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Item Ships From: Continental US
Puddle
By Gladys Emerson Cook
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Gladys Emerson Cook (American, 1899-1976)
Title: Puddle
Year: Circa 1940
Medium: Pastel
Paper: Velvet paper
Size image: 13.5 x 9 inches
Size paper: 20 x 14.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower left
Condition: Very good, light marks on the margin due to previous framing
About the artist.
Gladys Emerson Cook is best known for her drawings of dogs...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
An illustration from Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Erwin Drood".
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1940s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Autumn Oaks
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Autumn Oaks" 1996, is a watercolor on paper by Chinese/American impressionist artist Douglas Chun, 1932-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by ...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Diptych. Drawing on paper
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons ended up gaining very high prices. By redrawing t...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
$580 Sale Price
38% Off
Chaîne de Aravais (Mountains in the Alps) - French School, drawing, circa 1850
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful drawing of the Aravis mountain chain in the Alps, including Mont Blanc, with all of the peaks identified by hand.
Circa 1850
Graphite with white heightening on light card...
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Mid-19th Century French School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Color Pencil, Graphite
3.2 M (ACTION COMICS). Drawing on paper
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons ended up gaining very high prices. By redrawing t...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Elegant pastel composition of a nude woman by an unknown artist (20th Century). The model is laying on her back, with her hea...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Self Portrait at 72" - Imagined Future, Original Painting by David Kassan
By David Kassan
Located in Denver, CO
David Kassan’s "Self Portrait at 72" (2021) is an introspective exploration into the future, where the artist imagines himself as an elder. Painted in oil on acrylic mirror and measu...
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2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mirror, Oil
"Old Monterey Street Scene, Monterey California" Large watercolor.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Old Monterey Street Scene, Monterey California" c.1970, is a large watercolor on heavy Arches watercolor paper by Carmel impressionis...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Giuseppe Zanotti High Heel, Fashion, Watercolor Painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Musicians, Modern Acrylic on Paper by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Musicians, Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Man and his Father, 1916
By Leone M. Bracker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board, Framed Under Glass
Signature: Signed and Dated on the Back
Sight Size 30.50" x 20.50," Framed 35.50" x 26.50"
Great condition, bad glare from glass in thi...
Category
1910s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Study of horse and ox bones
By Salvator Rosa
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite, ink wash and watercolor on handmade laid paper with a large, indistinguishable ovoid watermark with a bunch of grapes, 8 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (225 x 320 mm), signed in brown ink in the lower left. With the Henry Scipio Reitlinger oval stamp in brown ink on the verso (Lugt 2274a).
The condition of the image and paper is consistent with age, there is minor toning on the recto and some attenuation of the green pigment. The drawing is laid down to an 18th century laid paper support and has a small pencil notation in the lower right corner (modern), and scattered notations in pencil on the verso of the support (also modern, perhaps auction/accession notes). On the paper support is an ink drawing in red and black of what appears to be the floor plan for the wing of a large building. The drawing is top-up, adhered facing the verso of the drawing. The architectural drawing on the support is visible through to the recto of the composition when the sheets are viewed through raking light. There is a small area of stipple point spotting in brown ink on the verso of the support. Examination under black light shows no indication of repairs or additions, expert or otherwise.
Provenance:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger was born in either 1882 or 1885, attended Kings College...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Graphite
Muse
, Mid-Century Modern, Dalzell Hatfield, Cleveland Ballet, Syracuse Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sascha Brastoff' (American, 1918-1993) and dated 1960.
1918 - Sascha Brastoff was born Samuel Brostofsky in Cleveland, Ohio.
1935 - At age 17, Brastoff studies dance and joins the Cleveland Ballet.
1940 - Attends Western Reserve School of Art in Cleveland and, subsequently, works for Macy's in NYC.
1942 - Brastoff enters the Army Air Force. Initially designing posters, he joins the ATC road show.
1944 - Brastoff moves to California and signs a seven year contract with 20th Century Fox as a designer and entertainer.
1947 - Brastoff opens his first ceramic plant in Los Angeles producing hand painted earthenware.
1948 - Brastoff is awarded Best of Show for Pottery at the Syracuse Museum.
1952 - With backing from Winthrop Rockefeller, Brastoff opens a new, larger factory in Los Angeles. The factory is destroyed by fire shortly after.
1953 - A larger 35,000 sq. ft. factory and show-room opens and employs more than 100 people.
1960 - Brastoff's company begins to suffer from financial losses after years of success.
1962 - Brastoff has a nervous breakdow, his company continues to sell items...
