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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
"Billy the Brownie With Flowers #407" original tempera by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a pair of flowers. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
10 x 8 inches, artwork
17 x 13.13 inches, frame
stamped with artist signature lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
1940s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
'Homage to Schomer Lichtner: The Merrymakers' original signed mixed media
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
David Barnett's "Homage to Schomer Lichtner: The Merrymakers" is an original mixed media artwork, signed by the artist in the lower left. The artwork itself becomes a collaboration b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Giclée
"Red Sands Golf Course, " Oil Pastel on Paper Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red Sands Golf Course" is an original oil pastel drawing on a paper bag. It depicts a golf course with bright red sands. The artist signed the piece in the upper right.
16 1/2" x ...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
'Golf' original ink and graphite drawing by American cartoonist Al Capp
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This exquisite yet unfinished drawing by American cartoonist Al Capp, entitled 'Golf,' presents a humorous view of the beloved game. The composition depicts fo...
Category
1930s American Realist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
"Scarlet Red & Ivory Black, " Colored Pencil & Watercolor signed by Tom Shelton
By Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Scarlet Red & Ivory Black" is an original colored pencil & watercolor drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says:
“In order to see wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Sponge Effects, purple abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
By Lisa Fellerson
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Boston Tea Party Celebration III' original watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Artworks in David Barnett's 'Boston Tea Party' series present a playful vision of one of the foundational narratives of the United States. In the imag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Lie on a Cloud, purple abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
By Lisa Fellerson
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Orange/Black abstract' original signed pastel drawing, blue and salmon 1980s
By Valerie Christell
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Valerie Christell's large pastel drawings from the early 1980s take the landscape and make it abstract. In them, she tries to emulate the experience of seeing the land while driving at high speed on the back of a motorcycle. The resulting imagery is rendered in energetic and gestural line work that morphs into large fields of color. This example, 'Orange/Black abstract,' takes on the appearance of nighttime, lit only by the light of the motorcycle headlight...
Category
1980s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"Barn Near Big Cedar Lake #781, " Original Sepia Conte signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Barn Near Big Cedar Lake #781" is an original sepia conte crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The drawing depicts an old barn surrounded by wooden fencing. The fence cuts di...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté
"Lake Michigan Bathers, " Pencil, Reverse, & Photo signed by Francesco Spicuzza
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lake Michigan Bathers" is an original pencil sketch by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. On the reverse is a silver gelatin photo print...
Category
1910s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Head of Woman with Stars, " Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Head of Woman with Stars" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features the profile of a woman's head with various ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"48 Flowers, " Colored Pencil on Paper Landscape with Trees signed by Tom Shelton
By Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"48 Flowers" is an original colored pencil drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says:
“The state flower of each of the 48 contiguous states is shown, and located where its state is geographically, where a US map...
Category
1980s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
"Region Nine Walkers, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Region Nine Walkers" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it on the back. It features two blue fi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
'Fruit Still Life' original watercolor and gouache on board, signed Yolanda
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Though signed "Yolanda," the artist of this gouache and watercolor painting is unknown. The still life, contained and symmetrical, is dominated by the form of a pear. On either side,...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
'Boston Tea Party with White Tea Bag' original watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Artworks in David Barnett's 'Boston Tea Party' series present a playful vision of one of the foundational narratives of the United States. In the imag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Scaredy Cat, " Watercolor on Paper Portrait of Cat by Julia Taylor
By Julia Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Scaredy Cat" is an original watercolor by Julia Taylor. The subject is a fluffy cat who's back is arched in terror. All of the cat's hair is painted on en...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Leonardo Dreaming of the Mona Lisa, " Original Abstract signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Leonard Dreaming of the Mona Lisa" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. The abstract piece features a dark blue and purple broodin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"After Rene Magritte with Lips, " Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"After Rene Magritte With Lips" is an original watercolor and ink drawing by David Barnett. The artist signed, titled, and dated the piece in the lower right. This artwork depicts a ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Diner, " a Realist Watercolor signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Diner" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front facade of a diner with careful attention to reflection, atmosphere, and light.
