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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
"Southwester Clouds and Sky I, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"World War II Watercolor Series: Southwestern Clouds and Sky I" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The piece is an abstract representatio...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"What, Water, Color, Sky, " Surreal Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whale, Water, Color, Sky" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. This surreal, abstract work is composed of expressive brush strok...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
"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
"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
"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
"Up North Reflections, " Original Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Reflections" is an original watercolor and ink piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. elements such as the "UP NORTH" Wisconsin license plate and the line of cow...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, 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
"Morph Dog Series: Kite Fly-in III, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Kite Fly-In III" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed along the lower center. This piece is the Milwaukee-area native artist's satire on the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
"Woman Carrying Purse, " Watercolor & Graphite on Paper by Hannah de Rothschild
By Hannah de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman Carrying Purse" is an original watercolor and graphite drawing by Hannah de Rothschild. This artwork features a woman with a handbag. She is wearing a blue dress, and her face...
Category
1860s Academic Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
"Autumn Morning, " Abstract Landscape Watercolor Painting signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Autumn Morning" 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 worl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Looking North 2, " Orange Landscape Pastel signed by Janet Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Looking North 2" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper, signed in the lower right corner. The work is framed and matted with acid-free mat board. This landscape ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Radiator Trouble - Artist Convergence-, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Impressions of Mexico City Series: Radiator Trouble -Artist Convergence-" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. Playful and gestural, the M...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Cityscape with Tree & Fireworks, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cityscape with Tree & Fireworks" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features an abstract, Cezanne-inspired landscape in b...
Category
1960s Abstract 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: Dark Clouds Over Chenequa, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Dark Clouds Over Chenequa" is an original mixed media painting by David Barnett, incorporating ink, oil pastel, and iridescent acrylic. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"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
"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
"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
"Up North - Campfire Logger Spirit, " Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North - Campfire Logger Spirit" is an original mixed media piece on a piece of birch bark, signed along the lower left edge. The artist only collects birch bark that he finds on ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil Crayon, Pencil
"Sunset over the Mountain, Scottsdale, AZ, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sunset Over the Mountain, Scottsdale, AZ" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The painting is a desert landscape, dotted with red flowers ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Star Lake Reflections - Autumn, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Star Lake Reflections - Autumn" is an original watercolor painting on antique Whatman watercolor paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The image is an abstract r...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Midnight Mediterranean Shore Reflections Under the Stars, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Midnight Mediterranean Shore Reflections Under the Stars" is an original watercolor and ink painting on museum foam board by David Barnett, signed in the lower left center. This abs...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Foam Board
"Homage to Chagall: David & Bathsheba Sunrise Celebration, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Chagall: David & Bathsheba Sunrise Celebration" is an original mixed media piece that incorporates collage, watercolor, and iridescent acr...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
"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
"Visage Interplanetaires" Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Visage Interplanetaires" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This watercolor features abstract lines and marks in black, red, green, an...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Land, Sea & Sky, I, " Original Mixed Media & Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Land, Sea & Sky I" is an original mixed media and watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This abstract work is divided into three strata. The lowest repres...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Drive Thru Open, " Photorealist City-view Watercolor signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Drive Thru Open" is an original watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a photorealist depiction...
Category
2010s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Up North Birch Bark Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" D. Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" is an original watercolor on birch bark by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right on the backing b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Watercolor
"Up North Series: Think Forests, Think Trees..." Watercolor by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Series: Think Forests, Think Trees, or Dos Vacas Sin Cabezas" is an original ink and watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It features a Wisconsi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
"Landscape with Bridge, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Landscape with Bridge" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left corner. The image is abstract, playful lines of color giving the barest suggesti...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Spacial Balance Series, " Original Watercolor & Pencil Works by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Spacial Balance" is a series of four works by David Barnett in watercolor and pencil, all signed "David Barnett '68." Each is a different experiment in line, color, and balance.
Sp...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"Caribbean Cruise Pool, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carribean Cruise Pool" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The painting is abstract and brightly colored, featuring deep blues, b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"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
"Road I Travel #6, " Gravel Road Scene Watercolor signed by Kevin Knopp
By Kevin Knopp
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Road I Travel #6" is an original watercolor on paper by Kevin Knopp. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right. This piece features a dirt and gravel road.
6" x 6" art
13"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"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
"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
Found Objects, Oil Pastel
"Four Kisses on a Passionate Sea, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Four Kisses on a Passionate Sea" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right color. An abstract image, it features horizontal streaks of vivid col...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Crossroads A-67, " Pastel Landscape signed by Janet Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Crossroads A-67" by Jan 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 work is framed and matted with off-white acid-free mat board. The drawing depicts a landscape of what looks like a country road or field. Bright green grass populates the foreground with a puddle of blue water, while a barrier of brown separates the green from the yellow fields beyond. Red trees occupy the middle ground and background, while the cloudy sky is a soft shade of blue.
Art size: 16" x 12"
Framed size 29 3/4" x 26"
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 Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"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
"Cadillac, " Photorealistic Automobile Watercolor signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cadillac" is an original photorealistic watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower left. It features a deep blue car on a car lot with a domed building ...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Baghdad Rain, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Baghdad Rain" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts some abstracted figures in a dream-like...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"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
"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
"Beaver Lake Sunrise IV, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake Sunrise IV" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. This abstract piece features brig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Tuscan Patchwork, " Italian Landscape Watercolor Painting signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tuscan Patchwork" 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 wo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Abstract With Clouds, " Original Pink Ink signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Abstract With Clouds" is an original ink drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, stamped with her signature in the lower right. The drawing is done entirely in pink with a combination ...
Category
1950s American Modern Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"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
"Wolf Lake A-11, " Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake A-11" 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 a white acid-free mat board. Though it seems contrary to the title, the main focus of the image is not a lake, but a yellow and gold field of grass that leads to a distant dark green treeline. The cloudy blue sky meets the horizon, and perhaps the darker line of blue above the trees is the far-off lake. With its restrained palette of yellow, green, and blue, it creates a send of calm.
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 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
"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
"Constellations, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Constellations" is an original watercolor painting on textured paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. It is an abstract piece characterized by minimally-applied l...
Category
1960s Abstract Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Water Garden 13, " Realistic Flora Pastel Drawing signed by Victoria Ryan
By Victoria Ryan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Water Garden 13" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Victoria Ryan. The artist signed the piece. It features a variety of pond flowers on a shimmering blue pond. The artist is...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"The Fish, " Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Collage by Dan Muller
By Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fish" is an original mixed media artwork on paper by Dan Muller. The artist signed the piece. The artist used watercolor, cut & pasted paper, and india ink to create this colorf...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Lady Parade II, " Figurative Multi-colored Watercolor signed by Thea Kovac
By Thea Kovac
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lady Parade II" watercolor by Thea Kovac. The artist signed and titled the piece below the image. The piece features three women standing in brightly colored dresses.
8 3/4" x 6" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Southwest Sunset Paper Clip Cactus Palette, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Southwest Sunset Paper Clip Cactus Palette" is an original, playful mixed media piece on watercolor paper by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. Against a vivid red,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"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
"Native American Southwest Series: Purple Rain Love the Earth, " David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Native American Southwest Series: Purple Rain Love the Earth" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett that incorporates watercolor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
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