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Style: American Realist
Near Westport, Ireland”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a location near Westport, Ireland, most likely Clew Bay by the very well known American artist, Adolf Arthur Dehn. Signed by the artist low...
Category
1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,880 Sale Price
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French Impressionist Interior Scene with Desk, Doll,
Sunflowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and brightly colored French Impressionist watercolor, depicting an interior scene in great detail with an antique desk full of books, a bouquet of sunflowers, and a doll by ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,000 Sale Price
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Daydreaming in Tiger Land, large watercolor and gouache
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Daydreaming in Tiger Land" is a watercolor and gouache on paper by artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is signed at the lower right c...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Female Torso, Nude
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Female Torso
Charcoal on paper, c. 1920
Stamped and initialed in pencil "Asa Cheffetz/A.D.C"
Estate signature by wife, A.D.C.
Exhibited: Museum of F...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Nude Young Woman Art Deco Modernist ink drawing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913).
Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935.
Ink on paper, measuring 8.5 x 11 inches.
Signed lower right. Unframed...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Tiger Lily - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Telephone Pole Worker
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Oil on pap...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Schooners along the Hudson, West Point Academy in the distance.
Located in Middletown, NY
A serene Hudson River scene by a student of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Anna May Walling was born in 1881, a native of Goshen, New York. She was a graduate of the Blair Academy, and Prat...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Storm Sky Over the Farm
By Amos Sangster
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor by American artist Amos Sangster featuring a dramatic allegorical composition and spectacular hand carved frame.
Category
1890s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000)
"Streetscape"
14 x 20 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1939
Signed l...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman in Blue, Modern Framed Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Woman in Blue
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame: 27 x 22.5...
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Point Lobos Succulents, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar presents an intriguing close-up of succulents tenaciously adorning a dramatic cliff. The view overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Point Lobos Natural Reserve. "This park near Carmel, California, is among my most inspirational places to visit," shares Catherine. She joyfully gets lost in painting, adding detail after detail. The fluid colors allow the movement of pigments and the precision of brushwork.
About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Cowboy
33 3/4 x 36 inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled
By Carolyn Bullis Blish
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Carolyn Bullis Blish, born 1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17 x 26 inches, framed is 28 x 37 inches. Framed in his original wooden gold and mahogany color frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, with very minor small dents and scratches, hardly visible.
About the artist.
A former model, actress, and newscaster, artist Carolyn Blish is known primarily for her watercolor landscapes. She received a very short training in painting under the tutelage of artist Edgar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Steps", 1980s Farmhouse Staircase Realist Watercolor Landscape with Barn
Located in Soquel, CA
"Steps", a highly realistic late 20th century watercolor landscape of a staircase in front of a wooden barn by Verne R. Horton (American, 1941-2020), 1986. Horton's background as a technical artist and draftsman is apparent in the fine details of this piece, such as the crisply rendered planks of wood that comprise the barn, the individual pieces of metal that form the railing, and each block of cement that make up the staircase. Horton's meticulous rendering of shadows enhances the sense of realism.
Signed and dated "Verne R. Horton '86" lower right. Signed and titled "Steps" on verso.
Displayed in a new off-white mat and rustic wood frame with plexiglass.
Image size: 13.75"H x 9.75"W.
Born February 1, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA, Verne R. Horton went to Los Angeles State College where he earned a degree in pre-architecture. As a young man Verne joined the US Navy, in 1960 and served as a draftsman until 1965. After leaving the Navy, he ended up as a technical artist for North American Aviation. His charge: illustrating publicity pictures for the Apollo space program. After working on the Apollo program for three and a half years, he was lured into the corporate world as a regional manager for New York Life Insurance.
Horton said he did virtually no artwork in the 17 years he worked for the insurance company. He ended up earning another degree in insurance and finance from American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., in 1978. He moved within the company 14 times in 17 years, living in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Arizona and San Francisco.
"Then I had an awareness that I had always wanted to be an artist," he said. "It seemed that if I were going to do it, I needed to just do it." He quit his job and became a fine artist.
Horton's paintings and sculptures are truly those of a professional. He specializes in 1800s to 1930s Western Americana, but his love is steam era railroad art. "You must have historical accuracy. The worst thing is to have somebody come by and say, 'That's not right," Horton said. "You can't get involved in the history of the railroad without getting to know a community."
It was his insistence on historical accuracy and love of railroads that brought him to Carson City...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the famous American marine artist, Gordon Grant. The artwork depicts two rugged lobstermen bringing their catch ashore...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"Natalie
s" - Plein Aire Pastoral Landscape in Pastel on Sandpaper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Natalie's" - Plein Aire Pastoral Landscape in Pastel on Sandpaper
Serene plein aire landscape with cows by Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958). This composition depicts a farm in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a large white barn at the top of the hill. There are several cows grazing in a bright green pasture. A partially broken fence is directly in front of the viewer - a symbol of the artist's desire to portray the realism of the scene, including imperfections. This piece is executed on sandpaper, a trademark of Tyler's work.
Signed "CL Tyler" in the lower left corner
Signed, notated, titled, and dated on verso (see photo).
Presented in a silver colored frame.
