Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Flats Near Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico, 20th Century Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Flats Near Isleta, c. 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled verso
14.5 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wil...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century "Napa Valley Landscape" Watercolor Painting
By Frederick Pomeroy
Located in Arp, TX
Frederick Pomeroy
"Napa Valley Landscape"
c. 1960s
Watercolor on paper
17"x14" brown wood frame float mount over linen mat
Signed in paint lower ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
San Francisco from Marin
, Seattle, SAM, Frye Museum, Golden Gate, Sausalito
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jess Cauthorn' (American, 1923-2005), painted circa 1960.
A respected fine artist art teacher who transformed the art-school scene...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$548 Sale Price
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MOMA Exhibited Watercolor by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, "Tourists in Taxco"
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Tourists in Taxco", the watercolor was exhibited at the M...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cubist Industrial Scene With Machinery And Factory Architecture
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Harbour Scene With Boats Nets And Fishing Equipment
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14.25 x 21.25 inches (height x width)
Proven...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$528 Sale Price
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Rainstorm Sunset
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
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Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Two Female Nudes French Modernist Ink Wash Drawing by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Two Female Nudes French Modernist Ink Wash Drawing by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Ink on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18.75 x 15.75 inches (height x width)
Prove...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$405 Sale Price
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Surreal Abstract Composition with Central Eye and Geometric Forms French Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Surreal Abstract Composition with Central Eye and Geometric Forms French Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 23.75 x 19.75 inches (...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cubist Landscape And Architectural Scene With Figures And Arches
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Landscape And Architectural Scene With Figures And Arches
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14.5 x 21.5 inches (height x width)
Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$536 Sale Price
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1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$286 Sale Price
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Stevedores, Ohio River, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Stevedores, Ohio River, c. 1920
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
21.5 x 29. 5 inches
"The trip Otto Ege and I made from Pittsburgh to Marietta by riverboat and then by train to Mammoth Cave, was the next high spot in my artistic explorations. We saw something of the Old Southern river life on the way - the roustabouts, the showboat and river town life at Point Pleasant, and then to the sombre tonal mysteries of the Cave. These sights added much to my pictorial vocabulary..." - Frank 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...
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
California Valley, Near Capistrano, 20th Century Western Mountainous Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
California Valley, Near Capistrano, c. 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Fr...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Countryside Village with Church Steeple French Modern Landscape Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Countryside Village with Church Steeple French Modern Landscape Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Signed bottom right
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 17.5 x 24....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$413 Sale Price
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Wild Horses, Arizona, Early 20th Century Western Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Wild Horses, Arizona, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Night in Paris - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paris is an orginal modern artwork realized in the mid-20th century by an unknown artist.
Mixed colored painting on canvas.
Unreadable signature on lower right.
Titled on the lowe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Cubist Abstract Composition French Modernist Gouache Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Abstract Composition French Modernist Gouache Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15 x 10.75 inches (height x width)
Proven...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$421 Sale Price
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A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely completed during the artist's trip to Mexico in 1944 after rec...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Deer Church Trees And Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Deer Church Trees And Hills
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.75 x 25.25 inches (height x...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$511 Sale Price
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6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue El at 8th Street
13 x 18 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
“New York at Night”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso.
Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Gravesend
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Gravesend. August 1928. Ink and watercolor on paper. 13 1/2 x 21. Signed and dated in ink, lower left; and titled in ink, verso. Housed in a 24 1/2 x 31-inch Whistler-style gold frame.
Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex, about 15 miles southeast of London.
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
$1,925 Sale Price
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Cubist French Abstract Composition With Geometric Shapes Circles And Colour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Abstract Composition With Geometric Shapes Circles And Colour
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 26.25 x 19.25 inches (heigh...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$454 Sale Price
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French Country Road with Large Tree and Distant Farmhouses Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Country Road with Large Tree and Distant Farmhouses Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width)...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Pastel
$528 Sale Price
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“Monhegan Island, Maine”
By Ted Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Cond...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
$975 Sale Price
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Temple of Vesta - Drawing by Roberto Gigli - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Temple of Vesta is an orginal modern artwork realized by Roberto Gigli (1846-1922).
Mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper.
The artwor...
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1880s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
$976 Sale Price
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Figures Under a Parasol French Modernist Market Scene Watercolour Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: SStill Life with Calla Lilies and Ceramic Vase French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 10.75 x 14.5 inches (height x w...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$397 Sale Price
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Vintage French Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Bitter Cocktail
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage French Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Bitter Cocktail
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, u...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$556 Sale Price
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Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work.
Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9
A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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...
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2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$507 Sale Price
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Cubist French Abstract Composition With Geometric Shapes And Blue Sphere
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Abstract Composition With Geometric Shapes And Blue Sphere
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18.75 x 26.25 inches (height x...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$540 Sale Price
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Untitled
By Fred Nagler
Located in Dallas, TX
Fred Nagler was born in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first studied wood carving. From 1914 to 1917, he studied at The Art Students League of New York, where his prof...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
Cubist French Surreal Abstract Composition With Eyes Figures And Geometric Forms
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Surreal Abstract Composition With Eyes Figures And Geometric Forms
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 22.75 inches (...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Trees Houses And Church Tower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Trees Houses And Church Tower
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches (height x...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
$569 Sale Price
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Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Modernist Conte Crayon Drawing Beach Scene David Burliuk Russian Futurist
Located in Surfside, FL
David Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967)
Three figure on the beach (Hamptons, Long Island New York)
Conte crayon drawing on paper.
Hand signed lower left.
