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Item Ships From: Continental US
Lightning, Graphite on Canvas
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Frank Mujica was born on December the 20th, 1985 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro Academy of fine Arts from 2000 to 2004 and at the Superior Institute of Art I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Windswept (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed. Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from th...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Spurious
By Tricia Butski
Located in Buffalo, NY
This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths". This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraiture...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Charcoal

Woman with child
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with child Watercolor on paper, c. 1930 Signed with the estate stamp lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Marbella Gallery, New York Illustrated: Robert Hallowell: An Artist Redi...
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1930s American Impressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero
By Carmen Cicero
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated. From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's They have abstract stylized erotic mal...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight) Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo) Provenance: Estate of the Artist Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC Refer...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Ellen s Diner, NYC, " Photorealist Watercolor Painting signed by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ellen's Diner, NYC" is an original photorealist watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a city diner's neon sign and clock...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pentagon with Virtues
By Andy Warhol
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Pentagon with Virtues (1980) Original graphite drawing on paper Size: 23.5 x 31.625 in (59.7 x 80.3 cm) Frame size: 34 x 41.75 in (86.3 x 106 cm) Unsigned A...
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1980s Pop Art Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Strength - Tattooed Shirtless Man Holding a Purple Plastic Squirt Gun, Framed
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
A muscular male torso with tattooed arms, holds a gun while gazing up towards the sky. The face is obscured but the viewer is drawn toward the taut, defined muscles. This piece is floated and framed in a simple black frame measuring 18.25h x 15.25w inches. Bruno Surdo Strength charcoal on paper 11h x 14w in 27.94h x 35.56w cm BRS113 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden Mike & Jill Rose SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bruno Surdo: The Method Artist Responds, by Lucia Mauro, June 26, 2014, anitathemovie blog An Exhibition of Exhibitionism: Bruno Surdo’s ‘Respond’, by Carrie McGath, July 1, 2014, The Chicagoist Website, Arts and Entertainment “Inspired Environs: A renowned designer decks out his Loop abode in art and texture” Modern Luxury, Men’s Book, Spring 2014 “Master Class” What’z Up Magazine, Fort Wayne, 2011 ”9/11 Painting will be on Display” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2011 “Illuminated Images” Fort Wayne Reader, 2011 “Two Faces of Beauty” American Art Collector Magazine, Issue #3 and #59, 2006/2010 “Art and Calamity” Art Papers, 2009 “Versions of the Present, Techniques of the Past” American Artist Magazine, 2004 “Living Artists” Crow Book Publishing, Chicago, IL 2004 “The New Master” by Craig Keller, Chicago Social Magazine, 2004. “Tragedy, Memory, and Honor,” by William Hageman, Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2002 “Mural Depicts Tragedy of 9/11” Art Section, Chicago Sun Times, 2002 Review by Dennis Raverty, Art Papers Magazine, July 2001 WTTW Channel 11...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Archival Paper

Allium Pop, Cyanotype, Flowers, Floral, Blue, Green, Botanical, Work on Paper
By Cynthia MacCollum
Located in Riverdale, NY
Allium Pop is a Cyanotype by Cynthia MacCollum. It is 30x22 on archival paper. It is currently unframed. It is a beautiful botanical artwork, an Allium Flower, filled with a range...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Abstract Color Field Gradient Painting California Minimalism Shingo Francis
By Shingo Francis
Located in Surfside, FL
Francis, Shingo (Japanese/American, born 1969), W3 , 1999 Encaustic and watercolor painting on Arches paper, 23.5 x 22.5 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Provenance: Garner T...
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1990s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Encaustic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
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20th Century Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Etching

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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...
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1930s American Realist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Algerian French Vibrant Colorful Expressionist Beach Scene Oil Pastel Drawing
By Armand Henri Nakache
Located in Surfside, FL
Armand Nakache was the foremost champion of Expressionism in France, an area unfairly shunned by a society more attracted to the charms of classical painting, Impressionism, Post-Imp...
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20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Sailboats on Shore I, Modern Art Watercolor by Charles Levier
By Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sailboats on Shore I Charles Levier, French (1920–2003) Date: circa 1965 Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 11 x 16 inches Size: 19.5 x 25 in. (49.53 x 63.5 cm)
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1960s Fauvist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The Struggle, Early 20th Century Figural Group
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) The Struggle, c. 1936 Pastel and graphite on illustration board Unsigned 17 x 26 inches 20 x 28.5 inches, framed Provenance: from the estate of Au...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Graphite

