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Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude Charcoal on tan paper Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo) Provenance: Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo) Eric G. Carlson, 1985 Very good...
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19th Century Romantic Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Sphere, Cube, Pyramid by David Nash - Work on paper, Abstraction
By David Nash
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5% Sphere, Cube, Pyramid by David Nash (b. 1945...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pastel

Untitled. Still Life.
By Werner Drewes
Located in New York, NY
This gouache painting by Werner Drewes was created in 1942. Signed with a pen in the lower right. Cypher and date are just under the signature. Painted to the papers edge - the pap...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Bords de Seine, Tosny by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Landscape drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Bords de Seine, Tosny by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Pencil on paper 20.6 x 27 cm (8 ¹/₈ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches) Titled and signed lower right Executed circa 1930s This work is ac...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Snow White
By Peregrine Honig
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snow White pen and ink with watercolor, 1999 Signed with the artist's initials and dated along the bottom edge (see photo) Sheet size: 6 x 6 inches Peregrine Honig (born 1976 in San Francisco, CA) is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism. Honig appeared on season one of Bravo’s artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place. Career Born in San Francisco and raised in The Castro and in Project Artaud, Honig moved to Kansas City, Missouri, at 17 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. At age 22, Honig was the youngest living artist to have work acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Honig’s work is included in private and public collections, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum...
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1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fish Underwater Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 13 x 10 inches. ABOUT THIS WORK Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Birds Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches. ABOUT THIS WORK Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Female Legs Feet)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Female Model (Legs and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 193...
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1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

A Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Female Nude Model (Back)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn, 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Standing Female Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early composite charcoal d...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

untitled (Yellow Adobe Building with Bell)
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Mexican Village) Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1960 Estate Stamp Lower Left Provenance: estate of the Artist Condition: Excelleent Image/Sheet size; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches ...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Haystacks, Eragny by Lucien Pissarro - Landscape, Work on paper
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Haystacks, Eragny by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) Ink and coloured crayon on paper 11 x 19.5 cm (4 ³/₈ x 7 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed with the monogram and dated lower left, Eragny 1921 This...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil

Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right Provenance: Estate of the Artist With the artist's original presentation (Frame and matting) Two similar titles were exhibited in The ...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament" Crayon on paper, c. 1920 Unsigned Condition: three vertical folds created by the artist to transport the drawing from the tennis match ...
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1910s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso) Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940 Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo) Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
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1940s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

Pink Waterlily with Green and Black Background
By Joseph Stella
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Pink Waterlily with Green and Black Background, 1940 Crayon and pencil on paper 10 3/8 x 13 11/16 inches (26.4 x 34.8 cm) Signed and dated at lower right: Joseph Stella / 1940 Josep...
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20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Pencil

Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views Graphite on paper, c. 1890 Unsigned Graphite study of standing female nude verso Provenance: Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati Spanierman Gallery, New York (label) Drawings from the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. A sister drawing from the same sketchbook was sold at Cowman’s Auction, Cincinnati, October 6, 2018. Accompanied by a letter from the Spanierman Gallery, dated 1997, stating that the drawing is from a sketchbook that was held in the Rookwood Factory Collection. Sister drawing provenance: Provenance: Terry DeLapp...
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1890s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

