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Item Ships From: New York City
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.067
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.067 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.067 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.082
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.082 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.082 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.069
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.069 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.069 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.065
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.065 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.065 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.077
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.077 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.077 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Cruisin' Every Path, abstract, colorful, watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Brenneman is an American artist based in West Orange, New Jersey working primarily in painting. Her overarching interest lies in abstraction as a universal language and she wor...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Goauche on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.066
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.066 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Goauche on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.066 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages an...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Dovetail small 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Dovetail small 2 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
"Paper dimensions: 23.7 x 19.7 inch / 60.2 x 50 cm
Image's dimensions: 22.5 x 18.3 inch / 57.2 x 46.5 cm
Neill cre...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Today, 2024, colorful, abstract, watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Brenneman is an American artist based in West Orange, New Jersey working primarily in painting. Her overarching interest lies in abstraction as a universal language and she wor...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Face of fear
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 1997
Colored pencil on paper
S. 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed and dated, lower right, and titled on the top margin
Category
1990s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Speak to Me, 2023, abstract, colorful, watercolor and acrylic on paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Brenneman is an American artist based in West Orange, New Jersey working primarily in painting. Her overarching interest lies in abstraction as a universal language and she wor...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Dovetail small 6 (Abstract drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Dovetail small 6 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
"Paper dimensions: 23.7 x 19.7 inch / 60.2 x 50 cm
Image's dimensions: 22.5 x 18.3 inch / 57.2 x 46.5 cm
Neill cre...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Ginkgo Twig No.2, 2023, hyper-realist, colored pencil drawing
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1956. He received his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. A visiting lecturer and guest artist at numerous universities, he is very involved in the world of printmaking, specifically stone lithography, and he is the Professor Emeritus at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Morrison has exhibited widely, and his work is included in numerous public collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New-York Historical Society, The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Figge Art Museum, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Portland Museum of Art, Collection of Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, to name a few.
'David Morrison’s drawings are in the Old Master tradition of still-life and natura morte, whose surface beauty with its signs of decay warn viewers about the transitory nature of all life. In many ways the artist’s refined drawings can be connected to the works of John James Audubon in the N-YHS collection, which, along with their birds, showcase fruit, leaves, and flowers whose signs of decay allude to the cycle of nature and the temporal nature of life. Audubon also tended to isolate his birds and settings against empty white backgrounds. Morrison’s portrayals of leaves also tie into the poetic celebration of nature and landscape found in the works of the Hudson River School. Most profoundly they relate to Asher B. Durand’s obsession with trees (see the 2010 Durand catalogue and the essay “‘A Magnificent Obsession’: Durand’s Trees as Spiritual Sentinels of Nature”). Nevertheless, in the case of the over-lifesize measurements and the leaf's and branch's isolation on the page, Morrison's watercolors are contemporary and modern in appearance, yet profoundly evocative of both past and future.' (Roberta Olson, Curator of Drawings The New-York Historical Society).
Artist Statement
My drawings of tree branches and trunks embrace nature. I love the springtime when there are eruptive explosions of buds with new leaves and berries. I am seduced by the sensual shape and color of the buds protruding from the branches. I love the firecracker explosion of the red and yellow berries of the crabapple. My drawings capture a moment of this existence. I am also fascinated with fallen tree branches with their scarification left by diseases, infestation, decomposition and storm damage. My drawings capture the degeneration cycle of plant materials and how they echo the living conditions of man and nature. I am interested in capturing the reality of their existence, with all the imperfections, echoing their fragile existence in nature, not an idealized beautification of nature like botanical illustrations.
The drawings are hyper realistic: they capture minute details of the subjects that I portray, but they are only an illusion of the actual reality. I became obsessed with drawing branches...
Category
2010s American Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Gingko No.4, 2023, hyper-realist drawing, colored pencil on paper
By David Morrison
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1956. He received his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. A visiting lecturer and guest artist at numerous universities, he is very involved in the world of printmaking, specifically stone lithography, and he is the Professor Emeritus at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Morrison has exhibited widely, and his work is included in numerous public collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New-York Historical Society, The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Figge Art Museum, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Portland Museum of Art, Collection of Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, to name a few.
