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Original Woodcut Printed Colors of York, Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1888-1964 York, 1920 Original woodcut, printed in colors 14 x 18 inches Signed in pencil
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1920s New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Woodcut

Study for Alyssa II
By Stephen Bauman
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman. "The emotional intensity found in Bauman’s figurative work is astounding. A hallmark of Bauman’s character portraits is that, somehow,...
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2010s Academic New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Archival Paper

Lois Dodd, Landscape painting by renowned female artist (signed and inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd Untitled Landscape, 1990 Colored chalk on grey wove paper Signed, dated and inscribed "For Beverly & Howard", lower right. Original artist's frame included This unique work...
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1990s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite

Latent
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield’s "Latent" reflects her signature approach of transforming landscapes into lyrical, abstracted visions. Drawing from memory, walking, and direct observation, Litchfi...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Keith Haring drawing 1989 (Keith Haring 1989)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring (untitled) 1989 drawing: This original 1980s Keith Haring drawing was executed by the artist on the occasion of Art Cologne Germany 1989. The w...
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1980s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Permanent Marker

"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
By John Frederick Kensett
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872) Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47 Watercolor on wove paper 13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome" From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established. Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West. Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting. Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262) He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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1840s Hudson River School New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

17, Modern Abstract Acrylic on Paper Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
By Yasmin Brandolini d Adda
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: 17 Year: 1986 Medium: 40 x 60 in. (101.6 ...
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1980s Abstract Geometric New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Rainstorm Sunset
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
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American Modern New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Andy Warhol In the Bottom of My Garden (hand colored lithograph)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol In the Bottom of My Garden c. 1956: A double-sided hand-colored lithograph from, Andy Warhol In the Bottom of My Garden (F. & S. IV.104A-105A). Executed by Warhol circa...
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1960s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph

Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection unique signed framed monotype
By Andrea Belag
Located in New York, NY
Andrea Belag Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection, 2003 Watercolor monotype on paper Pencil signed and dated on the front Framed Gorgeous ...
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Early 2000s Abstract New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Monotype, Graphite

Sutherland Project VII: Cubist Abstract Graphite Drawing with Antique Frame
By David Dew Bruner
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract cubist style drawing in an antique wood frame, inspired by artwork by Graham Sutherland “Sutherland Project VII” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made ...
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2010s Abstract New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Sister Corita Kent, "Love You" Unique signed watercolor painting on paper Framed
By Mary Corita (Sister Corita) Kent
Located in New York, NY
Sister Mary Corita Kent Love You, ca. 1975 Original signed watercolor painting on paper Signed in graphite pencil on the recto Floated and framed in white wood frame This is a unique work Measurements: Framed: 5.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" Artwork alone: 4" x 4" Extremely difficult to find unique watercolor works on paper on the market by Sister Corita...
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1970s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Storm Sky Over the Farm
By Amos Sangster
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor by American artist Amos Sangster featuring a dramatic allegorical composition and spectacular hand carved frame.
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1890s American Realist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000) "Streetscape" 14 x 20 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1939 Signed l...
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1930s American Realist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Sailing Ships and the Winds 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 drop...
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2010s New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Porcelain, Ink, Digital

“Reclining Female Nude”
By Byron Browne
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Byron Browne. Signed lower right and dated 1956. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally rematted. Original frame in very good condition. Overall framed measurements are 23.75 by 31.75 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate. Byron Browne: American (1907-1961) Byron Browne was a leader of the American Avante Garde art movement in the 1930’s and 40’s along with Bolotowsky, Greene, Gorky, and de Kooning. These artists helped pave the way for America, New York in particular, to be seen as a center for art innovation after decades of France being the art center of the world. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Browne's early artistic training was conventional, and little about his time at the National Academy of Design (1924-1928) suggested he would depart from the traditional methods in which he was being schooled. Several experiences are identified as being important to his transformation to an abstract artist. In 1927, he and his friend Arshille Gorky visited Albert Gallatin...
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1950s Modern New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

"Homenaje de Camilla Claudel 5, " Conte Crayon and Pencil on Alcantara, 1992
By Roberto Estopiñan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Estopiñan, Cuban (1921 - 2015) Title: Homenaje de Camilla Claudel 5 Year: 1992 Medium: Conte Crayon and Pencil Drawing on Alcantara h...
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1990s Expressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Conté, Handmade Paper, Pencil