South Spring Wind - Voice of Persephone
By Arthur Bowen Davies
Located in Fairlawn, OH
South Spring Wind - Voice of Persephone Sanguine on paper heightened with white gouache over the entire sheet Signed lower left An important work on paper by the artist with extensiv...
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1920s Ashcan School Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows) Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity. A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house” as artist residing in West Gouldsboro, Maine in a house formerly owned by James Hill. West Gouldsboro is located just east of the Mt. Desert Narrows, across Frenchman Bay from Mt. Desert Island and Arcadia National Park. Please see attached images for detailed information about the artist's life and time in Maine. Greta Allen, who is sometimes listed under her married name Dietz, was born in Boston in 1881. At the Massachusetts Normal Art School she took elementary lessons from Joseph R. DeCamp, then Frank Benson was her teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Although her work seems to be only in private collections today, Allen exhibited at the Boston Art Club, at the Copley Society...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin
By William H. Bailey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Woman, Left Hand to Chin Graphite on laid paper, 1984 Signed and dated in pencil (see photo) Provenance: Donald Morris Gallery, Inc. Birmingham, MI Chern...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Girl in Profile
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl in Profile Lithographic crayon and watercolor on thin wove paper, c. 1930 Signed twice in pencil (see photos) Provenance: Estate of the Artist Edward Somme...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Study for "The Jade Necklace"
By Joseph Stella
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for the painting "The Jade Necklace" Silver point drawing on prepared paper, n.d. Stamp lower right: "J Stella/JML Coll" (see photo) The painting of the same sitter and title, measures 21 3/4 x 18 1/8 inches, formerly handled by Richard York Gallery. (see photo) Provenance: Collection of the artist Mrs. Giovanni Stella, the artist's sister-in-law Josephine M...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Head of a Woman (Margaret)
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Woman (Margaret) conte on wove paper, 1925 Signed and dated lower right Annotated "Margaret" in ink verso A portrait of Margaret Cassidy Manship ( d. 2012), daughter in law...
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1920s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté

Reclining Female Nude Leaning on One Arm
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude Leaning on One Arm Colored chalks on grey Strathmore paper. c. 1975 Signed in pencil upper left: Cadmus (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the Artist ...
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1970s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Academic Nude Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Turn of the century drawing signed E. Rantz on laid paper. Watermark: Lalanne Frame: 29 3/4 x 24 Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

CLE Series: Under and Beyond
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
"Under and Behind" Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and urban neighborhoods surrounding him,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

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Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite

Quicksand (Small) #18
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quicksand (Small) #18 Colored pencil on raw sienna laid rag paper, 1980 Signed and dated by the artist on the image upper right (see photo) Titled and described by the artist verso C...
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1980s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

Composition No. 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition No. 12 Gouache on paper, c. 1926 Signed lower right: “Urban Weis” (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image: 16 5/8 x 10 5/8" Frame: 21 1/2 x 15 5/8" Provenance: Dudensing G...
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1920s Cubist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

59th Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Impressionist Watercolor Cityscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"59th Street Bridge" is a 22" x 30" watercolor on paper cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge and city skyline, painted by Pennsylvania Impressionist and...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Low Humm
By Darren Waterston
Located in San Francisco, CA
Darren Waterston b. 1965 Low Humm, 2024 Watercolor and gouache on rag paper 29 1/4 x 22 inches (74.3 x 55.9 cm) Framed: 36 1/4 x 29 inches From the 2024 exhibition at Berggruen Gall...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture Unsigned Graphite on tracing paper, 1930-1934 Sheet size: 6 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches Created while the artist was woring in Paris, c. 1...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

XII From The Red Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interfe...
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2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil

