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"Danielle" Nude Figurative Drawing in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold nude pastel drawing by Albert Hutson (American, 1923-1994). A woman is reclined on a soft red surface, leaning up against a yellow pillow. The model is skillfully sketched, with quick but confident marks. Hutson has captured the character of the model in her expression and posture, both of which appear relaxed and natural.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper.
Signed, dated, and titled twice in the lower right corner ("Al Hutson Danielle 89")
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size:
Paper size: 19.75"H x 25.5"W
Albert L. Hutson (American, 1923-1994) had two careers: first as a professional military officer, and second as an artist and member of the Board of the Graphic Arts Council in San Francisco. He was born in 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, into a family with a long military tradition. His father and maternal grandfather were Annapolis graduates, and his paternal grandfather served in the Civil War. Colonel Hutson graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1941 shortly after World War II began. He later earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Nebraska in the late 1960s. As a young second lieutenant in World War II, he served with the First Armored Division in the Italian Campaign, starting with the Battle of Anzio, and participated in the liberation of Rome. His interest in art began at this time when his commanding officer introduced him to Italian art.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper. A graduate of the Fine Arts Museums docent [tour guide...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Givenchy Paris Fashion Plate No. 50
Located in Bristol, CT
Hand-coloured fashion plate No. 50 designed by Givenchy of Paris c.1980's including 3 fabric swatches attached
Plate Sz: 11.5"H x 8"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 1...
Category
1980s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Lithograph
Eyes in Blue Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Modern watercolor painting including detailed eyes in blue, 2011.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archiva...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Seated Black Male Nude Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Drawing of a Seated African American Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figure study d...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Rhymes of Real Children
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1903
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Sight Size 18.00" x 15.75", Framed 24.50" x 22.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Betty Sage, Rhymes of Real Children, New York, 1903, illustr...
Category
Early 1900s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
English 20th century study of a woodpecker bird
By James Williamson-Bell
Located in Woodbury, CT
James Williamson-Bell was a respected wildlife artist based in Newcastle and won several medals at the Paris Salon for his bird paintings. He was stro...
Category
1990s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Givenchy Paris No.52
Located in Bristol, CT
Chic, original c1980s fashion watercolour illustration for Givenchy Paris No. 52 together w/ a couture fabric swatch
Plate Sz: 11 3/8"H x 8"W
Frame Sz...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Givenchy Glam No. 72
Located in Bristol, CT
Givenchy Paris Haute Couture fashion illustration c1980s No.72. with a gold fabric swatch attached
Image Sz: 11 3/4"H x 8"W
Frame Sz: 15 7/8"H x 12 1/2"W
w/ lavender mat & green w...
Category
1980s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
A Humorous, Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Drawing, “Use Your Energy Constructively"
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Quirky, Humorous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Illustration Ink Drawing by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a young man diligently working at a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
By Jessie Gillespie
Located in Miami, FL
115 years after they were created, one can view these silhouettes differently than the artist’s intent.
After all, the genesis of this work was an editorial illustration for Life Magazine to showcase elaborate women’s hats.
They were done for a commercial assignment with a deadline, and picky editors were overseeing the final work.
Today, they have a dual meaning.
These charming silhouettes are abstractions as much as they are representations.
Moreover, each one is a compact little gem stuffed with observational detail.
Golden Age female illustrator Jesse Gillespie's mastery of technical skill, is apparent in minute details and composition.
Young women, old women, pendants, necklaces, feathers, and laced vails all contribute to the works understated complexity.
The identity of the subjects are revealed by small areas of exposed neck and chin.
As the viewers eyes goes from left to right - all six silhouettes read as fashion hieroglyphs in a sentence with a visual rhythm and cadence. .
Initialed JG lower right., Matted but not framed.
Published: Life Magazine, March 17th, 1910.
Provenance: Honey and Wax Bookstore
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessie Gillespie Willing (March 28, 1888 – August 1, 1972) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of illustration. She was considered the foremost silhouette illustrator of her time, although she did traditional illustration as well. Willing illustrated for books and magazines including Life, The Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Mother and Child, McClure's Magazine, Childhood Education, the Sunday Magazine, Association Men (the magazine of the YMCA), Farm and Fireside, Every Week, Children: The Magazine for Parents (which became Parents Magazine), and the American Magazine. She is perhaps most well known for her work for the Girl Scouts.
