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A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Arms)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of Male Arms by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study (a c...
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1930s American Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
3rd Grade Reader: Figurative Drawing of Feathers and Blue Wave on Antique Paper
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative chalk drawing of colorful feathers and blue wave on vintage collaged book pages
'The Third Grade Reader- Feathers on Water' by Louise Laplante in 2022
pastel on collaged v...
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2010s Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Framed to 15 X ...
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1980s Folk Art USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
No Time 4 Love, original signed & titled ink drawing on Royal Mail FDC, framed
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
No Time 4 Love drawing, 2017
Original ink drawing on a Royal Mail Art in the 20th Century 1st Day Cover
Signed, titled and dated in pen on the front
Frame included
Signed...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Offset
Winter Reflections, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and lake
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Yellow Jacket, Portrait Painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Untitled Rose, 1983
Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper
Signed and dated on the front
Framed
Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Measurements:
Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5
Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches
Lowell Nesbitt Biography:
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
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1880s Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Mixed Media
WINDMILL AND WORKERS (Large Pastel)
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Santa Monica, CA
B.J.O. NORDFELDT (Swedish/American 1878 – 1955)
(WINDMILL AND WORKERS). c.1900. Color pastel on colored paper, unsigned. 22 ¼ x 15”. Sheet: 24 ½ x 18 ¼”. In 1900 Nordfeldt studied ...
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Early 1900s Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$1,600 Sale Price
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Gold Rush Town Columbia, California Landscape by Lillie Heebner
By L. Heebner
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful figurative landscape watercolor painting of Columbia, California, showing two men in cowboy hats. By Lillie Eesther (Hillman) Heebner, a Monterey Bay area artist. Signed "L....
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1970s American Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$251 Sale Price
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Avril Navarre, Dans Mam, zelle Angot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Avril Navarre, Dans Mam,zelle Angot" referring to the famous ballet dancer, Avril Navarre, c.1950 is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on brown paper by noted Fre...
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Mid-20th Century Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Villa Giardino, 20th Century Charcoal Italian Landscape Drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Villa Giardino
Charcoal on paper
Signed and titled verso
17.75 x 12.5 inches
A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was pa...
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20th Century American Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Longer You Stay, Watercolor, Ink on Paper, Figurative Portrait, Nude Woman, Pose
By SarahGrace
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"The Longer You Stay" (2020) by SarahGrace
Watercolor and Ink on Paper; Blue, White & Black, Contour Sketch, Woman Posing, Face, Pose, Portrait, Nude, Figurative Study, Pastel palett...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Patterns female figure pattern dress strong red-orange and black colors
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...
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2010s Expressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Rheims Cathedral
By Henri Schäfer
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper. Signed and titled in watercolor in the lower right image area. Small circular pea-sized damp stain in the top center image area (visible in the are of the sky), and some additional small spots of unobtrusive foxing in the upper left sheet area. Otherwise in very good condition with fresh colors and intricate brushwork.
Henri Schäfer...
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1870s Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
The Archibald Russell.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Archibald Russell. 1935. Pencil and watercolour on watercolour board. 20 7/8 x 28 5/8. Mat line from a previous mount; otherwise excellent condition. Signed and dated in ink, low...
Category
1930s Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$3,000 Sale Price
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Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
Category
1970s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Dutch Landscape with Road
By George Leonard Linton Herdle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: George Leonard Linton Herdle (American, 1868-1922)
Title: Dutch Lanscape with Road
Year: Circa 1910
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor
Image size: 20.5 x 14.25 inch...
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Early 19th Century Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Landscape
Year: 1992
Medium: Pastel on paper
Paper: Wove paper
Image size: 10.5 x 13.25 inches
Fram...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
William Glackens Charcoal on Paper Drawing, Dated 1902
By William Glackens
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
Dubourg Drew from his Basket his Mechanical Syringe, 1902
Charcoal, gouache and white chalk on paper
Signed (at bottom cen...
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Early 1900s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Cords, Drawing 2014
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"A Kind Suggestion" Life magazine interior illustration
By Charles Dana Gibson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Life magazine interior illustration, June 15, 1893
The full caption reads:
“The Stout One: There is nothing left now but a final separation, I fear, with no likelihood of a reconc...