Seated Nude
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
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1920s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis Philae (verso) Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902 Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902 Note: The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Yellow Sky, Southern Island
By Susan Headley van Campen
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Yellow Sky, Southern Island Watercolor on paper, 4 x 12 inches (10.2 x 30.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 11 x 18 1/2 inches Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE").
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
Cassatt, Mary. WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE"). Drawing, Pencil, circa 1878. 5 x 8 1/2 inches (sheet). With the estate stamp "Mary Cassatt - Collection Mathilde....
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1870s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Standing Nude with Japanese Lanterns
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Nude with Japanese Lanterns Ink drawing on wove paper, mounted on wove paper support, c. 1916 Signed with the estate stamp B Provenance: Estate of the Artist ...
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1910s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory, color theory, and philosophy, a writer of art criticism both in German and English, and, above all, a practicing artist. Bluemner was an intense man, who sought to express and share, through drawing and painting, universal emotional experience. Undergirded by theory, Bluemner chose color and line for his vehicles; but color especially became the focus of his passion. He was neither abstract artist nor realist, but employed the “expressional use of real phenomena” to pursue his ends. (Oscar Bluemner, from unpublished typescript on “Modern Art” for Camera Work, in Bluemner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as cited and quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner [1991], p. 60. The Bluemner papers in the Archives [hereafter abbreviated as AAA] are the primary source for Bluemner scholars. Jeffrey Hayes read them thoroughly and translated key passages for his doctoral dissertation, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory [University of Maryland, 1982; UMI reprint, 1982], which remains the most comprehensive source on Bluemner. In 1991, Hayes published a monographic study of Bluemner digested from his dissertation and, in 2005, contributed a brief essay to the gallery show at Barbara Mathes, op. cit.. The most recent, accessible, and comprehensive view of Bluemner is the richly illustrated, Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhib. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.]) Bluemner was born in the industrial city of Prenzlau, Prussia, the son and grandson of builders and artisans. He followed the family predilection and studied architecture, receiving a traditional and thorough German training. He was a prize-winning student and appeared to be on his way to a successful career when he decided, in 1892, to emigrate to America, drawn perhaps by the prospect of immediate architectural opportunities at the Chicago World’s Fair, but, more importantly, seeking a freedom of expression and an expansiveness that he believed he would find in the New World. The course of Bluemner’s American career proved uneven. He did indeed work as an architect in Chicago, but left there distressed at the formulaic quality of what he was paid to do. Plagued by periods of unemployment, he lived variously in Chicago, New York, and Boston. At one especially low point, he pawned his coat and drafting tools and lived in a Bowery flophouse, selling calendars on the streets of New York and begging for stale bread. In Boston, he almost decided to return home to Germany, but was deterred partly because he could not afford the fare for passage. He changed plans and direction again, heading for Chicago, where he married Lina Schumm, a second-generation German-American from Wisconsin. Their first child, Paul Robert, was born in 1897. In 1899, Bluemner became an American citizen. They moved to New York City where, until 1912, Bluemner worked as an architect and draftsman to support his family, which also included a daughter, Ella Vera, born in 1903. All the while, Oscar Bluemner was attracted to the freer possibilities of art. He spent weekends roaming Manhattan’s rural margins, visiting the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, sketching landscapes in hundreds of small conté crayon drawings. Unlike so many city-based artists, Bluemner did not venture out in search of pristine countryside or unspoiled nature. As he wrote in 1932, in an unsuccessful application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, “I prefer the intimate landscape of our common surroundings, where town and country mingle. For we are in the habit to carry into them our feelings of pain and pleasure, our moods” (as quoted by Joyce E. Brodsky in “Oscar Bluemner in Black and White,” p. 4, in Bulletin 1977, I, no. 5, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut). By 1911, Bluemner had found a powerful muse in a series of old industrial towns, mostly in New Jersey, strung along the route of the Morris Canal. While he educated himself at museums and art galleries, Bluemner entered numerous architectural competitions. In 1903, in partnership with Michael Garven, he designed a new courthouse for Bronx County. Garven, who had ties to Tammany Hall, attempted to exclude Bluemner from financial or artistic credit, but Bluemner promptly sued, and, finally, in 1911, after numerous appeals, won a $7,000 judgment. Barbara Haskell’s recent catalogue reveals more