'David Morrison’s drawings are in the Old Master tradition of still-life and natura morte, whose surface beauty with its signs of decay warn viewers about the transitory nature of all life. In many ways the artist’s refined drawings can be connected to the works of John James Audubon in the N-YHS collection, which, along with their birds, showcase fruit, leaves, and flowers whose signs of decay allude to the cycle of nature and the temporal nature of life. Audubon also tended to isolate his birds and settings against empty white backgrounds. Morrison’s portrayals of leaves also tie into the poetic celebration of nature and landscape found in the works of the Hudson River School. Most profoundly they relate to Asher B. Durand’s obsession with trees (see the 2010 Durand catalogue and the essay “‘A Magnificent Obsession’: Durand’s Trees as Spiritual Sentinels of Nature”). Nevertheless, in the case of the over-lifesize measurements and the leaf's and branch's isolation on the page, Morrison's watercolors are contemporary and modern in appearance, yet profoundly evocative of both past and future.' (Roberta Olson, Curator of Drawings The New-York Historical Society).
Artist Statement
My drawings of tree branches and trunks embrace nature. I love the springtime when there are eruptive explosions of buds with new leaves and berries. I am seduced by the sensual shape and color of the buds protruding from the branches. I love the firecracker explosion of the red and yellow berries of the crabapple. My drawings capture a moment of this existence. I am also fascinated with fallen tree branches with their scarification left by diseases, infestation, decomposition and storm damage. My drawings capture the degeneration cycle of plant materials and how they echo the living conditions of man and nature. I am interested in capturing the reality of their existence, with all the imperfections, echoing their fragile existence in nature, not an idealized beautification of nature like botanical illustrations.
The drawings are hyper realistic: they capture minute details of the subjects that I portray, but they are only an illusion of the actual reality. I became obsessed with drawing branches...
Category
2010s American Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
"San Diego, California" Crystal Pier Balboa 2021 watercolor ink pencil on paper
By Alexander Befelein
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Alexander Befelein
"San Diego"
2021
Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper
8 ¼ x 4 ¾ Inches
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil in the lower margin
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Cardboard, Watercolor
III-8 (hand painted, signed monoprint composition on two individual sheets)
By Michael Heizer
Located in New York, NY
Michael Heizer
III-8 (two unique works), 1983
Monoprint on two individual sheets of white handmade TGL paper, hand colored with colored pencils, paint sticks, and liquid and spray ac...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Mo...
Dovetail small 4 (Abstract drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Dovetail small 4 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
"Paper dimensions: 23.7 x 19.7 inch / 60.2 x 50 cm
Image's dimensions: 22.5 x 18.3 inch / 57.2 x 46.5 cm
Neill cre...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mediterranean Sea
Located in New York, NY
ink and pastel on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Vintage Classical Italian Charcoal Drawing of Michelangelo's David
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3580 Charcoal drawing
Set in a vintage giltwood frame
Image size 13x9"
Category
1960s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
In the Zone
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
In the Zone, 1997
Watercolor on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed, lower left
At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tactile sensations. Fr...
Category
1990s Surrealist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Suite of four works on paper "Exploding Faces"
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a suite of 4 works of "exploding faces"
Taking a leap from Ms. Bovasso's signature "explosion" drawings, here a figurative element is added.
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"River Landscape" Julian Alden Weir, American Impressionist, Connecticut Scene
By Julian Alden Weir
Located in New York, NY
Julian Alden Weir
River Landscape
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
9 x 11 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 1965, Lot 27
E....
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Aground (unique oil on paper painting by renowned female abstract expressionist)
By Emily Mason
Located in New York, NY
Emily Mason
Aground, 1979
Oil on paper painting
Signed, dated '79, with a dateline of Vermont (VT) on the lower front in silver marker; bears original artist's label and exhibit label
Frame included: floated and framed in original vintage silver color...
Category
1970s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Blade Graffiti art 1992 (Blade train drawing Blade king of graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE subway graffiti drawing 1992:
A stunning, highly collectible original work from Blade - King of Graffiti. Executed in 1992, the work was created ...