Beyond Mind and Matter: Peach Gold Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract painting on paper with gold metallic powders and peach, blue, green and yellow colored enamel paint "Beyond Mind and Matter", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley painter,...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Enamel

Woman in Blue, Modern Framed Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
By Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Woman in Blue Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm) Frame: 27 x 22.5...
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1970s American Realist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Early Roy Lichtenstein drawing (Roy Lichtenstein, St. Macarius Monastery) c.1951
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Roy Lichtenstein, ‘St. Macarius Before His Monastery,’ circa 1951: Included in the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné - this unique, rare early sket...
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1950s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor

NYC Skyline Hand Colored Lithograph
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5186 NYC skyline lithograph
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1960s New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

House and Sky, Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting by Murray Reich
By Murray Reich
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting by contemporary American painter, Murray Reich. Nicely framed. House and Sky by Murray Reich, American (1932–2012) Date: 1980 Acrylic and Collage on Paper, sign...
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1980s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

"Nesting Swan" Contemporary Surrealist, Large scale Watercolor painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
large scale contemporary surrealist watercolor painting depicting a graceful white swan on a green leather armchair, with a stack of books piled high to its side. A silver designer mid-century modern pole...
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2010s Surrealist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Marella Agnelli in Marrakesh
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 New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Christian Dior, Frida Kahlo and Maria Grazia Chiuri in Mexico City - Cruise 2024
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Cowboy 33 3/4 x 36 inches Oil on paper, c. 1930s Signed...
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1930s American Realist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Treesong (Contemporary, Realist Charcoal Landscape Drawing by Sue Bryan)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Treesong (Contemporary, Realist Charcoal Landscape Drawing by Sue Bryan) 18 x 24 x 2 inches Charcoal and acrylic on Primed Arches Paper Mounted on Wood Panel Excellent condition, Ready to hang as is This contemporary charcoal landscape drawing on arches paper was completed in 2021 by Sue Bryan. Born in Ireland, the artist uses landscapes from her childhood as inspiration for her current work primarily consisting of beautifully detailed charcoal drawings of trees and wooded landscapes. The artist captures exquisite detail and luminous light with the mere use of black and white charcoal and carbon pencil. The artist creates this tree through a blend of light and shadow that demonstrates the artist's masterful technique. Dark leaves and winding branches in black charcoal contrast elegantly against a light filled sky. There is sturdy wire installed on the back for easy hanging. Artist Statement: "My work is drawing based. As a native of Ireland, the landscape there has certainly shaped and influenced my own history. Many of my drawings are of places that have a deep personal association for me; an endeavor perhaps to stay connected to my roots. My aim is not only to convey a sense of place and belonging, but also an attempt to capture the ineffable, to evoke a feeling or a memory, to invite the viewer to look beyond and beneath what they see. My process is one of building up tones and textures using a combination of charcoal, carbon and graphite, all of which yield a wonderful range of blacks and grays that vary in density and transparency as much as in tonality. Much of drawing’s appeal to me lies in its very constraint, in its simplification, in the reduction of nature’s macrocosm to the coal-black char of organic matter. For me, the act of drawing is an end in itself." About the work: A native of Ireland, Sue Bryan explores the memories of youth rooted in her homeland's landscape. Employing charcoal on both paper and panel, these moody and misty studies reminds us that the water-locked terrain is not always sunny and green. Exquisite detail found in each tree branch or mass of tall grasses lining the horizon dominates the foreground. Light emulates from the background attempting to penetrate the density of opaque cloud cover. Bryan's small scale drawings convey an intimate and highly personal sense of place and belonging. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 'A Quiet Respite", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2018 'DRAWN',5th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Gallery, OH 2018 'On Paper - An Exhibition of Drawings', Florence Academy of Art, NJ 2018 'MONOCHROME', Bo.Lee Gallery, London 2017 'Arboreal', Manifest Gallery, OH 2017 'Hudson Valley Landscapes', Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2017 'Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, October 2017 'A Long Way from Home', Bo.Lee Gallery, London 2017 187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland 2017 'Palette', Abend Gallery, Denver, CO 2017 'Summer Exhibit', Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York 2017 'Exquisite Abandon : Contemporary Miniature Works', Laguna College of Art & Design 2017 8th Annual Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina Ashville 2017 'Small is Beautiful', Le Salon Vert, Geneva Switzerland 2016 'Smart Dust', Group Show, Sla307, 307 West 30th Street, New York, NY 2016 'Inside Outside', Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2016 7th Annual Drawing Discourse, S Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina Asheville 2016 186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland 2016 DRAWN, 3rd Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Gallery, OH 2016 'Summer Group Invitational', George Billis Gallery, NYC 2015 'Radical Inventions', Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2015 'Strange Paradise', First Street Gallery's National Juried Exhibition, Juror Steven Harvey 2015 185th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland 2015 'DRAWN' 2nd Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Gallery 2015 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, NYC, Juror Robert Berlind 2015 Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, IL, Juror Beth Grabowski 2015 'Interactive Lines' Small Group Invitational, Cabarrus Arts Council, Condor, NC 2014 ‘Regarding the Sublime’, Small Group Invitational, North Park University, IL 2014 27th Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery 2014 184th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland 2014 'DRAWN’ 1st Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Gallery 2014 POP-UP : On and Off the Wall, Series 2, Invited Artist, First Street Gallery, NYC 2014 5th Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Juror Tim Lowly 2013 VISTA [landscape in contemporary art], National Juried Show, Manifest Gallery 2013 Marks, A National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA 2013 American Art Today : Figures, The Bascom, A Center for Visual Art, Juror Jonathan Stuhlman 2013 First Street Gallery's National Juried Exhibition, Juror Donald Kuspit 2013 4th Annual Drawing Discourse, S Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Juror Susan Hauptman 2012 Fort Wayne Museum of Art Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Juror Frank Bernarducci 2012 25th Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Juror Sarah McKenzie 2011 Salmagundi Annual Non-Member Open Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC 2011 33rd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Juror Robert E Marx
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2010s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Original Judy Garland Get Happy Drawing. Legendary Star. Caricature. Not a Litho
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
Original Judy Garland Get Happy Drawing. Legendary Star. Caricature. Not a Litho. Al Hirshfeld (1903-2003) Judy "All Star Variety" Garland at the Palace Ink on board, 1955 Sight: 16...
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1950s Performance New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Maine Seagull, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
By Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine Seagull (38), Year: 1961, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm), Description: Perched on a wooden post, ...
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1960s Impressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