Early life
Willing was born in Brooklyn on March 28, 1888 to John Thomson Willing (August 4, 1860 – July 8, 1947)[1][2] and Charlotte Elizabeth Van Der Veer Willing (December 1, 1859 – March 4, 1930).[3] Thomson Willing was a noted illustrator and art editor. He was also well known for finding new artistic talent. Jessie Willing was the eldest of three children. Her brother Van Der Veer (November 30, 1889 – January 14, 1919), who died of pneumonia at the age of 29, was an advertising agent.[4] Her sister Elizabeth Hunnewell Willing (July 26, 1908 – August 15, 1991) was one of the first women to graduate from the Philadelphia Divinity School.[5][6] Elizabeth married the Rev. Orrin Judd, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, on September 22, 1931, and was active in church work.[citation needed]
The Willing family moved to the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1901 or 1902. Jessie Willing attended the Stevens School, from which she graduated in 1905. She then went on to attend the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1907.[7][8]
Career
Willing used her middle name Gillespie as her professional surname. She also often signed her illustrations J.G.[9] The story goes that the art editor of Life magazine was in Thomson Willing's office when he was the art editor of the Associated Sunday Magazine syndicate. Thomson Willing had some of Jessie's artwork on his desk, which the Life editor saw and admired. He asked for the artist's information so that he could give her freelance work. Thomson Willing did not want to be accused of nepotism so he persuaded Jessie to use Jessie Gillespie as her professional name, which she did.[10][11]
In addition to her extensive illustration work, Willing was also the editor of Heirlooms and Masterpieces from 1922 to 1931 and the art editor of Jewelers' Circular-Keystone from 1933 to 1939.[12] She specialized in jewelry publicity and advertising. In 1966 she won the Gold medal of the Printing Week Graphic Arts Exhibit in Philadelphia for her Christmas catalog for J.E. Caldwell Co., Philadelphia.
Willing was a member of the Plastic Club of Philadelphia,[13] the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and the National Arts Club of New York.[14] She was an honorary life member of the National Arts Club[15] and served on its Board of Governors from 1941-1970. In 1963, she received the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in recognition of 32 years of selfless devotion.[15] Additionally, she was the national director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1943 to 1946.[15] Previous to this she served as the Program Chairman of the AIGA and in that position she put together a travelling exhibit on the "history of narrative art from the first recorded picture story to the comic book of the twentieth century."[16][17]
Illustrations in books
With Tongue and Pen--Frederick Bair, et al. (MacMillan, 1940)
Masoud the Bedouin--Alfred Post Carhart (Missionary Education Movement, 1915)
The Path of the Gopatis--Zilpha Carruthers (National Dairy Council, 1926)
The Schoolmaster and His Son: A Narrative of the Thirty Years War--Karl Heinrich Caspari (Lutheran Publication Society, 1917)
On a Rainy Day--Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Scott Fisher (A.S. Barnes and Co., 1938)
Book of Games for Home, School and Playground--William B. Forbush and Harry R Allen...
Category
1910s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Nero
s Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
French pen and ink surrealist drawing with female and avian elements, 1993. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a s...
Category
1990s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
$286
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.041
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.041 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.041 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children
s Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Nell Blair Walden Blaine "Standing Figure" Pastel Drawing, circa 1967
By Nell Blaine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nell Blair Walden Blaine (1922-1996) "Standing Figure" pastel drawing circa 1967
A Fine original pastel portrait of a standing nude figure by listed artist Nell Blaine.
Dimensions ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Nasturtiums" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Flowers
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Nasturtiums, circa 1940
Signed and stamped lower left
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Baby
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Violet Oakley (1896-1961).
Portrait of a Baby, ca. 1930.
Conte crayon and pencil on laid paper, sheet measuring 11 x 14 inches.
Framed measurement: 13.5 x 16.5 inches.
Signed low...
Category
1930s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper
"Danzantes de Colores" from the "Colcha" series
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danzantes de Colores from the "Colcha" series, 1989, is a watercolor and ink on hand made paper by noted American artist Amado Maurilio Pena...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lamb Chops Feature (High-Low Foods)
Located in Chicago, IL
This graphite drawing by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald is an homage to the charm and artistry of mid-century advertisements and print media. Entitled ""Lamb Chops Feature (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Mixed Media
Outskirts Delivery - Graphite Drawing of Naked Cowboy with Blurred Face
Hands
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
Outskirts Delivery
graphite on paper
7h x 5.50w in
17.78h x 13.97w cm
JAB011
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and my subject, humans, are f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Springtime
By Thelma Terrell
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and professional graphic artist.
