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Item Ships From: Continental US
And A Wonderful Sacrament - Graphite Drawing, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
And A Wonderful Sacrament
graphite on paper
5h x 7w in
10.5h x 12w in framed
12.70h x 17.78w cm
JAB003
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Vintage Figurative Landscape of Peniche, Portugal Harbor Boats
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage coastal landscape of Peniche, Portugal with boats and small figures by Buford Brooks Crossland (American, 1918-2013). Signed "Buford Crossland...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Colored Pencils), unique painting, Allan Stone Collection
Sotheby
s
By Grace Knowlton
Located in New York, NY
Grace Knowlton
Untitled (Colored Pencils), 1978
Mixed media watercolor and charcoal painting on paper. (Framed with labels from the legendary Allan Stone Collection...
Category
1970s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Schooners on the Coast with Rocks Tide Pools and bird by Howard Garfield Gray
Located in Soquel, CA
Schooners on the Coast with Rocks Tide Pools and bird by Howard Garfield Gray
Schooners in the mist by artist and illustrator Howard Garfield Gray (American, 19th-20th C). Watercolor...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This is a pencil and watercolor drawing of a male figure by Pol Anglada offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Untitled
2023
Pencil and watercolor on paper
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Talia in Fruitvale / woman with hat - red
gold - drawing painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talia in Fruitvale' , head study of a young woman in a hat in mainly yellow and red, is created with mixed media on paper, including stabilo pencil, gouache, ink, dry point pigment,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Charcoal
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Young Nude Male Carrying Bricks
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Drawing of a Young Male Nude Carrying a Palette of Bricks by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed figure study dra...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Big Baloo / Head Study No. 86
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Big Baloo / Head Study No. 86 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in blue, pink, gold and white. The work is created with mixed media on Bristol paper,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Crayon
Wartime / Head Study No. 76
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Wartime / Head Study No. 76 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in yellow. The work is created with mixed media on Canson paper, including stabilo penc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil
Pair of Illustrations from Robert Louis Stevenson
s A Child
s Garden of Verses
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Two illustrations from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (New York: Scribner's, 1905), for III: "To Auntie", Page 116
Two charming line illustrations by Smith from...
Category
Early 1900s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Hot Air Balloon with Couple
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Hot Air Balloon with Couple" 2017, is a pastel on paper by French artist Jean Marc Brugeille, b.1959. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Wares"
By Paul Neri
Located in Southampton, NY
Excellent watercolor by Italian orientalist artist Paul Neri. Selling chickens in the market. Circa 1950. Watercolor on heavy cardboard. Signed low...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$475 Sale Price
60% Off
Ten Bottles
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Ten Bottles"c.1990 is a watercolor on paper by noted South African/Canadian artist Kiff Holland, b.1942. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fighting
By Olivia Gibb
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Fighting
Materials : Stamp,xerox transfer,pencil,ink
Date : 2015
Dimensions : 18.25×26.75″
Art school took Olivia Gibb away from Oklahoma and up to Kansas City, which she ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil
$498 Sale Price
35% Off
The Triumphal Arch, Leningrad
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Triumphal Arch, Leningrad" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Man in a Flannel Shirt in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Flannel Shirt in Ink on Paper
Expressive line drawing of a man by Shirley Pittman (American, 1929-2013). He is sitting, cross legged, with a drink and an asht...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Landscape with Cattle
By Raphael Senseman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Cattle" c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower right ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Casino Off Exit 6 - Graphite Drawing, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
Casino Off Exit Six
graphite on paper
8.50h x 5.50w in
21.59h x 13.97w cm
15h x 11.75w in framed
JAB012
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Flower Market - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Flower Market - Original Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor of a flower seller by Ken L. Stephens (American. 20th Century). A flower vendor is wearing a blue apron, standing un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Beautiful watercolor painting of Capitola Beach by Ken L. Stephens (American, 20th Century). A couple sits by the water, wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
La Marguerite
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is an original gouache on Canson Mongolfier paper titled "La Marguerite," by Russian/French Artist Erte, Romain De Tirtoff, 1892-1990. It is...
Category
1950s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Turtle man studies
By Len Poteshman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ink on paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$672 Sale Price
20% Off
On the Road
By Henry Waltermar Doane
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "On the Road" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower ri...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Twilight Colored Pencil" - Original Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Twilight Colored Pencil" - Original Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
Original charcoal and pastel drawing of a man and woman looking off into the distance. Their backs are to the viewe...
Category
1950s Post-War Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Woman with Glasses - Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Glasses - Drawing in Pen on Paper
Stylized drawing by unknown artist "Ting" (20th Century). The sitter for this portrait is wearing horn-rimmed glasses, and...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
American flag collage with 19th century engraving of California as an Island
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America.
Watercolor, ink, acrylic and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied and exciting works.
His influences come from all the different places and experiences he has had throughout his life, as well as the varied different art styles he’s studied.
