USA - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

'Flying Composition' 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...

Fortuny Rose, original drawing created with Conté & Pastel on Fabriano watermarked, handmade paper, by Susan Manchester. Museum quality frame included...

This graphite drawing by Mary Reilly captures the delicate beauty of blossoms she encountered on a walk in Vermont. Reilly, known for her mastery of graphite pencil, transforms ordin...

Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018 "Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else." "Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...

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...

This beautiful framed botanical watercolor painting is signed Fatima S in the lower right. This colorful botanical painting depicts peach-c...

Watercolor of a pink rose with a stem on laid paper by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Presented in a double mat in a modern silver frame. Signed "Barbara Gibson" and dated "1989" in ...

This etching, titled Mickey's Dining Car, is a mezzotint by John Baeder, hand-signed and numbered in pencil out of an edition of 200. Known for his dedicati...

'Small Dahlia' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. In...

This artwork "Flower in a Vase" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Sara Ethel Kolb Danner, 1894-1969. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 19 x 15.25 inches, framed size is 27.25 x 23.25 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born in NYC on Oct. 2, 1894. As a child Sara Kolb was taught to paint by her father who was an artist and student of Thomas Eakins. She grew up in Philadelphia where in 1917 she wed William Danner. The Danners moved from South Bend, IN to Santa Barbara in 1926 and remained. She studied under Henry Snell at the PAFA (the Sara Kolb Danner...

Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) At Dawn, 1975 Pencil on paper 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Framed: 14 2/3 x 11 1/3 in. Signed upper right: Kipniss '75 Verso bears Hirschl & Adler Galleries Label Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work. Robert Kipniss has received many awards: 1965 - Ohio University National Drawing Show, Purchase Prize 1976 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Ralph Fabri Prize 1978 - The Print Club of Philadelphia, Charles M Lea Prize 1979 - Charlotte Printmakers Society, Purchase Award 1979 - Society of American Graphic Artists, Printmaking Award 1979 - Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, Honorary Doctorate 1980 - Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City 1980 - Audubon Artists, New York City, Silver Medal 1980 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Leo Meissner...

Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century. They are watercolor on ...

Allium Pop is a Cyanotype by Cynthia MacCollum. It is 30x22 on archival paper. It is currently unframed. It is a beautiful botanical artwork, an Allium Flower, filled with a range...

This Three Small Sunflowers still-life by Beulah Stevenson (1890-1965) is a joyful modernist composition. With just touches of color she indicates a window and colorful curtains blow...

'San Francisco Symphony Still Life no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth...

Three seashells, each depicted on their own individual pastel color background and with fine detail, by Gary Ermoloff (American, b. 1949). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Ermoloff pieces. Presented in a new blue-grey mat with foamcore backing. Paper size: 17.75"H x 23.75"W Gary Ermoloff (American b. 1949) attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he received his BA in Fashion Illustration. He is a former member of AIGA and a former Board Member...

Vertical charcoal drawing on Arches paper 18 x 13 inches unframed 25 x 20 inches in black metal frame with AR non-glare glass & 8-ply mat This contemporary, abstract charcoal drawin...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Apple Study Year: 1985 Medium: Graphite on vélin paper Size: 12 x 10 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, NY ...

Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018 "Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else." "Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...

Mid-century modern realist watercolor still-life by Claude Buck (American, 1890-1974). This highly detailed watercolor features a yellow toothbrush and set of pliers in a decorative...

'Bright Camellias' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size....

Antique Floral Still Life of Roses, Delicatly Rendered American, 19th/20th Century Signed: A. Ziffel 1906 (Lower, Right) " Still Life of Roses ", 1906 Watercolor and Gouache on...

George Mauersberger (American, 20th Century) Veg 4, 2004 Watercolor on paper 9 x 12 inches 13 x 16 inches, framed George Mauersberger completed th...

Created by Carole Doyle Peel (American, 1934-2016) circa 1985 and accompanied by first edition volume, 'Carole Doyle Peel: The Delight of Drawing', 2...

'Roses and Agapanthus' original watercolor painted in 2021 in beautiful shades of pinks and blues from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over ...

Vibrant and charming still-life of a bouquet of yellow tulips in a glass vase with purple background by Nancy Martin (English-American, 1906-2000). Signed...

Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018 "Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else." "Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...

'SF Symphony Still Life #4' 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...

'Rose and Agapanthus' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...

Unidentified/ Unknown Artist, "Untitled: Still Life with Cauliflower, Orange and Pepper", Monogrammed Still Life Watercolor on Paper, 16 x 20, Late 20th Century Colors: Brown, Blue...

'Calla Lilies' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great dep...

'Seaward', depicting a cargo ship exiting Golden Gate, passing Seal Rock, and entering the Pacific.Ocean, is a highly collectable original 10 x 16 inch watercolor painting by Interna...

Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Cen...

Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University. She has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary and ...

Mary Reilly's "Cherry Blossoms 4" (2025) is a 24 x 18-inch graphite pencil drawing that captures the delicate beauty of cherry blossoms. Reilly's meticulous technique involves layeri...

Very well painted original watercolor on archival paper of potted geraniums with metal watering can and garden gloves. Signed in pencil by the artist Peggy Dressel lower right. The S...

colored pencil and postage stamp on paper 11 x 12 inches unframed 15 x 16 inches framed This modern, intricately drawn color pencil drawing was made by American artist, Andrea More...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...

Visually bright and dynamic work by expressive California artist Bengston. Colors are crisp and the oversize sheet and size mays for strong visual impact in a room. Newly framed in...

In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This was probably for a cookbook. The dimensions are for the drawing. The sheet is somewhat larger, 7 x 6 1/2 inches.

Phone booths at the Doggie Diner- an iconic American original watercolor painting - 24 x 16 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Doggie Diner Booths...

'Amaryllis Study no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...

Artist: Arman Title: Watch Gears Year: circa 1979 Medium: Ink on Paper Drawing, signed l.r. Paper Size: 25 x 19 inches Frame Size: 34 x 27.5 inches

'Tall Iris I' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, int...

Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1966. Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others. Selected Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984: RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC. Arun Art Centre The Bath Festival Exhibition Selected Solo Shows: 1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival 1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States 1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States 1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival 1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...

Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beau...