Modern Realistic Sepia Toned Ink Drawing Study of Nude Male and Female Figures
By Robert Levers
Located in Houston, TX
Modern realistic sepia toned drawing of nude figures by Texas artist Robert Levers. The work features a male figure with horns in an aggressive sta...
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1980s Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Zodiac Series Ink On Paper Set Of 12
By Keith Carrington
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Zodiac Series Ink On Paper Set of 12 each 30x22 inches unframed Watercolor, ink on paper Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exact...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

The Mouth of Honey
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Mouth of Honey Lithographic crayon and mixed media on paper mounted to support paper Initialed by the artist "GB" bottom center on image. (see photo) Titled in pencil in bottom m...
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1920s Ashcan School Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Crayon

Untitled Abstraction
By Medard P. Klein
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction Graphite on paper. c. 1946 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver Condition: Staining at corners ...
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1940s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Saint Patrick s Cathedral from Midtown Manhattan
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite with watercolor and black crayon on cream wove paper mounted to board, 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (318 x 267 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil on the mount. In excellent condi...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Crayon, Watercolor, Graphite

"Taylor Sitting" sepia watercolor gesture painting of a nude figure from behind
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timel...
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2010s Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Edgar Britton 1946 Watercolor, Colorado Mountain Landscape, American Modernist
Located in Denver, CO
This exquisite original watercolor by American artist Edgar Britton (1901–1982) captures the serene beauty of a Colorado mountain landscape. Painted in 1946, the composition features...
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1940s American Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Michael J. Clarke "Mesquite, Nevada" Original Watercolor C.1965
Located in San Francisco, CA
Michael J. Clarke "Mesquite, Nevada" Original Watercolor C.1965 Original Nevada Western Landscape Original watercolor on board Board dimensions 23" wide x 17" high The period fra...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Snowy Peaks (Mont Blanc)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snowy Peaks (Mont Blanc) Watercolor on paper, c. 1930 Signed "R. Hallowell" lower right (see photo) The image depicts is of Mont Blanc in France. Mont Blanc is the highest mountain i...
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1930s American Impressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The Hills - Original Abstract Colorful Urban Still Life Collage Artwork Framed
By Maria C. Bernhardsson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
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2010s Surrealist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

"Tugboat at Dock" Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship, New York Docks
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937 Signed lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 13 3/4 x 20 inches Housed in a Lowy frame. Provenance: Sotheby'...
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1930s Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Stone Spire Behind Water - Southwestern Watercolor Scene by Linus
Located in Soquel, CA
Stone Spire Behind Water - Southwestern Watercolor Scene by Linus Open and airy watercolor painting showing a large spire jutting out from the ground within a canyon by unidentified...
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20th Century Other Art Style Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

4.4 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
4.4 (Abstract Expressionism painting) Gouache on paper - Unframed. Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the anim...
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Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Woman with Dog, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Thomas Webb 1
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Watercolor Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 13th, 1937.
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1930s Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Watercolor

Eight of Hearts mixed media silkscreen hand applied acrylic, signed unique Frame
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen Eight of Hearts, 1989 Mixed media silkscreen with hand applied acrylic on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 6/21, dated, and inscribed on the front Uniqu...
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1980s Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite, Screen

Pink Flamingos, Illustrative Watercolor Painting by Oscar Hess
By Oscar Hess
Located in Long Island City, NY
This watercolor painting was created by Oscar Hess in circa 1980. It is hand signed in the lower right hand corner, and measures 19.5 x 14 inches. It is displayed in a 27 x 22 inch m...
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1980s Realist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pochoir from the Portfolio Les Illuminactions
By Sonia Delaunay
Located in Summit, NJ
Vibrant and bright pochoir on Arches paper by Sonia Delaunay. It is signed and numbered 9/20 in pencil on the front by the artist. On the back, it is stamped: Pochoir exécuté à la ma...
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1970s Orphist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Cubist Landscape Gouache Painting Framed Original Gallery Label
Located in Buffalo, NY
Gouache of a French cityscape titled "Street in Gordes France" by Sylvia Davis. This piece was originally part of the lending and sales gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery of the Uni...
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1960s Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Elliot 17 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches Gouache on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left 27 x 46 in...
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1930s Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Haiti Beach, Impressionist Watercolor by James Amos Porter
By James Amos Porter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Amos Porter, American (1905 - 1970) Title: Haiti Beach Year: circa 1965 Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r. Size: 15 in. x 12 in. (38.1 cm x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 22 x 18 i...
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1960s Expressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

