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Easter Flowers, mixed media charcoal and collage, floral
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper charcoal printed matter
Category
2010s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
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...
Category
1930s American Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Sleepwalk Redux #8, 2015
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent o...
Category
2010s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Balloon, Flying Machine, Drawing, Work on Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Tan, Yellow
By Krzysztof Pastuszka
Located in Riverdale, NY
Balloon is an original Ink and Watercolor Pencil drawing on paper. It is 16x24, unframed. It is an invented flying machine idea imagined by Pastuszka. As the bicycle is pedaled, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Artist &Model #1 humorous interpretation of the traditional subject muted color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded heavyweight archival paper suitable for framing under glass signed and dated bottom left. Part of the artists series on the artist and Model subject prima...
Category
2010s Outsider Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Iron Chef male figure kitchen interior soft earth tones dark humor
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a pastel painting done on toned archival paper. The title is taken from an old food network show. The artists sardonic humor is well illustrated in this work. A truly one of ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Abstract Expressionist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Abstract Expressionist Composition, Charcoal on Paper, signed lower left, wood frame. Image: 13" H x 10" W; frame: 20.5" H x 16.5" W x 1.25" D. Pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Junction Disjunction IV
By Eleanna Martinou
Located in New York, NY
Junction Disjunction IV
Ink on polypropylene
150 x 450 cm
Eleanna Martinou was born in Athens (1981). Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006) and graduated with a MA in the...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink
Rockwall Seascape
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Rockwall Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 19" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Assisi II, dramatic diptych architectural print monochromatic black and white
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Edition of 30 + 10AP
Print unusual vertical diptych by master printer Agnes Murray
Category
1980s Photorealist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.044
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.044 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.044 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
"NeoRealism (on the Subway)" conceptual, text based work on paper
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x25" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (oil, enamel, acrylic, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the text "Keeping it Real...Whatever That Means" is wr...
Category
2010s Conceptual New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled (Midday)
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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Baldur Helgason drawing 2018 (Baldur Helgason dog)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Baldur Helgason drawing 2018: Baldur Helgason Jorgen the Dog Day:
A robust, lively Helgason hand-drawing defined by the artist’s signature style.
Med...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.057
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.057 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.057 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Secret Garden, White Lilies, colorful pastel painting on toned paper
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper.
Ms. Morgan says:
During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground...
Category
2010s Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Flooded Favela, fantastic illustration by Guillaume Cornet white framed
By Guillaume Cornet
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful intricate, Rotring pen and markers on paper, on 350gsm Colorset white paper. This piece is framed on a white wood frame, uv glass and all archival materials.
GUILLAUM...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
"Greenhouse Effect" interior scene with plants female figure surreal undertones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
unframed soft pastel on toned paper signed and dated on bottom.
mythological theme with humorous undertones
references ecology
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
untitled-#1 blue, green, transparent yellow on bright red
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage 2022
acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, transparent yellow on bright red
irregular texture surface...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Jack Tworkov
Located in New York, NY
Jack Tworkov
'Untitled,' 1974
Graphite and colored pencil
14 x 16.75 inches (image)
20 x 23 inches (sheet)
21 x 24 inches (frame)
Signed
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite
$13,000
Interspecies Communication, colorful mythological swirling pattern orange tones
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists and metalic paints and old pastels.
For Octopus and cephalopod fans.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exu...
Category
2010s Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Obscura, face w birch trees, nature, monochromatic
By Audrey Frank Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Starting with observational drawings from life, these works evolve through a series of variations, modifying tonality and forest elements.Even though recognizable as trees, the artis...
Category
2010s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Charcoal
erotica al fresco, narrative architectural fantasy w female nudes
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paperABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive wi...
Category
2010s Surrealist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Smoke, collage woman with cigarette female, patterns
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Everything Must Go, an intricate illustration by Guillaume Cornet white framed
By Guillaume Cornet
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful intricate, Rotring pen and markers on paper, on 350gsm Colorset white paper. This piece is framed on a white wood frame, uv glass and all archival materials.
GUILLAUM...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
Burma Shave, monochromatic, dramatic monotype, multiple faces
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstr...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Reclining Female Nude
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Reclining Female Nude, Charcoal on Paper, woman resting upon patterned drapery, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, un...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Blue and White Neoclassical Mythological Figure Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Blue and white neoclassical mythological figure drawing. Beautiful contemporary ensemble piece consisting of a hand drawn neoclassical goblet with a male and anthemion bordered rim w...