"Springtime" is an ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Hug, Abstract Figurative, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Hug
Size: 14" x 11" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
$5,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Antique American WPA Figurative Pastel Drawing
By Charles William Ward
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist pastel drawing by noted New Jersey/Philadelphia New Deal Muralist Charles William Ward. Pastel on paper. Gorgeously framed in an antique frame.. Signed low...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Parchment Paper, Pastel, Paper
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
By George Wishon
Located in Soquel, CA
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
Beautiful modern figure drawing of a nude woman by Bay Area Artist George Wishon (Ameri...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Color Pencil
Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, Qing-dynasty
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Snow in the Forest, 1945
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 23.75 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook C...
Category
1940s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Waterlilies V (Contemporary Horizontal Pencil Drawing of Abstract Flowers)
By David Dew Bruner
Located in Hudson, NY
Waterlilies V: Modern, Abstracted Pencil Drawing of Flowers (Waterlilies)
graphite drawing on paper
Paper size: 16 x 35 inches
This grap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Brittany, Pig Fair Pastel By Louis Fortuney
Located in Pasadena, CA
Louis Fortuney (1878-1950), also known simply as “Fortuney”, was a French pastellist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and in Paris and developed a personal style n...
Category
1920s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
ITZCHAK TARKAY "GARDEN PARTY" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15"
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: "GARDEN PARTY"
Size: 15 X 22 INCHES
Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Edition: ORIGINAL
Description: Hand signed by the artist
The artwork is i...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior Life Drawing - Portrait of a Woman with a Flower II
Located in Soquel, CA
Interior Life Drawing - Portrait of a Woman with a Flower II
Stylized portrait drawing by unknown artist "Ting" (20th Century). A woman sits in the center of the composition, her fa...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Fashion Illustration with Two Leggy Models in Monochromatic Greys
Located in Miami, FL
Two elegant and leggy models are rendered and meticulously designed in this illustration for Geoffrey Beene. Miyake's composition is one model as two or two models as one. We see th...
Category
1960s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Carbon Pencil
An Avant-Garde, Modern Surreal Abstract Dreamscape, "Lost" by Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
An Avant-Garde, Abstract Modern Surrealist Dreamscape by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking, black & white charcoal drawing on paper depicting a lone ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Chrysanthemums" Anne Ramsdell Congdon, Pink Impressionist Flowers Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Anne Ramsdell Congdon
Chrysanthemums, 1900
Signed and dated lower right
Watercolor on paper
26 x 19 inch
Provenance
Matthew O'Connell, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Anne Ramsdell Congdon studied art at a young age in Worcester. Originally a watercolorist, she attended the Académie de Lécluse in Paris in 1891, and later with Rhoda Holmes Nichols (1854–1938), an assistant to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), at a summer extension to Chase’s Shinnecock School of Art in Oguinquit, Maine. She also studied with Boston and Oguinquit marine painter and etcher Charles H. Woodbury (1864–1940), who taught his students to “paint in verbs, not nouns,” thus advocating the quick stroke of a brush.
She was active in Nashua as a watercolorist until she married a New Hampshire surgeon and Nantucket native, Dr. Charles E. Congdon, in 1902. She reportedly suspended her art career to maintain an antiques shop in Nashua, her birthplace, while raising two sons.
By the mid-1920s, she was attending the summer classes in oil painting with Frank Swift Chase (1886-1958) on Nantucket, and she rapidly became a plein air painter in the bold style of her new mentor. The Boston Herald observed, “Her work is direct, facile, and without mannerisms.” She painted a series of waterfront paintings...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Girl Illustration, Signed by Adams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink on Paper
Signature: Signed 'Adams' Lower Right
American Girl Illustration- Signed Adams
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Signed, Watercolor on Paper. Framed Painting - Figurations 359.008
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Figurations 359.008 - Signed, Watercolor on Paper, Framed Painting
Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They
show the artist's p...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Stunning, Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Female Figure Study, Standing Nude
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning, Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Female Nude Figure Study by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). The drawing is ink on paper and dates from 1930. Artwork si...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"The Call of the Riled, " Saturday Evening Post Illustration, March 6, 1926
By John Gould
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal Drawing on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post
Category
1920s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Untitled Rose, 1983
Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper
Signed and dated on the front
Framed
Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Measurements:
Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5
Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches
Lowell Nesbitt Biography:
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
Category
1880s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Mixed Media
At Tunbridge Well
By Agostino Aglio
Located in Middletown, NY
Black crayon and graphite with white heightening on blue handmade laid paper. Adhered at all four corners to a period support, on which the title and an illegible date (perhaps 1815) appear to be written in the artist's hand.
