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"Beach Shack II" large scale oil painting of modest house by the sea, cool tones
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
sketches pulled from the past 25 years of his sketchbooks. ARTIST STATEMENT What I'm trying to do is to
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

”Wading at Sand St. Beach” oil painting, woman in the water, signed and framed
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
25 years of his sketchbooks. For the past several years, he has held weekly painting lessons for
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Panel

Play at The Plate, Sporting Scene
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
was drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany. He brought along a sketchbook, which he filled
Category

20th Century Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shot on Goal, Sporting Scene
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
was drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany. He brought along a sketchbook, which he filled
Category

20th Century Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study Of A Woman Holding A Bowl
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
mm; perhaps once part of a small sketchbook). L. Becq de Fouquières, Isidore Alexandre Auguste Pils
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1850s Academic Sketchbook Used

Materials

Chalk

View of Mt. Baker from The Old Charming Inn Victoria B.C. Canada
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
bedroom window at Old Charming Inn, Victoria B.C. Canada. August 8th 1946 Watercolor of sketchbook sheet
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1940s Abstract Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ronald Searle ink drawings Studies for Dynamene
By Ronald Searle
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ronald Searle, CBE HRWS (British, 1920 – 2011) Studies for Dynamene (Taken from a sketchbook of
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20th Century Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Ink

Hyang #2 - blue, white, red, abstract, industrial felt wall sculpture
By Chung-Im Kim
Located in Bloomfield, ON
sketchbooks, and the image is digitized and manipulated before it is transferred and screen printed on the
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2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Felt, Thread, Mixed Media

Art Nouveau Lamp by Quezal
By Quezal
Located in NANTES, FR
others the decoration is bold and distinctive. Fortunately, a few of the line drawing sketchbooks, trade
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Sketchbook Used

Materials

Brass, Copper

Hyang #1 - green, yellow, abstract, contemporary, industrial felt wall sculpture
By Chung-Im Kim
Located in Bloomfield, ON
source of imagery for her own studio work. Patterns are drawn in sketchbooks, and the image is digitized
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2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Felt, Thread, Mixed Media

In the Manner of Nicholas Berchem (1620-1683) Dutch, A Journey
Located in Toronto, CA
the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His
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18th Century Dutch Romantic Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas

Flatford Mill Suffolk White Footbridge and Figures in Summer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
. Executed on lightly perforated artist’s sketchbook paper, this painting embodies Herbert’s distinctive
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20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

1909 Tonalist Oil Landscape "Showers, The Lower San Joaquin River, California"
By James Everett Stuart
Located in Soquel, CA
Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio paintings. The following summer, Stuart returned, having
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Early 1900s Tonalist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

1977 Watercolour of Boscastle Village North Cornwall with Hill View and Cottages
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
across southern England. In later life, he travelled widely with his sketchbooks, but always retained a
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20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

August Cascade Wyatt Mountain - Green Trees Gray Rock Virginia Forest, 2020
By Gregory Hennen
Located in Kent, CT
walks he fills sketchbooks chronicling the land, the effect of passing light and the seasonal changes
Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Panel

Period Landscape Watercolor Credited to John Ruskin
By John Ruskin
Located in Roma, IT
opportunity to observe and record his impressions of nature. His early notebooks and sketchbooks are full of
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

A most decorative French 19th century Louis XVI st. Onyx and Ormolu mantel clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
sketchbook, sculpted portrait of who seems to be David, painting frame, and a crown of laurels. Sitting atop
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19th Century French Sketchbook Used

Materials

Onyx, Ormolu

The Big Kahuna Show, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Anthony Dunphy
Located in Yardley, PA
I was in a funny mood when I sketched this painting out in my sketchbook and as I continued to draw
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2010s Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Acrylic

“Truck” American Modern realist oil painting, freight box-truck, clean lines
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
and sketches pulled from the past 25 years of his sketchbooks. For the past several years, he has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Panel

“Port Jeff Bowl” Oil painting, retro bowling alley, architecture Americana
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
sketches pulled from the past 25 years of his sketchbooks. For the past several years, he has held weekly
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Claud Lovat Fraser - 1918 British Fan Shaped watercolour - Fete Galante
Located in London, GB
commissioned to the 14th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. His wartime sketchbooks (many now in the Bryn
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Early 20th Century Romantic Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

Stump and Ferns May Wyatt Mt. - Contemporary Forest Landscape Green Botanical
By Gregory Hennen
Located in Kent, CT
his environment. On his daily walks he fills sketchbooks chronicling the land, the effect of passing
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2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Contemporary mixed media oil/ writing with layered texture, photographs wax
By Andre Kohn
Located in Maricopa, AZ
old enough to favor sketchbooks. His memory of childhood is that music and art were everywhere
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wax, Oil, Archival Paper, Pen

Gentleman in Black-Tie, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
'Ischia Cheese & Grill' sketchbook. Together the drawings record Vaughan's experimentalism with landscape
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Mid-20th Century Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Raphael Drawings – Disegni Originali di Raffaello per la prima volta pubblicati
Located in Middletown, NY
sketchbook attributed to Raphael and acquired by the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, including facsimile
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Early 19th Century Italian Sketchbook Used

Materials

Leather, Paper

Ferns June Wyatt Mountain - Contemporary Landscape Green Summer Forest, 2021
By Gregory Hennen
Located in Kent, CT
close relationship with his environment. On his daily walks he fills sketchbooks chronicling the land
Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Panel

French Mid-20th Century Pastel Swimmers in the Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
pulled directly from a sketchbook. A wonderful addition for collectors drawn to mid-century figure
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Pastel

