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The Card Player - Contemporary Art, Collage, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Card Player, 2019
collage on paper
11 13/16 H x 15 3/4 W in.
30 H x 40 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of characters composed of different materials – cardboards, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Wander, male nude black conte drawing by Fernando Reyes
By Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Black conte drawing of a male nude, part of ongoing series of drawings of the human form. Featuring a rear view and feet.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A ca 1937 Watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design Artist Eugene Dana
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1937 watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Image size:
19 3/4" x 12 1/2". Matted to 24 1/4" x 18 1/4". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lexington Windows
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Pastel
Jairo- Portrait. Watercolor and ink on archival paper drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Ink
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Valentino hat fall, Watercolor and Ink on Paper fashion illustration
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Green men, Fashion models new york city 2021. Watercolor fashion drawing
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Pen, Watercolor
Pity June 4th. Nude watercolor on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalted the figure and genitality of the Latin American man, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestionable patriarchal and phallocentric order. The majority of those portrayed are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos about corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on numerous occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
A Striking, Vintage Early 1940s Fashion Study, Woman with a Suit, Hat
Purse
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring a stylish young woman elegantly wearing a hat, suit and purse.
Image size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 1...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Duchándome May 28th. Watercolor and ink on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Aparejo #2. Abstract painting on canvas
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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Giclée
Duchándome, May 22nd and Duchándose, May 27th, Watercolor Nudes
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
A ca. 1920s Caricature of Irish Politician Padraic Colum by Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of Irish politician Padraic Colum by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Padraic Colum". Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archivally matted to 12...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (P95.93) White Brown abstract
By Caio Fonseca
Located in New York, NY
From his most desirable period, this restrained in color palette Fonseca is for a collector and room where sophistication is key. Long held that his works on heavy paper are the mos...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Duchándome and Pity June 4th Watercolor Nudes on Paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel, Paper, Ink
A Striking, Dramatic Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Woman
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Dramatic 1950s Mid-Century Modern Figure Study Portrait of Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, studio drawing in charcoal of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study Portrait of Young Woman in Profile by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, studio drawing in charcoa...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Maisons dans l
Allier
By Louis Neillot
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right and dedicated: "a Madame Bertram amicalement"
Madame Bertram is the wife of Abel Bertram (1871-1954), a post-impressionist artist who with his wife were close frie...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paris - Porte Saint Martin by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
Paris - Porte Saint Martin by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and...
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist vertically lower left edge.
Part of an experimental series of works using motor oil, India Ink, adhesives, sand, and various other mediums.
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954)
FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 - THE ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso. THE 1921 UC BERKELEY YEARBOOK CONTAINED SEVERAL LEMOS PASTEL REPRODUCTIONS.
Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture.
He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department,
From Wikipedia:
Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.....
In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled 3. From La materialidad del tiempo (The Materiality of Time) Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
La Materialidad del Tiempo, Juan Carlos Amador grounds his recent work in two essential elements: cellulose and time. Using reclaimed wooden moldings from the 1980s and ’90s-original...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Alaïa Fall Winter, fashion show model 2021
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Azaleas
By Laura Coombs Hills
Located in New York, NY
Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Azaleas is a graceful and subdued composition featuring soft pink, yellow, and green tones. Framed in a custom designed modernist frame 23 karat silve...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
1951 Ink on Paper Figure Study of a Conversation by Artist Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation.
Artwork size: 12" x 9 1/2". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist....
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Ragazzo for Boys, Boys, Pride, Triptych. Watercolor figurative
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper, Ink
Flight, male nude charcoal drawing by Fernando Reyes
By Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Black conte drawing of a male nude, part of ongoing series of drawings of the human form by San Francisco artist Fernando Reyes.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Vidya Maya
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Bob Stuth-Wade (American, Born 1953)
"Vidya Maya," 2006
charcoal and acrylic on paper
55 1/2 x 46 inches
signed "Bob Stuth-Wade" at lower right
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Acrylic, Charcoal, Paper
$16,000
Drawing 3
4 - black
white, minimalist, gestural, abstract, acrylic on paper
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Lynne Fernie prefers working in black and white. She enjoys the pure pleasure of drawing, the first art form she began to work in. Drawing 3 & 4, two panels of jet bla...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Latex, Acrylic, Archival Paper
The Model
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Model
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
signed lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
A few bits of adhesive residue verso
Colors fresh and unfaded
Housed in a Marin style meta...