22" x 29 1/2" art
25"...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Yellow Cadillac, " Hyperrealistic Watercolor Painting signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Cadillac" is an original watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. It reatures a shiny yellow car with its doors open sitting on a suburb...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Venice Bridge - Italy, " a Watercolor signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Venice Bridge - Italy" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio ser...
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Painted Garden, Inside Out' original signed mixed media artwork
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Painted Garden, Inside Out’ is an original mixed media artwork, signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Over a delicate still life of a flower garden, Barnett has bisected t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Giclée
"Long Beaked Bird" original signed pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
12 x 18 inches, artwork
20.5 x 26.5 inches, frame
Signed upper right
Stamped with artist's signature, lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Fran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Ebb and Flow" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this pastel drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic view resembling waves and rolling hills. The colors of the repeating patterns and softness of the undulati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Trillium" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves.
10 x 7.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 17.25 inch...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor of a mountain chalet under the snow., Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Christine Jacquel
Located in Yardley, PA
Watercolor of a mountain chalet under the snow. Original watercolor of a cottage in winter. Watercolor of a mountain hut painted on a Fabriano 300lb paper. Watercolor cottage La Juli...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Untitled (Woman), " Color Pencil Sketch signed by Angelika Thusius
By Angelika Thusius
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Untitled" is an original color pencil drawing by Angelika Thusius. The artist signed with her initial in the lower right. This drawing depicts a seated female figure. This piece is ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
"Circus Side Show with Flying Turtles, " Purple Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Circus Side Show with Flying Turtles" is an original purple ink drawing by David Barnett. The artist signed the artwork along the lower part of the drawing ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
'Self Portrait' original pastel and graphite drawing signed by Sandra Sweeney
By Sandra Sweeney
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Following in line with artists before her, like Rembrandt and van Gogh, Sandra Sweeny here presents a self portrait. The image is direct but subtle in its handling of materials, but ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Graphite, Paper
"The Escape Artist, " Watercolor on Paper Portrait of Red Panda by Julia Taylor
By Julia Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Escape Artist" is an original watercolor by Julia Taylor. This cute little troublemaker is sitting on a tree. The Red Panda sits peacefully up in the tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Window Reflections, " Watercolor Cityscape signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Window Reflections" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts a window, likely from a residential building. This view does not allow the viewer to see much of th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Homage to Ruben Blades' giclée print on watercolor paper after 2000 color ink
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In ‘Homage to Ruben Blades,’ artist David Barnett celebrates the works of Panamanian Salsa musician and actor Rubén Blades. Seen here performing in concert, Blades takes center stage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Giclée
"Petie (Duck)" conte crayon drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a duck in a watery landscape, rendered in her elegant modernist style. Other forms in the drawing appear to shoot up like le...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
"Seated Cat, " Charcoal Drawing with Stamped Signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...
Category
1950s American Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
'Deep Blue With Pamela' original signed pastel portrait drawing purple and green
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Deep Blue With Pamela' is an original signed pastel portrait. The drawing presents a portrait, presumably of Pamela, who Reggie has rendered in greens and yellows and pinks against ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"The Nature of Things, " Abstract Oil Pastel Drawing initialed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Nature of Things" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece on the back. This work features a variety of abstract techniques-...
Category
1980s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' original pastel drawing signed by Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
Category
1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Wolf Lake A-18, " Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake A-18" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. It is signed in the lower right corner and titled in the lower left, both in pencil. The piece is framed a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
In the Forest, green abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
By Lisa Fellerson
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Florida Gulf Coast-Sanibel Island Sunset, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Florida Gulf Coast - Sanibel Island Sunset" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. With impressionistic...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Birch Bear, " Mixed Media Watercolor on Birch Bark signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Birch Bear" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed along the lower edge. The artist collects shed birch bark that he finds in the forest surrounding his home. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Dancing Saguaro & Coyote, " Original Floral Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dancing Saguaro & Coyote" is an original watercolor painted by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The abstracted desert landscape is rendered in strata of pure bright ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Woman By The River' original color pencil drawing signed by Angelika Thusius
By Angelika Thusius
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small, intimate drawing, Angelika Thusius presents an image of a woman kneeling on the ground before a river. Foliage bursts all around her, framing her in the oasis. In the distance, two other figures kneel, engaged in a similar task. The simple yet stylized form of her body and skirt recall the images of lauded Latinx artists like Diego Rivera and Alfredo Ramos Martínez...