Unframed
Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions
David Davidovich Burliuk (Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; 1882-1967) was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as "the father of Russian Futurism."
David Burliuk was born on 21 July 1882 in the village of Riabushky (near Lebedyn, Ukraine) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Burliuk's family was artistically inclined; two of his brothers were talented artists as well, Nikolai and Volodimir Burliuk. The Burliuk family partly descended from Ukrainian Cossacks on their father's side, who held premier positions in the Hetmanate. His mother, Ludmyla Mikhnevich, was of ethnic Belarusian descent.
From 1898 to 1904, he studied at Kazan and Odesa art schools, as well as at the Royal Academy in Munich. His exuberant, extroverted character was recognized by Anton Azhbe, his professor at the Munich Academy, who called Burliuk a "wonderful wild steppe horse". During a time of significant industrialization and political change, movements such as the famed Der Blaue Reiter, a group Burliuk associated with in 1912, while he was in Munich, emphasized a shift away from the classical styles of the past, prioritizing the innovations of the future.
In 1907, he made contact with the Russian art world; he met and befriended Mikhail Larionov, and they are both credited as being major forces in bringing together the contemporary art world. In 1908, an exhibition with the group Zveno ("The Link") in Kiev was organized by David Burliuk together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, his brother Volodymyr (Wladimir) Burliuk and Aleksandra Exter. The exhibition was a flop, especially because they were all unknown painters. The Burliuks and Larionov left for the aforementioned brothers' home in Chernianka, also known as Hylea; it was during this stay that their work became more Avant-Garde. That autumn, while visiting Ekster, they organized an exhibition which took place in the street; it was a success, and enough money was raised to go to Moscow.
In 1909, Burliuk painted a portrait of his future wife, Marussia, on a background of flowers and rocks...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Conté, Crayon
"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...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed French Chateau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Chateau
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 13 x 15 inches
condition: very good and ready ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$204 Sale Price
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Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Painting Coastal Cottage Track
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 17 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$307 Sale Price
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Cliffs at Paramé, France, 20th century seascape
landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs at Paramé, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 17.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17...
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hebron, 1969 Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Lithograph With Watercolor
Located in Surfside, FL
Baruch Nachshon, was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, in the city of Haifa.
Nachshon began to paint in early childhood, and developed his relationship to art and to artists throu...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Lithograph
Delightful 1950s Cubist Harbor Scene by Woman Artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Mid-Century Modern, 1950s Cubist watercolor of a brightly-colored dock scene by Chicago and New York artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed "Duis", lower left. Artwork size: 8 1/...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
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...
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, c. 1920
Watercolor and graphite on board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 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...
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Watercolor
Mid 20th Century Post Impressionist Painting Gated Field Behind French Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 17 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$286 Sale Price
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"Elkhorn Slough" - Cyanotype / Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this cyanotype and watercolor titled "Elkhorn Slough" by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th century), c.1980's....
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1980s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Photographic Paper
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Canyon with Bridge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gordena Parker Jackson (1900 - 1993), Canyon with Bridge, 1939, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 17 ½ x 13 inches (sight), inscription verso reads: “Watercolor Competition Show / Washington D. C. 1940 [or 1941] F. W. A.”
Gordena Parker Jackson was a California painter, graphic artist, craftsperson, and designer. A native of Pleasanton, Jackson studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts and lived much of her life in the Bay Area. In 1925, she married fellow artist Frederic Osman Jackson...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Houses On Hill
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 13.75 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$389 Sale Price
64% Off
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
An Exquisite Mid-Century Watercolor of Rome, ca. 1960 by Artist George Yelich
Located in Chicago, IL
An exquisite blue-toned, Mid-Century watercolor, titled "Rome", ca. 1960 by Chicago artist George Yelich. The watercolor depicts the Foro Traiano; Trajan Column, and Churches of San...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, 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...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two 1940s Chicago Street Scenes, Studies for Fulton Street Market, Urban Realism
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique Offering of Two 1940s Chicago City Street Scenes, "Studies for Fulton Street Market" by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Two related, boldly ex...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor and on paper by Gérard Guyomard
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink on paper realized by the French contemporary artist Gérard Guyomard.
Hand-signed on the l...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
WINDMILL AND WORKERS (Large Pastel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
B.J.O. NORDFELDT (Swedish/American 1878 – 1955)
(WINDMILL AND WORKERS). c.1900. Color pastel on colored paper, unsigned. 22 ¼ x 15”. Sheet: 24 ½ x 18 ¼”. In 1900 Nordfeldt studied ...
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Early 1900s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$1,600 Sale Price
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Veduta Prospettica di un Ponte - Drawing by Carlo and Adolfo Coppedè - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding drawing realized fro Expo Roma by Carlo and Adolfo Coppedè in 1911.
Charcoal on paper mounted on stretcher.
Includes a beautiful iron frame by Roberto Fallani, realized...
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1910s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
View of the Forum Romanum - Watercolor by Giuseppe Costantini - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Forum Romanum is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian painter Giuseppe Costantini (Nola, 1843 - Naples, 1893) in the seco...
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1870s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Abstract Cubist Still Life with Geometric Forms French Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Architectural Rhythm French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Signed, lower right
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 19.5 inches (hei...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$475 Sale Price
40% Off
Modern landscape drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern landscape 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 landscape 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 blue, orange, green, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Bernard Labbe, Peter Collins ARCA, Albert Richardson, and Sue Bryan. 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 Modern landscape drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 2.37 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape 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 $55 and tops out at $950,000, while the average work sells for $650.
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