Frame size: 11.25"H x 14"W
Paper size: 9.5"H x 12"W
Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958) studied Fine Art and Design at Kent State University (Ohio) with a double major and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. Twenty years later after a successful design career, he is now known as one of the best Pastelists on a national level.
Master Member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico
Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society
2016 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Plein Air Festival, NM
2015 Best Quick Draw Award, Buffalo Bill Museum Art Auction, Cody Wy
2015 Best of Pastel Award, American Impressionist Society
2015 Brinton Museum, Invitational Miniature show. Sheridan. Wy
2015 Invitational Heart of the West, Masters art show. Coeur d’Alene Resort, Id
2014 Booth Museum Cartersville Ga. Acquisition and Teaching
2014 Coors Foundation purchase Aspen 3 series. Corporate Collection Denver, Co
2013 American Impressionist National Show, Award of Excellence.
2013 Artist Choice Award Easton Maryland...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Moody Magnolias, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy captures the drama of light and shadow on blooming Magnolias. She renders the flowers with a realistic approach, carefully detailing the d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
When Mountains Turn Cold, American Western Art Gouache Painting by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - When Mountains Turn Cold (Crow Indians), Year: 1990, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
View of Bygone Days, Large Old-Timey Mural Painting, Restaurant / Venue Art
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
American, 20th Century
" View of Bygone Days ", circa 1950s- 1970s
Oil on Canvas Laid on plywood
8' x 12' (96" x 144")
This piece is in three pieces, each being the size of a she...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plywood, Oil
$1,683 Sale Price
35% Off
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow.
A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Yellow Phone
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Yellow Phone, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 14 inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Alfred Mira (1900-1981)
Greenwich Village NYC
14 x 17 inches
Oil on board,...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Pears, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"As an artist, I constantly look for the ordinary to elevate and give it the attention that it deserves," says artist Dwight Smith. "In this painting, it was my wife's dresser. A beautiful rustic antique walked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fort Stephenson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Self Portrait, of the Gentleman himself
Located in New York, NY
A simply marvelous drawing - a self-portrait of the artist himself. It also reads as a very elegant and expressive line drawing of any gentleman - a hallmark depiction of a bon-vi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Cafe, Madrid
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980)
Subway Scene, 1930s
8 x 9 inches
Ink and wash on paper
Singed lower ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Rowboat at the Edge of the Pond in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Rowboat at the Edge of the Pond in Watercolor on Paper
Serene watercolor by Barbara Jablin (American, b. 1922). A small rowboat is tied up at a small dock in a calm lake. There are ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude)
Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987
Signed lower right
Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Good Takings, American Western Art Gouache Painting on Board by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Good Takings, Year: 1991, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 x 2...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Koi Island, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Challenging conventional still-life pieces, artist Dwight Smith paints a contemporary koi pond with metal screws in the center. "Industrial or organic, animat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Black-Bellied Plover #9
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Amaryllis Blossom Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed watercolor of an amaryllis blossom by Joe Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in pen under one of the petals. Pre...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Calendulas, floral still life in Orange key
Located in New York, NY
Laura Hills is an American treasure in terms of the body of work that she produced in pastel. She is a master of this medium of pastel and she had been a celebrated miniaturist arti...
Category
1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Garden Layers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Layers of various flowers, buds, and leaves crash into each other, creating a wonderful divergence of garden layers. Artist Jinny...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mini Daisies in Many Pinks, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy presents pink daisies in detailed realism. She highlights the combination of the high-key delicate pink against the bold, saturated fuschi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Red to Green, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still life of a collection of red and green items. Apples, chillis, beans, buttons, and a sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Goblet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"There were several things that drew me to this Calla Lily in a garden full of lilies," says artist Jinny Tomozy. The flower's structure appears to resemble a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two Monkeys
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Monkeys) is an original ink drawing on thick Bristol paper by American artist Lynn Gertenbach, b.1940. It is hand signed at the lower rig...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway.
10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
Category
1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Begonia - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Printing Press
40 ½ x 26 inches (sight)
Oil o...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Underwater Whale
Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953
1...
Category
1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social
John Ruggles (1907-1991)
Sight: 17 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches.
Framed: 22 x 18 inches...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seductive Platinum Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Pin Up in Turquoise Hat
Located in Miami, FL
Study of a sultry and seductive reclining platinum blond Pin Up with a wide-brimmed sun hat. Most likely done for Playboy. This work is very finely rendered and looks better the ...
Category
1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
Located in New York, NY
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)
"NYC Park Scene"
Pencil on paper
Sight: 5 x 7-1/8 inches
Signed l...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Battlesea, the T-More Mare - Horse Painting by Helene Alison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helene Alison, American (XXth)
Title: Battlesea, The T-More Mare
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 20 x 20 inches
Category
1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
William C. Ostrander "A Tragedy in Still Life"
By William Cheesborou Ostrander
Located in San Francisco, CA
William C Ostrander: 1858-1933. Listed NYC and California artist. In the 19th century he taught at Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. His works are very scarce as I could only find o...
Category
19th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Pencil Study #15
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #13
2016
Graphite on paper
13 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Circus Rider, Acrobat
Located in New York, NY
Simkhovitch was a celebrated artist in New York City from the 1920's through the 1940's. Life Magazine did a story on him and he was having great success in the New York Galleries. ...
Category
1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
American Realist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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