In the clouds - abstract painting, made in black, grey color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with india ink in black and grey color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed with a styrene face on a mat board in white with sizes 16 by 20 in. Mila Akopova is New York artist . She graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in History and Theory of Art. Her Artwork got 3rd place at the 2020 and 2021 American Art Awards, juried by 25 best galleries and museums in America, with artist from 63 countries, in category: minimalism. Also, several works took part in exhibitions of the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum and in the Cube Moscow exhibition space . It was published as the catalog: “The game of tic tac toe, or creating a collection in one year”. Several works by Mila Akopva were created specifically for the collaboration with Vintage Dream...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Farm Horse Drinking
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920 Signed lower right in pencil (see photo) Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
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1920s English School Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Cliffhanger Nudes female nude grouping nudes in nature warm colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival heavyweight toned paper. suitable for framing under glass. this is one of the artists ongoing series titled Nudes With Attitude.
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2010s Expressionist Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Psychic Garden (Pueraria Montana/Halo) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal
By Caroline Bullock
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Boston Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Original Pencil Drawing Martin Sumers
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a unique artwork. This is an original Hyman Bloom drawing of fellow artist and his very good friend Martin Sumers.I believe this was drawn at the “variations of a theme” at S...
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20th Century Modern Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

What Fascism Means/ Ass of Steel - Abstract Sewn Fabric Contemporary Mixed Media
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
“What Fascism Means/Ass of Steel,” is a mixed media work on paper, with ink and textiles. This piece is mixes gestural abstraction and text to create the composition. Liddell often w...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Monotype, Fabric, Ink

Nude II by Jacques Nestle Petite, blue and white modern nude painting on paper
By Jacques Petit
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

