1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert. Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...

Athens: View of The Akropolis is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet di...

This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 10 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...

Paris, houses and tree is a beautiful artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi in 1935. China Ink Drawing. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Included a Passepartout: 33 x 48 cm. ...

Into the Woods is an original modern artwork realized in the 1930s by the French artist Pierre Segogne (1890-1958). Original colored watercolor on cardboard. Hand-signed by the ar...

Automobilia - This advertising illustration captures the timeless Art Deco aesthetic while highlighting the historical significance of the Lincoln Nash. The luxury automobile was man...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Watercolor on paper, 14 x 21 inches unframed sheet, 24 x 30 inches framed, signed and dated lower right About the Artist: Born in 1909, Tom E. Lewis studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Beyond that training, Lewis was largely self-taught as an artist. He began watercolor painting during the late 1920s and focused on scenes of California. Lewis was an active organizer of the arts and exhibitor and aided the formation of the Progressive Painters of Southern California. Prior to World War II, the Treasury Section of Fine Arts awarded two commissions to Lewis, the first completed in 1938 for the Hayward California Post Office and the second completed in 1941 for the El Dorado County California District Attorney’s Office...

Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso) Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938 Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...

To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search. Sir Edward Maufe (1882 - 1974) Design for House on Round Island...

A luminous early 20th-century Colorado mountain landscape by renowned artist Elsie Haddon Haynes, this original pastel on paper captures the historic mining town of Silver Plume...

Artist: Allen Tucker, American (1866 - 1939) Title: Western Landscape Year: 1931 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm)

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) Resurrection – Mural Design for Eltham Hall Signed with initials, dated and inscribed l.c.: Designs for Eltham Hall / 17/4/36 / HCA Watercolour ...

Jean Launois (1898-1942) A North African landscape, A Port (Essaouira ?) signed lower right Watercolor on paper 14 x 41.5 cm Framed : 30 x 57 cm It is most likely a view of the por...

Peaceful French sketch of running water in creek in pencil and oil pastel, circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...

Bright watercolor landscape of a sailboat drifting in a small cove ringed by red rock mountains by artist M. Balestié, circa 1930. Titled lower left and signed lower right. Original...

Richly hued watercolor landscape of a breathtaking scene from Cap Dramont, a nature preserve near the French Riviera by M. Kesseler, 1938. Signed, titled and dated lower right. Orig...

Tsuruoka Kakunen Crossing the Bridge in the Rain, circa 1930s Signed Kakunen with artist's square seal, and oval Tsuruoka family seal on verso Watercolor on paper 19 3/4 x 6 1/2 inc...

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...

Artist: Allen Tucker, American (1866 - 1939) Title: New England Landscape Year: 1936 Medium: Watercolor, signed and dated Size: 19 in. x 28 in. (...

Theodor Alescha (1898-1991). Netherlands harbor scene, ca. 1935. Pastel on paper mounted to illustration board, 18 x 24 inches. Measures 24 x 30 inches framed. Signed lower right. Ex...

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking 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 Edward Sorel...

Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) A Landscape Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 22.5 x 30.5cm In good condition Framed: 37.5 x 46 cm Paul Emile Lecomte (1877– 1950). Painter of wat...

Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...

This vintage 1938 ink drawing by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) beautifully depicts a church nestled amid the dramatic Rocky Mountains of Georgetown, Colorado. Executed in bold ...

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...

A fantastic industrial drawing dated 1935, which depicts the former Plymouth Motor Company's Powerhouse in Buffalo, NY. Housed in a contemporary frame presentation this unique work ...

Bords de Seine, Tosny by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Pencil on paper 20.6 x 27 cm (8 ¹/₈ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches) Titled and signed lower right Executed circa 1930s This work is ac...

Signed and dated "Allen Tucker 1930" lower left. Artwork measures 14" x 11 ¾" and framed 19" x 16 ½" x 2 ¼". Provenance: Gift from the artist to his friend Una Brage, USA/Switzerland, in the 1930s Estate of Ms. Brage to her friend Jean Corbett Peck, daughter of architect Harvey Wiley Corbett By descent About this artist: Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman, but it was not until around 1904, when he was 38, that Tucker became a full-time painter, leaving architecture behind. Many of his early canvases were classically Impressionistic with poplar trees resembling those of Van Gogh and haystacks and corn shocks...

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) Plenty - Design for Eltham Palace Chalks Framed 20.5 by 12 cm., 8 by 4 ¾ in. (frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.) Attwood was born i...

We acquired a series of paintings from Claude Muncaster's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Claude Munca...