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1890s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape
By Edwin C. Siegfried
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" c.1940 is a pastel on paper by noted California artist Edwin C. Siegfried 1889-1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size i...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"A Grandmother's Delight"
By Martha Walter
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Martha Walter (1875-1976)
Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Martha Walter attended Girls’ High School followed by the Pennsylva...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on ight cardboard
Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W
Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in
Signed and dated in th...
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1980s Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Cardboard
Carmel Mission Basilica
By Jeanne A. Ocker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Carmel Mission Basilica" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Jeanne Ocker, born 1922. It is signed and dated at the...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Amur Rarities" (2024) by Nana Williams, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nana Williams' "Amur Rarities" created in 2024, is an original handmade watercolor painting made on hot press watercolor paper that depicts an amur leopard with golden butterflies. T...
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2010s Gothic USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fashion for our Future
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Renowned female artist Mary Frank, Cast 3-D Cast Paper Collage Signed, No. 78/85
By Mary Frank
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank
Untitled 3-D Cast Paper Collage, 1985
3D Cast Paper with Deckled Edges
Hand signed, numbered 78/85 and dated by the artist on lower left front
21 3/4 × 28 1/2 × 1 3/4 inch...
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1980s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
"She stepped to her place and fired without taking her usual careful aim.”
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
She stepped to her place and fired without taking her usual careful aim.” Illustration for Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott, for the 1906 editio...
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Early 20th Century USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Mountain landscape with an aqueduct and dam - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on smooth cream wove paper with a window pane drawn in gold ink, 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (213 x 298 mm). Signed illegibly and dated in ink and again in pencil within the lower m...
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Mid-19th Century French School USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Infanta Futura- graphite pencil drawing - woman with cactus and succulents
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Futura,' features the face of a young woman with succulents and cactus in an intricately patterned and complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. from Japanese artist Chikako O...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
The Height of Fashion, 1912
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left: W.E. Hill 12
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1910s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Uranus (turquoise blue planet) - line drawing woman figure with circle
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in turquoise blue color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size.
This is the "Many thought...
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2010s Minimalist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"House Studies Series V", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series V" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Wood, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Flamenco Avec Rosario" (Florence Perez Padilla)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Flamenco Avec Rosario" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Antonio Ruiz Soler and Florence Perez Padilla A.K.A Rosario, c.1945...
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Mid-20th Century Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1940s Netting the Catch
By Walter P. Taylor
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...
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1940s American Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$600 Sale Price
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Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Charcoal Drawing
By John Haley
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist drawing in shades and tones of grays and black by John Haley (American, 1905-1991), c.1956-7. Signed lower left corner. Presented in 3" mat. Condition: Very good: some edge wear consistent with age. Image size: 25"H x 19"W.
A feature of the artwork of John Charles...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Paper
$1,254 Sale Price
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Love's Web
By Theo Hampe
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 11.78" x 8.00"
Category
Late 19th Century USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$4,500
"Sound and Color" Figurative Drawing, Color Pencil, Ballpoint Pen
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Sound and Color" is an original oil pastel, ballpoint pen, and color pencil on arches paper work by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships in the pictured archival custom frame. The paper...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
“Bringing Home the Game”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a hunter bring home the fresh game by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top right. ...
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1940s Academic USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
$295 Sale Price
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For Nicolai / Head Study No. 88
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
For Nicolai / Head Study No. 88 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in blue. The work is created with mixed media on paper, including stabilo pencil, g...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Gouache
Among Strangers and Friends
By Fortunino Matania
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Black Watercolor Wash
Dimensions: 12.50" x 9.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story Illustration. Shipdeck game: men thereading women's needles.
Category
Early 20th Century USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1950s "Mark" Oil Pastel and Gouache Figurative Painting NYC Modern Mid Century
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Mark"
c.1950s
Oil pastel and gouache paint on paper
14x17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
By Raul Anguiano
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
Category
1960s Realist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
$4,400 Sale Price
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Landscape #II
By Merton Clivette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape II
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Watercolor
Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Harbor Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Harbor Scene" 1975, is a watercolor on paper by Latvian artist Paul Duskins, 1928-1996. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Stand Down" Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Tammy Liu-Haller's "Stand Down" is an original, handmade charcoal and graphite drawing that depicts a dark cow looking directly at the viewer.
