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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
20th century landscape pastel drawing colorful grass path hills sky signed
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
Category
1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"Yellow Flower, " Original Watercolor stamped signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Flower" is an original watercolor on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature in the lower center.
6 3/4" x 10 1/4" art
14 1/2" x 17 1/2" frame
Born in 1...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves, " Watercolor & Gouache on Paper signed by Doris Lee
By Doris Lee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves" is an original watercolor and gouache painting on paper by Doris Lee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts boats and other objects on a f...
Category
1930s American Modern Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Venice Invented
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 13.25 x 14.13 in
Signed to margin
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whew!" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a man on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on a be...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Blue Mist
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 15.75 x 13.13 in
Signed to margin
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Off to the Suburbs, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Off to the Suburbs" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features a man on a motorcycle riding...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Underwater Series: Coral Reef, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Underwater Series: Coral Reef" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett that incorporates watercolor and acrylic on rag museum foam board, signed in the lower right. This ...
Category
2010s Abstract Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Foam Board, Rag Paper
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"The Light from Beneath, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Light from Beneath" is an original oil pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features multiple simplified figures in a d...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Trillium" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves.
10 x 7.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 17.25 inch...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
sailboat on water painting early 20th century marine ocean sea boats waves cloud
By C.S. Jones
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sailboat" is a maritime watercolor on prepared board by American artist C.S. Jones, signed in the lower right. The watercolor depicts a seascape...
Category
Early 20th Century Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Fear Not; Only Believe" Watercolor & Gouache on paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fear Not; Only Believe" is an original watercolor and gouache painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the artwork lower right. It depicts two people walking through...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Dog & Horse in Landscape on Mountain Top, " Ink on Paper by Miguel Castro Leñero
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dog & Horse in Landscape on Mountain Top" is an original ink drawing on handmade amate paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live" is a religious original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and titled the piece lower right. This piece illustrates...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"First Day of Spring, " Original Watercolor with Flowers signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"First Day of Spring" is an original watercolor by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower left. It depicts a number of brightly-colored flowers.
10" x 8" art
17...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Some of What I Know, A Lot of What You Thought Was a Mistake, " Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Some of What I Know, A Lot of What You Thought Was a Mistake" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board, Rag Paper
"Twelve Miles to Go, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Twelve Miles To Go" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a lone figure walking through...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Contemporary female artist nature watercolor painting grass flowers signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fringed Gentians" is an original watercolor by Alicia Czechowski. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This artwork depicts purple flowers in a lush green garden.
12 1/...
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1960s Impressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Narrow is the Way Which Leads, " Watercolor Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Narrow is the Way Which Leads" is an original watercolor on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a forest in fall.
11" x 15" art
Co...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Manhattan, Kansas 9/11/03
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 14.75 x 17 in
Category
Early 2000s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Machias Seal Island Light
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wolf Kahn was commissioned by the Smithsonian to design a postcard for them. He made four designs and they selected a singular one. This drawing here is one of the few rejected designs. This piece was given to the founder, David Barnett, of the David Barnett Gallery...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Contemporary female artist landscape pastel drawing flowers trees signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Rose Farm" is an original pastel drawing by Alicia Czechowski. It depicts a variety of plants and flowers in lush greens and blues. The artist signed the piece in the lower righ...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary colorful Pastel expressionist Landscape clouds trees sky signed
By Victoria Ryan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Storm Watch 2" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Victoria Ryan. The artist signed the piece. This piece features an idyllic farm landscape with ro...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Old Cabin Near Big Cedar Lake" original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a lakeside cabin under the shade of a massive tree. This drawing is reminiscent of the work done by her father Francesco, wh...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
'On The Beach Sanibel Island' Original Watercolor Signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'On The Beach Sanibel Island' original watercolor signed and dated by David Barnett
David Barnett an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has bee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary landscape pastel rural pastoral scene grass trees field signed
By Michael DeFrancesco
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Summer Fields Near Dijon" is an original pastel drawing by Michael DeFrancesco. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece depicts an expansive field under a bright blue sky.