Eduardo DalBono, Portrait of a Lady Painting En Plein Aire, 1880 s
By Edoardo Dalbono
Located in New York, NY
lady dressed in white in an artist’s folding chair seated with sketchbook and brush viewing the
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1880s Italian Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paint, Paper

Boatyard on Corfu (Greek Island, Mediterranean)
Located in Kansas City, MO
sketchbooks were donated to the Germanic National Museum, and his remaining estate was entrusted to a
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1970s Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Lithograph

Side profiles, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Victoria and Albert Museum. This sketch was taken from Vaughan's 'Ischia Cheese & Grill' sketchbook. It
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Mid-20th Century Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Male nudes, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Victoria and Albert Museum. This sketch was taken from Vaughan's 'Ischia Cheese & Grill' sketchbook. It
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Mid-20th Century Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

An Original Pair Of English Watercolor/Sketches C. 1854, 1855, Ellen Dumbleton
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two original English watercolor/drawings circa 1854,1855, Ellen Dumbleton, from her sketchbook
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1850s English High Victorian Sketchbook Used

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Expressive Plein Air Study from Engelsberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
sketchbooks and materials donated by his descendants to the Academy of Fine Arts, including a remarkable early
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1880s Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Board

French Village Harbour Scene with Boat and Tower by Fanch Lel
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
crossing the scene. The use of pencil underdrawing adds a raw, sketchbook-like immediacy, while Lel’s
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20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Gouache

French Monochrome Harbour Scene with Boats and Medieval Tower
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
sketchbooks and architectural drawings. The painting features a stone tower rising above a quiet waterfront
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20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

Pitcher, Dodger Catcher and baseball field positions, 3 drawings by Ronald Searl
By Ronald Searle
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
from a sketchbook of New York, June 1957), No. 204, 203
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20th Century Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Cartier: Jewelers Extraordinary by Hans Nadelhoffer (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
actual size. The personal sketchbooks of the Cartier family and of key designers, as well as the actual
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20th Century Sketchbook Used

Travellers and Dogs in Landscape, Ruins on Right - Dutch Old Master oil painting
By Pieter Wouwerman
Located in Hagley, England
his sketchbooks before his death, so that his brother wouldn't be able to use them and cash in on his
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil

View Of Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
painted less but continued to travel, always bringing his sketchbook. By 1970, he had unknowingly
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1940s American Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for Haman and Merdocai
By Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy
Located in PARIS, FR
trips enabled him to fill his sketchbooks and enhance his collection of earthenware and oriental
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19th Century Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Outsider" - Original 1989 Screen Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
studied at the WPA in Des Moines where her teacher advised her to buy a sketchbook and take it everywhere
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1980s Abstract Sketchbook Used

Materials

India Ink, Laid Paper, Screen

Male nudes II, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Victoria and Albert Museum. This sketch was taken from Vaughan's 'Ischia Cheese & Grill' sketchbook. It
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Mid-20th Century Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Oil Painting Chance
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2001
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1986 British VOGUE Magazine by Saul Leiter
By Vogue
Located in London, GB
On Cover: "Modern Britain" - Amanda Pays Features: Fitness, The Picasso Sketchbooks, Manolo
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1980s British Sketchbook Used

Moss Covered Boulders August - Green Trees Summer Forest Landscape, 2014
By Gregory Hennen
Located in Kent, CT
his environment. On his daily walks he fills sketchbooks chronicling the land, the effect of passing
Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Beach Hat, Oil, Impressionist, Contemporary Figurative Original Andre Kohn
By Andre Kohn
Located in Maricopa, AZ
home which they simply re-papered when he grew old enough to favor sketchbooks. His memory of childhood
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil

Antique Lithograph Portrait of Ary Scheffer by Le Gout-Gérard, circa 1855
Located in Langweer, NL
-century Romantic art. The print shows Scheffer seated on a carved chair, holding a large sketchbook across
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Mid-19th Century French Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper

French Watercolour of Bridge and Riverside Cottages in Fontenay-le-Comte
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
, sketchbook-like quality that enhances the work’s sense of immediacy and place. Dated August 29, 1996, this
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20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

Big Ben, Westminster, London. 1970 s
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
work and whenever or wherever they travel they always carry a sketchbook and/or paints and consequently
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1970s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Board

The Beach Hat, Oil, Impressionist, Contemporary Figurative Original Andre Kohn
By Andre Kohn
Located in Maricopa, AZ
sketchbooks. His memory of childhood is that music and art were everywhere. While always innovative in
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Collage) 1-3
Located in Miami, FL
around his studio. The pieces start in his sketchbook, and he uses pages from vintage magazines and
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2010s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

Untitled (Collage) 1-3
Located in Miami, FL
around his studio. The pieces start in his sketchbook, and he uses pages from vintage magazines and
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2010s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

Untitled (Hot Air Baloon Ascent and Spectators)
By Joseph O Sickey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
ink lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Probably a view of Cape Cod, done while
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1980s American Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ink

Pair of Brass Cast Iron Fire Dogs in the Style of Ernest Gimson
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
sketchbooks. Gimson also designed complex pierced and chased work, based on 17th-century designs he admired
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Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Sketchbook Used

Materials

Metal, Brass, Iron

Cavalier King Charles at Rest- Otto Eerelman (Dutch, 1839-1926)
By Otto Eerelman
Located in SANTA FE, NM
enhanced his range of subject-matter with the artist filling sketchbooks with drafts of among others the
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Early 1900s Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Indoor Outdoor with Lamp
By Ana Guzman
Located in Atlanta, GA
. Ana’s sketchbook was always close at hand as her family moved from New York to rural Pennsylvania and
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2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil, Paper

Dionysus Print by Joe Tilson
By Joe Tilson
Located in London, England
Series of black and white lithographs from the artist’s sketchbook.
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2010s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper

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