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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
"Still Life with Artist's Hand" original watercolor signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This still life is an unusual example of Sylvia Spicuzza's work, as most of her most significant output are geometric and biomorphic abstract images. The objects in the image - a sea shell, a pitcher, a heavy necklace - are objects the artist likely had at home and staged for the image. But of particular significance is the insertion of the artist's hand, as though she was reaching into the still life while she was painting. The hand has been a significant symbol of the artist throughout art history as a source of creation: Albrecht Dürer's 'Self Portrait at the Age of Twenty-Eight' (1500) highlights the artist's hand much like traditional images of Christ giving gestures of blessing. Likewise, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 'Self Portrait as a Soldier' (1915) shows the artist in military uniform but with a severed hand as a symbol of helplessness during the First World War. Another important comparison, given Spicuzza is a Midwestern artist, is Ivan Albright's magic realist work 'That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)' at the Art Institute of Chicago. The massive painting...
Category
1950s Modern 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 Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Teacher (The Echo, Milwaukee Normal)" original ink drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents us with something of a self portrait, showing an instructor at the head of a classroom, her students looking forward intently. Sylvia hersel...
Category
1940s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
"Downtown Lakefront" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
20th century female artist nude woman figure drawing conte small sketch
By Sandra Sweeney
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, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Paper
"Leaves & Berries" giclée print after ca. 1950s original watercolor and collage
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
14.75 x 17.75 inches, artwork
22.88 x 25.75 inches, frame
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art ...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Giclée, Watercolor
"Telephone in Landscape, " Charcoal on Handmade Paper by Miguel Castro Leñero
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Telephone in Landscape" is an original charcoal drawing on handmade amate paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist initialed the piece lower rig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Handmade Paper
"The Noise Died Away, " Abstract Oil on Canvas by Deirdre Schanen
By Deirdre Schanen
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Noise Died Away" is an oil on canvas by Deirdre Schanen. This abstract piece contains fields of colors in subdued hues with horizontal red lines. A purple wall runs into a dark ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woman in Coat & Fancy Hat, " Graphite Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman in Coat & fancy Hat" is a graphite drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. An older woman is sketched as she stands. She is wearing a winter coat and quite...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Constellation with Blue Cloud, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Constellation with Blue Cloud" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower left. The piece is abstract; a large blue ring...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Someplace, " Abstract Mixed Media on Paper signed by Dan Muller
By Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Someplace" is an original mixed media composition by Dan Muller. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features abstract shapes and gestural marks in the primary colors...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Dreaming of the Next One, " Colorful Abstract Mixed Media signed by Dan Muller
By Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dreaming of the Next One" is an original mixed media painting on paper by Dan Muller. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract shapes in the primary colors plus...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"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
"Skolkloster Castle (Sweeden), " Watercolor on Paper landscape by Julia Taylor
By Julia Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Skolkloster Castle" is an original watercolor by Julia Taylor. Skolkloster Castle is a Swedish Baroque Castle built in Skokloster, Sweden for Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel from 1654-167...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Up North Wisconsin Series: Surround Cows, " Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Wisconsin Series: Surround Cows" is an original watercolor and ink piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The piece features a Wisconsin license plate surrounded...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Plow Horses" Double-sided Ink Drawing on Handmade Paper by Miguel Castro Leñero
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Plow Horses" is an original ink drawing on handmade amate paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features tw...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil landscape drawing black and white signed
By Bill Teeple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Full Moon #26" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed in the lower right corner of the mat. This small image of the moon 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: 1 5/8" x 2"
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 art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Living Figures, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Living Figures" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it on the back. It features two abstracted figures i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Iridescent Hybrid Rose, " Original Watercolor & Acrylic signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Iridescent Hybrid Rose" is an original acrylic and watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The rose of the title is a vibrant red, perched atop a stem that g...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
"Two Vases, " Original Ink & Oil Pencil Drawing signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Vases" is an original ink and oil pencil drawing by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. This drawing is composed of hatched black lines, accented by a myriad of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink
"Impressions of Spring Green, " Original Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Impressions of Spring Green" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The piece features an abstract landscape, perhaps at sunset, featur...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Landscape with Glasses, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Landscape with Glasses" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This piece is gestural and abstract, featuring free mark-making with the brus...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Homage to Miro: Jwa Practicing Yoga Disguised as a Bird, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Miro: Jwa Practicing Yoga Disguised as a Bird" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This piece features abstract black lines painted in Chinese ink, embellished with vibrant watercolor in blue...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Cherries, Persimmons, & Pears, " Original Ink Drawing signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cherries, Persimmons, & Pears" is an original ink drawing by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The fruits pictured are abstracted to their most basic forms. They are ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Souvenir of Desert Mountain, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Souvenir of Desert Mountain" is an original watercolor painted on hotel stationary by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. While visiting the southwest, the artist was inspire...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Homage to Debra Lyn, New Horizon in Media Shower, " Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Debra Lyn, New Horizon in Media Shower" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The abstract piece is covered in free, gestu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Cows Controversy over Chenequa, " Original Watercolor and Ink by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cows Controversy Over Chenequa" is an original watercolor and ink piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. This miniature work contains gestural brushwork and stamped image...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Oriental Sunrise in the Mountains" & "Shooting Star" signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Oriental Sunrise in the Mountains" and "Shooting Star" are two original watercolor paintings on opposite sides of a 300 lb piece of watercolor paper, created by David Barnett. In ad...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Postcard Size Impression of Autumn at Star Lake..." Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Postcard Size Impression of Autumn at Star Lake, WI" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. The piece is an abstract representation of the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Leaves are Falling Over Beaver Lake, " Original Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Leaves Are Falling Over Beaver Lake" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the bottom center. The piece shows a cartographic rendering of Beaver Lake with an ...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Homage to Moishe Safde - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, "
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Buddha Board Water Series: Homage to Moishe Safde - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The black lines of this piece were ori...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Impressions of Mexico City: Chicklets, Anyone?" Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Impressions of Mexico City Series: Chicklets, Anyone?" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left corner. It features bright colors and surreal ju...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Rabbit Disguised as a Tomato Basil Potato Chip, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rabbit disguised as a Tomato Basil Potato Chip" is an original photograph embellished with ink and watercolor by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper
"Abstract Landscape, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Abstract Landscape" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. It is a playful piece, characterized by lines and splotches of color, high...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Sand, Sea & Sky, " Original Watercolor Seascape signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sand, Sea & Sky" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece features a waterscape in teal with brown sand bars and a deep blue sky...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Waterfall over Dam with Fish, " Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Waterfall over Dam with Fish" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features abstract marks in blue, green, and orange.