Having lived in many different places around the world the styles of art, architecture, traditions and religions have all played into the art he makes..
He studies a period of art and then works with antique, vintage, and original pieces to build his collage pictures making each one a unique study of a period, city, or style.
Claude works on his pieces to bring together a feeling of the period and art movement that is inspiring him.
Sometimes Matisse and Picasso and other times old master drawings and abstracts.
These set of collage...
Category
2010s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Medium Dandelions 2
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass's graphite drawing on black heavyweight paper transforms delicate dandelions into luminous, ghost-like forms. Each fine line is meticulously drawn, creating a richly det...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Guiding the Herd
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Guiding the Herd" 1967 is a watercolor and ink on paper by noted Uruguayan artist Enrique Castells Capurro, 1913-1997. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 13 x 19 inches, framed size is 20.35 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light brown frame, with light grey matting and green fillet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Enrique Castells Capurro ( Montevideo , March 9 , 1913 - Punta del Este , J...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on pape...
Category
1940s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: etching, watercolor paint
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.. there does not seem to be an edition size although th...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscapes from a sketch folder
By Emile Cagniart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch in pen and ink .
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Like many young asp...
Category
1890s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Modernist Abstract Nude Figurative Painting in India Ink on Paper
By Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern abstracted nude figurative study in bold black ink by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed in the top left corner under the mat, "L Nadalini"...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
"Reading"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Antonio Liarte con modelos, Surrealist Ink and Watercolor by José Luis Cuevas
By José Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
José Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) - Antonio Liarte con modelos, Year: 1979, Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, signed, titled and dated in ink, Size: 7 x 9.75 in. (17.78 x...
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Peggy
s Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by Finns/Canadian artist William Edward De Garthe, 1907-1983. It is signed a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building Albany (View II) Unique
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany (View II), 1980
Pastel drawing on paper
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 1980; bears RDA (Readers Digest...
Category
1980s Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Voyeur
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Voyeur" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower left cor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid-Century Hillside Trees Landscape Watercolor (unfinished)
By Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape watercolor with a tall, stately tree in the foreground, its many forking branches depicted with exceptional detail, and a verdant background of rollin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (Religious scene)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled (Religious Scene)" c.1990 is a colored pencil drawing on paper by noted African American artist Roger Rice, b.1958. It is signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Untitled, Graphite Drawing of Nude Figure
Celestial Imagery, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch
Untitled, 2025
graphite on paper
9h x 7w in
15.75h x 13.5w in framed
22.86h x 17.78w cm
JAB010
My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and my subj...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
By Marilyn Thompson
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Delicate drawing of a woman in a white dress by Palo Alto artist Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015). Acquired with a colle...
Category
1990s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Blind Beggar
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Blind Beggar" 1959 is a watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board by noted California artist Frank Moss Hamilton, 1930-1999. It is signed and dated at t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Whispering Figure, 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) - Whispering Figure, Year: 1980, Medium: Ink and Graphite on Paper, signed and dated top right, Size: 7.75 x 10.75 in. (19.69 x 27.31 cm), ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Ray Swanson (1937-2004) "Native American" Original Pen
Ink c.1960s
By Ray Swanson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ray Swanson (1937-2004) "Native American" Original Pen & Ink c.1960s
Fine portrait of a Native American Indian by listed Western artist Ray Swanson.
Dime...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
"Elk Vertebrae" Original Impressionist Skeletal Still-Life, Watercolor Painting
By Hazel Z Weckbach
Located in Denver, CO
Hazel Z Weckbach's "Elk Vertebrae" is an original, hand-made watercolor painting depicting a vast coast with large rocks in an impressionistic style.
Artist Statement:
"Subject matt...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Band
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Band" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower left corne...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Figures on Camelback along the Nile”
By Paul B. Pascal
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original orientalist gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Signed lower right. Circa 1885. Condition is excellent. The scene depicts figures on camelback along the Nile with pyramids in the background. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
Category
1880s Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
31% Off
Original nude drawing mid century modern art by renowned sculptor -Signed Rare!
By George Sugarman
Located in New York, NY
George Sugarman
Original nude drawing, 1951
Ink on Paper
Signed and dated (l.r.).
Matted and Framed. Original vintage frame included
This rare signed, dated drawing from the early 1...
Category
1950s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled (Nude Woman)
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Astoria, NY
Abraham Walkowitz (Russian/American, 1878-1965), Nude Woman, Watercolor on Paper, signed in pencil lower right, linen covered frame. Image: 13" H x 9.5" W; frame: 20.25" H x 16.25" W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1947 Bristol Vintage Car - Antique Automotive Stamp Series Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
1947 Bristol Vintage Car - Antique Automotive Stamp Series- Illustration
Illustration showing a 1947 Bristol vintage red car. Antique car stamp
...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Andreas Zisimos
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing by James Childs offered by CLAMP in New York City.
