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Item Ships From: Ohio
Untitled
By Myron Kozman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Screen print, 1941
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
From an unnumbered edition of 6
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 10 x 8 inches
Pr...
Category
1940s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Screen
Basketball Player
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basketball Player
Gouache on card stock, c. 1940
Signed by the artist in ink lower center
A study for the fresco mural in the Social Security Buildin...
Category
1940s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Gouache
Handmade Paper Art For Sale, Abstract Art, Letter Art-On All Counts I
By Addison Jones
Located in Delaware , OH
Handmade Paper Art For Sale, Abstract Art, Letter Art-On All Counts I
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
“On All Counts I” is a piece of letter art that is featured on unique handmade ...
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
King Tut No. 2, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Gouache on Paper
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
King Tut No. 2, 1968
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated upper right
11.25 x 8.25 inches
25.5 x 20.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century fig...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Gouache
"People" - Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Black
White Drawing
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
People, 1964
Ink and crayon on paper
Signed and dated upper right
36.5 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of nation...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Crayon, Ink
Reverberations, mid-century abstract surrealist black acrylic painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Reverberations, 1970
Acrylic on illustration board
Signed lower left
20 x 30 inches
Mid-century abstract surrealist black acrylic painting...
Category
1970s Surrealist Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Guillaume le Conquérant rapporté après sa mort à l
église de Boscherville
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Guillaume le Conquérant rapporté après sa mort à l'église de Boscherville (William the Conqueror brought back after his death to the church at Boscherville)
Lithograph, 1823
As publi...
Category
1820s Romantic Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
First Steps, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School
By William Zorach
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Zorach (American 1891-1966)
First Steps, 1918
Bronze
8.5 x 5 x 4 inches, including base
Born in 1887 in Lithuania, William Zorach immigrated with his family to the United States when he was just four years old, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Zorach displayed an exceptional artistic talent at a young age and, at the recommendation of his seventh-grade teacher, began studying lithography at night at the Cleveland School of Art. It was not long before he was apprenticing at a lithography company in Cleveland. It was there that he realized he wanted to become an artist - to escape the commercial end of the field in which he was suddenly immersed.
In 1907, Zorach saved enough money to move to New York and study art at the National Academy of Design, where he received several awards for his paintings and drawings. He continued his studies in Paris in 1910 at La Palette. This year abroad would turn out to be quite fruitful because in Paris he was greatly influenced by the Cubist and Fauvist movements and had several paintings exhibited at the Salon d'Automme. This influence and subsequent success fueled his career back in the states where he was honored with his first one-man exhibition. Due to this new-found stability, he married a young woman he met at school in Paris, and they moved to New York and set up a studio. Shortly after, their work was accepted into the famous 1913 Armory Show.
For the next nine years, Zorach continued to think of himself as a painter, although he had already begun to experiment in sculpting. He was experiencing modest success with his painting and was therefore reluctant to abandon it completely. However, he was impelled toward sculpting, and in 1922, he painted his last oil.
Zorach's involvement with sculpture began largely be accident. While he was working on a series of wood-block prints, Zorach suddenly became more interested in the butternut panel than the print and turned the panel into a carved relief. With no formal training as a sculptor, Zorach's first sculptures were of wood and his carving tools were primitive, such as a jack-knife. I n fact, his early works have a certain stylized look, suggesting the influence of various primitive arts such as African and American folk.
Zorach found his sculptural direction by instinct, but was not unaware of what other sculptors were doing, both here and abroad. He soon allied himself with a growing number of modern sculptors who believed in the esthetic necessity of carving their own designs directly in the block of stone or wood rather than modeling them in clay. From the beginning he found a deep satisfaction in the slow and patient process of freeing the image from its imprisoning block, watching the forms emerge and appear.
