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Item Ships From: USA
1930s Cheerful Watercolor of a Chicago Street Scene by Constantine Pougialis
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s cheerful & colorful watercolor depicting a Chicago Street scene by artist Constantine Pougialis. Image size: 15" x 22". Painting bears its original frame, which measures 21...
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1930s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude)
Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987
Signed lower right
Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
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1980s American Realist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Summer Blue - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Summer Blue", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Nude shown in a Victorian interior, in a cinematic view. In a distorted ...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper
Blizzard in Woods
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
Category
1940s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Blue Pacific, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A serene view of the Pacific Ocean unfolds from Highway 1 along the California coastline. Layers of wet-on-wet brushwork capture the drifting cloud patterns and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Ink on paper. 12 x 19 inches. Pogolotti lived in Paris in the 1930s. The drawing here comes from the collection of his Parisian ophthalmologist, Dr. Prokopenko . Unfortunately, the artist lost his eyesight in 1938.
Marcelo Pogolotti (1902–1988) was a Cuban painter...
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1930s Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Duchándome May 28th. Watercolor and ink on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Spring Light - unframed
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Light' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internationally exhibited and celebrated worldwide, Bukovnik’s iconic works express a spiritual exultation - a joie de vivre - a vivid celebration of beauty. The painting captures the season of nature’s rebirth when the world awakes from its winter repose — Forever Spring...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Cowboy
33 3/4 x 36 inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed...
Category
1930s American Realist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Santa Ringing The Church Bell
Category
1950s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
3.2 M (ACTION COMICS). Drawing on paper
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons ended up gaining very high prices. By redrawing t...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Poland (Glider) (Illustration of Glacial Landscape Around Vintage Stamp, Pencil)
By Andrea Moreau
Located in Hudson, NY
Poland (Glider) by Andrea Moreau
colored pencil and postage stamp on paper
22 x 30 inches
25.25 x 32.5 inches framed
To create her mixed-media artworks, Andrea Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. This artwork, "Poland (Glider)," centers on a stamp that depicts an aircraft flying above a glacial horizon. Building on the style and environment established by the stamp art, Moreau extended this scene across land and sea in vibrant blue pencil.
A statement by the artist:
My drawings function as personal interpretations of political or commercial propaganda. I begin with imagery found on postage stamps or printed advertisements and, using the visual logic and graphic language of the image, I attempt to tease out a larger framework from which to consider it. Finished pieces often incorporate printed matter and cultural detritus, which gives them an immediate and tactile connection to the world of objects.
I am particularly interested in the postage stamp as a geographical artifact, and through my drawing process I attempt to learn something about a place by studying its official imagery and then creating a world beyond the borders of its fragmentary scenes. The finished drawings and paintings are a record of this study; they are a dialogue between the printed and the drawn, the official and the personal, the real and the imaginary. They are a metaphor for the way in which we conjure the places we hear about on the news and read about in books, using the tiniest pieces of information to construct a reality that most likely bears little resemblance to any actual place.
Andrea Moreau’s mixed-media works, on the other hand, walk a tightrope between context and isolation. Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. These stamps may become lost in a frenzy of Moreau’s mark-making, as with “Mexico (Flowers) #15,” or left comically obvious, like in “USA (Barbershop...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Duchándome and Pity June 4th Watercolor Nudes on Paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel, Paper, Ink
Ferrari Berlinetta 563, circa 1964, Gouache Illustration by Jack Leynnwood
By Jack Leynnwood
Located in Long Island City, NY
This gouache painting on illustration board was created by American artist Jack Leynnwood. Fascinated by aviation from a young age, Leynnwood did kit illustrations of everything from military aircraft to rigged ships, Rat Finks, Flash Gordon, space ships and Ed “Big Daddy...
Category
1960s Photorealist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Hoopoe, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
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Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper,
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art,
Subject: Hoopoe,
Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Indication
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA from Bradley University (2006) and an MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2009). He is Associate Profes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper
“End of the Day”
By Henry Charles Fox
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original watercolor of a bucolic scene with a farm with geese and a man on his horse driven wagon as the sun sets in the English countryside. Signed lower left by the British artist, Henry Charles Fox...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,125 Sale Price
37% Off
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category
1940s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
“It’s high time we met" story illustration for the Post
By Henry Raleigh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Gay Banditti” by I. A. R. Wylie for The Saturday Evening Post, published February 26, 1938, pages 6-7.
