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Sweetness Flying, large painting by renowned South African artist, signed framed
Located in New York, NY
Moshekwa Langa
Sweetness Flying, 2000
Original Acrylic, enamel, and India ink painting on paper
Signed and dated 2000 in marker on the back
Unique
Frame included
Provenance:
The Good...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Jamie Nares, Original flower monotype (unique, hand signed) Framed, de-accession
By James Nares
Located in New York, NY
James Nares
Untitled flower monotype, 1988
Monotype on hand made paper
Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front
Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monotype
Girl in Decorative Wrap
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who scholars increasingly recognize as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is known for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and...
Category
20th Century American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Male Nude Recling Seen From Rear by Alex Devlin
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5067 Male nude recling seen from rear by Alex Devlin
Image size 9.5x 13.5"
Category
1980s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
"NY 6.24" 2024 gouache on watercolor paper
By Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser
NY 6.24 , 2024
gouache on watercolor paper
30 x 22.5 in
(mose011)
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Fantasia 418.029
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Fantasia 418.029 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Fantasia 418.029 is from Linda Stein's Profiles Notation series--d...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled - Nude Portrait 1, Modern Watercolor Painting by Madeleine Scellier
By Madeleine Scellier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Madeleine Scellier, French (1918 - ) - Untitled - Nude Portrait 1, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977
Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker
14 × 11 1/4 inches
Boldly signed in black marker on the lower front
Unframed
Uni...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Bee Balm (3)
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass focuses primarily on drawing, using traditional techniques and materials as the foundation for her work -- including silverpoint and 14k goldpoint, homemade organic inks...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Walnut, Ink, Handmade Paper
Nude on Green I, Gouache on Paper by George Zachary Constant
By George Zachary Constant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Zachary Constant, Greek/American (1892 - 1978)
Title: Nude on Green I
Year: 1954
Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed
Size: 11 x 7.5 in. (27.94 x 19.05 cm)
Frame Size: 17 ...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Squares and Strokes (Ultra_22)" 2025, gouache on handmade paper, 28 x 20 in.
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Joanne Freeman
Squares and Strokes (Ultra_22), 2025
gouache on handmade paper
28 x 20 in.
image: 22 x 14 in.
(freem245)
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in archi...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Study of a Franciscan Saint, probably San Diego de Alcalá
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Ivan E. Phillips, Montreal and New York, until 2023.
The brothers Bartolomé Carducho and Vicente Carducho, both born and trained in Florence, settled in Spain where they made their careers. Vicente worked on numerous commissions for both the church and the Spanish court...
Category
17th Century Old Masters New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pen
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.021
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.021 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.021 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled Abstract Expressionist watercolor, pencil signed, Japanese-American art
By Taro Yamamoto
Located in New York, NY
Taro Yamamoto
Untitled Abstract Expressionist watercolor, ca. 1957
Watercolor wash, drips & splatter on rice paper
Pencil signed on the front
12 × 16 inches
Unframed
Mid century mod...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper, Pencil
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
$1,600
Bay with Boats Color Monotype unique signed abstract color field landscape frame
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Bay with Boats, 1987
Color monotype on Somerset white wove paper
Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right front, bears labels on the back
Frame Included: matte...
Category
1980s Color-Field New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Monotype
Dark Green Field, Signed Pastel on Paper by Oliviero Masi
By Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dark Green Field
Oliviero Masi
Italian (1948)
Date: 1980
Pastel on paper, signed lower right
Size: 17.5 x 17.5 in. (44.45 x 44.45 cm)
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Mellow Yellow" 2025
By Marilla Palmer
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer
Mellow Yellow, 2025
watercolor, sequins, pressed petals, Durabrite prints, stitching on Arches cold press paper
30 x 22 in.
(pal254)
Marilla Palmer lives and works i...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Sequins, Watercolor
Crossways
By Lucio Pozzi
Located in New York, NY
Crossways is a watercolor painting by the Italian artist Lucio Pozzi. The paper is signed and titled by the artist himself, and the work is currently housed at Hal Bromm Gallery.