“Model in Hooded Coat”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media fashion illustration by the well known American artist, Maning Obregon. Composed of watercolor, oil pastel and gouache on archival paper. Signed lower right “Ma...
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1970s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard, Gouache

Neoclassical composition of a sculptor kneeling before his statue of the Madonna
Located in Middletown, NY
An allegory of loyalty, with the subject's dog pictured seated, holding his master's chisel in his mouth; fidelity personified. Italian School, 18th century Ink wash in gray and bl...
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Mid-18th Century Italian School New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Laid Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Keith Haring Crawling Baby Drawing c.1983
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Crawling Baby drawing circa 1983: This rare original, early 1980s Keith Haring drawing was executed by the artist on printed material from ...
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1980s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Lithograph, Offset, Ink

6C, Modern Abstract Tempera Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
By Yasmin Brandolini d Adda
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: 6C Year: 1984 Medium: Tempera on Paper, sig...
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1980s Abstract Geometric New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Tempera

"Heavy Bounty" 2025 oil on yupo 38 x 25 in.
By Tess Michalik
Located in New York, NY
Tess Michalik Heavy Bounty, 2025 oil on yupo 38 x 25 in. (mic035)
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2010s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Turbaned man seated, smoking a hookah – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with yellow heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, and the Jaipur State Council Stamp dated June 5 18...
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19th Century Rajput New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gold

Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age. ____ This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
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18th Century Old Masters New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Handmade Paper, Graphite

