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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
"Woman in Dress & Fancy Hat" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." This influence is more pron...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
"Up North Wisconsin Series--Cows in Green Acres, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Wisconsin Series--Cows in Green Acres" is an original watercolor, ink, and rubber stamp artwork. The artist signed and dated the piece in the low...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil seascape drawing black and white signed
By Bill Teeple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Christ #5" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed in the lower right corner of the mat. This small image of a moon glowing through the clouds over the water is surrounded by a large white mat, isolating this intimate work so that it may be viewed on its own.
Art size: 2 1/4" x 1 1/4"
Frame size: 14" x 11"
"I am the Director of Iowa Contemporary Art (ICON) and Bill Teeple Fine Art, in Fairfield. I have been serious about making art for 50 years, with a degree in art from the University of California at Berkeley. I have taught art in Fairfield for the past 15 years."
In the ’70s, Bill and his artist partner Lynn Durham were living in California. Their fantasy/fairy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
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...
Category
1950s Art Deco Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
"Lake Michigan Rocks, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lake Michigan Rocks" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. The painting features an abstract representation of Lake Michgan's roc...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Dedicated to Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, IL, USA, " by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dedicated to Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, IL, USA" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It de...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Art Deco Interior Abstraction, " Original Crayon signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Interior Abstraction" is a color crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza, signature stamped in the lower right corner. The abstract composition ...
Category
1950s Art Deco Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
"Truth and Virtue's Room, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Truth and Virtue's Room" 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 peo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Ocean Window, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ocean Window" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. It depicts fish and underwater plants with a frame of abstracted colors. The artist signed the p...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Up North Series: Birch Bark Otter Lake, " Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Series: Birch Bark Otter Lake" is an original mixed media painting by David Barnett. The artist scanned a piece of birch bark and then painted over the image with ink and w...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pencil, Watercolor, Ink
"Land, Sea, & Sky II, " Original Mixed Media Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Land, Sea, & Sky II" is an original mixed media work by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This abstract work is divided into three strata. The lowest represents the sea, re...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Up North Birch Bark Series: Tree Spirit Chief, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Birchbark Series: Tree Spirit Chief" is an original oil pencil and watercolor on birch bark piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. U...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Birch, Ink, Watercolor
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape mountain grass river scene signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bosque del Apache, NM" is an original pastel drawing on rag paper signed by the artist Peggy Leonard. It depicts an expansive desert landscape underneath a blue sky.
21 1/2" x 29 ...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
"Saltwater at the Stateroom Window, " Original Watercolor signed
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Saltwater at the Stateroom Window" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The abstract image is composed of horizontal strata of color, most...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Una Pata Arriba Revisted, " Original Ink, Watercolor, & Acrylic
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"first Impressions of Mexico City #1: Una Pata Arriba Revisited" is an original watercolor, ink, and iridescent acrylic piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The pieces d...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, 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
"Floral Fantasy, " Original Impressionistic Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Floral Fantasy" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett that is signed in the lower right. Abstract flowers fill the picture plane in bright bursts of red and yellow aga...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Funny Flip Face Amusement Park, " Original Aquacryl on silk by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Funny Flip Face Amusement Park" is an original painting in aquaryl on silk, which is mounted on an acid free foam board. It is signed in the lower left. Thi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silk, Other Medium
"Space Station, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Space Station" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features abstract marks and fields of ligh...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Shield, Kiowa, Central Plains, c. 1850, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shield, Kiowa, Central Plains c. 1850" is an watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It is an illustration of a painted shield from the Kiowa Native America...
Category
1990s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Wolf Lake I-5, " Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake I-5" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. It is signed in the lower right and titled in the lower left, both in pencil. The work is framed and matted with an off-white acid-free mat and museum glass. This view of the edge of a forest is unique for its vibrant use of color. The field bears a spot of orange, while the mostly-blue sky includes a streak of violet just above the treeline. The trees blend together in yellows and greens with delicately-made lines to indicate their trunks and branches.
Art size: 22" x 22"
Frame size: 36 1/4" x 36 1/4"
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape trees grass forest scene signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bandelier #1" is an original pastel drawing signed by the artist Peggy Leonard in the lower left. It depicts a colorful array of light and shadow in a grassy wooded area.
12 1/2" x 9" art
25 1/2" x 21 1/2" 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...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary female artist landscape pastel pencil drawing bridge trees signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Run-off Pipe, Million Dollar Bridge" is an original pastel and pencil drawing by Alicia Czechowski. The artist signed the piece lower right. This artwo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
"Flying, " Original Surreal Ink Drawing signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Flying" is an original ink drawing by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. This strange, surreal image centers around a figure that appears to have leaped from the broke...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Famous Artist Series: Homage to David Hockney-TriColor Water, "
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Famous Artist Series: Homage to David Hockney - Tri-Color Water" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the artwork lower right. It depicts a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
contemporary realist watercolor painting interior red car signs colorful signed
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Car Museum" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front of a gleaming car with other automobile memorabilia with exquisite attention to reflections, ligh...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Homage to Van Gogh III, " a Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Van Gogh III" is an original watercolor painting on 100% rag amate paper signed by the artist David Barnett. It depicts a vase of flowers that was sent to the artist for a...
