Thomas Strickland Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre. Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...

Robert Philipp, 'Self-Portrait with Black Hat', ink and color pastel, c. 1945. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, spontaneous drawing, on heavy, buff wove paper; the artist's tack holes in the top and bottom left sheet corners, minor rippling in the bottom sheet edge; otherwise in good condition. Image size 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir. In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...

Did Bendiner ever miss a performance, show, concert, play? Was there anyone he didn't know? This double-side drawing in blue crayon shows Johnny Hodges (jazz saxophonist extraordina...

“Standing Nude, c. 1930” by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) This wonderful early pencil drawing by Nevelson represents a nude figure, rendered with simple and confident lines that empha...

SEDUCTRESS is a unique original mixed media watercolor and graphite on paper, hand drawn and painted by the Dutch artist Nico Vrielink. SEDUCTRESS portrays a dark haired young woman wearing an off-shoulder evening gown and long elegant evening gloves looking sideways over her shoulder, seductively posing on a modern settee, her warm coral pink lipstick, rose lavender eye shadow and warm rose blushed cheeks enhancing her passionate mood. SEDUCTRESS is an erotic fashion portrait of expressive, modern boudoir art...

Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957 Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Ber...

Work on paper

Portrait of a Woman Pencil signed and dated Feb 20. 20 unframed 14x11 George Kenneth Hartwell painter and illustrator was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949, Massachus...

Vincente Romero Thoughtfulness Original pastel on Ingres paper Hand signed by the artist Image: 25.6 x 19.7 inches Framed dimensions: 32 x 26 inches *T...

Nude Pencil Drawing pair of Portraits Pencil and pastel on paper, unsigned from the artist portfolio. George Kenneth Hartwell painter and illustrator was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949...

Heliker, John. (American, 1909-2000). UNTITLED PORTRAIT. Ink on paper, not dated, likely 1930s. The image is of a man, likely a factory worker, seated, wearing a cap, leaning his face on one hand, with factory structures in the background. Signed, lower right. c. 8 x 8 inches 0n a larger sheet. In excellent condition. Heliker was born in Yonkers and spent his adult life dividing his time between Manhattan, where he taught art for decades, and Great Cranberry Island...

Stella, Joseph. STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT. Blue, red and black crayon on tan wove paper, c. 1920. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 173 x 120 mm. Signe...