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Coastal Sunset
, California Impressionist, USC, LACMA, AIC, Académie Julian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
to Chicago.
After the Chicago World's Fair (1893), Judson moved to southern California where he
Category
1890s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$2,475 Sale Price
25% Off
Southern California Foothills oil by Anni Baldaugh
Located in Hudson, NY
, Baldaugh joined the California Watercolor Club, the California Society of Miniature Painters, the Bookplate
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Angel Island from Tiburon, California II
By Hilda Kider
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Artwork "View of Angel Island from Tiburon, California II" c. 1975 is a watercolor on paper by
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist 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
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dynamic Figurative
, California Post-Impressionist, Ruskin School of Art
By Robert Moesle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Moesle" and painted circa 1975.
Gouache and watercolor figurative showing
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,237 Sale Price
44% Off
Fisherman
s Wharf, Monterey
, Modernist California Artist, Crocker Art Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
1955.
A vibrant Modernist work by this notable California woman artist who exhibited widely and with
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite
Gold Country, California
, San Francisco Bay Area, Hungarian, Foster City
By Michel Kady
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
substantial watercolor landscape showing a view of a dirt road in California Gold Country lined with weathered
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Santa Barbara Landscape
, Paris, Académie Julian, LACMA, Pasadena, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
.
Reference:
Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Golden Irises
, St. Martin
s School, California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and vibrant, botanical watercolor by this well-listed and widely exhibited California
Category
1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Misty Lagoon", Monochrome 1970
s Lanscape Watercolor
By Ritchie A. Benson
Located in Soquel, CA
School (Los Angeles) and was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the California Watercolor
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
“Near Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
. A Northern California scene near Mount Shasta. Signed lower left and dated 1876. Recently
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life of Roses
, Post Impressionist California Woman Artist, SWA
By Gladys Louise Bowman Fies
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
.
Gladys Fies was born in Texas and studied in California with Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt, and George Post
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Woodland Stream in Spring
, San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, California
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
1965.
A profusion of autumn-tinged, California flora is shown growing beside the lush banks of a
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Lone Cypress
, Carmel Seascape, California Plein Air, Pebble Beach, Monterey
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Turner Art Academy under Alfred Owles
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Lighthouse at Point Pinos
, Pacific Grove, California Woman Post Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
verso, titled 'Pt. Pinos' and dated 1953.
A bright and fresh watercolor showing a view towards the
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Grey Outpost, Fort Ross, California
, Woman Artist, Modernist Park view
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's through the 1950's
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
House at the Beach, Baja California Figurative Landscape
By David Stephens
Located in Soquel, CA
Colors of tropical waters create a light and breezy mood in this figurative landscape watercolor by
Category
1990s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$719 Sale Price
20% Off
Leonard Edmondson California Artist Pencil Signed Aquatint - "Blackbird"
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
where he served as President of the California Watercolor Society and of the Los Angeles Printmaking
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
Main Street, Port Costa
, California Woman Post Impressionist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Twenty-seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)" Nancy Dustin Moure; et al.
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
California Coast
, Corcoran, Bohemian Club, MoMA, AIC, CSFA, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
educator, he taught at the California School of Fine Art and later served as Chairman of the Art department
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
$2,137 Sale Price
25% Off
Figural
, Carmel, California Post-Impressionist, Ruskin School of Art, Madrid
By Robert Moesle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
would later work up into paintings at his summer home in Costa Brava. He returned to Northern California
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Saskatchewan Rain
, Art Institute of Chicago, California School of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
exhibit his watercolors with success for forty years.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786
Category
1980s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
California You Risk Control
By Tm Gratkowski
Located in Santa Monica, CA
thousands of layers of torn magazine paper with a medium-relief sculptural forms. All 100% recycled paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wood Panel
Moss Beach, Monterey, California
, Pacific Coastal Landscape, ASL NYC, Benezit
By Elmer Wachtel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
lower left, "Moss Beach, Monterey County, California".
A prominent California landscape painter of the
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Monterey Coast
, California Impressionist, Paris, St. Ives, Laguna Beach, AIC
By George Gardner Symons
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
California and then, in 1898, joined the artist colony at St. Ives in Cornwall, England where they were
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Rain
, Los Gatos Woman Artist, China, Germany, Santa Cruz, California
By Gisela Embree
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed verso, 'Gisela Embree' and Titled 'Rain'.