"The actual resistance of tough material is a wonderful guide," Zorach said in a lecture on direct sculpture in 1930. The sculptor "cannot make changes easily, there is no putting back tomorrow what was cut away today. His senses are constantly alert. If something goes wrong there is the struggle to right the rhythm. And slowly the vision grows as the work progresses." Zorach also found that the material itself had a constantly modifying effect on the artist's vision. The grain of the wood, the markings in the stone, the shape of the log or boulder all set limits and suggested possibilities. He was always sensitive to the characteristic qualities of his material and occasionally let them play a major role in determining his forms. In works such as these, the feel of the original material is preserved in the finished piece and is often heightened by leaving parts of the original surface untouched and other areas roughly marked by the sculptors tools...
Category
1910s Ohio - Art
Materials
Bronze
Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Home in the Village, Mt. St. Michel, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on board
Signed lower right
21.75 x 28 inches
30.5 x 36.5 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Plowman, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22.5 x 27.75 inches
27.75 x 34.5 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Reclining Nude Male Figure, figural expressionist New York artist ink drawing
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Reclining Figure, facing right (Nikos)
1971
India ink on paper
Signed and dated middle right
26 x 38.25 inches
In original frame.
Joseph Glasco ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
India Ink
18th Century Italian Carved Neoclassical Semi Nude Female Busts
Located in Beachwood, OH
18th Century Italian Carved Neoclassical Semi Nude Female Busts
Wood affixed to wood plinths
"Leone Della Torra / Italy Country of Origin" labels on b...
Category
18th Century Italian School Ohio - Art
Materials
Wood
The Ermine Scarf
By Albert de Belleroche
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ermine Scarf
Lithograph, 1905
Signed in pencil Belleroche and initialed A.B. lower right
Edition: 30
Reference: Belleroche K447
Albert Belleroche log of llithographs, AB164
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 6 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches
Frame size: 18 3/4 x 17 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Richard Reed...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Circus Lot at Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Circus Lot at Toledo, c. 1920
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
I Know I
m Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
By The Connor Brothers
Located in Woodmere, OH
I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
Category
2010s Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée, Screen
Maybe It
s Not About A Happy Ending by The Connor Brothers
By The Connor Brothers
Located in Woodmere, OH
Maybe It's Not About A Happy Ending by The Connor Brothers
Giclée, Screen Print, Acrylic, Oil and Hand Applied Varnish on Paper
Category
2010s Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée, Screen
In the Wood
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Etching, 1920
Signed in pencil
Edition: 110 examples
Very fine condition
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (stock numbers on reverse)
The artist'w widow, Dorette, 19...
Category
1920s Pre-Raphaelite Ohio - Art
Materials
Etching
Helen of Troy, Early 20th Century Enamel, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edward Winter (American, 1908-1976)
Helen of Troy, 1938
Enamel
Signed and dated lower right
43 x 18 inches
44.5 x 19.5 inches, framed
Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show 19...
Category
1930s Ohio - Art
Materials
Enamel
untitled (study of shadows and brick building)
By Raphael Gleitsman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (study of shadows and brick building)
Silver gelatin print, c. 1960-1965
Signed in pencil lower right on the mount (see photo)
Provenance: Gift of the Artist
...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Zinnia, early 20th century sculpture of nude bust of woman, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966)
Zinnia, c. 1930
Plaster
Signed on base
9 x 8 x 4 inches
Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. Sinz’s fa...
Category
1930s Ohio - Art
Materials
Plaster
Botanical Motifs, Mid-Century Decorative Blue + Green Plate, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kenneth Bates (American, 1904-1994)
Botanical Motifs, 1953
Enamel
Signed and dated on bottom
9 inches
Described in a 1967 issue of Ceramics Monthly as the ‘Dean of American Enameli...
Category
1950s Ohio - Art
Materials
Enamel
Jacobson (20th Century) - Mid-Century Ceramic Portrait Vase
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jacobson (20th Century)
Portrait Vase, 1949
Ceramic
Signed and dated on bottom
13 x 6 x 6 inches
Category
1940s Ohio - Art
Materials
Ceramic
Faces Vase, 20th Century Ceramic Drama Masks, Italian Artist
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in Beachwood, OH
Marcello Fantoni (Italian, 1915-2011)
Faces Vase
Ceramic
Signed on bottom
10.5 x 5.5 x 6 inches
Marcello Fantoni was an Italian sculptor, ceramicist, metalworker, multi-media artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ohio - Art
Materials
Ceramic
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Caged, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Acrylic, Black
Grey
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Caged, 1971
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated lower right
24 x 20 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarenc...
