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Style: American Modern
"Families near Seville, Spain" Martha Walter, Modernist Figures in Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Martha Walter
Families near Seville, Spain
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
7 x 8 inches
Martha Walter was best known as a painter of colorful beach scenes and landscapes. Inf...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
A Finely Drawn, Modern 1940s Figure Study (Standing Young Female Model)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, Modern 1940s Figure Study (Standing Young Female Model) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, Mid-Century Modern ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
New Orleans Sportin House
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New Orleans Sportin House
Pen and ink on paper, 1951
Signed in ink, titled and dated in pencil (see photos)
Condition: Corners are pasted to support sheet, some staining in image.
Im...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
"Croton Park" Howard Daum, Modernist, Bright Landscape, Greens and Blues
Located in New York, NY
Howard Daum
Croton Park, 1940
Signed, titled and dated lower right
Watercolor on paper
8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Provenance
The artist
Ashby Gallery, New York
Carl Ashby, New York
Estat...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
"Taos Women" Emil Bisttram, Modernist, New Mexico Artist, Southwestern, Figures
Located in New York, NY
Emil Bisttram
Taos Women
Signed lower right
Pencil on paper
11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Provenance
David Cook Fine Art, Denver, Colorado
Clare Walker Fine Art, Tarrytown, New York
Bistt...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
"There are Two of You" Early Modern Original Foley
s Ad Layout of Woman
Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern original watercolor and gouache ad layout for Foley's by Houston portraitist Robert C. Joy. The work features a central reflection of a woman doing her makeup while wear...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled-055 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt frequently used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career.
Untitled (1972)
Pastel on paper
25" x 20"
Signed a...
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1670s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Cars Dealerships of the Future - Automotive
Located in Miami, FL
Large-scale, Mid-Century Illustration that imagines the Car Dealerships of the Future, possibly for the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 fair, with the theme "Peace Through Underst...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Illustration Board
Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern
Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954) Brooklyn Bridge, 1940, Signed and dated Reginald Marsh May 1940 (lr), Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper , 15 x 22 inches sight.
Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, France in 1898, the child of artist parents. He was born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank. He was brought to the United States in 1900 and was drawing before he was three. He studied art at Yale University and the Art Students League, during which time he worked primarily as an illustrator for New York newspapers and magazines. After studying in Paris in 1925 and 1926, he turned seriously to painting. In 1929 he was introduced to the egg-tempera medium, which he used extensively the rest of his life.
Marsh's gusto for painting the bottom crust of society contrasted curiously with his background. His parents, both well-known artists, were steeped in academic traditions. He attended Lawrenceville Academy and Yale; perhaps this elite background made it possible to paint the earthy people he did with a journalist's objectivity.
An admirer of Rubens and Delacroix, he disliked modernist art; indeed, his lifelong preoccupation was with people - enjoying themselves at beaches, at amusement parks, or on crowded city streets. Marsh was a second-generation Ash Can School painter and printmaker, best known as an urban regionalist. He spent his days sketching in small notebooks...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hells Angel on his Hog
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hells Angel on his Hog
Pen and ink on paper, 1969
Signed 'Longstreet' lower right (see photo)
Titled and dated upper right
Condition: excellent
Image/Sheet size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Pr...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Rare 1950s Original Syndicated Ink Drawing Cartoon Strip Susie Q Smith Comic Art
Located in Surfside, FL
SUSIE Q. SMITH
Medium: Newspaper comics
Distributed by: King Features Syndicate
First Appeared: 1945
Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter
6.5 X 18
Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be.
Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
A Man and his Wine, Illustrative Wax Crayon Drawing by William Gropper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Gropper, American (1897 - 1977)
Title: A Man and His Wine
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Crayon Drawing on Paper, signed in pencil l.l.
Size: 11 x 9 in. (27.94 x 22.86 cm)
...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Wax Crayon
Quick Change
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change
Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931
Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau
Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Seated Couple
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inspiration (Seated Couple)
Graphite on paper, c. 1967
Signed twice in pencil by the artist on recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 16 inches
Note: Although not t...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
1945 Pastel Drawing Girl with Flower American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Oil Pastel
Eve, female, nature, animals elephant giraffe
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Note, graphite, pastel, mylar, paper, layered drawing, female figure, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work features graphite on mylar over cut paper, aligned to amplify the forms while maintaining the delicacy of the drawing. These recently discovered 1984 oversize works on myla...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Mylar
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Whimsical Fishing Illustration Cartoon 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Modernist Watercolor Painting "Passages in Darkness" NYC Businessmen
By Elinore Schnurr-Colflesh
Located in Surfside, FL
Schnurr has an art studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo shows were at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in Long Island City, both in 2014; in 2011 she
was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Nude, 1959, Ink and Watercolor, Figure, Mid-Century, American
By Knox Martin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1923, Knox Martin moved with his family to New York City in 1927. He attended The Art Students League of New York from 1946 to 1950 under the GI Bil...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W.
Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education.
In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Gouache
Moonlight, oversize drawing of contemplative young woman, monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended along the curve through the center of the work. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, us...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Pablo Casals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pablo Casals
Graphite on paper, 1963
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 8 inches
Condition: glue residue in all four corners of the sheet
Drawn from life during an appearance at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
"In Foreign Parts" Eugene Higgins, Southwestern Pueblo, Modern Figurative
By Eugene Higgins
Located in New York, NY
Eugene Higgins
In Foreign Parts, circa 1913
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 x 13 inches
Born William Victor Higgins in 1884 to a Shelbyville, Indiana farm family where the only art Victor was aware of as a child was his father's love of flowers. "He loved their forms and their colors, and he tended his garden as a painter might work a canvas." At the age of nine, Victor met a young artist who traveled the Indiana countryside painting advertisements on the sides of barns. He purchased paints and brushes so the young Higgins could practice his own artwork on the inside of his father's barn. He also taught Victor about art museums and especially about the new Chicago Art Institute. This information never left the young artist, and he saved his allowance until his father allowed him at the age of fifteen to attend Chicago Art Institute. He worked a variety of jobs to finance his studies both there and at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Victor Higgins traveled to New York in 1908, where he met Robert Henri, who became a significant influence by depicting every-day scenes and stressing the importance of the spirit and sense of place as important factors in painting. Higgins was also greatly affected by the New York Armory Modernism Show of Marsden Hartley in 1913.
While Victor Higgins was in Chicago he met former mayor and avid collector Carter H. Harrison who was to prove instrumental in the growth of Higgins career for several years. Harrison agreed to support Higgins for four years to go to Paris and Munich and paint and study in the great museums in Europe. While at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier in Paris (1910-1914) he met Walter Ufer, who was another Chicago artist being sponsored by Carter Harrison. This meeting was not only a life-long friendship, but the beginning of a great change in the way Higgins looked at "American" art. He decided that America needed it's own authentic style rather than the 19th Century classic style he was taught in Europe. Very soon after returning to Chicago in 1914, Harrison sent him and Walter Ufer on a painting trip to Taos, New Mexico for a year in exchange for paintings. Higgins made other similar agreements and was able to support himself with his painting. This trip was a life-changing experience and introduced Higgins to the authentic America he had been looking for.
In 1914 Taos was an isolated village about twelve hours from Santa Fe on an impossible dirt road. But the colorful life of the pueblo people and the natural beauty drew a collection of artists who became the Taos art colony, from which the Taos Society of Artists was founded in 1915. Victor Higgins became a permanent resident within a year of his arrival and a member of the society in 1917, exhibiting with Jane Peterson in 1925 and with Wayman Adams and Janet Scudder in 1927. The members would travel around the country introducing the Southwest scenes with great success. He remained a member until the Society's dissolution in 1927. Higgins was the youngest member of the group of seven. Other members were Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Phillips...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
"We
ll Take This One" Gymnastic Lovers
By Dink Siegel
Located in Miami, FL
Dink Siegel is first a conceptual artist and then a cartoonist.
In the present work, Siegel depicts the interior of a bed store. He captures an exuberant moment that features an att...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board
Eve Asleep, nude, female figure graphite drawing archival paper monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1984 oversize nudes on mylar and/or archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawi...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Graphite
Two Studies of Henriette (Head of the artist
s wife
The Artist
s wife writing
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Studies of Henriette (Left: Head of the artist's wife, Right: The Artist's wife writing a letter)
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1928-1930
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Image/sheet size: 9 3/8 x 11 inches
Condition: Excellent
Colors fresh and unfaded
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Reclining nude, female figure pastel drawing on oversize black paper, colorful
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently re-discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Mission Impossible Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
"Mission Impossible" Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century NYC with Greg Morris, Barbara Bain, and Steve Hill. This original drawing...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Board
Figure by Window, graphite, pastel, mylar, paper layered drawing, female, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This feminist work of a nude gazing directly at the viewer, features graphite on mylar over cut paper, aligned to amplify the forms while maintaining the delicacy of the drawing. These recently discovered 1984 oversize works on mylar and archival papers were created with a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand.
As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mylar, Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Chicken Run female figure with umbrella vintage american car castle tower
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This recent pastel is on toned archival paper suitable for framing under glass.