2004
Signed and titled, recto
Graphite and Conté crayon on paper
12 x 8.25 inches
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Graphite
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
20% Off
"Loser
s Rack" - Original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Loser's Rack" - Original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing on Paper
This drawing by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), provides brilliant 1-point perspective in a val...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Untitled - Watercolor with Collage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kenjilo (Kenji) Nanao – Japanese/American (1929-2013)
Title: Untitled – Watercolor with collage
Date: 1989
Medium: Watercolor with collage
Image size: 39.5 x 38 inches
Sheet ...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany, 1980
Pastel on paper drawing
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 1980; bears RDA (Readers Digest...
Category
1980s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Peggy
s Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Scenery" c.1950 is an ink drawing on paper by Finns/Canadian artist William Edward De Garthe, 1907-1983. It is signed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Family Group
By George Morland
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Family Group
Drawing in Chinese white, sepia and bistre ink, c. 1790
Signed lower left: G. Morland (see photo)
The present work appears to be a preliminary study for two Morland paintings where the artist uses portions of this preliminary study in finished exhibition paintings. The strongest association is with the painting entitled The Cottage Door (1790), now in the collection of Royal Holloway College, University of London. Morland uses the same small girl (on left side of this sheet) holding a doll on a chair in the exact same pose. The second painting entitled The Tea Garden (Tate Gallery, London, c. 1790) incorporates similar poses and gestures of the three other figure studies on this sheet.
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (Stock # D25924, see photo)
Maynard Walker Gallery, New York ( see photo of label)
Davis Galleries, New York, their Eagle stamp and stock number (see photo)
Ms. Gloria Kaplan (1930-2011) New York City
Regarding Maynard Walker:
Maynard Walker New York Times obit:
"Maynard Walker, an art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters, died of pneumonia Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Carbondale, Pa. He was 89 years old and lived in Lake Ariel, Pa.
In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry.
After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war."
Condition: Aging to paper
Slight fading to ink
Tiny spotting in image
All consistent with the age of the drawing
Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches
George Morland was born in London on 26 June 1763. He was the son of Henry Robert Morland, and grandson of George Henry Morland, said by Cunningham to have been lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, while other biographers go so far as to say that he had only to claim the baronetcy in order to get it. Morland began to draw at the age of three years, and at the age of ten (1773) his name appears as an honorary exhibitor of sketches at the Royal Academy. He continued to exhibit at the Free Society in 1775 and 1776, and at the Society of Artists in 1777, and then again at the Royal Academy in 1778, 1779 and 1780.
His talents were carefully cultivated by his father, who was accused of stimulating them unduly with a view to his own profit, shutting the child up in a garret to make drawings from pictures and casts for which he found a ready sale. The boy, on the other hand, is said to have soon found a way to make money for himself by hiding some of his drawings, and lowering them at nightfall out of his window to young accomplices, with whom he used to spend the proceeds in frolic and self-indulgence. It has been also asserted that his father, discovering this trick, tried to conciliate him by indulgence, humouring his whims and encouraging his low tastes.
He was set by his father to copy pictures of all kinds, but especially of the Dutch and Flemish masters. Among others he copied Fuseli's Nightmare and Reynolds's Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. He was also introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and obtained permission to copy his pictures, and all accounts agree that before he was seventeen he had obtained considerable reputation not only with his friends and the dealers, but among artists of repute. A convincing proof of the skill in original composition which he had then attained is the fine engraving.
It is said that before his apprenticeship to his father came to an end, in 1784, Romney offered to take him into his own house, with a salary of £300, on condition of his signing articles for three years. But Morland, we are told, had had enough of restraint, and after a rupture with his father he set up on his own account in 1784 or 1785 at the house of a picture dealer, and commenced that life which, in its combination of hard work and hard drinking, is almost without a parallel.
Morland soon became the mere slave of the dealer with whom he lived. His boon companions were "ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks, and pugilists." In this company the handsome young artist swaggered, dressed in a green coat, with large yellow buttons, leather breeches, and top boots. "He was in the very extreme of foppish puppeyism", says Hassell; "his head, when ornamented according to his own taste, resembled a snowball, after the model of Tippey Bob, of dramatic memory, to which was attached a short, thick tail, not unlike a painter's brush." His youth and strong constitution enabled him to recover rapidly from his excesses, and he not only employed the intervals in painting, but at this time, or shortly afterwards, taught himself to play the violin. He made also an effort, and a successful one, to free himself from his task-master, and escaped to Margate, where he painted miniatures for a while. In 1785 he paid a short visit to France, whither his fame had preceded him, and where he had no lack of commissions.
Returning to London, he lodged in a house at Kensal Green, on the road to Harrow, near William Ward, intercourse with whose family seems for a time to have had a steadying influence. It resulted in his marriage with Miss Anne Ward...
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1790s English School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Danse Espagnole, Teresa Viera Romero
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This artwork titled "Danse Espagnole" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Teresa Viera Romero, is a watercolor, on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is sig...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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