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Historical genre oil painting of a royal messenger
By Arthur David McCormick
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
later published his own book ‘An artist in the Himalayas’ using his pencil sketches from the expedition
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Verdes, Loir et Cher, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
Teall (La Verne Teall) Messer, 1897-1977. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 36/40 in pencil
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Children freeing a caged bird
By Eileen Soper
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 4 1/2 x 7 inches (114 x 177 mm), wide margins, signed in pencil in the
Category

Early 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching

Mahogany Centre Table with an Onyx Marble-Top by François Linke, French
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Linke archive has pencil sketches for a similar table in Linke's First Daybooks corresponding with index
Category

Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables

Materials

Onyx, Bronze

Profile Portrait Of A Man In Flat Cap Graphite On Brown Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
working-class figure from early-to-mid 20th century Britain. The artist’s direct and expressive style
Category

20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Graphite

September 13, 1918. St. Mihiel [The Great Black Cloud].
By Kerr Eby
Located in Plano, TX
-colored wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' and 'Edition 100' in pencil, indicating a proof printed by
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Etching, Aquatint

Vintage Drawing Depicting a Courtroom Scene After the Original by Honoré Daumier
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Bristol, GB
accomplished way quickly and confidently to great effect. Probably dating to the early to mid-20th century
Category

20th Century French Drawings

Materials

Paper

"VILLAGE IN CATALONIA" SPAIN OIL APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE TEXAS ARTIST 1975
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"PATIO Y CASAS" CATALONIA SPAIN OIL APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE TEXAS ARTIST 1975
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hunting and falling of by a lake
By Gilbert Holiday
Located in GB
, and watercolour. In the early 20th century, Holiday began producing commercial illustrations for
Category

20th Century Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Piazza San Marco, The Doges Palace, Venice, School of Raoul Dufy
Located in Cotignac, FR
features iconic landmarks, sketched with a subtle hand, evoking a sense of distance and grandeur. The
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Great Buffalo Medicine Man
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Great Buffalo Medicine Man Mixed media collage Signed in pencil lower right Title on reverse Sheet
Category

20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
interesting pencil sketches on the reverse.
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor or gouache composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block
Category

20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Academic Study of Two Feet from Antique Plaster Models, c. 1850
Located in Firenze, IT
the 18th century and the early 20th century. Paper with light studio traces appropriate to its use.
Category

Mid-19th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Study of a Standing Female Nude
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in London, GB
compositional sketches, Evelyn swiftly progressed to detailed life studies for the figures in her paintings
Category

20th Century Victorian Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Pastel

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pencil by the artist. The
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Untitled #238
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper Numbered 238 in pencil, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Paper

"FLOWERS" OIL ON PANEL APPLIED WITH PALETTE KNIFE SAN ANTONIO ARTIST (1919-2004)
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and
Category

20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Out of My Window. (Vista; My Own; De Ma Fenêtre)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Plano, TX
"bite" out an image drawn on a metal plate. From his early interest in sketching, Arms developed a
Category

20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

"RIVER BEND" OIL ON CANVAS APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"STILL COAST" OIL ON PANEL APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE FRAMED 33 X 38.75
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Below Stairs - 1930s British etching by Edmund Blampied
By Edmund Blampied
Located in London, GB
EDMUND BLAMPIED (1886-1966) Below Stairs Signed in pencil and numbered 57/100, signed and dated
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith Signed in ink, titled in pencil Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 23 inches Mixed
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"RINCON DE LA COSTA BRAVA" SAN FELIU DE GUIXOLS CATALUNA SPAIN
By Jose Vives-Atsara
Located in San Antonio, TX
small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and paper. He began painting at the age of eleven. His first
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lake Tahoe II
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paper: sketch paper Image size: 13.25 x 15.75 inches paper size: 13.25 x 15.75 inches Signature
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Landscape III
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paper: Sketch paper Image size: 16 x 20 inches paper size: 16 x 20 inches Signature: Signed lower
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Landscape II
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paper: Sketch paper Image size: 16.75 x 22 inches paper size: 16.75 x 22 inches Signature: Signed
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

"Metropolitan Opera, New York City Premiere" Large serigraph.
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 203/250 in pencil
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

The Atlantic Coast Cornwall Framed 1970s Cornish Coastal Landscape Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
in her home and would drive around West Cornwall producing pencil sketches, which she worked into
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Carl Heldt, "HOPSCOTCH"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
early age. By the time he was nine, he was sketching cattle in the field, painting scenes on the doors
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Wharf" Large original color serigraph
Located in San Francisco, CA
(Fil) Mottola, 1915-2008. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 19/450 in pencil by the artist. The
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

George Inn, Salisbury
Located in San Francisco, CA
buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin was an
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Spread Eagle Inn, Midhurst
Located in San Francisco, CA
rural buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

New Inn, Gloucester
Located in San Francisco, CA
buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin was an
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

George Inn, Norton St. Philip
Located in San Francisco, CA
rural buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

George Inn, Dorchester
Located in San Francisco, CA
buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin was an
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bell Inn, Waltham St Lawrence
Located in San Francisco, CA
rural buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cityscape
By Jean Carzou
Located in San Francisco, CA
his line drawings and engravings he became well known as an illustrator for some of the 20th century
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Soaking Up
Located in San Francisco, CA
book on Ryan, Susan McGarry wrote: "His legacy of paintings not only documents 20th century cowboy life
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Soaking Up
Located in San Francisco, CA
McGarry wrote: "His legacy of paintings not only documents 20th century cowboy life, it is also a profound
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Star Rose
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Giants II
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Lemonade
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Moonlight
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Sound of silence
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic

Attersee - the beauty of silence
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Play We Met
Located in Torino, IT
work with detailed black line drawings reminiscent of pencil sketches. Upon returning to Prague, his
Category

2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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