Category
1980s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,500
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.018
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.018 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.018 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.017
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.017 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.017 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite, Color Pencil
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Shades of Red and Blue, Lyrical Expressionist Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1985
Acrylic on paper
24 1/2 x 30 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movement in the...
Category
1980s Color-Field New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shape Shifters, Charcoal drawing of dancing couple, groovy disco festive feeling
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
Shape Shifters
Charcoal on Fabriano paper
37 × 36 inches 94 × 92 cm
Patsy McArthur’s Shape Shifters is a powerful and dynamic charcoal drawing that captures the human figure at the...
Category
2010s Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
"Squares and Strokes (Yellow_22)" 2025, gouache on handmade paper, 28 x 20 in.
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Joanne Freeman
Squares and Strokes (Yellow_22), 2025
gouache on handmade paper
28 x 20 in.
image: 22 x 14 in.
(freem246)
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in arch...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
For Kevin: signed Toucan Drawing in hardback monograph: An Art Rich and Strange
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
Hunt Slonem
For Kevin: signed Toucan Drawing in hardback monograph: An Art Rich and Strange
Signed drawing done in ink on the title page of artist's book
Ink drawing of a Toucan held...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Board, Offset
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...
Category
1930s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Offset
"Untitled" Bob Thompson, Figurative Work on Paper, Black Abstract Artist
By Bob Thompson
Located in New York, NY
Bob Thompson
Untitled, 1964
Felt tip pen on printed paper
11 x 20 1/2 inches
Provenance:
The artist
Kathy Komaroff Goodman (gift from the artist)
Hollis Taggart, New York
Exhibited...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Nile River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Black Moonlight: abstract black white and gray gouache and watercolor portrait
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Moody, expressive large scale black and white abstract interior scene with grey watercolor and gouache, depicting a bust, indian Mugal carpet, floral design...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Board Drawing - Linda Stein, Profile 1192
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile 1192 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Board Drawing
In the 1960s and 1970s, Linda Stein started her Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintings of...
Category
2010s Feminist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Eucalyptus Leaves/Bolinas (exhibited at the Denver Art Museum and U of T Museum)
By Joe Brainard
Located in New York, NY
Joe Brainard
Eucalyptus Leaves/Bolinas, 1971
Collage on thin board (with original labels from Fischbach Gallery, The Denver Art Museum and University...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Multi-Figural Study (Bacchanal)
Located in New York, NY
This James Childs artwork is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
Geometric Abstraction (unique, signed graphite drawing gifted to fellow artist)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1990
Graphite and Ink
Signed in graphite pencil by Peter Halley; lower right front
Frame included: floated and framed in wood frame
U...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
The Mekong River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
White Moon EC 17 - round textural abstract nature inspired 3Dsculpted paper
Located in New York, NY
Anne-Charlotte Saliba's artistic universe is largely inspired by nature, its abyssal dimension as well as its vegetal or mineral forms. Her sculpted artworks are a confrontation of s...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
American Primitive Folk Artist Jane Wooster Scott Original Watercolor
By Jane Wooster Scott
Located in New York, NY
Jane Wooster Scott (American, b. 1920)
Untitled (Cats), 20th century
Watercolor on paper
Sight size: 10 x 14 in.
Framed: 17 x 20 3/4 in.
Signed lower left: Wooster
In the "Guinness Book of Records" as one of the most reproduced artists in America, Jane Wooster Scott began copying work by folk artists such as Grandma Moses and gradually evolved into her own style. A turning point for her career was a joint showing at the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles with her comedian friend, Jonathan Winters. It was mostly a business crowd, and she sold 40 paintings in an hour.
Scott grew up in the Philadelphia area and moved West following her dream to be a movie star. She quickly learned that goal was not for her, but became the host of a talk show where she interviewed movie stars. Then she married and quit that work, becoming a full-time mother.
Currently (2002) she resides in homes in Los Angeles and Sun Valley...