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1960s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Cafe
, Woman Artist, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Berkeley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marie Pascal' (French-American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990.
Exhibited: Gallery Concord, December 1991.
Marie Pascal studied at the École Nationale Sup...
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1990s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Good Housekeeping Illustration
By Katharine R. Wireman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Drawing
Signature: Initialed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
Good Housekeeping Illustration
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
As Easy as Kiss Me Hand
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male Nude Model)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Whereas, the Women, " Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1922
By Guernsey Moore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Whereas, the Women," by George Kibbe Turner, illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, July 22, 1922.
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1920s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint
"Wer Liefert" Oskar Kokoschka, Satirical Expressionist Caricature, Red on White
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in New York, NY
Oskar Kokoschka
Wer Liefert, circa 1917
Sanguine on paper
8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
Throughout his career, Kokoschka demonstrated a thirst for independence and refrained from associati...
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1910s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
The Pink Bonnet
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1907
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 18.25" x 15.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance- From the Helen Hay Whitney estate (the author of The Bed-Time Book for ...
Category
Early 1900s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Nature through the Mirror Nude and with a Whirlwind Style of Childe Hassam
Located in Soquel, CA
Nature through the Mirror Nude and with a Whirlwind Style of Childe Hassam
Exquisite watercolor on card stock in the style of Childe Hassam by American Impressionist Wilhelmina (Minn...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Postcard
Fresh North Wind - Whimsical Fantasy 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 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
(Untitled)
By Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 8.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Magazine story, an image of man in uniform.
Category
Early 20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Geometric Palace Interior - Mughal School, 20th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating orientalist art deco composition.
Pen and brownish brown ink with gouache on cream wove paper, 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (245 x 190 mm), the full sheet. In good condition w...
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Early 20th Century Rajput Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.006
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.006 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.006 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and ...
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2010s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Thanksgiving, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 1905
By Guernsey Moore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Dimensions: Sight Size 16.00" x 16.50;" Framed 24.50" x 25.00"
The Saturday Evening Post...
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Early 1900s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Board
Antique Horse "Heads, Hooves, Rump 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Heads, Hooves and Rump, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
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1830s Romantic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Consoling Partner, Surrealist Ink and Graphite Drawing by José Luis Cuevas
By José Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
José Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) - Consoling Partner, Year: 1980, Medium: Ink and Graphite on Paper, signed and dated top right, Size: 7.5 x 10.5 in. (19.05 x 26.67 cm), Fr...
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1980s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
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1940s Tribal Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.028
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.028 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.028 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Father, Daughter and Antique Suitor
By Orson Byron Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and ink with pale color washes on paper
Signature: Unsigned
The label on the reverse details a conversation taking place between the wealthy father (Pater) and elegantl...
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20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Original Partial Nude Female Figurative Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil pen and ink female figurative by artist and architect Reiner Keller (Swiss/American, 1926-2024), dated 2012. With a dynamic point of view, this figure drawing invites us int...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Witte Arrives
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for Elias Tobenkin's 'Witte Arrives'. The story of a family of Jewish immigrants, especially of the youngest, Emil, who works his wa...
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1910s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Blacksmith house
By Guy Lipscomb
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Blacksmith House" c.1965, is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Guy Lipscomb, 1917-2009. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 12.5 x 17.25 inches, framed size is 20 x 25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden brown frame, with grey/beige matting and brown fillet. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, it has minor scratches
About the artist:
Guy Fleming Lipscomb, Jr. (April 11, 1917 — December 31, 2009) was a business owner, chemist, civic leader, philanthropist, artist, author, teacher, and star collegiate athlete. In his later years, he became a noted painter working in acrylics and watercolors and was both a member of the Southern Watercolor Society and a Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society.
Lipscomb was born in Clemson, South Carolina. He won numerous awards in his lifetime including the Order of the Palmetto presented by Governor Richard Riley and the 1982 Elizabeth O’Neil Verner...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman Seated
, Paris, Louvre, Carmel, California Post-Impressionist, LACMA SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Post-Impressionist, pastel figural showing a young woman in a cobalt dress seated in an olive green chair and holding a flower, beside a table bearin...
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1940s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink
Nude Reading
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Nude Reading" c.1970, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner by the artist. Th...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early Modern Abstract Watercolor Painting of a Nude Figure Viewed from Behind
By Konrad Cramer
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern abstract figurative nude watercolor painting by German artist Konrad Cramer. The work features the back of a nude figure with their arms raised and crossed over their fa...