Pillar of Zen #124, unique signed gouache painting Andre Zarre Gallery, 1959
By Charmion von Wiegand
Located in New York, NY
Charmion von Wiegand Pillar of Zen #124, 1959 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unique Provenance: Andre Zarre Gallery, with label verso (Estate of renowned gallerist Andre Zarre, ne Andre Sowulewski) Measurements: Framed 26.5 inches vertical by 25.5 horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 21 inches vertical by 22 inches horizontal Mid century modern, geometric, spiritual abstraction, mystical The Estate of the celebrated artist Charmion Von Wiegand has been represented exclusively by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery since 1998. From March 3 to August 13, 2023, Charmion Von Wiegand was the subject of an acclaimed retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and she has received major attention in the price, including a June, 2023 ArtNews feature entitled, "Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?". Her work was also featured in a solo presentation by Rosenfeld Gallery at the New York Art Show held at the Park Avenue Armory, which also received critical acclaim. Artists Biography - courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Known for her vibrant, geometric paintings that originate a deeply personal language of spiritual enlightenment expressed through a constructivist mode of abstraction, Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was born in Chicago but spent much of her childhood traveling. The daughter of a journalist for Hearst, von Wiegand eventually settled in New York in 1915 to attend Barnard College and Columbia University, where she took classes at the School of Journalism while nurturing a growing interest in art history. In 1925, von Wiegand realized that she wanted to be an artist and set up a studio in Greenwich Village, teaching herself how to paint while pursuing a career as a journalist. In 1929, she secured a position in Moscow as a foreign correspondent for Hearst, the only woman at the desk at the time. In 1932, von Wiegand returned to New York and married Russian émigré Joseph Freeman, who co-founded and edited the leftist journal New Masses. Von Wiegand began writing art criticism for New Masses as well as for other publications, including New Theatre, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine. When the Abstract American Artists (AAA) held their inaugural exhibition, von Wiegand reviewed it. An early champion of abstract art, von Wiegand became close friends with AAA founder Carl Holty. In 1941, Holty introduced von Wiegand to Piet Mondrian, who would have a profound impact on her art. Fascinated by Mondrian’s artistic philosophy, von Wiegand played a key role in the introduction of his work to American audiences, translating many of the Dutch artist’s writings into English and assisting in the composition of his influential article “Toward the True Vision of Reality” (1941). Through her friendship with Mondrian, von Wiegand re-kindled her interest in Theosophy (a religion established in the late 19th century that combines aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, occultism, and esotericism) and embarked on an extended study of neoplasticism. In her artwork, she incorporated Mondrian’s iconic grid but rejected the constraints of pure neoplasticism and embraced a wide range of influences including surrealism and German expressionism. In 1942, von Wiegand became a member of the AAA, exhibiting regularly with the group and eventually serving as its president from 1951 to 1953. In the late 1940s, sculptor and fellow AAA member Ibram Lassaw gave her a translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, which inspired von Wiegand to immerse herself in a study of Buddhist art. She began incorporating Buddhist motifs such as stupas and mandalas into her paintings, and her spiritual practice steadily intensified throughout the 1950s. In 1953, her husband gifted her a copy of the Taoist I Ching Book of Changes, a guide for divining meaning from randomly derived numbers arranged in a hexagram—a form the artist readily incorporated into her painting. Von Wiegand’s study of Theosophy also intensified over these years, bolstered by her increased access to the religion’s primary sources composed by the religion’s founders and their successors at the New York Theosophical Society’s library. Von Wiegand’s search for the sacred and transcendent ultimately led her to Tibetan Buddhism and, in 1967, von Wiegand met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a Gelugpa monk who had recently arrived in New York, who would mentor her spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism until her death. Her travels in the 1960s and 1970s took her to Tibet and India, where she had an audience with the Dalai Lama, who was living in exile in Dharamsala. Many works from these decades incorporate symbols and schematics drawn from Theosophical prismatic color charts, Chinese astrology and tantric yoga. In 1978, she was the subject of a PBS documentary titled The Circle of Charmion von Wiegand, which was scored by Philip Glass. In 1980, von Wiegand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1982, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach (FL) organized her first retrospective exhibition. She died the following year in New York, bequeathing her estate to Khyongla Rato and the Tibet Center of New York. In 1998, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the