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Period: 1940s
Forest
Located in Riga, LV
Karlis Miesnieks (1887.31.I – 1977.25.X)
Studied in the studio of J. Madernieks (1910), in Petersburg society of Imperial art promotion school (1911) and he graduated class of theat...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Etching
1940 American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Pushcart Tenements
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Noble Woman - Drawing by E. Klepper - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Noble Woman is an original drawing on paper realized by Erhard Klepper (1906-1980) in 1948.
Mixed media: drawing and watercolor. Hand-written notes on the higher right margin. The a...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Sleeping Woman - Original Charcoal Drawing by Serge Fontinsky - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions but top left of sheet missing.
Hand-s...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
John Dronsfield - Clown and Bird - 1940s South African ink drawing
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Clown and Bird
Signed
Black ink
Unframed, in mount only
18 by 16 cm., 7 by 6 ¼ in.
(mount size 32 by 29 cm., 12 ½ by 11 ½ in.)
John Marsden Dronsfiel...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Lounge Wear
Pajamas
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring a colorful design for women's lounge wear & pajamas.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Prov...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Early 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study Featuring Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's accessories and Elizabeth Arden cosmetics.
Artwork size: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Archivally ma...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
"The Circus" Original Surreal Watercolor
Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
The Prince
s Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, "Personal Choice of Gertrude Lawrence"
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s woman's fashion study featuring an elegant, colorful design titled "Personal Choice of Gertrude Lawrence, Star of Lady in the Dark". Gertrude Lawrence, fam...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's winter hat and coat, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago depa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for Saks Fifth Avenue
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a women’s hat & coat for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Inscription reads: "Wolf great coat from Sak's Fifth Avenue".
Ar...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Town and Country, Blum’s Vogue
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's autumn suit.
Inscription reads: "Brown and grey suit and cape affair from Town and Country, Blum's ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Red Gown, Evening Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's red gown, evening wear.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. P...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
An Intimate, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Nude Figure Study, "Deshabille"
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Nude Figure Study "Deshabille" by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). The drawing is ink and graphite on paper and d...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
"Old Cronies" Original Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Old Cronies" Original Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Watercolor
Bold portrait piece by Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999). The composition focuses on a man and woman standing clo...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Striking, Vintage Early 1940s Fashion Study of Women’s Hat
Gloves
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, vintage early 1940s woman's fashion study featuring a stylish young woman seated in profile, dressed in an elegant coat, hat and gloves.
Image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Male figure and silhouette sketches
By André Derain
Located in PARIS, FR
Double-sided work in good condition, dispersal of the Knaublich succession, Loiseau-Shmitz, 23/03/2002. Stamp "Atelier Derain" at bottom right. Exhibitions: Talismans VI, galerie Her...
Category
French School 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Beach Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring a standing female model dressed in sunglasses wearing an elegant design for women's beach wear.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Lounge Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's lounge wear.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: Corn...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Anatomical Study - Oil Pastel Drawing on Paper signed "Schiavetto"-1946
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomical Study is an original Modern Artwork realized in 1946 in Italy.
Original Oil Pastel Drawing on paper.
Hand-signed "Schiavetto" and dated on the lower right corner. Inscr...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
View of Rome - Pen Drawing on Paper by Luigi Montanarini - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is an original drawing in pen realized by Luigi Montanarini in 1947.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Passepartout: 48.5 x 65
Good condition excep...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for a Woman
s Hat, Suit and Coat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's red Robin Hood hat, suit and coat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 in...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Designs for Women
s Hat, Suit and Coat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's hat, suit, shoes & coat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Pro...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design of Women
s Hat
Muff, Lilly Daché
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat and lace muff, Lily Daché.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 in...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"18 Cornelia Street" George Morrison, Ojibwe Native Artist, Modernist Work
By George Morrison
Located in New York, NY
George Morrison
18 Cornelia Street, 1944
Signed and dated "May 1944" lower left
Ink on paper
8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches
Provenance
The artist
Carl Ashby
Estate of the above
Private Collec...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Adobe, Early 20th Century Western Village Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
The Adobe, c. 1940-41
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 –...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Le Grand Theatre - Drawing by Fabrizio Clerici - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Dyptich realized in ink and tempera on paper by Fabrizio Clerici in 1947.
An outstanding drawing, in perfect condition, mounted on panels.
