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Justin Faivre " House on the docks "

20th Century

C. 20th Century - Adorable Portrait of houses on a shore ( Oil on Paper )

C. 20th Century - Original Pen & Ink watercolor of a House. Signed & Dated Lower right corner ( Deon 74' )

C. 20th Century Ilse Luense " Cityscape / Wharf " Done in Watercolor 1950's, There is some foxing on the paper.

Pacific Northwest Harbor Scene Original Watercolor by G.G. Kennedy c.1967 Watercolor dimensions 28.5" wide x 16.5" high Frame dimensions 33.75" wide x 22" high Signed and dated - ...

6074 South of France harbour scene Image size 14.5x20"

This atmospheric watercolour captures the essence of a bustling harbour, with moored boats in the foreground and city buildings rising hazily in the background. Unsigned. Presented i...

This framed 22" x 29" ink and watercolor painting by an Unknown artist explores an abstracted landscape depicting a boat dock near a barn. In a neutral palette of browns, grays, and...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...