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Reader, oversize drawing of young woman reading, minimal color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, using ripped previous drawings and paper-based materials from media. These recently discovered 1984 oversize drawings on archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand.
As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Lonly (Lonely)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Possibly deaccessed from the Columbus Museum of Art
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Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
A...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
That Day in Crete..., female gaze butterflies RINY collaboration abstract
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works.
Full title:
That Day in Crete when you found the Blue Blanket in the Rocks and Dried it ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Located in New York, NY
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
"Bathers"
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed lower le...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Foot with Strawberries
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unparalleled influence on artists and visual cultur...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ballpoint Pen
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s. 9 x 12 inches. Tempera on paper, c. 1936. Authenticated and signed ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Egg Tempera
Masks
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Masks" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower right corner ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Man Riding a Camel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Man Riding a Camel" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
A two-page spread in India ink pen and watercolor by Irene Pattinson (Ameri...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
Located in New York, NY
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
This drawing was published in the 1976 edition of William Saroyan's SONS ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Board
American flag collage with a colored print of California as an Island
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America.
Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works.
His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied.
Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes..
He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city or style.
Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him.
Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts.
These set of collage...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
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American flag collage with hand colored scene of 19th c San Francisco California
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America.
Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works.
His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied.
Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes..
He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city or style.
Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him.
Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts.
These set of collage...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
1950s "On Knees 2" Mid Century Figurative Ink University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"On Knees"
c.1950s
Ink on paper
8.5" x 11" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
gravesend, oler woman w city scape window yellow tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
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Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Biomorphic abstract nude by a California abstract artist circa 1938
By Erle Loran
Located in Colfax, CA
This work is a modernist study created by the artist in the 1940s. (possibly the 1930s).
Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the entirety ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
1950s "Morning Robe" Mid Century Figurative Ink Original Drawing
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Morning Robe"
March 1951
Ink on paper
14" x 16.5" unframed
Signed and dated 1951 in pencil lower right
Came from artist estate
*Custom framing available for additional...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Hat in the Ring, Fashion themed pastel on archival paper with shoes, mirror
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Minister of Exams, colorful male and female figures graffiti elements on black
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works.
Born of the Covid pandemic, the team started working remotely, mailing artwork to each ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Crayon
Gerald Holding His Knees
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivalled influence on artists and image-making.
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ballpoint Pen
Blue Indigo, drawing collage female figure with abstract patterns, bright blues
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Lacy Grey, semi nude mixed media muted tones lace charcoal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal, pastel lace
Audrey Anastasi states:
"The paper doll series was created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal an...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Fabric, Archival Paper
Estes Park Colorado American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Painting, WPA 1930s
By James Russell Sherman
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s watercolor and ink painting of Estes Park, Colorado, by American artist James Russell Sherman (1906-1989). This captivating work features a detailed view of storefronts...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on Paper
Signed Lower Right
Framed by Bark
Affixed to the back are original gold lame fabric swatches.
This drawing is available, along with two other original costume drawings from BIRDIE by Miles White, another of Conrad Birdie and one of Chita Rivera.
Miles White, a leading Broadway and Hollywood costume designer for decades. created costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA CAROUSEL, BYE BYE BIRDIE and many others.
In film he worked on "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Greatest Show on Earth." He designed Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the Ice Capades for many years.
Miles was a close friend for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings.
BYE BYE BIRDIE is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Beautiful Pastel Fountain Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
20 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 30 1/2 x 38 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: ME...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis.
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Hilaire Hiler “Pinto" 1933 Modernist Ink Drawing of Native American on Horseback
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1933 black-and-white ink drawing, titled “Pinto,” is an exceptional example of Hilaire Hiler’s (1898–1966) distinctive modernist style. The artwork depicts a Native American rider wearing a feathered headdress, confidently mounted on horseback. Executed in fine ink on vellum, Hiler’s composition combines elegant linework, rhythmic movement, and minimalist form, showcasing his mastery of modernist abstraction and figurative expression.
The drawing is signed by the artist in the lower right corner, confirming authenticity and adding significant collector value. Custom framing options are available to complement this timeless work on paper.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Rhode Island, Hilaire Hiler studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of Paris. After years in Paris’s avant-garde art scene (1919–1934), he moved to San Francisco, where he contributed to the WPA’s Aquatic Park...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
American Modern figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern figurative drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Donald Stacy, Alfred Bendiner, Irene Pattinson, and Frank Wilcox. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern figurative drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $85 and tops out at $243,750, while the average work sells for $1,200.
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