Category
1970s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
At the Stable, Landscape Scene with Horse and Jockey
By Joseph O
Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
At the Stable, 2000
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
29 x 36 inches
Joseph ...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Ecce Homo VII
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ecce Homo VII
Woodcut, 1921
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of only three known impressions
Created while the artist was studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.
Extreme rarity-One of three know impressions
Note: In 1921 Drewes went to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where, after completing the compulsory preliminary course with Johannes Itten, he continued to study with Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer and Georg Muche and initially went to the wall painting workshop. He then traveled extensively through Europe, North America and Asia. After returning to Germany in 1927, he went back to the Bauhaus, this time to his new location in Dessau, where he studied in the classes of László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky. He was one of the first artists to introduce the groundbreaking concepts of the Bauhaus School in the United States through his painting, printmaking, and teaching.
Condition: Excellent
Missing small voids in the upper margin from removal of the original hinges.
Image size: 9 7/8 x 8 3/16 inches
Reference: Rose 30
Provenance: From the estate of Drewes's teacher at the Bauhaus. During the pasot WW2 the professor lived in East Germany.
WERNER DREWES
1899-1985
Werner Drewes initially studied architecture before enrolling, in 1921-22, at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Klee, Kandinsky, Itten and Feininger. For four years - 1923 to 1927 - he travelled the world with his bride, before completing his Bauhaus training in Dessau in 1929. He immigrated to the United States in 1930, documenting that move to New York through series of woodcuts. In 1936/37 he was an active founder of the American Abstract Artists and participated in the Federal Arts Project in New York before moving on to a teaching career at Washington University in St. Louis.
As an artist for over sixty five years, he employed various media from drawing and watercolor, through woodcut and etching, to painting and collage. Translating an early interest in subjective cubistic forms, his work evolved into nonobjective abstraction. He was creative until the day of his death.
Courtesy: Toby C. Moss
Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America.
Early life and education
Drewes was born in 1899 to Georg Drewes, a Lutheran pastor, and Martha Schaefer Drewes. The family lived in the village of Canig within Lower Lusatia, Germany. From age eight to eighteen he attended the Saldria Gymnasium, a boarding school in Brandenburg an der Havel. There, he showed talent both for painting and woodblock printing. Graduating from Saldria in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and served in France from then until the close of the war. About this period of his life he is reported to have said that the horrors of life at the front were only made tolerable by his sketchbook, a copy of Goethe's Faust and a volume of Nietzsche.
For a decade following the close of the war he studied, made paintings and prints, and traveled widely. His friend, Herwarth Walden, helped shape his appreciation for expressionist literature and art. Walden produced the quarterly magazine, Der Sturm and ran a gallery of contemporary art, Galerie Der Sturm, from which, in 1919, Drewes purchased an expressionist painting by William Wauer titled Blutrausch (Bloodlust). In the same year he made the acquaintance of Heinrich Vogeler and participated in Vogeler's socialist utopian artists' commune, Barkenhoff, at Worpswede, Lower Saxony. In 1919 Drewes also enrolled at the Königlich Technischen Hochschule Charlottenburg to study architecture and the following year he studied the same subject at the Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart. Preferring art over architecture, he then enrolled in Stuttgart's school of applied arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) where he studied life drawing and learned to work with colored glass. At this time he joined a group of artists and architects associated with the newly formed Merz Akademie, a college of design, art, and media in Stuttgart.
In 1921 his friendship with a French artist, Sébastien Laurent, led him to begin studies in Weimar at Bauhaus, then a new school which taught an integrated approach to the fine and applied arts. His instructors were Johannes Itten and Lyonel Feininger, whose paintings were expressionist and abstract, and Paul Klee, who taught bookbinding, stained glass, and murals. While at Bauhaus Drewes produced a portfolio of ten woodblock prints entitled "Ecce Homo."