Category
1980s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"Old Cabin Near Big Cedar Lake" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a lakeside cabin under the shade of a massive tree. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, wh...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"The Dance" original crayon drawing inscribed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza cavalry takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous paintings titled "La Dance" that hang in the Hermitage Museum ...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Left of Center, purple and green abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
By Lisa Fellerson
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...
Category
1960s Color-Field Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Crossroads A-73, " Hazy Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Crossroads A-73" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel landscape drawing. The landscape figures a yellow field in the foreground and a cluster of deep green trees in the middle ground, behind which the tiniest strip of water is visible in light blue. On the distant horizon, a dark green hill meets a serene blue sky.
Art size: 16" x 12"
Frame size: 29 1/2" x 25 1/2"
Framed to conservation standards. Matted with a cream-colored acid-free mat board and glazed in UV Clear Glass that filters 99% of UV Rays to inhibit fading. All this is housed in a traditional moulding in a gold finish.
A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply with her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers.
Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture.
Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting.
Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her.
With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Beaver Lake Reflections, " Original Framed Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake Reflections" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The painting is an abstract representation of the lake on which the...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Boston Tea Party Celebration II' original watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Artworks in David Barnett's 'Boston Tea Party' series present a playful vision of one of the foundational narratives of the United States. In the imag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Two Women In Oriental Costume" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a bust-length view of two elegant women dressed in East Asian costume. Their faces reflect the ideal of beauty during the 19...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
"Wolf '06, " Watercolor on Paper Wolf Portrait by Julia Taylor
By Julia Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf '06" is an original watercolor by Julia Taylor. The gentle wolf looks right at the viewer; there is no fear in its eyes.
Image: 15 x 22.3 in
Frame: 19.63 x 25.63
She was the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"The Humming of Cicadas at Chenequa, " Landscape Pastel Drawing on Canson paper
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Humming of Cicadas at Chenequa" is an original pastel drawing on Canson paper by Peggy Leonard. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece depicts a view into dense vegetation, likely the edge of a forest, in green, orange, yellow, and blue.
19 1/2" x 25 1/2" art
26" x 32" frame
Peggy Leonard received her BFA in painting and drawing and an associate’s degree in nursing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is both a registered nurse, and accomplished artist, residing in Milwaukee, WI.
From the artist:
“These paintings are my prayers,” muses Leonard, reflecting on her driving need to express herself through her art. “We are made of the stuff that requires us to respond with our hearts and hands. Often, it requires terrible sacrifice and suffering, something not everyone can understand. But it is done with reverence of life, not irreverence.”
Leonard’s pastels and oil paintings capture her reverence of life and reflect her own life’s journey, including earlier forays into the wilderness. Her venture into art began in early childhood, as childless neighbors nurtured her natural ability to draw; concurrently, Leonard’s parents instilled a respect for academic excellence and the higher order of nurturing others.
As a young nurse, Leonard “heard and saw poignant messages to travel while one was young and free…while one had one’s health.” Consequently, she took to the open road and public lands, camping across America for months at a time. During these years, her “celebration of the natural splendor of this country” helped shape her sense of artistic expression. She was moved by such sights as the sunset on St. Mary’s Lake...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel
"Calla Lily, " Original Watercolor Botanical Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Calla Lily" is an original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece "Miss Spicuzza" in the lower right. This piece depicts a calla lily blooming in various greens....
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"Seated Nude with 'X'" original conté drawing by Sandra Sweeney
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Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Nude with 'X'" is a conté crayon drawing on paper by the American artist Sandra Sweeney (1947 - 2017). The figure study captures an intimate and candid moment: In the image, ...
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1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Paper
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