Category
20th Century Folk Art New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Half
Half Again - Original Work on Folded Paper - Abstract Minimalist
By Jean Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Half & Half Again is an original work on folded paper by artist Jean Wolff.
30" x 22'
2013
Signed on back (verso) in pencil with name and date
Optional framing
JEAN WOLFF is a Ne...
Category
2010s Minimalist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Squares and Strokes (Ultra Violet_16) 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Joanne Freeman
Squares and Strokes (Ultra Violet_16), 2025
gouache on handmade paper
28 x 20 in.
image: 16 x 16 in.
(freem239)
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found i...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
"Female Nude" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Elegant Flowing Forms, Sweeping Line
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Female Nude, circa 1935
Pencil on paper
9 15/16 x 13 7/16 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of the artist
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Priva...
Category
1930s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Norman Barr, Fulton St. Fish Market, Crating, mid-century New York City drawing
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Born in Czarist Russia Norman Barr (1908-1994) came to New York as a young boy and except for a few night classes at the school of the National Academy of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India 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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Walled Streets, Impressionist Watercolor Painting by Ben Avram
By Ben Avram
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ben Avram, Israeli (1937 - ) - Walled Streets, Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l., Size: 18.5 in. x 12.5 in. (46.99 cm x 31.75 cm), Frame Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
1970s Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Color Circle and Star, Marker on fabric print Hand signed (ed of only 20) Framed
By Polly Apfelbaum
Located in New York, NY
Polly Apfelbaum
Color Circle and Star, 2004
Fabric Marker and Fabric Dye on Velvet Cotton
Signed and dated in ink by the artist on the front with artist's inkstamp.
Frame Included
Si...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Dye, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lovely Watercolor Panels by Japanese Woman Artist Eiko Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Eiko Taniguchi Kahn (b. 1929)
Untitled, c. 1960s
Watercolor on board
Each panel: 33 x 11 in.
Framed: 45 1/2 x 32 x 1 in.
Each panel signed bottom
These stunning watercolor panels are beautifully mounted in a period frame. The frame needs some minor restoration but this would be a worthy repair, as it matches the artwork so nicely.
Eiko Taniguchi Kahn was Japanese Artist who was born on January 24, 1929 in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, to Tosuke Yamashita and Masano Taniguchi. She came to the United States in 1955, and was naturalized in 1958. She was the recipient of the President's award at the National Arts...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Three Flowers
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of ...
Category
20th Century American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Signed, Watercolor on Paper. Framed Painting - Figurations 359.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Figurations 359.009 - 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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Modernist Handsome Male Portrait Framed Pastel Drawing
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist portrait pastel drawing. Pastel on paper. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a painted wood molding. Excellent condition, ready ...
Category
1940s Impressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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 New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
German Lesson (two separate unique watercolor gouaches, each hand signed) Framed
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Allen
German Lesson, 1981
Two separate mixed media works framed together: watercolor, gouache, ink, wash, laid paper collage (each signed by hand)
Signed twice: each of the s...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Artist and Nude Model - II, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Alfred Bendiner, Johnny Hodges (Johnny Hodges, Bass Fiddle
Traps)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Did Bendiner ever miss a performance, show, concert, play? Was there anyone he didn't know?
This double-side drawing in blue crayon shows Johnny Hodges (jazz saxophonist extraordina...
Category
1950s American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Untitled
By Charles Houghton Howard
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Seascape, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting on Paper by Arnold Hoffmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Arnold Hoffmann, Sr., Russian (1886 - 1966) - Seascape, Year: 1949, Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dateed in pencil lower right, Image Size: 10.25 x 19 inches, Size: 14.25 ...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reflecting
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
Category
2010s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
Fragmented in Blue with Windmills print
By Robert Strati
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
Category
2010s New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), original pencil drawing of Bavaria
By Marsden Hartley
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933
Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label
Sticker label, framed with Zabris...
Category
1930s Modern New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Spoils from Mexico, American Western Art Gouache Painting by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Spoils from Mexico (Apache), Year: 1988, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Frame Size:...
Category
1980s American Realist New York City - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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