The full caption reads: “‘It’s high time we met,’...
Category
1930s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Study for "Lucifer"
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Plumb, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A towering stack of pancakes, topped with butter and dripping syrup, balances as a plumb line ensures its perfect level. The precise measurement keeps the foo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Red Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
By Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers (P5.37), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm), Description: Hanging down over the ...
Category
1960s Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cardinals and Cherry Blossom, Original Painting
By Suren Nersisyan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Two cardinals convene among delicate cherry blossoms. The bright red, pink and green of the scene lend dimensionality and a remi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Coastal Trees Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Coastal Trees Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
A vibrant watercolor landscape of towering coniferous trees against a bright blue and cloudy sky, by California artist, Lucile Marie Johnston (1907-1994, American).
Signature in bottom right corner. Presented in a new soft grey mat with foam core backing.
Paper size: 16.5"H x 21.5"W
Mat size: 20"H x 26"W
Born in Santa Rosa, California on May 26, 1907, Lucile Johnston settled in Glendale 1930-1939, later moving to Carmel and then Pacific Grove in Monterey County, California where she remained. she managed Marsh's Oriental Antiques Shop...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled - After Cadmus - Nude Males Embracing, Original Graphite Drawing
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
This untitled work by Rick Sindt was inspired by the works of Paul Cadmus. It is a small graphite drawing of two male nude figures with both of their faces somewhat obscured during an intimate moment. The graph lines often used by artist are still visible to distinguish between the photographic elements of a Polaroid photo and this actual drawing. The piece is framed in a white float frame measuring 12.5h x 10.5w inches.
Rick Sindt
Untitled - After Cadmus
graphite on panel
10h x 8w in
25.40h x 20.32w cm
Shifting the historic male gaze into a male-on-male gaze, this body of work anchors its
exploration of queer culture in relationships and introspection. Beginning with a survey of
several photo archives, I overwhelmingly encountered pictures that fit into two distinct
categories: spectacular demonstrations or public displays of sexuality. All of these images were overtly political. Then, I began to find a subset of more intimate images. Typically, these were images submitted by loved ones or donated to foundations after someone’s death. These images depicted common, tender scenes.
Working my way through these images, I reflected on D. A. Miller’s assertion that gay
identity, to which we have entrusted our politics and ethics, stands in an essentially reductive
relation to the queer desires on which it is based. And David Halperin’s argument that, “identity has become the preferred category for thinking about homosexuality. Moreover, it has been promoted at the direct expense of pleasure or feelings or subjectivity.” This left me asking the questions: how is queer culture transmitted if not genealogically? Is there a universal queer experience? What is queer sensibility and subjectivity and can it be visually represented?
In the body of work submitted here, black and white graphite drawings maintain a
Polaroid scale referencing the found historical photographs on which they are based, oil paintings provide isolated moments of feeling as they investigate questions about queer dispositions in a contemporary setting, and a few key sketches provide insight into how a few individual inquiries began.
Rick Sindt
b. 1990, Hastings, MN,
EDUCATION
2013 North Park University, Chicago, IL - BFA
Magna Cum Laude
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Two Countries, Rogue Philanthropy, Chicago, IL
2013 Tides, Erosion or Catch, Pull, Recover; The-One-Right-Now, North Park University;
Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Are We Not of Interest to Each Other, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point-of-View, Contemporary Gallery at Zhou B.
Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Collective: Process, Beans and Bagels, Chicago, IL
2015 Collective: for(a)ging, Hammond Art Center; Hammond, IN
How We Make It, The Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
Collective: One, Albany Park...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Panel, Graphite
Samantha Haring "Opaque - Chalk Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Mud Season, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A misty countryside stretches under a soft sky, with rolling green hills fading into the fog. A white house stands in the distance while a muddy waterway stretc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Interior Scene with Figures
By Louis Schanker
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed with the Estate stamp lower center
Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin
...
