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Art Subject: Nature
Woods and Country Manor
Located in Middletown, NY
A bucolic woods landscape with an ivy-covered country manor.
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 4 7/8 x 7 inches (125 x 178 mm), the full sheet. In very good c...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Cliffs, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (248 x 311 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light toning, especially at the sheet edges. Minor, light area of clustered brown spot...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Taking a Rest
By Nat Levy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Taking a Rest" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Nat Levy 1896-1984. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cottages on the Yorkshire Dales
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor with white heightening through abrasion with the brush stick on watercolor paper, 7 x 9 7/8 inches (177 x 248 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with scattered light f...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
By Martin Lewis
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Fisherman
s Island, Boothbay, Maine, early 20th century landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, c. 1925
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 20 inches
20.75 x 25.75 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...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Countryside - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1993
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1993 by Armin Guther.
The artwork is hand-signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the lower-left.
In excellent condition...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rock formations, Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (246 x 294 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and some scattered light surface soiling. C...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
On the Top, People Crossing the Mountains, Montana Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
On the Top, Montana, 1952
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
25.5 x 34 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Saltmarshes, Parkstone
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on board, 6 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (163 x 362 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the lower margin, recto, and titled in pencil with various extensive nota...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Patchwork farms, Cornish coast
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches (238 x 283 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with scattered small pin-point spots of discoloration on the ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (147 x 290 mm), the full sheet. On the verso is an unfinished sketch in graphite which is titled "Gardens, 3 Kent T...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Colorful Lake Reflections, Large-Scale Pastel Landscape with Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant large-scale pastel landscape of colorful reflections rippling on a calm lake with three small ducks and a boat by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
View of Traghetto Salute, Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right. Titled on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Little Island, Landscape Drawing, Nature Artwork, Tree Drawing, Botanical Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Little Island is an original pastel drawing on paper by artist Cornelia Fitzroy. Cornelia FitzRoy is a Norfolk landscape plein air artist who uses co...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"House Studies Series I", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architecture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series I" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Autumn Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 20 x 12.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$550 Sale Price
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Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$378 Sale Price
30% Off
"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Party, Figurative Art Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Party,
Size: 12" x 9" ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cottages in Devon
By Samuel Prout
Located in Middletown, NY
An early Devonshire landscape, ex-collection West Collection of British Watercolors & the Fine Art Society, London.
Circa 1800
Ink and brown wash on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (...
Category
Early 1800s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880) - Framed Watercolour, On the Cornish Coast
Located in Corsham, GB
An original mid-19th century watercolour by the listed British artist Edward William Cooke RA (1811-1880). Well presented in a gilt frame. Signed in the lower left and dated 1865. On...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Path Forward" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Path Forward" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a snowy pathway going through a calm forest.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based artist cel...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge)" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturne
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1939-1940
Signed lower left
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Exhibited
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Deco ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
TOGETHER 3 - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing, Dog, People
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple white wood frames behind glass. At the right site there is a monogram with date. The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue Elevated
19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed an...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"House Studies Series II", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architecture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series II" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Headland
Rocks, White Island, Maine, early 20th century watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 19.5 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," 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...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman With A Dog - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple black frames behind glass.
The full signature is on the back of the drawing, on the front is a dated monogram.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Facul...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Vintage Coastal Figurative Landscape -- Walk on the Beach Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful vintage watercolor of a coastal landscape with two figures walking along the beach by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson i...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Secret Garden 13 - Contemporary Art, Flower, Black, White, Organic, 21st Century
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 13, 2020
white ink on black cardboard
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
Remains (Body in the Field 21) - Contemporary, Blue, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 21 ), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
"A Kind of Paradise" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"A Kind of Paradise" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a landscape in the foothills with the focus being on a river.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Conne...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Remains (Body in the Field 7) - Contemporary, Green, Grey, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 7), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Alpine Landscape - Original Pencil Drawing by Marie Hector Yvert - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Landscape is an original artwork realized in the second half of the 19th Century by Marie Hector Yvert.
Original pencil and white chalk on brown paper.
Stamp of Atelier M.H....
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
"House Studies Series V", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series V" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Surmounting Waves Flying Wings by Zhuyong Original Watercolor on Silk
Located in Soquel, CA
越波飛翼 (Yuè bō fēi yì) by 朱永
Surmounting Waves Flying Wings by ZhuYong
Image, 26.5"H x 40.5"W
Frame, 35.5"W 49.5"W . 1.5"D
A Chinese painting featuring two cranes in flight against a backdrop of stylized waves. The painting is rendered in traditional Chinese style, with flowing brushstrokes and a muted color palette dominated by blues, whites, and earth tones. The cranes are depicted with detailed plumage, their wings outstretched as they soar through the air. The waves are represented in a swirling, abstract manner, suggesting movement and energy. Chinese painting is known for its emphasis on capturing the essence of the subject matter rather than a literal representation, and this piece exemplifies that approach. The use of ink and color on silk or paper is typical of this art form, as is the focus on natural themes such as birds and landscapes. he style is reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink wash painting, which emphasizes brushwork and capturing the spirit of the subject. The swirling water and mountain details could also be interpreted as fractal art...
Category
1990s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Silk
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor
Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/4"H x 21 7/8"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Snowman Ice Skating
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Bedouin Encampment at Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful orientalist original gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Circa 1885. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The scene is of a Bedouin encampment at sunset. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French
landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
31% Off
Figures on the Beach, Mid Century East Java Indonesia Coast Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century landscape watercolor of figures on a beautiful beach in Indonesia, and early work by Sufi artist Amang Rahman Jubair (Indonesian, 1931-2001). Four tall palm trees tower o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Trout stream in Oxfordshire
Located in Harkstead, GB
A lovely vibrant watercolour capturing a shimmering English river
John Newberry (born 1934)
Stream at Wytham, Oxford
Signed
Watercolour
4¼ x 5¾ inches unframed
9 x 11 inches with fr...
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$240 Sale Price
30% Off
The Old Red Barn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Old Red Barn" c.1965 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Cole. It is signed at the lower right corner by the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses
Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative watercolor on paper painting, titled The Way War First Comes (1940), was created by noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L
étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
29,3 x 22.5 cm
In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm
titled on t...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les Indestinés, Charcoal, Original Black
White Drawing, Wave, Seascape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Charcoal and Graphite on Archival Watercolour paper 300Gsm.
Artist : Fabien Granet
Subject : Les Indestinés (series ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
A dusk - XXI Century, Contemporary Pastel Drawing, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
Maka Cielecka
Graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Worked in Canada and in the Netherlands as a graphic artist. In the mid-90s she began her extensive travels, including t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
"Chrysler Building" Leon Dolice, New York City Street Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Chrysler Building
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
19 x 12 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the yo...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A forest in the mist, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
"Orée du bois par brume", A forest in the mist
signed lower right
pastel on paper
24 x 32 cm
In good condition
In a vintage frame : 43.5 x 53 cm The gilding on the frame is missing in many places
Henry Ottmann particularly excelled in the pastel technique, as can be seen here.
This is due to the fact that this delicate material obviously lends itself very well to the artist's characteristic vaporous style and manner.
We should also note the great modernity of this landscape and its fades, which go almost as far as abstraction.
Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis.
He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries.
In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand-Ruel together with Armand Guillaumin, Henri Lebasque and others. In 1912, he exhibited at the gallery Eugène Druet.
In 1920, Ottmann exhibited at the gallery Marcel...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
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