In 1923 and 1924 he studied art during travels throughout Italy, Spain, the United States, and Central America and in 1926 he traveled to San Francisco, Japan, and Korea, thence taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw. He later said the El Grecos he saw proved to be most influential in his work. While traveling, he exhibited: (1) etchings in Madrid (1923) and Montevideo (1924), oils and etchings in Buenos Aires and St. Louis (1925), and (3) etchings in San Francisco (1926). He paid his way by the sales these exhibits produced and by taking commissions to paint portraits. While in San Francisco he set up a shop from which he sold prints he had made in Spain and South America.
After his return to Germany in 1927 he resumed study at Bauhaus, which had been forced to relocate in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. His instructors at that time were László Moholy-Nagy (metal work), Wassily Kandinsky, and (painting), and Lyonel Feininger (prints). At this time he also worked and exhibited in Frankfurt. With the rise of Nazism abstract artists found it increasingly difficult to sell their work and, in 1930, Drewes, finding the political pressure unbearable, emigrated to the United States. There, despite the world economic crisis, Drewes was able to earn a living as a professional artist.
Mature style
After Drewes moved to New York, Kandinsky, who was both friend and mentor, continued to exert a strong influence over his style. Later in life he said he had a hard time getting away from Kandinsky's influence as he developed his own style. In time he was able to bring a more emotional approach to his work and to base it, more than Kandinsky did, on natural forms.
In 1930 Drewes had a solo exhibition at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library and a two-person show at the S.P.R. Penthouse Gallery...
Category
1920s Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Black smith in Charleston, South Carolina)
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Shoeing the Mule, Charleston, South Carolina)
Etching, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 8 x 10 inches
S...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Etching
La Pique (The Pike)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Pique (The Pike)
Lithograph, 1950
Original lithograph drawn with chalk and "frottage textures" transferred to stone, 1950.
Unsigned printer's proof
Inscribed on the verso in Mourl...
Category
1950s French School Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Watercolor of Marrakech Scene, Cleveland School Artist
By John Teyral
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Teyral (American, 1912-1999)
Marrakech, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed, dated and titled upper right
12 x 14 inches
19 x 21.5 inches, framed
John Teyral was one of Cleveland'...
Category
1930s Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
Color lithograph, 1969
Unsigned as issued by XXe Siecle
From: XXe Siecle, Volume, Special Issue Marc Chagall
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. M...
Category
1960s French School Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Rockefeller Center" - Abstract Rock, Mid-Century Acrylic
Sand Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Rockefeller Center, 1962
Acrylic and sand on scintilla
Signed and dated lower left
25 x 20 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a ...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Cliffs near Paramé, France, vibrant seascape
landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs near Paramé, France, c. 1926-7
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
11 x 14.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Crashing Waves on Atlantic Coast, Mid-century Seascape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Crashing Waves on the Atlantic Coast, 1957
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1950s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Hop Skip Jump
By Andrea Myers
Located in Dallas, TX
Machine sewn fabric collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Fabric, Textile
Cicada, Mid-century Figural Surrealist Cleveland School Painting, 1960s
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Medieval Heads, 1966
Acrylic on scintilla
Signed and dated upper right
23.5 x 30 inches
Clarence Holbrook...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Propagation-L, mid century figurative abstract screenprint, 20th century artist
By Takesada Matsutani
Located in Beachwood, OH
Takesada Matsutani (Japanese, b. 1937)
Propagation-L, 1971
Screenprint in colors
Edition 51/75
28 x 27 inches
28.25 x 27.25 inches, framed
Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese avant-ga...
Category
1970s Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Screen
Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 21st Century Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989)
Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 2020
Glazed stoneware and acrylic
Signed and dated on bottom
14 x 12 x 6 inches
Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors.