Category
1990s Street Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Basket Case
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
Basket Case, 1986
Ballpoint pen on paper
11 x 8-1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Signed and dated, lower margin
At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tact...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Maker’s Prayer
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
Maker’s Prayer, 1986
Ballpoint pen on paper
11 x 8-1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, lower margin
At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of co...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
"Untitled (C82-142)" Hannelore Baron, Mixed Media Collage, Abstract
By Hannelore Baron
Located in New York, NY
Hannelore Baron
Untitled (C82-142), 1982
Signed and dated on the reverse
Mixed media collage
Sheet 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Manny Silverman ...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Paper, Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Whirlwind
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
Whirlwind, 1989
Graphite on paper
11 x 8-1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Signed and titled, lower margin
At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tactile se...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Crystal Ball
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
Crystal Ball, 1989
Graphite on paper
11 x 8-1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tactil...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Old Adobe Village, New Mexico" Alice Schille, Taos Pueblo, Female Impressionist
By Alice Schille
Located in New York, NY
Alice Schille
Old Adobe Village, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
5 x 6 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Keny and Johnson Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Private Collection, California
A painter in watercolor and oil, Alice Schille was a prolific artist using modernist styles of Post-Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism. Her subjects included portraits of women and children, landscapes with and without figures, a series of scenes of New York City. New Mexico, and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her paintings also reflected her widespread international travels in Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Middle East, Mexico, and Guatemala.
Although personally very shy, Schille possessed unusual courage and strength of will, which was reflected in both her independent lifestyle and in her work, as she continually worked to master new modes of painting throughout her career. A German critic once referred to Schille as "this daredevil disciple of art who is interested in anything and afraid of nothing."
Alice Schille was born in Columbus, Ohio to a family supported by her father's success in manufacturing. She was raised in Columbus, and by the time she was age six, she determined to be an artist. She graduated at the top of her class from Central High School in 1887, studied from 1891 to 1893 at the Columbus Art School, and returned there as a teacher from 1902 to 1948.
Going to New York City as a young woman, she enrolled in the Art Students League from 1897 to 1899 and then the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox. (Some years later, she attended Chase's Shinnecock Summer School on Long Island). From 1903 to 1904, Alice Schille was in Paris at the Academie Colarosi, and also studied privately with Raphael Collin, Rene Prinet, Gustave Courtois and Chase, who was then in Europe.
In 1904, five of her paintings were accepted for exhibition at Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, and from that time on her work was included regularly in important American annual exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, American Watercolor Society, Boston Art Club, and the 1987 inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
Between 1905 and 1914, Alice Schille painted in Europe, and during the summers of 1916 to 1918, worked in New York and Gloucester. In 1919, she was in New Mexico. On this trip, her first to the Southwest, she spent a summer in Taos and Santa Fe and painted scenes including the Taos Pueblo, Canyon Road and local Hispanic and Indian figures. Reportedly the Ranchos de Taos Church was one of her favorite subjects. Many of these New Mexico paintings were hung at annual exhibitions of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
Between 1920 and 1940, she traveled frequently in the summers, returning to New Mexico and going to Central America and Africa. In 1922, she began her first series of North-African watercolors...
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1920s American Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Handbag Twist single female figure with handbags humorous theme soft colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper with border suitable for framing under glass. Signed and dated on bottom left hand corner
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Drawing Study" Charles Burchfield, American Modernism Design
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield
Drawing Study
Graphite on paper
5 1/2 x 8 inches
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter, best known for his watercolor landscapes. Burchfi...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Just Go (Sunflowers), 2020, oil on canvas, yellow, floral still-life painting
By Daisy Craddock
Located in New York, NY
Craddock’s floral paintings are loci for memory, spanning more than a decade and various dwellings. Sharing a kindred spirit with such artists as Jane Freilicher and Lois Dodd, Cradd...
Category
2010s Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Flowers" Mary Abbott, Colorful Floral Still Life, Female Abstract Expressionism
By Mary Abbott
Located in New York, NY
Mary Abbott
Flowers, circa 1950
Signed lower left
Pastel on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches
Provenance:
Aaron Galleries, Glenview, Illinois
Among the early exponents of Abstract Expressio...
Category
1950s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Ace LA Exhibition Poster Drawing" Richard Serra, Work on Paper, Conceptual Art
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra
Ace LA Exhibition Poster Drawing, 1972
Ink on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Provenance:
The artist
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Known for large-scale steel sculpture of geometr...
Category
1970s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Multi-Figure Nude Study
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Paul Cadmus is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Multi-Figure Nude Study
n.d.
Signed, u.r.
Color crayon on paper
8 x 18.5 inches (20....