Category
1930s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Waves along the Rocky Coast”
By Edmund Darch Lewis
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor and gouache painting of waves crashing on the rocks along the shore by the renowned American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Signed lower left and dated 1908. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original art nouveau frame recently restored. Under UV glass. Overall framed measurements are 21.75 by 33.75 inches.
Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910)
Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia on October 17, 1835 to a successful, wealthy, well-connected family. He studied with Paul Weber...
Category
Early 1900s Academic USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Pasture Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
Pleasant watercolor landscape painting of pasture with cows in background by French artist Tae, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. M...
Category
1950s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Liber Mystia XLIII
By Henry Hablak
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Liber Mystia XLIII" is an original artwork by Henry Hablak made of gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper measuring 16.25"h x 12.25"w framed and 14"h x 11"w unframed.
Henry Habl...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil
Untitled, Mary Abbott, Painting, Watercolor, Woman Abstract Expresionnist, 2005
By Mary Abbott
Located in New York, NY
Mary Abbott (1921-2019)
Untitled, 2005
Watercolor on paper
Artwork: 5 x 7 in. l 13 x 18 cm
Framed: 10 x 12 in. l 25 x 30 cm
Signed lower right
Mary Abbott (1921-2019) was an America...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Prison 30, unique signed drawing 1990s geometric abstraction by Peter Halley
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley
Prison 30, 1995
Original graphite drawing on paper
Pencil signed on the recto. Titled and dated verso.
This unique work on paper was created by Peter Halley in 1995 to b...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Fool's Paradise Movie Costume Sketch Cecil B. DeMille - Classic Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Natacha Rambova imaginatively conceives and sketches a costume for Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 movie Fool's Paradise: Paramount. Rendered in Gouache, watercolor, pencil, and metallic s...
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1920s Symbolist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silver, Bronze
March Sea - Small Detailed Seascape, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
By Christina Haglid
Located in Chicago, IL
Frothy waves fill the foreground and meld into a turbulent sky in this small, intricate watercolor by artist Christina Haglid. She is able to achieve a detail rarely seen in waterco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Male Portrait
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique drawing, synthetic polymer on paper.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The And...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Polymer
Peafowl Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
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Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Peafowl
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
“Maine Coast”
By Julee Docking
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media composed of oil pastel and watercolor of the Maine coast by the Sarasota artist, Julee Docking. Circa 1970. Signed lower right. Titled verso. Condition is excellent; no issues. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Julee Docking biography:
Painter, Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic, Collage, Woodcuts, Charcoal, Mixedmedia, Sculptor, Clay, Mixed media.
Born: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland
Studied:
Corcoran Art School-Washington DC
High Museum,Atlanta ,GA and Private Lessons
Taught:
Painting and Sculpture in Atlanta and Sarasota
Membership:
National League of American Pen Women,
Women's Caucus ofArt,
Florida Artists Group member 1973
Petticoat Painters member 1975
Art Center Sarasota member 1972
Manatee Art Center
Venice Art Center
Artist Statement:
I enjoy painting in all media, relying on "Chance" to help create the First Ecstatic Impression of either abstract or Realism Genres.
A long time resident of Sarasota, Julee Docking has been listed in "A History of Visual Art in Sarasota"
And was part of the fine Arts Society "Artist and Collectors Tour" in 1973 and again in 1988
AWARDS:
Gold Medallion, Cornell Museum FL
Hilton Leach...
Category
1970s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Newspapers on the Table - Miniature Still Life in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Newspapers on the Table - Miniature Still Life in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Finely detailed watercolor by California artist Darien Payne (American, b. 1951). Newspapers and a few ot...
Category
1990s Photorealist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper
Delicate and detailed drawing by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) The viewer looks out past a gate at the Hudson River, with its characteristic mountain banks. A shepherd is driving a flock of sheep towards the gate and viewer. The scene appears to have been copied from a drawing book published in 1827, based on the inscription at the bottom edge.
Presented in white archival mat
Mat size: 12"H x 12"W
Paper size: 7.5"H x 9.25"W
Notes of interest on Edward Watkinson Wells
Our most significant acquisition this year came from a dealer in Philadelphia. It is a 450-page diary written over 10 years (1841-1851) by Hartford artist and dilettante Edward Watkinson Wells (1819-1898), one of the many nephews of our founder, David Watkinson (1778-1857).