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1950s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Female Nude Figurative Ink Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful pen and ink female figurative by artist and architect Reiner Keller (Swiss/American, 1926-2024), dated 2012. This standing figure is lifting her hand gently towards her fac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
The Memorial of Vivienne Westwood Series. Set of 6 drawings
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker, Pencil
Original self-portrait drawing (hand signed and inscribed)
By Marina Abramovic
Located in New York, NY
Marina Abramovic
Original self-portrait drawing (hand signed and inscribed), 2014
Ink drawing held inside hardback monograph, done at the artist's Serpentine Gallery exhibition, han...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Offset
Parade
By David Remfry
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Framed in black measuring 31 x 28 inches total.
Whether obscured by the smoky nightclub lighting or enlivened by the strong color of the Mardi Gras dancers, David Remfry’s life-size...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$3,000
New England Coastal Town Landscape w/ Houses, Cleveland School Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kae Dorn Cass (American, 1901-1971)
New England Coastal Town
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
9 in. h. x 11.5 in. w.
17 in. h. x 19 in. w., as framed
Kae Dorn Cass was born...
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Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lepidoptera
By Shamona Stokes
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Watercolor, flashe, color pencil, ink, silver paint, matte medium and Black 3.0 on watercolor paper, 55" high x 77" wide
Vivid matte blue, red, gray, silver and black
Framing availa...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Reclining Nude
, Glasgow School of Art, Dundee, Post-Impressionist Figural
By Sydney Horne Shepherd
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Shepherd' for Sydney Horne Shepherd (British, 1909-1993) and painted circa 1960; accompanied by old exhibition label.
A lyrical watercolor of a woman reclinin...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A tailor fitting exotic and historical costumes.
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
A charming scene of men and women in various dress, perhaps a theater company costume fitting.
English School, 19th century (circle of Cruikshank), circa 1860.
Watercolor and pencil...
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Mid-19th Century English School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil
Sleeping Cat, Early 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Sleeping Cat, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper right
15 x 19 inches
21.25 x 25.25 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Car...
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1920s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Illustration for the book Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was used in Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis. Published in 1937 by The John C. Winston Company - "The Children's Bookshelf" series. The book features wonderful color plates and black & white illustrations by Everett Shinn.
The full caption reads: "Toby tried very hard to go to sleep."
Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten-year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. Toby's friend, Mr. Stubbs the chimpanzee, reinforces the consequences of what happens when one follows one's natural instincts rather than one's intellect and conscience, a central theme of the novel.
Date: 1937
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 18.00" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Toby Tyler Book Illustration
Exhibitions: Norman Rockwell Museum...
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1930s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Nude
, Paris, Académie Grande Chaumière, Musee d
Art Moderne, LACMA
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Janet Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and painted circa 1965.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Janet Ament studied at ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Commedia dell
arte – Four Character Studies in Watercolor, 1920s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Unidentified artist, 'Commedia dell’arte' – four character studies (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pantalone giovane, Tartaglia), watercolor and pencil, c. 192...
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1920s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Illustration for the book Toby Tyler: Ten Weeks with a Circus
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This original illustration was used in Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis. Published in 1937 by The John C. Winston Company - "The Children's Bookshelf" series. The ...
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1930s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Two Faces (Purple and Magenta) in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Faces (Purple and Magenta) in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored faces by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Two faces are shown in profile, looking to the left. They are boldly colored - one in purple, one in magenta - and each wearing earrings. A bright orange and lime green creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance.
Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower right.
Artist's gallery label on verso.
Presented "floating" in a white mat.
Mat size: 28"H x 22"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 11.5"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
$600 Sale Price
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Flapper Era Woman with Feathered Headdress
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920s
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Artist Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Unsigned
The 1920’s painting most likely is the original cover art...
Category
1920s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Male Leg, Knee
Foot)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Male Model (Leg, Knee and Foot) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early ...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Reclining Nude
, Mid-century German Expressionist, Düsseldorf, Venice Biennale
By Kurt Craemer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signer lower right, 'Craemer' for Kurt Craemer (German, 1912-1961) and dated 1954.
Born in Saarbrucken, Craemer first attended the Academy of Cologne in 1928 where he worked under F...
Category
1950s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sphinx and Moon (Self Portrait) 1980s Pastel, Cleveland School Artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983)
Sphinx and Moon (Self Portrait), c. 1980
Pastel on paper
9 x 16.5 inches
17. 5 x 25 inches, framed
Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work ex...
Category
1980s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 20th Century
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
Unsigned
19 x 24 inches
Provenance: From the Estate of Frank Nelson Wilcox
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Card Game
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.50"
Illustration of a man and a woman playing cards. At bottom it reads "Of course you can tell fortunes with cards". This il...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Ink, Pen
$2,900