The River Barge
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The River Barge Pen and ink on paper on laid paper, mounted in English drum mount , c. 1810 Unsigned Condition: Slight sun staining to sheet and mount in the window (see photo) Image/sheet size: 5 1/4 x 6 11/16 inches Sight: : 5-3/4 x 7-1/4" Frame: 13-3/8 x 14-3/8" Provenance: Colnaghi, London (see photo of label) David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter. His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist. Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804 Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites while recovering from a broken leg. By the late 18th century Birmingham had developed a network of private academies teaching drawing and painting, established to support the needs of the town's manufacturers of luxury metal goods, but also encouraging education in fine art, and nurturing the distinctive tradition of landscape art of the Birmingham School. Cox initially enrolled in the academy of Joseph Barber in Great Charles Street, where fellow students included the artist Charles Barber and the engraver William Radclyffe, both of whom would become important lifelong friends. At the age of about 15 Cox was apprenticed to the Birmingham painter Albert Fielder, who produced portrait miniatures and paintings for the tops of snuffboxes from his workshop at 10 Parade in the northwest of the town. Early biographers of Cox record that he left his apprenticeship after Fielder's suicide, with one reporting that Cox himself discovered his master's hanging body, but this is probably a myth as Fielder is recorded at his address in Parade as late as 1825. At some time during mid-1800 Cox was given work by William Macready the elder at the Birmingham Theatre, initially as an assistant grinding colours and preparing canvases for the scene painters, but from 1801 painting scenery himself and by 1802 leading his own team of assistants and being credited in plays' publicity. London, 1804–1814 In 1804 Cox was promised work by the theatre impresario Philip Astley and moved to London, taking lodgings in 16 Bridge Row, Lambeth. Although he was unable to get employment at Astley's Amphitheatre it is likely that he had already decided to try to establish himself as a professional artist, and apart from a few private commissions for painting scenery his focus over the next few years was to be on painting and exhibiting watercolours. While living in London, Cox married his landlord's daughter, Mary Agg and the couple moved to Dulwich in 1808. David Cox Travellers on a Path, pencil and brown wash. In 1805 he made his first of many trips to Wales, with Charles Barber, his earliest dated watercolours are from this year. Throughout his lifetime he made numerous sketching tours to the Home Counties, North Wales, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Devon. Cox exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1805. His paintings never reached high prices, so he earned his living mainly as a drawing master. His first pupil, Colonel the Hon.H. Windsor (the future Earl of Plymouth) engaged him in 1808, Cox went on to acquire several other aristocratic and titled pupils. He also went on to write several books, including: Ackermanns' New Drawing Book (1809); A Series of Progressive Lessons (1811); Treatise on Landscape Painting (1813); and Progressive Lessons on Landscape (1816). The ninth and last edition of his series Progressive Lessons, was published in 1845. By 1810 he was elected President of the Associated Artists in Water Colour. In 1812, following the demise of the Associated Artists, he was elected as associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colour (the old Water Colour Society). He was elected a Member of the Society in 1813, and exhibited there every year (except 1815 and 1817) until his death. Hereford, 1814–1827 In the summer of 1813 Cox was appointed as the drawing master of the Royal Military College in Farnham, Surrey, but he resigned shortly afterwards, finding little sympathy with the atmosphere of a military institution. Soon after that he applied to a newspaper advertisement for a position as drawing master for Miss Crouchers' School for Young Ladies in Hereford and in Autumn 1814 moved to the town with his family. Cox taught at the school in Widemarsh Street until 1819, his substantial salary of £100 per year requiring only two-day's work per week, allowing time for painting and the taking of private pupils. Cox's reputation as both a painter and a teacher had been building over previous years, as indicated by his election as a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and his inclusion in John Hassell's 1813 book Aqua Pictura, which claimed to present works by "all of the most approved water coloured draftsmen". The depression that accompanied the end of the Napoleonic Wars had caused a contraction in the art market, however, and by 1814 Cox had been very short of money, requiring a loan from one of his pupils to pay even for the move to Hereford. Despite its financial advantages and its proximity to the scenery of North Wales and the Wye Valley, the move to Hereford marked a retreat in terms of his career as a painter: he sent few works to the annual exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours during his first years away from London and not until 1823 would he again contribute more than 20 pictures. Between 1823 and 1826 he had Joseph Murray Ince as a pupil. London, 1827–1841 He made his first trip to the Continent, to Belgium and the Netherlands in 1826 and subsequently moved to London the following year. He exhibited for the first time with the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1829, and with the Liverpool Academy in 1831. In 1839, two of Cox's watercolours were bought from the Old Water Colour Society exhibition by the Marquis of Conynha for Queen Victoria. Birmingham, 1841–1859 Greenfield House in Harborne, Birmingham – where Cox lived from 1841 until his death in 1859 . In May 1840 Cox wrote to one of his Birmingham friends: "I am making preparations to sketch in oil, and also to paint, and it is my intention to spend most of my time in Birmingham for the purpose of practice". Cox had been considering a return to painting in oils since 1836 and in 1839 had taken lessons in oil painting from William James Müller, to whom he had been introduced by mutual friend George Arthur Fripp. Hostility between the Society of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Academy made it difficult for an artist to be recognised for work in both watercolour and oil in London, however, and it