Category
20th Century Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Victory at See Unique painting with sea shanty by famed California artist Signed
By William T. Wiley
Located in New York, NY
WILLIAM T. WILEY
Victory at See, 2001
Watercolor, Graphite and Hand Coloring
Signed, titled and dated on the front
Unframed (ships flat)
A fantastic unique work on paper by the lege...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolor, Graphite, Pencil
Antique Gouache and Watercolor Figurative Landscape by the Sea
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3942 Antique gouache and watercolor on paper set in a period 19th century frame
Image size 10x5.5"
Category
Late 19th Century New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Face in pink
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil
Face in purple
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil
Face in orange
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Face in yellow
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Face in violet
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Face in grey
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil
Face in green
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Eye
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Unique signed pastel drawing by important British artist, Rowan Gallery UK 1973
Located in New York, NY
Jeremy Moon
Drawing 73/13 (20/5/73), 1973
Pastel on paper
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 20/5/73 in graphite on the lower front; the back of the v...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Face in blue
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
So Slight a Film, (Lehman Brothers Art Collection), unique signed oil on paper
By Emily Mason
Located in New York, NY
Emily Mason
So Slight a Film (from the Lehman Brothers art collection), 1978
Oil on paper Abstract Expressionist painting
Signed and dated 'Emily Mason '78' bottom right in pencil
Fr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Oil
"Figure Study" Rockwell Kent, American Modernism, Work on Paper
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New York, NY
Rockwell Kent
Figure Study
Estate stamped lower right
Ink on paper
6 x 10 inches
Rockwell Kent, though best known as an artist and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his long life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager. Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing career in the fine arts, however, and after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies, but soon left Columbia to study painting full time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929) and Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876 - 1952). His classmates included the artists George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925) and Edward Hopper (American, 1882 - 1967).
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921) at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his own work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in the natural world. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York and in 1907 was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They in turn divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist then married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took a number of extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, rural locales provided inspiration for both his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
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Early 20th Century New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Bob Dylan - Legends" 2019 watercolor on paper - musician guitar music
By Alexander Befelein
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Bob Dylan - Legends"
2019
Watercolor, pencil, and ink on matted cardboard
5.75 x 4 Inches
Matte: 13 x 10.5 Inches
Signed and dated by the artist in pencil, lower margin
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard, Pencil
Polarity #9 unique signed color field abstract color painting on paper - a gem!
By Jay Rosenblum
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #9, 1981
Acrylic on Paper painting
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Pencil signed and titled on the front
Unique work
Unframed
]This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on p...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Five Female Nudes
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing by Paul Cadmus offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Five Female Nudes
n.d.
Signed, u.r.
Color crayon on paper
10.5 x 18.5 inches (26.7 x 47 cm), sheet
Category
20th Century Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Original unique signed Flower Drawing limited edition skateboard Street Pop Art
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
Original Flower Drawing on skateboard (Hand signed), 2017
Unique Flower Drawing in Marker on skateboard. Signed by Murakami
31 × 8 inches
Flower drawing done in marker and boldly signed by Murakami.
The skate deck was issued unsigned, but this one was, exceptionally hand signed with a flower drawing by Murakami at Complexcon in 2017. This limited edition Murakami skate deck was created and sold exclusively at the 2017 Complexcon convention and is already considered a collectors' item.
Provenance: Signed in person by the artist at Complexcon in 2017
TAKASHI MURAKAMI BIOGRAPHY
Takashi Murakami, who has a PhD in nihonga painting, combines the most cutting-edge techniques with the precision and virtuosity of traditional Japanese art. Inspired by anime and character culture...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen
"Study off Newport, Rhode Island" John Singer Sargent Drawing, Impressionism
By John Singer Sargent
Located in New York, NY
John Singer Sargent
Study off Newport, Rhode Island, 1876
Signed in pencil "JS265A" lower left
Pencil on paper
5 x 10 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1959
Mr. William H. Bender Jr
Sotheby's New York, September 19, 1987
Private Collection 1987-2000
Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc., circa 2002
Private Collection (acquired from the above), New York
Recognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical precocity, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making his own special contribution to the history of grand manner portraiture.
A true cosmopolite, he was also a painter of plein air landscapes and genre scenes, drawing his subjects from such diverse locales as England, France, Italy and Switzerland. In so doing, Sargent also played a vital role in the history of British and American Impressionism.
Sargent was born in Florence in 1856. He was the first child of Dr. Fitzwilliam Sargent, a surgeon from an old New England family, and Mary Newbold Singer, the daughter of a Philadelphia merchant. His parents were among the many prosperous Americans who adopted an expatriate lifestyle during the later nineteenth century. Indeed, Sargent's family traveled constantly throughout the Continent and in England, a mode of living that enriched Sargent both culturally and socially. He ultimately became fluent in French, Italian and German, in addition to English.
