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Period: 1950s
Figures - Original Pastels on Paper by Helen Vogt - 1950s
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original artwork realized by Hélène Vogt in the 1950s.
Original drawing in pastels on paper.
Passepartout included (cm 34 x 49). Excellent conditions.
Very beautifu...
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1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Yellow Flower, " Original Watercolor stamped signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Flower" is an original watercolor on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature in the lower center.
6 3/4" x 10 1/4" art
14 1/2" x 17 1/2" frame
Born in 1...
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Other Art Style 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk.
Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art
B...
Category
Abstract 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740, " Crayon signed by S. Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Art Deco Sailboat in Abstract Landscape #740" is an original colorful crayon drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, signed in pencil in the lower right corner. The sailboat of the title is in the center, set against a deep blue sky upon a dark green sea. It is framed by a abstract shapes of bright color that flow into one another in curving lines. The horizon line is maintained throughout the composition, and the effect is something like looking through a kaleidoscope.
Art size: 8 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 16 1/4" x 14 1/2"
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...
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Art Deco 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$20,000 Sale Price
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Flight to Egypt
By Anna Walinska
Located in New York, NY
Oil on paper. Signed and dated 'Walinska 57' (lower left).
image size 20 x 13 1/2 in.
framed size 28 1/3 x 22 1/2 inches
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Scenery - Drawing by Herta Hausmann - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Scenery is a black marker pen drawing realized by Herta Hausmann.
The artwork is in good conditions.
Hand monogrammed in pencil by the artist in the lower right corner by pencil.
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Construction on the Pass, Montana, Western Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Construction on the Pass, Montana, c. 1950
Unsigned
Watercolor on Whatman board
22 x 30 inches
Provenance: From the estate of Frank Nelson Wilcox
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26, 5 x 19, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26,5x19,5 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
$908 Sale Price
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Watercolor of Doylestown, PA by Ranulph Bye
Located in New York, NY
Ranulph Bye (American, 1916-2003)
Rocks and Trees (Doylestown, PA), 1958
Watercolor on paper
14 x 21 in.
Framed: 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.
Signed bottom: Ranulph...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beaver Pond, Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Beaver Pond near Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on Paper
Unsigned
19 x 24 inches
21 x 26 inches fram...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Old Door
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Old Door, 1953
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front
20 × 14 inches
Unframed
This unique and extre...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Madagascar Beach
Located in Houston, TX
Expertly rendered watercolor landscape of boats moored along a small beach in Madagascar Africa by French artist Stephane Magnard (1917-2010), circa 1950.
Original one-of-a-kind ar...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Rocky Mountain Meadow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a Rocky Mountain Meadow by the well known American artist, Werner Drewes. Signed lower right. Titled and dated 1956 on verso of sheet. Con...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,800 Sale Price
22% Off
A 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pastel Monoprint "Edgartown Harbor" by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic, unique Mid-Century Modern monoprint of a sailing regatta in Martha's Vineyard, "Edgartown Harbor", by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Lithograph on paper wi...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Lithograph, Paper
Vintage French Watercolor Seascape - Rocky Coastline
Located in Houston, TX
Striking watercolor seascape of a rocky inlet circling an island lush with dense foliage by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper disp...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Forest - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Forest is a drawing realized by an anonymous french artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor on paper.
Good condition.
Poetic and beautiful drawing with harmonious colors.
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nonconformist Removed by the State. Satyr / Pan Mythology
Located in Miami, FL
This cartoon by Charles Addams is generations ahead of its time.
To get the punch line, the viewer must know the meaning of a Satyr or Pan.
Satyr: Part man and part beast. - A male ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sun Drenched Pueblo, 1950s Western Mountainous Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Sun Drenched Pueblo, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Monogram lower right
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
"All these things are, of co...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1951 original gouache - Soviet civil aviation - Aeroflot USSR
Located in PARIS, FR
This large and finely executed gouache from 1951 illustrates the optimistic and forward-looking spirit of early postwar Soviet civil aviation. Attributed to the artist Pyatkin, the w...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original gouache design for a Soviet propaganda poster - Kakhovka Hydroelectric
Located in PARIS, FR
This dynamic work is an original gouache design for a Soviet propaganda poster, created at the dawn of one of the USSR’s major postwar industrial campaigns: the construction of the K...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Colorado River, Needles, California, 1950s Western Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
The Colorado At Needles, California, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Monogram lower right, titled verso
14.5 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches fram...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Medieval Bridge at Aylesford in the County of Kent, English River Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicate watercolor view of the Bridge at Aylesford over the River Medway in the English county of Kent.
Signed lower left "Frank Sherwin", (English, 1896-1986), titled "The Brid...
Category
Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Boats Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century painting of boats with bridge in background in muted tones done by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a g...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
University Village, Berkeley
Carmel, California, Woman Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled 'University Village', dated 1958 and with inscription verso, 'Demonstration painting- horizontal and verti...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,087 Sale Price
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English Country Estate 1952 Watercolour by Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964)
Located in Bristol, CT
Delightful watercolour by the noted illustrator Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964) & dated 1952 depicting an English country house & gardens
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 16"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/2...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Along the Avenue
Located in Plano, TX
Ruben Gelardi's depiction of a yellow tram in Copenhagen. Pastel on paper measures 15 7/8 x 20; frame dimensions measure 22 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 1 1/4. Artist'...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Baghdad Military Mystery Espionage Illustration Colliers , Saturday Evening Post
By John Pike
Located in Miami, FL
21.25 x 28 in. (54 x 71.1 cm.)