Edward was immersed in Hartford’s cultural life in the 1840s, exhibited his works at local fairs and gave lessons to the locals. He portrays an active involvement with with his large extended family, which often crossed and re-crossed the other prominent families of Hartford (i.e., Barnard, Channing, Dexter, Ely, Gallaudet, Gill, Goodrich, Hudson, Rockwell, Silsbee, Tappan, Terry, Tracy, Trumbull, Van Renselaer, and Wadsworth).
Edward describes dancing and costume parties, soirees, teas, dinners, and receptions in private homes and public venues. He meets Charles Dickens and his wife when they come through Hartford in 1842, and describes brushes with other luminaries, such as Col. Thomas L. McKenney (who lectures on American Indians), and the Unitarian clergyman Rev. Henry Giles, who gave a pro-Irish speech.
Other entertainments included a balloon ascension, exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism, parades, and performances by well-known groups. He also chronicles the progression of the construction of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and touches on his father’s far-reaching interests in the business world–canals, railroads, factories, and real estate.
The cost of this valuable document of mid-19thC Hartford was generously underwritten entirely by a member of the Watkinson Trustees.
Trinity College and the Watkinson Virtual Library has content on Edward Watkinson Wells.
Yale College also:
Edward Watkinson Wells also kept a diary, of which three volumes are preserved (folder 32). He describes a trip by steamboat to Florida, ca. 1855-1860, and the social life and customs he observed there. The other two volumes detail his daily life in Hartford during 1856-1860, and record the deaths of his father and David Watkinson in 1857.
Other items contained in the William Wells...
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1830s Romantic USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
"Lanvin Paris Pink Dress w/ White Swan c1950s Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Sheet Sz: 11 3/4"H x 17"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Polo Match, Framed Watercolor by John W. Dunn- 1932
Located in Pasadena, CA
This framed watercolor is signed lower right by the American artist J.W. Dunn.
It depicts a thrilling equestrian polo match from the 1930s, featuring four riders in traditional pol...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$634 Sale Price
60% Off
In Isolation Series VI
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VI" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Moody Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy captures the drama of light and shadow on blooming Magnolias. She renders the flowers with a realistic approach, carefully detailing the d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Herony III - color pencil drawing of newly hatched Heron
By Sylvia Beckman
Located in Chicago, IL
This color pencil drawing is reminiscent of a John James Audubon drawing with its precision and attention to detail, from the top of its downy head to its craggy feet. A baby heron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Archival Paper
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
Category
1970s Outsider Art USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Muscular Black Male Nude Academic Life Drawing in Charcoal
By John R. Grabach
Located in Miami, FL
Charcoal on cream laid paper mounted on board. 940x590 mm; 37x23 1/4 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right recto.
Unframed, The Paper has a slight ripple in the chest area. Four s...
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1950s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Board
Jazz Age Dancer Illustration by Broadway Designer Mabel E. Johnston
Located in New York, NY
Mabel E. Johnston
Untitled, c. 1930s
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Sight: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Mabel E. Johnston
The first tidb...
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1920s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Bouquet of Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
By Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Bouquet of Flowers (P4.8), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 19.5 x 13.5 in. (49.53 x 34.29 cm), Description: Illuminate...
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1960s Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses & Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative watercolor painting, titled The Way War First Comes (1940), was created by noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era. The pie...
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1940s American Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup (Tonalist Style Country Landscape at Twilight)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Romantic, Tonalist style landscape drawing by Sue Bryan of a lush country forest set against a serene sunset
charcoal and acrylic on Arches paper mounted on wood
16 x 20 inches, unf...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic
Daniel Garber Original Drawing, from Artist's Estate
By Daniel Garber
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958)
Balderstons, c. Early 20th Century
Pencil on paper
7 x 9 in.
Framed: 12 x 4 x 1/2 in.
Titled and initialed lower right: Balderstons, D.G.
Proven...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Orientalist Interior" Watercolor by Philippe Jullian Ex- D.D. Ryan Estate
By Philippe Jullian
Located in Bristol, CT
Elegant & fabulously rare, original Philippe Jullian (1919-1977) (ink signed LR) watercolour depicting a lavish Moorish opium salon interior with a reclining nude portrait on the wall and two monkeys with their turban clad handler.