With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze, Acrylic
Seeing Egg No. 2, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Seeing Egg No. 2, 1965
Acrylic and collage on scintilla
Signed and dated upper right
30 x 22 inches
34 x 29 inches, framed
A surrealis...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
The Happy Couple, Mid Century Surrealist Fantasy Landscape by Ohio artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983)
The Happy Couple
Oil on canvas
Signed middle right, signed and titled verso
22 x 26 inches
Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work exhibits oddly distorted figures in a child-like manner with an underlying sense of absurdity. Through her toylike and primitive style, Spain created surrealistic dramas that puzzle and entrance the viewer.
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mary Spain studied art at Syracuse University and moved to Ohio in the 1960s to teach art at Chagrin Falls...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Young girl with doves and basket of flowers, 19th century French bronze
Located in Beachwood, OH
Isidore Romain Boitel (French, 1812 - 1861)
"Jeune fille aux colombes et à la corbeille de fleurs".
Young girl with doves and basket of flowers
Bronze
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Ohio - Art
Materials
Bronze
Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Over and Above: No. 6, 1963
Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas
Signed and dated upper left
53 x 31 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Shadow From The Sun
By Andrea Myers
Located in Dallas, TX
Machine sewn fabric collage (framed in whitewash pine)
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Fabric, Textile
Mandala No. 15, Abstract Ovoid Geometrical Mid-Century Painting Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Mandala No. 15, 1969
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated verso
27.5 x 22 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national ar...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Early 20th Century Harbor Scene Seascape/Landscape Painting
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky, American (1883-1962)
Harbor Scene
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right
13 x 16.25 canvas
17 x 20 inches framed
Early 20th Century Harbor Scene Seascape/Landscape Pain...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cows by Woodland Pond, Toledo, Ohio, c. 1920
Watercolor and graphite on board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Volcano and Arch, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, Mid Century Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Volcano and Arch, Taormina, 1961
Watercolor on scintilla paper
Signed and dated upper right
11 x 11 inches
"My last year in art schoo...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
29 x 37.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Torso No. 5, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Torso No. 5, 1967
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated upper right
25 x 20 inches
A mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarence Hol...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Palette Too
By Andrea Myers
Located in Dallas, TX
Layered torn paper collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
#45
By Alexandre Hogue
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#45
Ink on paper, 1970
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of a series of drawings, all made in 1970, which stemmed from Hogue's interest in Persian calligraphy. H...
Category
1970s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
India Ink
$2,750
20th century abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES
American, 1927–2013
Untitled, c. 1950
oil on canvas
signed lower left
10 x 7 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
untitled
By Garo Zareh Antreasian
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil lower right; Annotated: Artist's Proof in pencil lower left; printer's chop mark lower right
Edition: 18 impressions and 2 ar...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century, Cleveland
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
13.75 x 20 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Vegetable Still Life No. 7, Contemporary watercolor by Ohio trompe l
oeil artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Mauersberger (American, 20th Century)
Veg 7, 2004
Watercolor on paper
9 x 12 inches
13 x 16 inches, framed
George Mauersberger completed th...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Driftwood
Fish, Mid-20th Century Magical Realism, Surrealist Cleveland Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Driftwood and Fish
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
9.25 x 23.5 inches
14 x 28.25 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explore...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Derriere le Miroir-Double Page (Behind the Looking Glass Double Page)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le Miroir-Double Page (Behind the Looking Glass Double Page)
Original color llithogragp created by the artist for this ublication, 1964
Unsigned as issued
From: Derriere le ...
Category
1960s French School Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pappy (Study for Over and Above: Gorilla), Mid-Century Figurative Drawing
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Pappy (Study for Over and Above: Gorilla), c. 1973
Colored pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower left
7 x 7 inches
20.75 x 19 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1970s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Color Pencil
Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
From: Le Cocu Magnifique
Unsigned as issued in the portfolio
The set of 12 etching & aquatints is signed by Picasso on the justification pa...
Category
1960s French School Ohio - Art
Materials
Etching
Seated Male, Mid-Century Male Nude Figurative Expressionist Drawing on Paper
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Seated Male, 1969
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower right
25 x 19.5 inches
27.5 x 22 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Okl...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
In the Window, Ovoid Shapes Floating Through Windows
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
In the Window, 1973
Acrylic and collage on scintilla
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abs...
Category
1970s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
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