17" x 25 1/2" art
27 1/2" x 36" frame
"As I progress in my painting, I hope to say more with less ... to leave the obvious vague ... and to paint only that which is essential ... this is my goal as an artist."
Michael Defrancesco received his Fine Arts degree from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. While at the Academy, he was fortunate to have studied under some wonderful instructors such as Bill Parks, Vern Stake, Eugene Hall, Fred Berger, and the renowned watercolorist Irving Shapiro...
Category
1990s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
Contemporary watercolor landscape boats water reflection bridge sky signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats at Anchor After Sargent" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. The artist signed the piece lower right and titled...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Desert Mountain Paths' original signed watercolor painting on notepad paper
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
David Barnett's 'Desert Mountain Paths' is an exercise in using limited materials. Depicting the winding paths of Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, AZ, the composition simulates found a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary watercolor landscape city buildings houses windows sky signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Siena Building' is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that shape Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist's world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th century watercolor landscape high contrast lake seascape painting signed
By Joseph Ferrara
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Milwaukee Harbor" is an original watercolor by Joseph Ferrara. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts a view of the water and skyline of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
15" x 2...
Category
1950s Impressionist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Umbria, " Pastel signed by Wolf Kahn
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Umbria" is a landscape pastel by American artist Wolf Kahn. Green hills and trees dominate the composition as a light blue sky evens it out almost exactly in the middle. Titled and ...
Category
1970s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Wolf Lake I-8, " Desert Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake I-8" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. The signature is in the lower right and the title is in the lower left, both of which are in graphite pencil. The work is framed and matted with cream-colored acid-free mat board and museum glass. The drawing depicts a landscape in oranges, greens and blues and evokes a farm field just after harvest.
Art size: 22" x 22"
Frame size: 36.5" x 36.5"
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"View of Chequers Court, " Pencil & Ink by F. Trotman from Rothschild estate
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"View of Chequers Court" is an original pencil, pen, and ink drawing by Fiennes Trotman. This drawing was part of the Rothschild collection, and it fea...
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Early 1800s Academic Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil
"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...
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1950s Art Deco Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
"River Patterns in Colorado" Original watercolor signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"River Patterns in Colorado" 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 a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary watercolor landscape city Italian buildings street bridge signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Warehouses' 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. S...
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Early 2000s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Young Woman in a Landscape" original drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this intimate drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a young woman crouched down in a garden. The image is framed by foliage and fields of color.
3.75 x 5.25 inches, ...
Category
1950s Modern Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Contemporary watercolor abstract landscape nature trees sunrise sky signed
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Silent Sails, " Serene Seaside Watercolor Painting signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Silent Sails" is an original watercolor painting 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 Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"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...
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1950s Modern Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
"Fisherman in Boat, " Ink on Japon Nacre Paper signed by Miguel Castro Leñero
By Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fisherman in Boat" is an original ink drawing on japon nacre paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist initialed the piece lower right. It features ...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Valentine's Day with Bleeding Hearts: Feb. 2015 Variation, " by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Valentine's Day with Bleeding Hearts: Feb. 2015 Variation" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower left and used ink, watercolor, and ir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Contemporary female artist watercolor still life Exterior Plants garden signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morning Glory" is an original watercolor painting on paper by Carol Christ. A sunny corner of a garden overflows with the beginnings of a lush garden.
24 x 18 inches, artwork
35 x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
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...
Category
1940s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape trees grass field sky scene signed
By Peggy Leonard
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red Oak Albuquerque, NM" is an original pastel drawing signed by the artist Peggy Leonard. It depicts a red oak tree among smaller green trees in a landscape.
9 1/2" x 12 1/4" art
19 3/4" x 22 1/4" 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...
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1990s Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil landscape drawing black and white signed
By Bill Teeple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Light #104" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed on the mat in the lower right corner. This small image of a sunrise 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 7/8" x 1 7/8"
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 - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
contemporary realist watercolor painting building diner close up flowers signed
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Diner" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front facade of a diner with careful attention to reflection, atmosphere, and light.
22" x 29 1/2" art
25"...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wisconsin - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
