untamed in sea, sky, and sun. Images 1-6 Pastels on Bugra Hahnenmühle paper Each 9” x 12”, 9” x 82” overall (dimension variable) Christian Brechneff was born in the Belgian Congo in 1950, raised in Switzerland and later came to study in the United States. In 1975 he received a Masters of Art degree from London’s College of Art. Known internationally for his exuberantly expressive pastel and oil landscapes as well as his ruddy ink flower...
Category

2010s Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Edam, Holland
By Thomas Fransioli
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty. Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.” This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them. Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists. During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
Category

20th Century American Realist Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Plot Plan No. 170518
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170518 Self-Generating Polarization Structure With Pronounced Left Hemisphere Compartmentalization This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newl...
Category

2010s Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled (Moss)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
In Colin Hunt’s new paintings, myriad tiny rocks, grains of sand, and strands of rockweed form a coastal beach, while lush forests pierce a crystalline sky. Elsewhere, palpable mists...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Moon Arc", Multi-panel black and white watercolor painting installation
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
87"x149" multi-panel installation. This watercolor painting installation is created on 36 paper panels and is inspired by a view of the moon. The dee...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Binocular" Large Scale Watercolor painting of the Moon
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
36"x72"watercolor on paper, available unframed, signed on reverse by New York artist, Thomas Broadbent. Please inquire about framing options. This highly detailed and masterfully rendered watercolor depicts a dual view of the Moon...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Relocation Lasso
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
Designated Problem Area Relocation Lasso (Plot Plan No. 170520 ) framed, with signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released ser...
Category

2010s Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Plot Plan No. 10616
By Patricia Smith
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 10616 Potentially Materialized Triple Chamber Confinement Study This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Lunar Crater Chain
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This is a multi-panel installation of heavy-body watercolor painted panels, depicting the surface of the Moon. Mounted and ready for installation, this piece is signed on reverse. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

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