Ar...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Pink Poppy at the Front Door, " Original Pastel Drawing signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pink Poppy at the Front Door" is an original pastel drawing by David Barnett, signed along the lower left edge. The image features a single pink poppy in a patch of grass.
Art size...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Impressions of Mexico City: Three Doors, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Impressions of Mexico City: Three Doors" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. Bright colors capture the experience of walking through Mexi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Morph Dog Series: Artist's Mask with Fireworks, " Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Artist's Mask with Fireworks" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower center. It features bright colors and repeating shapes in ar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Beaver Lake Sunset Nov. 11, 1996, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake Sunset Nov. 11, 1996" is an original watercolor painting on antique J. Whatman Paper by David Barnett, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sunset is rendered...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Spring Green Reflection, " Original Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Spring Green Reflection" is an original watercolor and ink painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This abstract piece recalls a water...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Escape to Mexico City, " Watercolor and Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Escape to Mexico City" is an original watercolor and ink drawing by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features stamps of cows, footprints, and the st...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Impressions of Mexico City: Sueno Vaca (Cows Dreaming)" Watercolor by Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Impressions of Mexico City: Sueno Vaca (Cows Dreaming)" is an original watercolor and ink drawing by David Barnett. This piece is from the artist's "Impressions of Mexico City" seri...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Chinese Trumpet Lilies Close Up, " Mixed Media Floral signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chinese Trumpet Lilies Close Up" is an original mixed media painting by David Barnett that incorporates watercolor and iridescent acrylic on 100% rag watercolor paper. It is signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"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
"Morph Dog Series: Wind Over Taos Mountains, " Watercolor signed
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Wind Over Taos Mountains" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. Parts of the image were pain...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Farmer, " Pastel on Paper Abstract Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farmer" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts a farmer plowing a field with the help of an animal. A tree and...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Beaver Lake Spring Fever Sunrise, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake Spring Fever Sunrise" is an original watercolor on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner in pencil. This abstract, minimal landscape represents the su...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary watercolor landscape countryside hills field trees sky signed small
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Piedmont Italy - Wine Country" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
"Axtion, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Axtion" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This artwork features abstract marks in bright blue, purple, ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Family Portrait, " Original Blue Gouache & Pencil by Thomas Smith
By Thomas Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Family Portrait" is an original gouache and pencil piece on paper by Thomas Smith. The artist uses pure, unmixed color in flat planes, shading only on the faces of the figures, which makes them stand out from the rest of the image. The three figures sit in a triangular formation. The tallest figure looms over the other two with a dark black cloak...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil
"Untitled (Three Figures), " Color Pencil Drawing by Angelika Thusius
By Angelika Thusius
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Untitled" is an original color pencil drawing by Angelika Thusius. It depicts three figures doing farm work. Unsigned. This piece is archivally framed with museum glass.
3 1/4" x ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
"Rebecca Island Getaway, " Oil Pastel on Rag Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rebecca Island Getaway" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper right. It depicts a group of people seated at an outdoor...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
"Looking North II-8, " Pastel Autumn Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Looking North II-8" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel landscape drawing. The work is framed and matted with acid-free mat board. The signature is in the lower right in pencil...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Discarded Becomes Life (Window To The World), " Mixed Media signed
By Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Discarded Becomes Life (Window To The World)" is an original mixed media piece by Dan Muller. The artist signed the piece lower right. This artwork features abstract marks and shape...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Yo-Yo Champion, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yo-Yo Champion" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features a man practicing yo-yo tricks in his home...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Colmar CA-3, " Framed Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Boughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Colmar CA-3" is a pastel drawing on paper by Jan Richardson-Baughman. It is signed in pencil in the lower right corner and titled in the lower left, both of which are visible in the matting. The work is framed and matted with acid-free mat board. The image depicts rolling hills in shades that range from chartreuse to a dark forest green, dotted with trees and accented by a cloudy blue sky.
Art size: 22 1/2" x 36"
Frame size: 36 1/4" x 49 3/4"
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 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
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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