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Period: 1920s
LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE: LES FEMMES DE MILISSINDE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original on Gouache on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled, dated with dedication on verso. Stamped "Composition originale". Frame size 30.5 x 26.5 inches. Artwork is in e...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Cubist Landscape/Cityscape of Capri, Italy, Early 20th Century Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1965) Capri, 1927 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower right 11 x 10 inches 14.25 x 13.25 inches, framed A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art ...
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Cubist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Villa Ravà - Sketch for a Library - Drawing by Marcello Piacentini - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Villa Ravà, Biblioteca (Library) Architectural drawing, china ink on paper monogrammed lower right in pencil: M.P. Titled upper left: Villa Ravà – Biblioteca A finely detailed arch...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Metropolitan Magazine Cover, 1921
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for exact dimensions. Used for the June 1921 Matropolitan Magazine Cover, and also as a calendar illustration, which wa...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Board

Female Nude - 1920s chalk drawing by Belgian Symbolist artist Marcel Delmotte
Located in London, GB
MARCEL DELMOTTE (1901-1984) Nude Signed and dated l.r.: M Delmotte/1928 Black and red chalks Framed 33 by 20 cm., 13 by 8 in. (frame size 53 by 39 cm., 21 by 15 ¼ in.) The son of...
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Realist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Watercolour and crayon on paper 31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro Executed circa 1925 ...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor

Bicycle Rider
Located in New York, NY
Pencil on wove paper, circa 1920. Initial by the artist in pencil, lower right.
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Lanvin of Paris c1920s Fashion Model Original Watercolour
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9"H x 6'W Frame Sz: 18"H x 14 1/2"W w/ silver gilt frame Watercolour
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 22.5 x 27.75 inches 27.75 x 34.5 inches, framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

She Never Forgave Him, Good Housekeeping Illustration
By Charles D. Mitchell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1923 Medium: Drawing Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for exact dimensions. published in Good Housekeeping magazine dated February 1923 for a story titled “She never forg...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint

Berthomme Saint-André, The Nap, Watercolor, 1925
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, France, circa 1925 This exquisite watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, dating from around 1925, exemplifies the artist's mastery in ...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Confederate Soldiers Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lowe...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, Early 20th Century European Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, 1925 Watercolor and gouache on board Signed and dated lower right 19 x 24 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Art Nouveau Illustration Women and Children in the Woods
Located in Miami, FL
Complex Art Nouveau patterns intertwined with gracefull figures define this work by American Artist and illustrator, teacher and lecturer Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Signed in cartouc...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Paper, Board

Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Art Deco Flapper Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Original Vintage 1920's Ink and Watercolor Fashion Illustration by listed New England artist Harriette (Nutting) Cooper (1901 - 2002). The illustration depicts a lovely young flappe...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil, Cardboard

Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed. Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina. Biography One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine. In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education. In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced: ...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4] After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6] Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems. From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics. In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
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Conceptual 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) La Route de Naudy, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul-Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) La Route de Naudy (The Road to Naudy) Signed lower left (titled on the verso of the sheet, but now hidden by the back of the frame) watercolor on paper...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Largo
Located in New York, NY
Maurice Denis' extravagant charcoal drawing of a romantic draped figure with outstretched arms is a rare work from the post impressionist period. Signed with monogram (lower left) a...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

Jesus
Located in PARIS, FR
Emile Pouffier Jesus 1924 Charcoal and white chalk on paper 33 x 113 cm Signed and dated lower left
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Londres - Original China Ink Drawing by J. Cocteau - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Londres (Smoking in the Tub) is an original, rare and important realized by the great Surrealist artist Jean Cocteau in 1920. Realized for the book "Dessins" and published in the s...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

The Ginger Tom, Early 20th Century British Figurative Watercolour, Signed
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, initialled lower right Image size: 15 x 13 inches (38 x 33 cm) Acid free mount and hand made modern frame. Little-known painter and etcher who studied at Goldsmith's c...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Cute Children s Book Illustration British Female Illustrator - Teddy Bears
Located in Miami, FL
A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it l...
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Victorian 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Dog - Drawing by Ernest Rouart - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing by Ernest Rouart, husband of Berthe Morisot's daughter Julie (Manet's niece). Very good condition. Not signed.
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Antique English Impressionist Charcoal Pencil Drawing Portrait Study Two Heads
Located in Portland, OR
A very good English Impressionist charcoal and pencil drawing of two male heads, by the celebrated British artist Sir George Clausen R.A. (1852-1944), the drawing circa 1905. Clausen was a very well respected British artist based in London in the late 19th & early 20th century, stylistically he managed to meld Romanticism and Impressionism with great success. This very handsome drawing depicts a study of two male heads, most likely related to the 1905 painting "Binding Sheaves" or another harvest painting from that period. This work of art was exhibited & sold in 1976 by the "New Grafton Gallery 42 Old Bond Street London W1", exhibition to the verso, the gallery specialized in showing major 20th century British artists. The drawing is in excellent condition and is ready to hang. At sight without frame 5.50" x 8.50" Biography George Clausen was born at 8 William Street in the Regents Park district of London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper

The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right 21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Portland, OR
Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting on paper by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (Пётр Александрович Нилус in French Pierre Nilouss (1869– 1943), signed cir...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Paper

Strassenszene in Berlin - Drawing by Georges Grosz - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing on wove paper, realized in 1926 ca during the so called "Berlin Period" of Grosz. Lower left inscribed "N°. 19 / Cassirer". Verso with estate stamp and the number "5/...
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Expressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

"The Call of the Riled, " Saturday Evening Post Illustration, March 6, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal Drawing on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Story Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Deschmacker, Young Woman Lying By The Sea, Watercolor
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Paul-Alex Deschmacker, France, 1920s. This watercolor is in the classical period populated by mythological characters of Paul-Alex Deschmacker, itself becoming part of ...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Oh if brother would only let me have the key."
Located in Miami, FL
Signed "Violet Moore Higgins" in right-center image. Taped to board and matted. Story illustration for unknown publication. Though unconfirmed, it is possible this illustration was produced for The Little Lame Prince by Miss Mulock (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik) (Chicago: Albert Whitman Co., 1927, chapter VII). Violet Moore Higgins, born Violet Idelle Moore, attended the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s, and then settled in New York as an illustrator for children's books and magazines. She has illustrated books like 'Pinocchio', 'Heidi', 'Hans Brinker' and 'The Three Bears'. In the 1910s she made 'Picture Puzzle...
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Victorian 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Paper

"Whereas, the Women, " Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Whereas, the Women," by George Kibbe Turner, illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, July 22, 1922.
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint

Childhood , Paris, Salon d Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Titled, verso, 'Childhood', signed with artist's Paris address and dated 1926. This early twentieth-century...
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Surrealist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Flapper Era Woman with Feathered Headdress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920s Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Artist Board Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00" Signature: Unsigned The 1920’s painting most likely is the original cover art...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Board

The Victory - Lithograph by Hans Thoma - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Hans Thoma in the year of his death (1924). Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Lithograph

Sleeping Cat, Early 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Sleeping Cat, 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated upper right 15 x 19 inches 21.25 x 25.25 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Car...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

The Financing - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1920s. Hand monogrammed lower right. Good condition.
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Aranea diadima a study by Walter Spies, an artist living in Indonesia in the 30s
Located in PARIS, FR
Walter Spies was one of the first Europeans to settle in Bali after a stay in Java. He greatly contributed to the discovery and popularization of Balinese...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, c. 1926 Watercolor on board Signed lower right 21.75 x 28 inches 30.5 x 36.5 inches, framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Commedia dell arte – Four Character Studies in Watercolor, 1920s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Unidentified artist, 'Commedia dell’arte' – four character studies (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pantalone giovane, Tartaglia), watercolor and pencil, c. 192...
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Realist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Watercolor

Brittany, Pig Fair Pastel By Louis Fortuney
Located in Pasadena, CA
Louis Fortuney (1878-1950), also known simply as “Fortuney”, was a French pastellist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and in Paris and developed a personal style n...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

Portrait of a Young Girl Writing
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl Writing', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - man...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

1920 s Peaceful Marsh Wetlands Watercolor Landscape with Birds
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene 1920's watercolor landscape of calm water snaking through a lush marshy wetland, dotted with small birds, wildflowers and swaying grass, by an unknown artist (American, 20th C...
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American Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mother Nursing Her Baby
Located in London, GB
'Mother Nursing Her Baby', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century, Cleveland
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 20 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category

American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Circus Lot at Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Circus Lot at Toledo, c. 1920 Watercolor on Whatman board Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category

American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, c. 1920 Watercolor and graphite on board Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Cliffs near Paramé, France, vibrant seascape landscape watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Cliffs near Paramé, France, c. 1926-7 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 11 x 14.5 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mother with Child Under a Tree
Located in London, GB
'Mother with Child Under a Tree', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger ...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Étal de marché 1925, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) "Etal de Marché", A Market stall signed lower leftt pastel on paper 18 x 24.5 cm (view) In good condition Framed : 37 x 42 cm Published under n°580 of t...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Portrait of Two Sisters
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Two Sisters', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Vintage Parisian Theater Sketch - Bonnet Beauty
Located in Houston, TX
Darling gouache and pencil sketch of a feminine stage costume complete with matching bonnet for a Paris theater by Willie & Co., circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper, Pencil

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Bust-length portrait of a woman, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Bust-length portrait of a woman signed lower right pastel on paper 53 x 43 cm Framed 74 x 64 cm This bust portrait of a woman shows us another aspect o...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right 21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Elite Discourse - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Elite Discourse is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In good conditio...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Nude of Woman - Mixed Media - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original drawing in mixed media -pencil, pastel and watercolor- on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the early 2...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne. Edition of 2...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left 21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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