Category
Late 20th Century New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Haunted Favela, fantastic illustration by Guillaume Cornet white framed
By Guillaume Cornet
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful intricate, Rotring pen and markers on paper, on 350gsm Colorset white paper. This piece is framed on a white wood frame, uv glass and all archival materials.
GUILLAUM...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
BLIND SELF PORTRAIT
By Gregg Louis
Located in New York, NY
ink drawing on paper
blind contour drawing, artists self-portrait
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
November Letter, JGY-MLM
By Joanne Grune-Yanoff
Located in New York, NY
November Letter, JGY-MLM, 2014
ink, graphite, words, wings, and thread on paper
each piece 19x15” unframed
Diptych
Stockholm based artist Joanne Grüne-Yanoff has been exhibiti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
German Expressionist Bakers, colorful painting with food cakes
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Falaise d'Aval"
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), "Falaise d'Aval", Pastel on Paper, 1960, signed and dated in pencil lower right, giltwood frame. Image: 11.5" H x 9.5" W; frame: 23...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Magnet Drawing #4
By Edda Renouf
Located in New York, NY
Edda Renouf
Magnet Drawing #4, 1980
Pastel, chalk on paper
34 x 28 inches (sheet)
36 5/8 x 30 1/2 inches (frame)
Signed and dated recto
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Linda Stein, Knights Revisited 1031 - Contemporary Art Bright Colorful Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Knights Revisited 1031 - Contemporary Art Bright Colorful Drawing
Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series after she was forced to evacuate her New York dow...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Self Portrait #1, colorful gestural abstracted portrait
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on paper
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category
2010s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Monotype
Portrait of Michael Feingold
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Mark Beard
Portrait of Michael Feingold
1993
Signed and dated, l.l.
Conté crayon and charcoal on paper
11 x 7.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Fernando Natalici Area Nightclub: 1983-1987 (collection of 16 works)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Fernando Natalici Area Nightclub 1983-1987:
A collection of 16 hand-colored silver gelatin photographs spanning the history of the seminal 1980s New York nightclub known as "Area". These rare images were captured by Fernando Natalici - a noted downtown art scene photographer who is also famous for designing the majority of Area's party invites during this period. These works were exhibited at Area circa 1986 as part of show curated by Serge Becker (featured in image 4) - a key Area figurehead. A much historical & highly decorative assemblage of Area regulars defining the club's historic & vibrant scene. Further details:
Medium: A collection of 16 individual hand-colored silver gelatin photographs mounted on illustration board.
Overall Dimensions (applies to each individual work):
16x20 inches.
Condition: Good overall vintage condition. Some scattered surface markings to margin areas.
Each hand-signed on the reverse by Natalici and unique.
Provenance: Obtained directly from artist.
Literature/References:
Area: 1983-1987 by Eric Goode Jennifer Goode (pub. by Abrams 2013).
New York Magazine 2013: "It Was the Hottest Club in Town."
Area: A brief history (New York Magazine 11/1/13):
"Influenced equally by sixties-era happenings and the gonzo childhoods of its proprietors, Area opened its doors in 1983. The club, unlike any that came before it, underwent a painstaking transformation roughly every six weeks, with themes like Confinement, Suburbia, and Science Fiction that incorporated elaborate art installations with taxidermied bears...
Category
1980s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Silver Gelatin
untitled-#2 red turquoise blue bold geometric shapes
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage 2022
acrylic and mixed media - painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, orange on bright red
irregular texture surfa...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
Orange and Blue 1 : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
An artwork on paper by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Reproductions of maps of the moon printed on Unryu Inkjet washi, mounted to Magnani cotton paper, Overlayed with Sumi ...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
That Day in Crete..., female gaze butterflies RINY collaboration abstract
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works.
Full title:
That Day in Crete when you found the Blue Blanket in the Rocks and Dried it ...
Category
2010s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
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
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Silent Fragrance female bust sculpture assorted chrysanthemum flower bouquet.
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Post-Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Pilgrim's Progress'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil
Same Soul, mystical female figure, text, black with red, heart imagery
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Whether the subject matter is figuration or nature, Audrey Anastasi approaches all her subjects directly and unabashedly. In this work on paper, she c...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Feel The Beat, realistic figurative drawing of party girls dancing, high energy
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
"Feel the Beat" is a dynamic artwork features three figures caught in a moment of rhythmic movement, exuding an ethereal energy. Each figure is rendered in a monochromatic palette, e...