Category
2010s Photorealist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Etching - Lady Animal, Pastel Watercolor and Acrylic Anthropomorphic Bunny
By Ana May
Located in Houston, TX
Bold in color and whimsy etching colored with watercolor, pastel and acrylics features an anthropomorphized female bunny, posing in Playboy style. Signature at bottom right by artist...
Category
2010s Other Art Style USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching, Pastel, Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic
Stable Scene, 20th century horse and barn watercolor by Cleveland School artist
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Stable Scene
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signed lower right...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Attractive Young Woman Sitting in Chair and Looking Upwards in Domestic Setting
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age Alice Barber Stephens renders in an academic style and women sitting in a chair and responding to something outside of the frame.
Signed lower left. Most likely done for a major newsstand magazine like Harper's, Century or Scribner's Monthly.
Work is framed under glass in a simple black wood frame. Perhaps period. Matt is new. Frame size: 20.5 x 14.5
From: Wikipedia
Alice Barber Stephens (July 1, 1858 – July 13, 1932) was an American painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations. Her work regularly appeared in magazines such as Scribner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, and The Ladies Home Journal.
Early life and education
Alice Barber was born near Salem, New Jersey. She was the eighth of nine children born to Samuel Clayton Barber and Mary Owen, who were Quakers.
She attended local schools until she and her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age 15 she became a student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art & Design), where she studied wood engraving.
The Women's Life Class (1879), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She was admitted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876 (the first year women were admitted), studying under Thomas Eakins. Among her fellow students at the Academy were Susan MacDowell, Frank Stephens, David Wilson Jordan, Lavinia Ebbinghausen, Thomas Anshutz, and Charles H. Stephens (whom she would marry). During this time, at the academy, she began to work with a variety of media, including black-and-white oils, ink washes, charcoal, full-color oils, and watercolors. In 1879, Eakins chose Stephens to illustrate an Academy classroom scene for Scribner's Monthly. The resulting work, Women's Life Class, was Stephens' first illustration credit.
New Woman
As educational opportunities were made more available in the nineteenth century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior by the art world, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". Artists then, "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplifying this emerging type through their own lives."
Alice Barber Stephens, The Women Business, oil, 1897, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
One example of overcoming women stereotypes was Stephens' Woman in Business from 1897, which showed how women could focus not only in the home, but also in the economic world.[8] As women began to work, their career choices broadened and illustration became a commendable occupation. People's ideas about education and art started to merge, and the outcome of a certain sensitivity to the arts began to be seen as uplifting and educational. By using illustration as a means to further their practices, women were able to fit the traditional gender role while still being active in their pursuits for the "New Woman". According to Rena Robey of Art Times, "The early feminists began to leave the home to participate in clubs as moral and cultural guardians, focused on cleaning up cities and helping African Americans, impoverished women, working children, immigrants, and other previously ignored groups." Stephens took advantage of the explosion of illustration opportunities, including the opportunity to work from home.
Women's education
Edwin Forrest House, formerly the home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
Throughout the period before the civil war, textile and other decorative work became acceptable occupations for those who aspired to be in the middle class. The Philadelphia School of Design for Women, founded in 1848 by Sarah Worthington Peter was first among a group of women's design schools established in the 1850s and 1860s; others appeared in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. It began as a charitable effort to train needy and deserving young women in textile and wallpaper design, wood engraving, and other salable artistic skills, providing a means for training women who needed wage work.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) was established in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush...
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Early 1900s Academic USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Charcoal
Untitled: Seated Rear Nude 2
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/Unidentified Artist, "Untitled: Seated Rear Nude 2", Unsigned Figurative/ Nude Watercolor, Charcoal (Mixed Media) Painting on Paper, 18 x 14, Late 20th Century
Colors: Brown...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Charcoal, Mixed Media
"How Do You Win" - Figurative work on paper with text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media work on paper by Adam Baranello.
Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas.
Size 17 x 14 in.