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Homage to Daniel Smith: Premier Triple African Violets, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Daniel Smith: Premier Triple African Violets" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower right and used iridescent acrylic, water...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Backyard Abstractions, " Landscape Watercolor on paper signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Backyard Abstractions" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Baf, " Abstract Geometric Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Baf" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstract, geometric planes in pastel and earthy colo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Contemporary expressionist colorful gouache painting pastel flowers plants water
By Victoria Ryan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pond Dream #3" is an original pastel and gouache on paper by Victoria Ryan. This piece depicts a number of pond plants and flowers in bright colors and realistic detail.
31 1/2" x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Contemporary watercolor landscape city buildings sky small signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"CIty Glow" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist's world. Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th century black and white drawing landscape trees houses figures signed
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Monkey Island at Washington Park Zoo" is an original graphite and charcoal drawing on paper by Francesco Spicuzza. It depicts a number of figures gazing out at a monkey enclosure at a zoo. The artist signed the piece in the lower left.
8 1/2" x 11 3/4" art
17 1/4" x 21 1/8" frame
Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in...
Category
1950s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
"Arriving to Island, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Arriving to Island" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece along the left side. It depicts a boat on the sea.
14" x 12" art
21"...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Crossroads A-54, " Pastel signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Crossroads" is an original pastel drawing by Jan Richardson-Baughman. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and titled it in the lower left. It depicts a field with trees in the background.
16" x 12" art
33" x 27" frame
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 to 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 Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Tropical Luminous Flowers-Homage to Martin Johnson Heade, Luminist, "
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tropical Luminous Flowers--Homage to Martin Johnson Heade, Luminist (1819-1904)" is an original acrylic and watercolor painting on antique (c. 1860s) J. Whatman watercolor paper. Th...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic
Contemporary colorful Pastel Groomed Garden Landscape flowers trees sky signed
By Victoria Ryan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Garden by the Sea 1" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Victoria Ryan. It depicts a garden of lush flowers and bushes in front of a columned fence and bright blue sky. The ar...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Art Deco Bird #688, " Color Crayon Drawing stamped signature Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Bird #688" is an original color crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature in the lower left. This piece depicts an abstracted bird and biomorphic ...
Category
1950s Art Deco Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
contemporary realist watercolor painting car closeup parking lot signed
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"'59 Cadillac" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the back end of a gleaming Cadillac with exquisite attention to reflection and light.
22 1/4" x 29 5/8"...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
late 20th century colorful pastel pastoral landscape field trees sky signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Orchard View-Small Version (Dr. Johnson's Rims Edge Orchard)" is an original pastel drawing signed by the artist Peggy Leonard. It depicts an orchard in various bright cool tones.
9" x 12" art
14 3/4" x 17 3/4" 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...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Chemical Skoids Void Balance, " Acrylic on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This oil pastel artwork, 'Chemical Skoids Void Balance,' Reginald K Gee plays with space and perspective. As in a collage, a technique that modern a...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary watercolor landscape mountain trees forest sky signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Canadian Rockies - Misty Morning Calgary, Alberta, Canada" is an original watercolor painting on Kilimanjaro watercolor paper. These petite watercolo...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Neon Sign, N.Y.C., " Watercolor Cityscape signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Neon Sign, N.Y.C." is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts front of a sushi shop and features its neon sign and reflective windows. This painting displays McCo...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary pastel gesso landscape city trees boat water reflection signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Milwaukee River, Third Ward" is a mixed media piece by signed by Peggy Leonard. It was created using gesso, sumi ink, and pastel and depicts a red boat on a gray river.
16" x 20" ...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Pastel, Sumi Ink
20th century conte landscape drawing sepia barn outdoor sketch pastoral signed
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
Contemporary expressionist watercolor mixed media flowers da vinci colorful
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Leonardo Soft Landing in the Garden of Eden Thanks to Penny's Giant Hybrid Hibiscus Parachute" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist used ink, watercolor, and iridescent acrylic to create this piece and signed it in the lower right. This piece depicts a portrait of Leonardo...
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, 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
"Leg & Shoe in Blue, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Leg & Shoe in Blue" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features a disconnected gray leg with a high-h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape trees road forest scene sky signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Willow Shadows at Chenequa" is an original pastel drawing on canson paper by Peggy Leonard. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts a row of willow trees with deep shadows. The artist used variations of green and blue.
12 3/4" x 19 1/2" art
18 3/4" x 26" 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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Man Followed, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man Followed" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the right edge and dated it on the back. This piece depic...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Your New Home, " Abstract Surrealist Landscape Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Your New Home" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract, surreal, and biomorphic obj...
Category
1990s Surrealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Landscape with Two Figures" original monotype and drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Monotype
'Girl with Sun, Bicycle and Car' original watercolor signed by Joseph Rozman
By Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present painting is an excellent example of Joseph Rozman's pictographic style. The composition is dominated by abstracted vignettes: A fashionable woman beneath the sun, a car, ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Red Patio, Arizona, " a Watercolor signed by F. Douglas Greenbowe
By F. Douglas Greenbowe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red Patio, Arizona" is an original watercolor painting signed and dated in the lower right by artist F. Douglas Greenbowe. The wrought iron gate almost beckons the viewer to come to...
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1990s Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Fish" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an excellent example of one of Sylvia Spicuzza's rare 'finger paintings': not only is it remarkably large, but it also shows her mastery of the...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Lake Michigan Shore, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lake Michigan Shore" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. The image is abstract, horizon suggested by the thick blue line near the top of...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Morph Dogs Disguised as Turtles Beaver Lake-Turtle Day" signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dogs Disguised as Turtles, Beaver Lake-Turtle Day" is an original watercolor by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. Inspired by the lake near his home, the artist has p...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction II" 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
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