Category
2010s Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Vermeer Tapestry, collage with classical elements, disrupted realism
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage fabric
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Continuum pregnancy collage female figure, ochre earth tones time clocks, hands
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage
Whether the subject matter is figuration or nature, Audrey Anastasi approaches all her subjects directly and unabashedly. In this work on paper, she co...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Pouring My Heart Out I
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Leashed and Unleashed, dogs collage abstracted drawing color
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This remarkable aquatint print handpainted and collaged with watercolor depicts dogs actively engaged in friendly play in a desert landscape. Leashes fly outside the square composit...
Category
2010s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Aquatint, Archival Paper
Steamed Eggplant still life with sicilian eggplant and mustard color kettle
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
pastel on toned sanded paper signed and dated on bottom left . part of the artist's restless still life series
Category
Early 2000s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Tokyo Diptych" Yvonne Jacquette, Japanese Urban Cityscape Nocturnal Aerial
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Jacquette (American, b. 1935)
Tokyo Diptych, 1985
Pastel on paper
Overall 17 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches
Signed lower center
Provenance:
Carey Ellis Company, Houston, Texas
Brooke Alexander, New York
Collection of an American Corporation
Exhibited:
New York, Brooke Alexander, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, April 5 - May 3, 1986, n.p., illustrated; this exhibition later traveled to Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, June 27 - August 24, 1986.
Yvonne Jacquette has a preference for high places, a circling plane, a penthouse window, an aerie from which to watch the world. Her work has often depicted the city and man-made landscape from the vantage of angels. It is a privileged perspective, long loved by photographers, who were perhaps the first to recognize the geometric grandeur of the city below. That grandeur structures Jacquette's images but is not its full content. Her work attempts to resolve the visual and emotional pardoxes of the modern metropolis. Only from the tower is there the possibility of order and context. And unlaced beauty.
Jacquette first visited Japan in 1982. Nighttime Tokyo, its cars and crowds and canyons of loud Vegas neon, made a vivid and bewildering impression on her. The neon signs, pulsing, scaling the walls of high rises, fascinated the artist, "like Times Square spread over miles." Her fascination was equal parts marvel, confusion, and curiosity—the sparks of art. She returned to Tokyo in May of 1985, choosing hotel rooms with expansive vistas. From these views Jacquette excerpted images for a series of pastel night scenes. The basic forms and colors of each drawing were blocked in during night sessions by the window. She worked in the dark, selecting colors by flashlight. In daylight, she sharpened the geometry and corrected ambiguous passages. She refined the drawings further in the studio until the images read clearly. Photographic correctness was not important. The finished drawings are complete statements, not simply preparatory sketches for paintings. They have the authority of expert witness. In clear, discreet jots of pastel they record the performance of seeing, each touch of color attesting to a moment's close scrutiny.
Yvonne Jacquette was born on December 15, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence from 1952 to 1955, when she moved to New York City. Her late husband was photographer Rudy Burckhardt, and the couple were part of a circle of artist friends that included Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, and Mimi Gross. She continues to live and work in New York City, as well as in Searsmont, Maine.
A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette’s interest in aerial views, after which she began flying in commercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns. She soon started sketching and painting the landscape as seen from above, beginning a process that has developed into a defining element of her art. Her first nocturnal painting...
Category
1980s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Night Walk, abstract
By Mary Chang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Charbonnel Ink Archival paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
Blue and Green toned Mixed Media Abstract work 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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Tempera, Color Pencil
Interior Scene with Potted Plant
Located in Astoria, NY
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian, 1861-1927), Interior Scene with Potted Plant, Pastel on Paper, signed lower center, Herbert Feist carved giltwood frame. Image: 9.25" H x 13" W; frame:...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gravitational Sapath Waves
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Gravitational Sapath Waves" by Halsey Chait
India Ink Drawing on Strathmore Paper
20" x 20"
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Ink, Paper
Small Woman with a Large Handbag. Dark colors shadow female figure pocketbook
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Drawing in chalk and pastel on dark grey Strathmore paper signed bottom left.
Category
2010s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Fugitives soft pastel color human condition human and animal interactions
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded paper signed and dated bottom right hand corner. Part of a series of human and animal interactions. This work has some surrealistic and outsider qualities...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nights of Wine and Roses colorful wine bottles color romantic red dress flowers
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on archival toned paper signed and dated. The artist often plays with scale and composition to achieve desired effect.o
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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