details of Bluemner’s architectural career than have previously been known. Bluemner the architect was also married with a wife and two children. He took what work he could get and had little pride in what he produced, a galling situation for a passionate idealist, and the undoubted explanation for why he later destroyed the bulk of his records for these years. Beginning in 1907, Bluemner maintained a diary, his “Own Principles of Painting,” where he refined his ideas and incorporated insights from his extensive reading in philosophy and criticism both in English and German to create a theoretical basis for his art. Sometime between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner’s life as an artist was transformed by his encounter with the German-educated Alfred Stieglitz, proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue. The two men were kindred Teutonic souls. Bluemner met Stieglitz at about the time that Stieglitz was shifting his serious attention away from photography and toward contemporary art in a modernist idiom. Stieglitz encouraged and presided over Bluemner’s transition from architect to painter. During the same period elements of Bluemner’s study of art began to coalesce into a personal vision. A Van Gogh show in 1908 convinced Bluemner that color could be liberated from the constraints of naturalism. In 1911, Bluemner visited a Cézanne watercolor show at Stieglitz’s gallery and saw, in Cézanne’s formal experiments, a path for uniting Van Gogh’s expressionist use of color with a reality-based but non-objective language of form. A definitive change of course in Bluemner’s professional life came in 1912. Ironically, it was the proceeds from his successful suit to gain credit for his architectural work that enabled Bluemner to commit to painting as a profession. Dividing the judgment money to provide for the adequate support of his wife and two children, he took what remained and financed a trip to Europe. Bluemner traveled across the Continent and England, seeing as much art as possible along the way, and always working at a feverish pace. He took some of his already-completed work with him on his European trip, and arranged his first-ever solo exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, and Elberfeld, Germany. After Bluemner returned from his study trip, he was a painter, and would henceforth return to drafting only as a last-ditch expedient to support his family when his art failed to generate sufficient income. Bluemner became part of the circle of Stieglitz artists at “291,” a group which included Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. He returned to New York in time to show five paintings at the 1913 Armory Show and began, as well, to publish critical and theoretical essays in Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. In its pages he cogently defended the Armory Show against the onslaught of conservative attacks. In 1915, under Stieglitz’s auspices, Bluemner had his first American one-man show at “291.” Bluemner’s work offers an interesting contrast with that of another Stieglitz architect-turned-artist, John Marin, who also had New Jersey connections. The years after 1914 were increasingly uncomfortable. Bluemner remained, all of his life, proud of his German cultural legacy, contributing regularly to German language journals and newspapers in this country. The anti-German sentiment, indeed mania, before and during World War I, made life difficult for the artist and his family. It is impossible to escape the political agenda in Charles Caffin’s critique of Bluemner’s 1915 show. Caffin found in Bluemner’s precise and earnest explorations of form, “drilled, regimented, coerced . . . formations . . . utterly alien to the American idea of democracy” (New York American, reprinted in Camera Work, no. 48 [Oct. 1916], as quoted in Hayes, 1991, p. 71). In 1916, seeking a change of scene, more freedom to paint, and lower expenses, Bluemner moved his family to New Jersey, familiar terrain from his earlier sketching and painting. During the ten years they lived in New Jersey, the Bluemner family moved around the state, usually, but not always, one step ahead of the rent collector. In 1917, Stieglitz closed “291” and did not reestablish a Manhattan gallery until 1925. In the interim, Bluemner developed relationships with other dealers and with patrons. Throughout his career he drew support and encouragement from art cognoscenti who recognized his talent and the high quality of his work. Unfortunately, that did not pay the bills. Chronic shortfalls were aggravated by Bluemner’s inability to sustain supportive relationships. He was a difficult man, eternally bitter at the gap between the ideal and the real. Hard on himself and hard on those around him, he ultimately always found a reason to bite the hand that fed him. Bluemner never achieved financial stability. He left New Jersey in 1926, after the death of his beloved wife, and settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where he continued to paint until his own death in 1938. As late as 1934 and again in 1936, he worked for New Deal art programs designed to support struggling artists. Bluemner held popular taste and mass culture in contempt, and there was certainly no room in his quasi-religious approach to art for accommodation to any perceived commercial advantage. His German background was also problematic, not only for its political disadvantages, but because, in a world where art is understood in terms of national styles, Bluemner was sui generis, and, to this day, lacks a comfortable context. In 1933, Bluemner adopted Florianus (definitively revising his birth names, Friedrich Julius Oskar) as his middle name and incorporated it into his signature, to present “a Latin version of his own surname that he believed reinforced his