Born in Germany in 1927, Gisela Embree immigrated to the United States in 1948. She began to study Chinese brush painting in 1975...
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$562 Sale Price
69% Off
Seated Nude
, Paris, Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, California Fauve
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
return to California, he worked beside notable American Modernists including F. Tolles Chamberlain and
Category
1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
California Coastal Diptych
, Berkeley, Bay Area Woman Artist, Smithsonian, CCAC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
right panel.
An unusual, asymmetric diptych landscape showing a view of a Northern California coastal
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Varnish, Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
Window Series No.3
, Dog, Weimaraner, Fresno, California Artist, CSUF
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
California State University at Fresno. She has exhibited throughout California and taught art at the State
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Yerba Buena from Telegraph Hill
, San Francisco, Bay Bridge, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Carl Niederer' (American, 1927-2019) and dated 1965; additionally titled, 'Yerba Buena from Telegraph Hill' verso.
Carl Niederer first studied art at the Univer...
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$1,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Malibu Pine Sea View, Blue Tones California Landscape, Handmade Cyanotype, Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Monotype
Oleta
s Hat
, Carmel Art Association Exhibit, California Woman Artist, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
.
Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, 1983 (on original backing).
This early California Woman Modernist was
Category
1980s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Black Tie and Tail
, Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, California, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
-Impressionist figural watercolor showing a young woman partially-clothed in evening wear and adopting a somewhat
Category
1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Gold Rush Town Columbia, California Landscape by Lillie Heebner
By L. Heebner
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful figurative landscape watercolor painting of Columbia, California, showing two men in
Category
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Woman Wearing a Headscarf
, Laguna Beach, California, Art Institute of Chicago
By Ruth Peabody
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
to Laguna Beach, California, in 1924, and became active in the local art scene. At their studio
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,312 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid Century Santa Cruz, California Figurative Vintage Boardwalk Scene, 1944
Located in Soquel, CA
A lively and detailed mid-1940's vintage boardwalk scene of Santa Cruz, California by California
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Douglas Brewerton. A view of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Signed lower left. Circa 1880
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original pastel on archival paper of Mount Shasta in Northern California by the well
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Hidden Cove, Big Sur
, California, Society of Western Artists, Who Was Who
By Nat Levy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century Impressionist-style watercolor on Arches paper showing a misty view of
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$1,687 Sale Price
25% Off
After the Storm
, Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'After the Storm' by Herbert Lewis.
Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, Art
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Fiberboard, Watercolor
$2,700 Sale Price
25% Off
Still Life with Watermelons and Cantaloupes
Located in San Francisco, CA
watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor
Corkscrew Willows with Stairs - Hand Colored Drypoint Etching California Adobe
Located in Soquel, CA
of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
Lake Landscape with Yellow Trees - Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene watercolor by California artist Edna Lewis (nee Sutherland) (1905-1975). The viewer looks
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Irises
, LACMA, MAM Paris, California Post-Impressionist Still Life
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
); additionally stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A lyrical watercolor of flowers informally
Category
1950s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Nude
, Musee d
Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ament' for Janet Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and titled, 'Helene'; additionally bearing artist's estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life
, Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Rome. On his return to California, he worked beside notable American Modernists including F. Tolles
Category
1950s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
$2,062 Sale Price
25% Off
Oak Tress #1
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Acrylic
Piccolo V
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
State of Grace
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Acrylic
Piccolo VI
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Circle Lime
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 42nd National Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Acrylic
Opel
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Exhibition, California Watercolor Association, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross,CA. Bronze Award
2010
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Acrylic
San Francisco and the Bay
, Early California Woman Artist, Palo Alto Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
work, "Artists in California, 1786-1940".
Category
1970s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude
, Musee d
Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist, Carmel
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Ament first studied at t...
Category
1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Seated Nude
, Musee d
Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Ament first studied at t...
Category
1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Rural Mailboxes
, California Woman Artist, Society of Western Artists
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Burnham SWA' for Jane Burnham Crawford (American 1926-2016) and painted circa 1985.
A substantial and loosely painted view of five dilapidated mail boxes standi...
Category
1980s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
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