Frame: 62x88 cm.
Ref. Fabrizio Clerici, ...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative.
Chris Ritter (American, 1906 – 1976) "Animated Discourse," 19 x 24 (sight). Watercolor on paper. Si...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Maison, Normandie by Paulémile Pissarro - Drawing of a countryside house
Located in London, GB
La Maison, Normandie by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
24 x 32 cm (9 ¹/₂ x 12 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certif...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Maccari, Ojetti and Soffici - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1935 ca
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Red ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1941.
It represents three of the main characters of Italian culture of the 40s, namely Mino Maccari, Ardengo Soffici and Ugo Ojetti.
Han...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo
Located in London, GB
MARINO MARINI 1901-1980
Pistoia, Italy 1901-1980 Viareggio, Italy (Italian)
Title: Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo, 1943
Technique: Double-sided Hand Signed and Dated Pencil, Watercolour and Gouache on Thin Card
Paper size: 49 x 34.5 cm. / 19.3 x 13.6 in.
Additional information: This pencil, watercolour and gouache work is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Locarno 1943 Marino" in the lower left image.
It is also signed in ink "Marino" in the lower right image.
The drawing was created in Locarno in 1943.
Furthermore, there is a sketch of Horse...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965).
Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Castor Oil - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower left.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
Category
Feminist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"She struggled to free herself" Magazine Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for part four of “Black Jack” by Robert E. Pinkerton, published in The Saturday Evening Post, December 11, 1943, page 32.
This compelling illustration, ...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Flapper Fanny - Female Cartoonist of the Golden Age
Sylvia Sneidman was originally a fashion illustrator, but assumed the helm of the famous jazz-age panel cartoon "Flapper Fanny Sa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Rio Puerco, New Mexico, Early 20th Century Western Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Rio Puerco, New Mexico, c. 1940-1
Watercolor on paper
Monogram lower right
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (O...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
20.8 x 26.9 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 13 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Execu...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Moroccan Peasant Scene by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
Located in London, GB
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Moroccan Peasant Scene by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
22 x 27 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for a Woman
s Hat and Coat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat and coat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance:...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study for Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat by Maria Guy, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago dep...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Hats, Lily Daché
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring a colorful design for a women's hat by Lilly Daché.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Water...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Hat
Shoes, Hattie Carnegie
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's suits, hats & shoes by Hattie Carnegie.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 1...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's hats.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Watercolor and pencil ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's white ermine wrap. Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago dep...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for Formal Evening Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's evening wear.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: Co...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for a Women
s Dress, Lucien Lelong
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's jacket dress; Lucien Lelong ”Indiscrete”.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted t...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for a Formal Evening Gown
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's evening gown.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's evening wear by Lilly Daché, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chic...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Sunset Outside of Utah, Early 20th Century Western Landscape w/ Mountain
Fire
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Sunset Outside of Zion, Utah, c. 1940
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 20 inches
18 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (Oct...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Richard De Menocal Vogue Watercolour Of Lady Croquet Player Nov 15 1947
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed w/ artist stamp on verso
Commissioned for Vogue Magazine Nov 15, 1947
Page 102
539 East 88 St. New York City
Lolas Gallery
De Menocal (1919-1995) graduated from ...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Richard De Menocal Vogue Watercolour Of Turban Clad Theatrical Lady
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed w/ artist stamp on verso
539 East 88 St. New York City
Lolas Gallery
De Menocal (1919-1995) graduated from the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During his ...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for
Willie Gillis USO
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Charcoal, Pencil and Collage on Paper
Dimensions: 33.00" x 26.25"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed
In 1941, Norman Rockwell created his first cover image of Willie...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Ethel Merman "Annie Get Your Gun" original Mid Century Broadway theatre drawing
Located in New York, NY
Ethel Merman "Annie Get Your Gun" original Mid Century Broadway theatre drawing
Ethel Merman in the pre-Broadway tour of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, 18 ½ ...
Category
Performance 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Board
Pedro, Pineapple Seller
, WPA, California, Orozco, Rivera, MMA, GGIE, ASL, NY
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Sottosanti' for Angelo Anthony Sottosanti (American, 1917-2004); additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Pedro of Tehuan Tepee, Mexico' and painted circa 1940.
...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
Category
Tribal 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
The Wait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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