career-long effort to translate ordinary perceptions into the more timeless and universal languages of art” (Hayes 1982, p. 189 n. 1). In 1939, critic Paul Rosenfeld, a friend and member of the Stieglitz circle, responding to the difficulty in categorizing Bluemner, perceptively located him among “the ranks of the pre-Nazi German moderns” (Hayes 1991, p. 41). Bluemner was powerfully influenced in his career by the intellectual heritage of two towering figures of nineteenth-century German culture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A keen student of color theory, Bluemner gave pride of place to the formulations of Goethe, who equated specific colors with emotional properties. In a November 19, 1915, interview in the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Abendblatt), he stated: I comprehend the visible world . . . abstract the primary-artistic . . . and after these elements of realty are extracted and analyzed, I reconstruct a new free creation that still resembles the original, but also . . . becomes an objectification of the abstract idea of beauty. The first—and most conspicuous mark of this creation is . . . colors which accord with the character of things, the locality . . . [and which] like the colors of Cranach, van der Weyden, or Durer, are of absolute purity, breadth, and luminosity. . . . I proceed from the psychological use of color by the Old Masters . . . [in which] we immediately recognize colors as carriers of “sorrow and joy” in Goethe’s sense, or as signs of human relationship. . . . Upon this color symbolism rests the beauty as well as the expressiveness, of earlier sacred paintings. Above all, I recognize myself as a contributor to the new German theory of light and color, which expands Goethe’s law of color through modern scientific means (as quoted in Hayes 1991, p. 71). Hayes has traced the global extent of Bluemner’s intellectual indebtedness to Hegel (1991, pp. 36–37). More specifically, Bluemner made visual, in his art, the Hegelian world view, in the thesis and antithesis of the straight line and the curve, the red and the green, the vertical and the horizontal, the agitation and the calm. Bluemner respected all of these elements equally, painting and drawing the tension and dynamic of the dialectic and seeking ultimate reconciliation in a final visual synthesis. Bluemner was a keen student of art, past and present, looking, dissecting, and digesting all that he saw. He found precedents for his non-naturalist use of brilliant-hued color not only in the work Van Gogh and Cezanne, but also in Gauguin, the Nabis, and the Symbolists, as well as among his contemporaries, the young Germans of Der Blaue Reiter. Bluemner was accustomed to working to the absolute standard of precision required of the architectural draftsman, who adjusts a design many times until its reality incorporates both practical imperatives and aesthetic intentions. Hayes describes Bluemner’s working method, explaining how the artist produced multiple images playing on the same theme—in sketch form, in charcoal, and in watercolor, leading to the oil works that express the ultimate completion of his process (Hayes, 1982, pp. 156–61, including relevant footnotes). Because of Bluemner’s working method, driven not only by visual considerations but also by theoretical constructs, his watercolor and charcoal studies have a unique integrity. They are not, as is sometimes the case with other artists, rough preparatory sketches. They stand on their own, unfinished only in the sense of not finally achieving Bluemner’s carefully considered purpose. The present charcoal drawing is one of a series of images that take as their starting point the Morris Canal as it passed through Rockaway, New Jersey. The Morris Canal industrial towns that Bluemner chose as the points of departure for his early artistic explorations in oil included Paterson with its silk mills (which recalled the mills in the artist’s childhood home in Elberfeld), the port city of Hoboken, Newark, and, more curiously, a series of iron ore mining and refining towns, in the north central part of the state that pre-dated the Canal, harkening back to the era of the Revolutionary War. The Rockaway theme was among the original group of oil paintings that Bluemner painted in six productive months from July through December 1911 and took with him to Europe in 1912. In his painting journal, Bluemner called this work Morris Canal at Rockaway N.J. (AAA, reel 339, frames 150 and 667, Hayes, 1982, pp. 116–17), and exhibited it at the Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912 as Rockaway N. J. Alter Kanal. After his return, Bluemner scraped down and reworked these canvases. The Rockaway picture survives today, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (color illus. in Haskell, fig. 48, p. 65). For Bluemner, the charcoal expression of his artistic vision was a critical step in composition. It represented his own adaptation of Arthur Wesley’s Dow’s (1857–1922) description of a Japanese...
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Picos Tercio, Esfera transparencia 3 and Cubos Transparencia 3. Drawings
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Untitled (Double sided watercolor) Recto: Figures seated at a table
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper Most probably related to the artist's creation of images surrounding Haggadah (Passover) which he started in 1930 and finished with the publication of his book in...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Elements
By Philip Guston
Located in San Francisco, CA
Philip Guston was born in 1913 in Montreal, Canada. He began painting at the age of 12, and in 1927 he enrolled in the Los Angeles Manual Arts High School , where both he and Jackson...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