sole representative of her estate and has presented her work in four solo and multiple group exhibitions. Recent notable exhibitions that have included her work are The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2009) and Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America (Newark Museum, NJ, 2010). In March 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) opened the first comprehensive museum retrospective of von Wiegand’s work in Europe. Von Wiegand’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Arithmeum, University of Bonn (Germany); Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH); Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN); Fondazione Marguerite Arp (Locarno, Switzerland); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey); Seattle Art Museum (WA); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT). More about gallerist Andre Zarre A tribute in the New Criterion: Dispatch August 11, 2020 Andre Zarre, 1942–2020 by Dana Gordon On the late New York gallery pioneer. Art should never be aggressively explained; art should be felt. —Andre Zarre, 1977 Often, in the starlit New York cultural mecca, a longtime important figure fades away through the penumbra and dies without notice. Such was the fate of Andre Zarre, the contemporary art dealer, who passed away a few weeks ago. Andy, as he wanted friends to call him, opened his eponymous gallery in 1974 just off Madison Avenue on Sixty-ninth Street. He soon moved it to the omphalos of the art world in that era, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, the Fuller Building. Over the years he moved to SoHo and then to Chelsea, as fashion and real estate prices pushed the art souk hither and thither. To understand his importance, all you need do is take a look at a list of artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery. This includes such names, from an early generation, as Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Sari Dienes, and Perle Fine. Among a subsequent generation are Pat Lipsky, Jay Milder, Thornton Willis, and Kes Zapkus.1 And this list does not include the many knowns and unknowns who were in his lively group shows. Zarre had a real “eye” and was a champion of abstract art from the moment he founded his gallery—even among the gathering storms of conceptual and political art, which he eschewed. He showed a good deal of figurative art as well. His galleries were always spacious and unpretentious, oriented simply to show the art. In the words of Dee Shapiro, who showed with the Zarre gallery many times, “He had a photographic memory and knew a lot about art and was always interested in the artist’s life.” Reliable biographical information on Zarre is scarce, but he said of his background that he was born in Poland in 1942 and that his parents were a diplomat and a socialite. He left home for the United States at the age of fifteen. During his decades as an art dealer in New York, Zarre did not appear to accumulate wealth, though he acquired a collection and lived on Park Avenue. “He was not personally aggressive in that way. People had to come to him,” Dee Shapiro said. He was honest in his financial dealings with artists, which not all art dealers are. For a long time while running the gallery he had a second job as a supervisor in an airline office and he kept little to no additional staff in the gallery. He supported a brother who remained in Poland. Among artists, Zarre was known to be quite ornery. After my show at his gallery in 1997, I refused to enter it for seventeen years. Then I ran into him in Chelsea and he offered me another show, an opportunity I gladly accepted, but he remained just as disagreeable. He showed the work of many women, probably more than any other gallery, save those devoted to showing only women. Collectors, curators, and writers found him mostly friendly. As Peter Reginato put it, Zarre was a “strange guy but I liked him. I think he was a dealer who was more interested in the art than in making money, but somehow he lasted forty-plus years.” Zarre is not known to have kept extensive or extant records of his gallery’s long history, though these may emerge in time. Scouring the Internet, one may compile a partial list of more than eighty artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery:Nancy Azara, Ellen Banks, Mary Barnes, Tony Bechara, Juan Bernal, Stephanie Bernheim, Randy Bloom, Elena Borstein, Michael Boyd, Fritz Bultman, Ed Buonagurio, Yoan Capote, Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Cathy Diamond, Sari Dienes, Joseph Dolinsky, Beata Drozd, Ronnie Elliot, William Fares, Perle Fine, Lynne Frehm, Ben Georgia, Mikel Glass, Dana Gordon, Juanita Guccione, Fred Gutzeit, Don Hazlitt, Amy Hill, Clinton Hill, Monroe Hodder, Budd Hopkins, Arlan Huang, Richard Hunt, Rhia Hurt, Buffie Johnson, Alexander Kaletski, Robert Kaupelis...
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1950s Abstract New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Chanel Pastels, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Courante 418.030
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Courante 418.030 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing Courante 418.030 is from Linda Stein's Profiles Notation series--d...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.024
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.024 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.024 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

