1980s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of num...

Colorful still life with flowers and fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Image; 14"H x 20"W. Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson(American, 1928-2009) owned and operated the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor...

Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in ...

Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Yellow Bouqet, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed, Size: 32 x 22.5 in. (81.28 x 57.15 cm), Frame Size: 41.5 x 32 inches

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...

A delicately realized still-life showing a profusion of lilies and daisies informally arranged in a glass bowl and set upon round side table. Signed lower left, 'Beverly Bunn' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. Born to a family lineage of artists, Beverly Bunn received her bachelor of arts degree from Auburn University and, while at Auburn, she studied under Harry Lowe of the Smithsonian Institution. She served as the president of Huntsville Art League, vice president of the Alabama Art...

Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Untitled. 1980. Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 9 x 12 inches in original ...

Claudio Bravo Melocotones, 1985 Pastel on paper 11 x 12 in

Books with yellow flowers. 1980's, watercolor on paper, 73x54 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1...

Work on paper Dimensions with passepartout: 40.6 x 29.5cm This captivating watercolor depicts a vibrant bouquet of brightly colored flowers. The work boasts a dynamic composition in ...

Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...

Abstracted still life by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No frame. Image size: 20"H x 14"W. L...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink begonias blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California art...

Abstracted still life of a vase of red flowers and fruit blending into an abstract expressionist watercolor composition by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" l...

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pink Flowers with Greenery, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 19 x 25 in. (48.26 x 63.5 cm)

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pink Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

James Nares Untitled flower monotype, 1988 Monotype on hand made paper Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...

Plum Branches and Flowers watercolor on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy. Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter 1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows. O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.” Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.” “The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.” When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.” O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.” Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes. As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...

"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...

Robert Kushner Pears, 1985 Acrylic Collage on Paper; Framed with Holly Solomon Gallery Label Reader's Digest Art Collection Label Signed and titled by the artist on the f...

Abstract Still Life with Roses and Coffee Set in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with flowers and a coffee pot by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A brig...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Gem (circa 1980) Original graphite drawing on paper, folded 20.75 x 28.5 in (52.7 x 72.4 cm) Unsigned Authenticated by the Authentication Board of Andy Warh...

The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...

Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 19868; additionally titled, verso, 'Hydra, the Cherries'. A view of a townhouse window on the Gr...

Colorful landscape of Moss Landing marshland (just north of Carmel, California by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed lower left c...

Signed lower right, 'Kevin Elston' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A substantial watercolor still-life of orchids and a persimmon, arranged with other objects relat...

Still Life with Pots is a contemporary artwork realized by Pierre Jacquelin (1944) in 1980s/90s. Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed on the lower left. Good conditions. The artwork ...

Signed lower right 'R. Moscardo' for Ramon Moscardo Fernandez (Spanish, born 1953) and painted circa 1980. A substantial and scintillating, watercolor and gouache still-life compris...

French watercolor of a vibrantly hued tabletop, featuring bottles and fruit, by artist Madeleine Scali (1911-2000), 1980. Dated lower left. Original artwork on paper displayed on...

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pot of Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower right, Size: 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #2'. Born in Troyes, France in 1946...

Stunning pastel work by Paula Humphris a Cornish artist more well known now for her pottery. Signed and dated 1985. Very evocative of the Art Deco Period. very pretty ! Image size ...

Created by Carole Doyle Peel (American, 1934-2016) circa 1985 and accompanied by first edition volume, 'Carole Doyle Peel: The Delight of Drawing', 2016. Mat dimensions: 22.25 x 34 x...

Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and dated 1988. Accompanied by a copy of the artist's poster from the same series. This listed California artist has e...

A substantial and vibrant watercolor still-life showing a loose group of pink and red dog-roses informally arranged in an ivory-field, satsuma vase, set on a floral-pattern tableclot...

Signed lower left, 'Sam Colburn' for Samuel Colburn (American, 1909-1993) and dated 1982. A powerful, late work by this well-listed American regionalist and long-time member of the ...

Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #3'. Born in Troyes, France in 1946...

Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980. Hand signed lower left. Date on rear, Excellent condition.

"500 Calories al mode" The Perfect Meal - Menu - Dessert - Collograph Watercolor The artwork "500 Calories al mode" by Betty Swift, created one of a group show at San Francisco Stat...

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Musical, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Multicolored Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Red and Orange Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 19 x 25 in. (48.26 x 63.5 cm)

Violet Chocolate Vase is a drawing in watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1969. Monogrammed on the lower. Good conditions, aged margins. The artwork is represented through harm...

Flowers is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s. Watercolor drawings. Good conditions.

Artist: Patricia Hunter - American Title: Sitting Ducks Year: 1985 Medium: Watercolor Sight size: 18 x 24 inches. Matted size: 24 x 30 inches Signatur...

Very well painted original watercolor on archival paper of potted geraniums with metal watering can and garden gloves. Signed in pencil by the artist Peggy Dressel lower right. The S...

Abstract Still Life with Bouquets and Fruit in Watercolor on Paper Colorful still life with two bouquets of flowers by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). A tall, b...

Colorful two-sided watercolor; a still-life of brightly colored flowers with a bowl of fruit, and a coastal seascape on verso, by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009)....

Lovely abstracted floral watercolor painting of bearded irises by artist Jean Warren (American, b. 1945). Signed "J. Warren" lower edge, bi...

Design-quality illustrations of Intelledex machinery by Edward T. Liljenwall (American, 1943-2010). The machine is expertly rendered, with smooth shading and specific details. Highli...

Design-quality blueprint of a concept vehicle by Edward T. Liljenwall (American, 1943-2010). Top and side views are highlighted, with a partial rear view to the left hand side. The v...

Design-quality illustrations of Intelledex machinery by Edward T. Liljenwall (American, 1943-2010). The machine is expertly rendered, with smooth shading and specific details. Highli...

Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a light pink garden rose, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Ameri...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...

A unique hand-painted lithograph of a colorful Bouquet of Flowers by Wayne Ensrud, American (1934). Quiet Sunday (Blue) Wayne Ensrud, American (1934) Date: 1980 Hand-Painted Lithogra...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of Japanese irises, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.19...

Colorful watercolor still-life of a bountiful harvest of fruits and vegetables on a bright purple tablecloth with a single tall candle by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 192...

Lowell Nesbitt White Calla Lily, 1983 Signed, titled and dated Colored pencil on paper Diameter 19 1/2 inches Lowell Blair Nesbitt (1933–1993) was a prolific American painter, draug...

Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of cyclamen, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style blending into line drawing by California artist Deborah E...