Sagittarius Gallery, NY label inscribed Jullian No. 18 on verso
Art Sz: 8 3/4"H x 11 1/8"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 18"W
w/ Hermes orange mat & antique bamboo frame
Provenance: The estate of D. D. Ryan (1928-2007), noted fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, an associate of Halston and a regular on best-dressed lists! Another widely appreciated achievement is her association with the creation of Eloise, the fictional little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel.
Eloise began as a character that Kay Thompson, a cabaret singer, portrayed to amuse her friends, of whom Ms. Ryan was one. Ms. Ryan urged her to write a book, put her together with Hilary Knight, the illustrator, and never stopped pushing her to finish the job. The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its popular sequels.
“The book would never have existed without D. D. Never,” Mr. Knight said in an interview Thursday. “She would have just dropped it and gone on to something else.”
Beyond her historic Eloise moment, Ms. Ryan thrived at the crossroads of New York’s fashion and artistic worlds, seeming to make a statement every time she dressed, almost always in clothes she made herself, always recognizable with her famous precisely stylized eyebrows.
Her first job in Manhattan was as an assistant to the photographer Richard Avedon; she was photo editor at Harper’s Bazaar under the legendary editor Diana Vreeland, and she designed the costumes for Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Broadway musical “Company.”
Her social circle included Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Mr. Sondheim and Truman Capote. When she recommended a new pair of sandals or a piece of costume jewelry — only “really good costume jewelry...
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20th Century Other Art Style USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Redeemer-Framed, Original Pastel on Paper. Signed by Artist-comes with COA
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Original Pastel on Paper. Measures 18 x 26 inches with Frame and Matting. Signed by Artist, comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Image is in Excellent/Good Condition. Framing show...
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1990s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$1,760 Sale Price
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Seated Woman (Elizabeth)
By Franz Kline
Located in New York, NY
EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present
Originally trained as a figurative painter, Kline was an exceptional ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Ink
"Fantasy Landscape with Animals" Abstract Dream Rainbow Peacock Butterfly Fish
Located in Austin, TX
Art Size : 11 x 14 in.
Vintage Frame: 17 x 20 in.
Signed and dated in pencil, bottom right.
Media includes watercolor, acrylic, and pencil on paper.
This vibrant, psychedelic and su...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
A 1920s Caricature of Author Sean O’Casey by Irish Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of author Sean O'Casey, by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Author of 'Juno and the Paycock' etc," Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archivally...
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1920s Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
La femme aux fleurs (Portrait de Mathilde See)
By Paul César Helleu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul César Helleu is regarded among the most sought-after society portraitists of his era, and his Belle Époque works rival those of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini. He is best remembered for capturing the era's most beautiful socialites, including Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Comtesse de Loriol Chandieu and the Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, among others. This work, however, stands out in that it captures the charming likeness of one of his art world cohorts, Mathilde See, a Parisian-born decorator and painter of floral still lifes. She is the essence of the modern woman, captured in her fashionable dress as she strolls along the flower-lined streets of Paris.
Commanding in size, Portrait de Mathilde See fully displays Helleu's mastery over the medium of pastel. The muted palette of greys and blues is typical of the artist, bringing a harmony and cohesiveness to the composition. Furthermore, Helleu cleverly alludes to See's own artistic output with a backdrop of vibrant floral blooms, enlivening the canvas and complementing the greens and blues of the peacock feather adorning her hat.
The portrait is all the more significant thanks to its provenance. It was previously in the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs and one-time owner of Sotheby's. Considering Taubman encountered some of the most noteworthy and beautiful works of art ever made through his auction house, the fact that he chose this portrait by Helleu to grace his collection is a testament to its import.
Born in Brittany in 1859, Helleu moved to Paris in 1876 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like so many other artists of his generation, he was trained there under the Academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme. That same year, he also attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition...
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20th Century Modern USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Linen, Pastel
Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 3/8"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
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1950s USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
IN THE BOTTOM OF MY GARDEN FS II.86-105
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Complete book comprising of 20 offset lithographs and cardboard cover, all hand-colored with watercolor. From the edition of unknown size. All 20 sheets bound (as issued). Minor ti...
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1970s Pop Art USA - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
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