Set of 3 Abstract Drawing on paper. From the series Illusions of the Line
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project aims to highlight the potential of the line, which, when repeated, is capable of creating complex images. The patience, focus, and perseverance dedicated to constructing ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, India Ink

Laboratory _ Journal _ Day _ 00200 - Drawing, Floral, Black, White
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Laboratory_Journal_Day 00200, 2022 black ink on white paper 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W cm 70 H x 100 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of micr...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor - IV Gigue
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and titled recto A masterful example of the artist's series of music inspired works of art. Haas had the condition known as synesthesia. Frame: 19 1/2 x 22 3/4" Image: 11 3/...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Body in the Field #2 - Red, Blue, Drawing, Coloured Pencils, Landscape
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #2, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Color Pencil

Chicken Ride
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chicken Ride Pen and ink on paper, c. 1940 Unsigned Annotated by the artist with his color intentions Preliminary study for "Chicken Ride," watercolor, 1940, in the collection of Mr...
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1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Body in the Field #1 - Red, Landscape, Coloured pencil, Drawing
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #1, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Mayall s Object - Green, Abstract Art, Collage, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Mayall's Object, 2022 Collage on paper 22 H x 18.5 W cm Signed on reverse Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe. The new series of collages...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

Body in the Field #9 - Landscape, Orange, Red, Coloured pencil
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #9, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Color Pencil

Después de la Data, Diptych.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An everyday situation, from our memory, from the memory of childhood in a non-place, that is to say, an enigmatic ephemeral place, a space that is delimited and that grows, that mult...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

Body in the Field #11 - Landscape, Coloured Pencil, 21st Century, Red, Blue
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #11, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Color Pencil

Vibrant blue contemporary Islamic calligraphy on paper
By Hassan Massoudy
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hassan Massoudy Untitled ("O friend do not go to the flower garden, the flower garden is within you" - Kabir 16th c.), 2013 Ink and pigment on paper 29½ x 21¾ inches 74.9 x 55.1 cm H...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pigment

Tree - Landscape, White, Black, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Tree, 2022 collage on paper 40 H x 30.5 W cm Signed on right side down Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

Tree II - Landscape, White, Black, Paper, Collage
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Tree II, 2022 collage on paper 40 H x 30.5 W cm Signed on right side down Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

Baggage Claim (Bag 1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baggage Claim (Bag 1) Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020 Signed with the artist's initials Signed with the artist's "Yummy" blindstamp Exhibited: LA Art, 2020 Condition: Excellent Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Capricorn - Red, Collage, Paper, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Capricorn, 2022 collage, colour wax on paper 46 H x 37.5 W cm Signed on right side down Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populate...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Wax Crayon

The Navy of the Future.
By George Horace Davis
Located in New York, NY
Original monochrome gouache illustration for the Illustrated London News. London, May 12, 1956.
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1950s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache

The Scientist - Contemporary Art, Collage, Paper, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Scientist, 2022 collage, spray on paper 50 H x 35 W cm Signed on right side down Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated b...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint

Waves - Collage, Paper, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Waves, 2022 collage on paper 30.5 H x 40 W cm Signed on reverse Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

Jane Forth Jed and Jay Johnson in NY in 1970
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 Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

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