is likely that Cox would have preferred to explore this new medium in the more supportive environment of his home town. By the early 1840s his income from sales of his watercolours was sufficient to allow him to abandon his work as a drawing master, and in June 1841 he moved with his wife to Greenfield House in Harborne, then a village on Birmingham's south western outskirts. It was this move that would enable the higher levels of freedom and experimentation that were to characterise his later work. The elderly Cox pictured by Samuel Bellin in 1855. In Harborne, Cox established a steady routine – working in watercolour in the morning and oils in the afternoon. He would visit London every spring to attend the major exhibitions, followed by one or more sketching excursions, continuing the pattern that he had established in the 1830s. From 1844 these tours evolved into a yearly trip to Betws-y-Coed in North Wales to work outdoors in both oil and watercolour, gradually becoming the focus for an annual summer artists colony that continued until 1856 with Cox as its "presiding genius". Cox's experience of trying to exhibit his oils in London was short and unsuccessful: in 1842 he made his only submission to the Society of British Artists; one oil painting was exhibited at each of the British Institution and the Royal Academy in 1843; and two oil paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844 – the last that would be exhibited in London during his lifetime. Cox showed regularly at the Birmingham Society of Arts and its successor, the Birmingham Society of Artists, becoming a member in 1842. Cox suffered a stroke on 12 June 1853 that temporarily paralysed him, and permanently affected his eyesight, memory and coordination. By 1857 however, his eyesight had deteriorated. An exhibition of his work was arranged in 1858 by the Conversazione Society Hampstead, and in 1859 a retrospective exhibition was held at the German Gallery Bond Street, London. Cox died several months later. He was buried in the churchyard of St Peters, Harborne, Birmingham, under a chestnut tree, alongside his wife Mary. Work Early work In the spring of 1811 Cox made a small number of notable works in oils during a visit to Hastings with his family. It is not known why he didn't continue working in this medium at the time, but the five known surviving examples were described in 1969 as "surely some of the most brilliant examples of the genre in England". Mature work Cox reached artistic maturity after his move to Hereford in 1814. Although only two major watercolours can confidently be traced to the period between Cox's arrival in the town and the end of the decade, both of these – Butcher's Row, Hereford of 1815 and Lugg Meadows, near Hereford of 1817 – mark advances on his earlier work. Later work Cox's later work produced after his move to Birmingham in 1841 was marked by simplification, abstraction and a stripping down of detail. His art of the period combined the breadth and weight characteristic of the earlier English watercolour school, together with a boldness and freedom of expression comparable to later impressionism. His concern with capturing the fleeting nature of weather, atmosphere and light was similar to that of John Constable, but Cox stood apart from the older painter's focus on capturing material detail, instead employing a high degree of generalisation and a focus on overall effect. The quest for character over precision in representing nature was an established characteristic of the Birmingham School of landscape artists with which Cox had been associated early in his life, and as early as 1810 Cox's work had been criticised for its "sketchiness of finish" and "cloudy confusion of objects", which were held to betray "the coarseness of scene-painting". During the 1840s and 1850s Cox took this "peculiar manner" to new extremes, incorporating the techniques of the sketch into his finished works to a far greater degree. Cox's watercolour technique of the 1840s was sufficiently different from his earlier methods to need explanation to his son in 1842, despite the fact that his son had been helping him teach and paint since 1827. The materials used for his later works in watercolour also differed from his earlier periods: he used black chalk instead of graphite pencil as his primary drawing medium, and the rough and absorbent "Scotch" wrapping paper for which he became well-known – both of these were related to his development of a rougher and freer style. Influence and legacy By the 1840s Cox, alongside Peter De Wint and Copley Fielding, had become recognised as one of the leading figures of the English landscape watercolour style of the first half of the 19th century. This judgement was complicated by reaction to the rougher and bolder style of Cox's later Birmingham work, which was widely ignored or condemned. While by this time De Wint and Fielding were essentially continuing in a long-established tradition, Cox was creating a new one. A group of young artists working in Cox's watercolour style emerged well before his death, including William Bennett, David Hall McKewan and Cox's son David Cox Jr. By 1850 Bennett in particular had become recognised as "perhaps the most distinguished among the landscape painters" for his Cox-like vigorous and decisive style. Such early followers concentrated on the example of Cox's more moderate earlier work and steered clear of what were then seen as the excesses of Cox's later years. During a period dominated by sleek and detailed picturesque landscape, however, they were still condemned by publications such as The Spectator as "the 'blottesque' school", and failed to establish themselves as a cohesive movement. John Ruskin in 1857 condemned the work of the Society of Painters in Water-colours as "a kind of potted art, of an agreeable flavour, suppliable and taxable as a patented commodity", excluding only the late work of Cox, about which he wrote "there is not any other landscape which comes near these works of David Cox in simplicity or seriousness". An 1881 book, A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius, was based on a manuscript by Cox's friend William Hall, edited and expanded by John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post. There are two Blue Plaque memorials commemorating him at 116 Greenfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham, and at 34 Foxley Road, Kennington, London, SW9, where he lived from 1827. It can also be seen at the David Cox exhibition in Birmingham. His pupils included Birmingham architectural artist, Allen Edward...
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