Offered unframed. Ships rolled
Multidisciplinary artist Adam Ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Eric Blore
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of 1930s English character actor Eric Blore, best known for his film roles in ...
Category
1930s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Auto Portrait
By Robert McIntosh
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throu...
Category
1930s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Colored Engraving
Collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational Histor...
Category
17th Century French School USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Paper
Designers Maria Cornejo and Mark Borthwick in Brooklyn, NY. watercolor on paper
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Standing Gentlemen
By Susan Flint
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 9.25" x 14.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
New York City 2 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
By Bernardo Navarro Tomas
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-302
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Fabric, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist
By John Groth
Located in Surfside, FL
John August Groth (American, 1908-1988)
"Wrestling Match,"
Watercolor painting, hand signed upper right and inscribed upper left, "Las Palmas Canary Islands Lucha Canary Wrestling".
Framed Size: 21'' x 29'', 53 x 74 cm (sight); 28.5'' x 36.25'', 72 x 92 cm (frame).
Depiction of a wrestling match in a city square.
John August Groth (1908 - 1988) was an illustrator and art teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent-illustrator. He studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Art Students League with Todros Geller, Robert Brackman, Arnold Blanch and George Grosz.
He was a member: Society of American Etchers; American Newspaper Guild; Society of Illustrators; Associate Member of the National Academy of Design; American Water Color Society.
Positions : Art Director at Esquire 1933 - 1937, Parade Publications 1941 - 1944; War Correspondent for Chicago Sun 1944; American Legion Magazine 1945; Artist-Correspondent in Vietnam 1967.Teacher at Art Students LeagueHe was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design.
In 1940, he was included in an exhibition at MOMA, titled, "PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter." The exhibition included Philip Guston, Reginald Marsh, John Tworkov, John Heliker, Adolf Dehn, and Chet La More.
Groth began sketching intently during the Great Depression after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Following the advice of an editor, he penned 100 sketches a day for years. He learned to increase his speed by listening to sports on the radio and sketching the action as fast as he could. "I would listen to the games on the radio at night, and sketch the plays. It made me very quick." His break came when Arnold Gingrich, an editor for Esquire magazine, approached him at an art show in Chicago and offered him a position. "The way (Arnold Gingrich) told it," John Groth says, "he found this barefoot, bearded kid in the park, and the next day made him art director of the world's leading men's fashion magazine. But I swear I was wearing shoes." Groth went on to work as a correspondent and illustrator for the Chicago Sun, Collier's, Sports Illustrated, and The Saturday Evening Post.
He developed a passion for war zones. He covered six different wars and was one of the first correspondents in Paris after its liberation. "It is only at war that I feel complete... There, you meet all sort of men -- farmers, mechanics, college professors. It rains on them and it rains on you. The shells burst in the air, and you are there, too." He would make a splash when he beat out friend and rival, Ernest Hemingway, into Paris in 1944. Hemingway was writing for the Chicago Tribune and Groth for the Chicago Sun. Groth was in the first jeep into Paris and got the scoop. His headline read, "Yanks are in Paris!" Hemingway would later write about Groth's technique. “None of us understood the sort of shorthand he sketched in. The men would look at the sketches and see just a lot of lines. It was a great pleasure to find what fine drawings they were when we got to see them.
Groth went on to illustrate such classic books as: A Christmas Carol, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grapes of Wrath, The War Prayer, and Gone with the Wind.
Deborah Churchman described Groth's work in a 1980 Washington Post article: "Groth's pictures center on the day-to-day life of people caught in terrifying circumstances -- armies occupying cities, soldiers sweeping roads for land mines, bullfighters facing death." Bernie Schonfeld, a photographer for Life Magazine said of Groth, "John is one of the gentlest people in the world, and he always gets himself into the wildest hell hole." He joined the First Congress of American Artists Against War and Fascism in 1936, along with Stuart Davis, Peter Blume...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Road Warriors" (2012) By Susie Hyer, Original Graphite Drawing on Paper
Located in Denver, CO
"Road Warriors" (2012) By Susie Hyer is an original handmade graphite drawing on paper that depicts a road with cars in the distance, and mountains in the background. This piece meas...
Category
2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
