G.E Breary

G.E Breary - Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Wash Day

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Caught in fine watercolour, is this late 19th century study of two maids washing sheets in the warm summer sun. The artist has illegibly signed to the lower left and the genre scene ...

Dora C. Pritchett. Original watercolour depicting a Cornish town by the sea. Signed lower left. Well-presented in a crisp cream mount and solid oak frame. On watercolour paper.

This delightful watercolour study depicts a charming coastal town scene, with clustered buildings leading down to a serene blue sea dotted with distant sailboats. The artist has skil...

A charming continental school watercolour depicting fishermen mending nets harbourside. Well-presented in a wash-line mount and gilt-effect frame. Illegibly signed to the lower right...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

Work of art by Belgian artist Leon Klassens. Belgium, 1970s.  A watercolor painting is a drawing that is made with special water-soluble paints. Most often, with the help of watercolors, landscapes are created - realistic, airy, natural imitation of weather phenomena (rain, wind, thunderstorms or the state of nature after a storm). Still lifes, everyday plots are well obtained. Less often - portraits. Buy a watercolor painting as a gift for a man, a woman for a celebration, for an anniversary, a birthday and a wedding is a great solution! An amazing watercolor painting (1970) by the Belgian artist Leon Klassens (1924–2007). The painter and watercolorist studied at the Académie de Liège...

Peter de Wint (British, 1784 – 1849) Fishing boats at low tide Pencil on watercolour 10.3/4 x 16.3/8 in. (27.3 x 41.7 cm.) Peter de Wint was born in Stone in Staffordshire, the son ...

Watercolor and ink coastal scene depicting boats moored on the beach in the foreground, a retaining wall in the background with sun-baked white structures with shuttered windows, blu...