As Goldsmith Osman designed the Crown for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969, and as architect he commissioned Jacob Epstein's chef d'oeuvre, the Madonna and Child on the...

Considered one of the early "California Impressionists" Carl Sammons is known for plain air landscapes that featured the flowering plants native to the coasts, mountains, and desert...

To see our other Commercial Designs - and many original vintage posters too, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Anonymous Moss ...

"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...

To see our other Graphic Designs and Architectural Designs, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." 'W.E.B.' Original Design for Electrical & Radio Trading Magazine 32x26.5cm Gouache c. 1930s signed 'W.E.B.' lower right Radio & Electrical Trading Magazine was first published shortly after the dawn of the radio age, and continues today as ERT magazine. This is a fine example of Art Deco graphic...

Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto Suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, France, circa 1928-32 Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 11 x 14 inches Henry Sugimoto was born in Wakayama, Japan, on March 12, 1900. His father left for the United States shortly after he was born, and his mother joined him some years later, with the result that the young Henry was raised largely by his grandparents. Following the end of World War I, Henry Sugimoto arrived in the United States as a "yobiyose" (child brought over) and settled with his parents in Hanford, California. After attending Hanford High School, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. He soon grew absorbed in art and his parents agreed to let him enroll at the California School of Arts and Crafts. After studying there for four years with a concentration in oil painting, he graduated with honors in 1928. He then moved to the California School for Fine Arts, but after a year there he decided to travel to France, the international artistic capital, for further study. Once arrived in Paris, Sugimoto became close to the circle of Japanese...

JOHN DRONSFIELD (1900-1951) Full Sail Watercolour and pencil Unframed, in mount only 31 by 27.5 cm., 12 ¼ by 10 ¾ in. (mount size 45.5 by 41 cm., 18 by 16 in.) John Marsden Dron...

RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC (1885-1948) The Pitchmarket, Cerne Abbas Signed, inscribed Cerne Abbas and dated 1937 Pencil and watercolour Framed 34...

Conditions: Very good Conditions. Framed under glass 1960's Complementary shipping worlwide by DHL, FEDEX. Returning customers : 25% OFF listed price on all Belfort SAS catalogue. ...

American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century WPA Era Woman Artist Children Winnie Borne Sherman (1902-2004) “Ring around the Rosie” Pencil on Paperboard, c. 1930s 13 3/8 H x 15 5...

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Brick Layers House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939 ...

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...

American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Oil Terminal Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s. 15 3/4 X 12 inches (image) 18 X 14 inches board Gouache on board Signed lower right unframed BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...

"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...

Henri Charles ANGENIOL (1870 - 1959) View of Lyon from the Fourvière hill Pastel 43.6 x 53.4 cm (47.3 x 57.4 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right (1938)

Landscape with Trees is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in 1935 in Marac. Pencil Drawing, hand signed on the lower right margin and dated "Marac 1935". Good Co...

Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cadets Football Game New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 14 1/4 X 1...

Landscape with a Village is an original artwork realized in 1939 by Charlotte Jamois in the first half of the 20th century. Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the low...

TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3 10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy. Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell. Background on the Drawing Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive. The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him. Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East. In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people. He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...

This 1938 watercolor painting by American Modernist artist Turner B. Messick depicts a serene winter landscape, likely set in Colorado. The scene features a bare tree in the foregrou...

MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962 Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli) Title: Boats in the Harbour, circa 1938 Technique: Original...

August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...

Maison au Bord de Chemin by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 27 x 36.7 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 14 ¹/₂ inches) Signed with Estate stamp, lower right This work is...

THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED Figures de Profil by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Pencil on paper 12.9 x 20 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 7 ⁷/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro- Proven...

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) The Resurrection – A Mural Design Signed with initials, dated and inscribed l.c.: Designs for Eltham Hall / 17/4/36 / HCA Watercolour and pencil...

Muriel Elise Cooke, ( Crooke ) 1901 - 1975, was an English artist who painted in watercolour and oil, she was also an engraver Cooke studied in Paris, France and in her twenties exh...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE La Maison Rose, Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour, ink and ...

Signed lower right. Work is unframed. Very Slight fading commensurate with time but presents very well Biography Walt Louderback Walt Louderback (1887-1941) The illustrations of W...

Louise Marie Jossier-Grémillon L'amphore blessée (the wounded amphora), 1934, signed, titled and dated lower left watercolor on paper 62 x 44 cm In good condition In its original f...

Leon Dolice American, 1892-1960 Manhattan Skyline Pastel on paper 19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in. Signed lower right The romantic backdrop of Vi...