MB 808 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Paper of Two Male Nudes Models)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing made with graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper 30 x 13 inches, unframed This unique life study drawing of two standing male nudes was made by Mar...
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2010s Modern New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

Orange Envelope, Watercolor and pencil realist still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil

Emil Ganso, (Reclining Nude)
By Emil Ganso
Located in New York, NY
A classic Emil Ganso nude. Quite large, the sheet is 14 1/8 x 21 inches and the image goes all the way across the sheet from left to right. Very delicately drawn - especially for Ganso.
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1930s American Modern New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.022
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.022 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.022 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

The Temple of Concordia, Agrigento - English School drawing, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely grand tour image of the Doric architectural masterpiece dedicated to Castor and Pollux. Dated 1863. Watercolor and graphite on lightweight card stock, 10 x 13 3/4 inches (2...
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Mid-19th Century English School New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Cardboard, Graphite

Untitled Concert Hall painting Mid Century Surrealistic spiritual unique signed
Located in New York, NY
Agatha Wojciechowsky Untitled Concert Hall Abstraction Watercolor, 1964 Watercolor on thick wove paper (with original label from Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery) Signed and dated by the artist on the lower-right front 19 3/4 × 15 inches Unframed Dazzling 1960s, modern abstraction watercolor piece. This work was acquired from the legendary Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) was recognized during her lifetime as a Surrealist. Although not following an art movement, her work reflected the sentiment of Art Informel of the 1950's. She had solo exhibitions from the 1960's to the present in New York, Cologne, Berlin, and Hamburg. Group exhibitions included shows with Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Isamu Noguchi, Francis Picabia, Romare Bearden. Her artwork can be found in numerous public collections including Museum of Modern Art, the Prado, the Menil Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum. Agatha lived her earlier years in Steinach de Saale, and then sailed to the United States in 1923 to be a German-speaking governess in a German baron...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

MB 017 (Figurative Life Drawing of Female Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style life drawing of female nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 017" graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper 30 x 22 inches unframed Signed, lowe...
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2010s Academic New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite

A Rajput prince with a sword, dagger, lotus – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, 12 1/2 x 9 inches (318 x 230 mm). Toning, handling c...
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19th Century Rajput New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gold

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.023
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.023 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.023 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

contemporary figurative color oil charcoal pop art interior surreal
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand painted oil and mixed media artwork on canvas by internet sensation mad charcoal He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC Ships rolled in ...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Oil

Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Original Figurative Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ARTIST— Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima Juan Carlos was born in Havana Cuba June 30th 1986. He Studied at Eduardo Garcia Delgado School of Art. He currently lives and works in Havana. PAI...
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2010s Pop Art New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen

Regal Arrival, Cubist Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper by Anatole Krasnyansky
By Anatole Krasnyansky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anatole Krasnyansky, Ukrainian/American (1930 - ) - Regal Arrival, Year: 2008, Medium: Watercolor and Acrylic on handmade Japansese paper, signed lower left, Size: 27.25 x 20.25 in....
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Early 2000s New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor

Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Français - Impressionist Woodcut by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Francais, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut and Pencil Drawing, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 25/10...
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1910s Impressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite, Woodcut

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.015
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.015 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.015 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series-...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Graphite, Color Pencil

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.014
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.014 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.014 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages ...
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2010s Feminist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Graphite

Prism, Iridescent Abstract Watercolor Linear Art Drawing in blue, turquoise
By Axel Getz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This captivating study by artist Axel Getz, titled "Prism," masterfully translates a dynamic, flowing energy into a captivating linear abstraction that celebrates the full spectrum o...
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2010s Abstract New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Buttercream Acrobats circus performers humorous subject male female dynamic
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this is a soft pastel on red toned heavyweight archival paper , framing under glass recommended for display. full figured women like Botero theme: circus, food, cake, relationships,...
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2010s Expressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) Gwen Verdon in "Redhead" Sight: 14 1/2 x 19 inches Ink on board Signed l...
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1950s Performance New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Fishing Village, Impressionist Watercolor Painting by Ben Avram
By Ben Avram
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ben Avram, Israeli (1937 - ) - Fishing Village, Medium: Watercolor, signed l.l., Size: 12.75 in. x 18 in. (32.39 cm x 45.72 cm), Frame Size: 25 x 30.5 inches
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1970s Impressionist New York - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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