Magazine illustration most likely for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post
Title : The One Behind Him, by Charles B . Child
Work is unframed
Category
Realist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moraine Valley
Snow Peaks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Moraine and Snow Peaks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Unsigned
19 x 24 inches
21 x 26 inches framed
...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Upper Tuscany — Mid-century expressionism
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Mixed media on paper by Sirio Pellegrini - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera, white lead and watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1950s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 78.5x58.5
Category
Contemporary 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Venice : The Basin of San Marco with Gondola - Original Handsigned Drawing
By André Masson
Located in Paris, IDF
André Masson
The Basin of San Marco, Venice
Original pastel drawing
Handsigned in pencil
On vellum, 53 x 37,5 cm (c. 20,8 x 14,7 inch)
PROVENANCE : Collection of Roger Passeron, fr...
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Provincetown, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Provincetown (P5.16), Year: circa 1950, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13.5 x 19 in. (34.29 x 48.26 cm), Description: Looking out...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ocean Front Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century watercolor painting of coastline by French artist Madeleine Scali (1911-2000), circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fit...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Shower at Head of Valley, Colorado Western Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Shower at Head of Valley, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Cape Neddick Light”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, Maine. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. Several tiny spots of foxing. The wa...
Category
Academic 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Côtes de l
Estérel
Located in Houston, TX
Remarkable and vivid watercolor of the rocky red cliffs of the Esterel overlooking the emerald colored French Riviera coast by French artist Stephane Magnard (1917-2010), 1955.
Ori...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Dance - Original China Ink Drawing by Beppe Guzzi - 1950s
By Beppe Guzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Dancing is an original drawing in china ink on the paper, hand-signed by the Italian painter Beppe Guzzi.
Included a passepartout: 60 x 50 cm
This beautiful drawing represents a l...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Sunset in the City"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 20th Century
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Unsigned
19 x 24 inches
Provenance: From the Estate of Frank Nelson Wilcox
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Morris Cox (1903-1998)
Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959
Linocut inked with watercolours
Image: 19.0 x 27.0 cm Frame: 34.0 x 41.0 cm
Provenance: Morris Cox Archive
Morris ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
$354 Sale Price
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French Watercolor - Rice Fields
Located in Houston, TX
Tranquil watercolor of a rice field surrounded by a small farming village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displaye...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dining Room Interior, Impressionist Pastel Drawing by Joseph Barber
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Barber, American (1915 - 1998)
Title: Dining Room Interior
Year: circa 1945
Medium: Watercolor and Pastel on Paper, signed l.l.
Size: 15 x 21 inches (38 x 53.5 cm)
Fra...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
At the Park
, Metropolitan Museum, NY MoMA, AIC, ASL, Whitney Museum, Toledo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Rainey Bennett' (American, 1907-1998) and dated 1958; titled, verso, 'Romantic Landscape' and accompanied by original ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Estate Gate
Located in Houston, TX
Enchanting mid-century French watercolor of estate gate with slate roof, 1956.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archi...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Provincetown Harbor”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor of Provincetown Harbor in first light by the well known artist John Cuthbert Hare. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The watercolor is hou...
Category
Academic 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
An 1950
s Modernist Watercolor of Amsterdam by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, charming 1950s Mid-Century, architectural cityscape of Amsterdam by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Archivally matte...
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Boat Scene
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper
work is unframed
Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso.
...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Rocky Seascape, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rocky Seascape (P1.14), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Looking out onto t...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pierre Lucas (1913 1978) Mastings In Saint Malo, 1959, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Robert Lucas (1913-1978)
Mastings, an animated vew of the Port of Saint Malo, 1959,
pencil drawing
signed "Luca" on the lower right
25.5 x 34 cm
titled and dated on the r...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Trap Rock, Haverstraw, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Trap Rock, Haverstraw (P4.30), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 19 in. (35.56 x 48.26 cm), Description: Eve Nether...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surf Bald Head Cliff, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Surf Bald Head Cliff (P4.26), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 21 in. (35.56 x 53.34 cm), Description: Viewed from...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Nova Scotia Landscape”
By James Milton Sessions
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting by the American artist, James Milton Sessions. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. The landscape is of a Novia Scotia pastoral landscape. Here you see horses grazing and two men fishing nearby. The watercolor is in excellent original condition and is beautifully double matted and framed in a thin gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurement 16 by 18.25 inches.
James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator.
He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country.
Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945.
In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper.
Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$875 Sale Price
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Crashing Waves on Atlantic Coast, Mid-century Seascape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Crashing Waves on the Atlantic Coast, 1957
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
American Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
Old Mill Stone
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful mid-century watercolor of an old mill stone attached to its axis at a country farm by artist C. Heintz, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper di...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1960s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 1935's is an original drawing in watercolor a on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1988-1916).
Sheet dimension: 13.1 x 29.5 cm.
The artwork represents a nude woman lying down,...
Category
Modern 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$182 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage French Watercolor - Rooftops of Paris
By André Lafond
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful watercolor painting of a beautiful sky rolling over the rooftops of Paris by artist André Lafond, 1955.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat ...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Paesaggio di Menerbes " cm. 46 x 36 anni 50 circa
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
paesaggio di Menerbes dove Picasso le regalò una casa e lei visse per alcuni anni
- L'opera è firmata e Timbrata MD -
Dora MAAR (Parigi 1907 – 1997)
Nata Henrietta Theodora Mark...
Category
Abstract 1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Spring Flowers
, Kansas, Carmel Art Association, Pratt Institute, AIC, ASL
By Charlotte Morton
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charlotte A. Morton' (American, 1885-1974) and painted circa 1955.
A sensitive study of various blossoms including geraniums, lupin and catmint.
A landscape p...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite
Taos
, American Watercolor Society, Chouinard, New York, Art Student
s League
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James Vance, AWS', (American, 1919-2007), titled 'Taos' and painted circa 1950.
James Vance grew up in Los Angeles and first applied himself to art at the Art C...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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