Having developed an interest in drawing as a boy, Sargent received his earliest formal instruction in Rome in 1869, where he was taught by the German-American landscape painter Carl Welsch. Following this, he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence during 1873-74.
In the spring of 1874, Sargent's family moved to Paris, enabling him to continue his training there. He soon entered the studio of Charles-Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran. In contrast to most French academic painters, Carolus-Duran taught his students to paint directly on the canvas, capturing the essence of his subject through relaxed brushwork, a tonal palette and strong chiaroscuro. Although Sargent also spent four years studying drawing under Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, it was Carolus-Duran's approach that would form the aesthetic basis of his style.
Upon his teacher's advice, Sargent also traveled to Spain and Holland to study the work of old master painters such as Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals, both of whom also employed deft, fluid techniques.
In 1876, Sargent made his first visit to the United States, claiming his American citizenship and visiting the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. One year later, he spent the summer in Cancale, in France's Brittany region, where he painted outdoors, applying Carolus-Duran's strategies to portrayals of fishing folk on sunlit beaches. His reputation in Paris was established in 1878 when his Oyster Gatherers of Cancale (1878; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) won an Honorable Mention at that year's Salon.
During the early 1880s, Sargent began making painting trips abroad, working in Venice in 1880 and 1882, where he painted street scenes and interiors notable for their brilliant play of light and shadow. He also embarked on what would be a lucrative career as a portraitist, producing such well known works as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
His early commissions also included an image of Madame Pierre Gautreau. A renowned beauty and member of Parisian society, Madame Gautreau was known for her bold, unorthodox approach towards fashion. In her portrait, entitled "Madame X" (1884; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Sargent effectively captured her distinctive aura. However, his daring realism, coupled with fact that he portrayed a diamond shoulder strap falling off one of her shoulders, caused such an uproar that his career in France was seriously compromised.
As a result of the controversy surrounding "Madame X,"Sargent left Paris in 1886, settling permanently in London. He subsequently flourished in the English capital, becoming the leading portrait painter to the upper classes. Those who shared Sargent's sense of refinement and sophistication, as well as his international viewpoint, were especially drawn to his fashionable French style.
In addition to patronage from such prominent British families as the Wertheimers and the Marlboroughs, Sargent received an equal number of American commissions, many of them secured by artists and architects he had met during his student days in Paris, among them painters J. Carroll Beckwith and Julian Alden Weir and architect Stanford White. On a painting tour to America during 1887-1888, he portrayed members of notable families from Boston and New York, including Mrs. Jacob Wendell and Elizabeth Allen...
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1870s Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Unique SIGNED Abstract Expressionist drawing major WPA artist, Estate issued COA
By William Baziotes
Located in New York, NY
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern ink drawing with Estate COA, ca. 1955
Ink Drawing on Paper
Signed lower right recto. Accompanied by letter of authenticity from Estate.
Unique
Measurements:
Framed:
14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. x .5 inches
Artwork
8.5 x 11 inches
This work is by the American painter William Baziotes. Baziotes graduated from the National Academy of Design in New York. His interest in the surrealism movement can be seen in the lyrical compositions that comprise a large portion of his work. Baziotes, along with David Hare, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, founded the Subjects of the Artist School. Baziotes was also one of the first New York artists to experiment with the surrealist technique, automatic drawing.
Framed 14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. This work was acquired from the famous Pennypacker auction of the Baziotes Estate, and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity and provenance from the artist's widow Ethel Baziotes.
William Baziotes Biography:
B. 1912, PITTSBURGH; D. 1963, NEW YORK
William Baziotes was born on June 11, 1912, in Pittsburgh, to parents of Greek origin. He grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he worked at the Case Glass company from 1931 to 1933, antiquing glass and running errands. At this time, he took evening sketch classes and met the poet Byron Vazakas, who became a lifelong friend. Vazakas introduced Baziotes to the work of Charles Baudelaire and the Symbolist poets. In 1931, Baziotes saw the Henri Matisse exhibition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Bare Trees 2, 2024, black-and-white graphite drawing of trees
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
We are delighted to present the first Mary Reilly drawing of the year.
The artist shares her process using graphite below:
For my subject matter, I try to find and emphasize the be...
Category
2010s Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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