________
Aglio was born in Cremona is 1777 and his artistic talent was recognized early in his life. He was promised a place at the University in Milan by the Holy Roman Emperor, however, his formal education was upended before it even began by the invasion of Italy and Austria by Napoleon. Aglio joined the war effort and fought in a series of major battles near Venice before becoming seriously ill. At the age of about 23 he was released from duty, and traveled to Rome to focus on his health, and landscape painting. In Rome, Aglio studied with the renowned artist Campovecchio. At the invitation of well known British architect William Wilkins (designer of the National Gallery and University College London), Aglio relocated to London in 1803. He made London his permanent home, and married Letitia Clarke in 1805. He enjoyed a lucrative career painting frescoes in the interiors of high society townhouses, country manors, and major London concert halls and theaters. Most notably, Aglio painted multiple official portraits of Queen Victoria...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.072
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.072 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.072 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Boats at the Dock
By Stephen Seymour Thomas
Located in Dallas, TX
gouache with pen and ink
signed "Seymour Thomas" at lower right
Category
20th Century Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
Category
1930s Romantic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Whimsical Illustration "Snow" Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
By William Steig (b.1907)
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country Snow Shoes signed "W. Steig"
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by ...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
"Julius Caesar" original art for Penguin book cover
By Milton Glaser
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny and unexpected pose characterizes this work as Julius Ceasar warily looks over his shoulder and blood-stained toga. Signed lower right "M. Gl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
$17,600 Sale Price
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Kutschen (carriages); Group of four designs for hansom cabs.
By Alfred Juergens
Located in Middletown, NY
Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Woman with Harbor View
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Woman with Harbor View" c.2010, is a watercolor on paper by noted Israeli artist Patricia Govezensky, b.1961. It is signed at the low...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
By Constantin Alajalov
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
1940s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Belvedere Fountain (Blue Grey Cityscape with Impressionistic Figures)
By Susan Hope Fogel
Located in Hudson, NY
Belvedere Fountain (Blue Grey Cityscape with Impressionistic Figures)
After spending many years painting in the style of traditional realism, Susan had the opportunity to work with ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
RARE WPA ARTIST ISAAC FRIEDLANDER Judaica Drawing 1946
By Isaac Friedlander
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Friedlander, Isaac American (1890-1968)
Isac Friedlander Latvian-born American Printmaker, 1890-1968
was born in Mitau, Latvia. He studied art at the Academy of Rome. He...
Category
20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
MARK AND ADAMS RAMP
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"MARK AND ADAMS RAMP" is an original collage on canvas artwork by Jim Houser measuring 6" x 6".
Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currentl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Children
s Book Illustrator - Mother Goose, Children and Flowers
Located in Miami, FL
Mother Goose is a French fairy tale and later of English nursery rhyme. In this illustration, we see an oversized Goose in a yellow bonnet elevated on a step and engaging with an attentively curious young girl and young boy. Large vases of flowers frame them. Titled in pencil center bottom: "Goosey, Goosey Gander. Where do you wander? Signed Margaret Evans Price...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Tehuantepec Woman
, WPA, California, Oaxaca, Rivera, GGIE, ASL, NY MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sottosanti' for Angelo Anthony Sottosanti (American, 1917-2004) and dated 1941.
A dramatic Modernist study of a Tehuantepec woman from Oaxaca shown wearing the ...
Category
1940s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Baghdad Military Mystery Espionage Illustration Colliers , Saturday Evening Post
By John Pike
Located in Miami, FL
21.25 x 28 in. (54 x 71.1 cm.)
Magazine illustration most likely for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post
Title : The One Behind Him, by Charles B . Child
Work is unframed
Category
1950s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Off to the Beach, Collier
s Cover
By Alan Foster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Photograph
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Collier’s cover August 29, 1936.
Category
1930s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Shtetl Klezmer Musician painting and drawing
By Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village. This one depicts a Klezmer musician fiddler playing his violin.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor a...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Tempera
Untitled Sketch Men with Oxen
by Harold Stevenson, Pencil Drawing on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 45" x 31" work was drawn by Harold Stevenson in 1983 and is presented in a multi-matted black frame. The drawing depicts three standing figures, each adorned in classical-style ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Years In Your Years - Abstract Feminine Colorful Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates embodies an ongoing dialogue wit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
A Humorous, Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Ink Drawing, Couple at Fun House Mirror
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Quirky, Humorous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Illustration Ink Drawing Depicting a Young Couple Standing Beside A Fun House Mirror by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
1960s Renaissance Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$2,200 Sale Price
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