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Pleiades-Taygete - nude, female, figurative, charcoal and ink on canvas
By Richard Tosczak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Richard Tosczak creates life size paintings and sketches of his models which he then recreates in bronze. This large scale canvas reflects speed, gesture and the effect of capturing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Watercolor
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
By Charles Despiau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right by the artist, see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Note:
Despiau ...
Category
1920s French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
PORTLAND ALLEY
By Oscar Bluemner
Located in Portland, ME
Bluemner, Oscar (American, born Germany, 1867-1938). NIGHT IN PORTLAND MAINE - ALLEY. Charcoal on paper, 1919. Signed with the artist's monogram "OFB" ...
Category
1910s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Taxi Driver, June 13, Figurative Watercolor and ink on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Outgoing Fog (South Bristol, Maine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper, 1976
Painted in South Bristol, Maine
Signed by the artist lower left
Condition: Excellent
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Trois Portraits" drawings from the sketch book of Theophile Steinlen
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
"Trois Portraits"
Original ink drawing, c. 1900
Initialed in ink by artist
Bears artist monogram stamp in black image (with signature cat's tail)
From...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Flower
By Robert Peterson
Located in Dallas, TX
Robert Peterson, "Flower," pastel on paper, 19 x 26 1/4 inches paper size, 27 1/4 x 35 inches including white mat and frame.
The artwork is floated in the mat and only hinged at the...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$3,800
Planting (Spring Plowing) - Watercolor Landscape Painting with Figures, c. 1939
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Planting (Spring Plowing)", a vibrant watercolor and graphite on paper by Thomas Hart Benton, circa 1939-40, embodies the artist's signature Regionalist style. The work depicts a ru...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Set of 5 artworks. 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...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
Calendulas, floral still life in Orange key
By Laura Coombs Hills
Located in New York, NY
Laura Hills is an American treasure in terms of the body of work that she produced in pastel. She is a master of this medium of pastel and she had been a celebrated miniaturist arti...
Category
1920s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
A Cheerful 1950s Textile Design by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful textile design in orange, blue, red and yellow tones depicting an abstract polychrome Wedge Star pattern by set and costume designer Andre ...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
$385 Sale Price
54% Off
"Plumbers" Post Cover, Pencil Study
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pencil Drawing
Signature: Signed & Inscribed Lower Right
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 2, 1951
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A Striking 1940s Cubist Still Life Drawing by Modern Artist Stanley Bielecky
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking 1940s Modern cubist still life drawing by Notable Chicago and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky. Image size: 4 x 5 inches. Archivally matted to 13 1/4 x 16 inches. Estate stamped and numbered 58, lower left.
Stanley Bielecky was an Indiana artist who painted the American Scene, from the industrial factories and workers around East Chicago to the pastoral settings of Mackinac Island...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
The Baroness, Watercolor work on paper.
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Couple Embracing
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Couple Embracing
Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928
Signed lower right: Shinsui (early variant signature)
Most probably an illustration for one of the four volum...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Rainy Day - Near Paris, France
By Bart Forbes
Located in Dallas, TX
"Rainy Day - Near Paris, France" is a watercolor on Canson Aquarelle French cold press watercolor paper. The price does not include a frame. The overall paper size is 6 x 9 inches.
In addition to being one of America’s foremost illustrators, Bart Forbes creates paintings and watercolors for himself. This private and very personal work, is painted from his mind’s eye. Forbes’ oil paintings express a time of day or a mood through his use of color, texture, and composition.
Forbes moved to Dallas in 1967, after completing graduate study at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, following his BFA in art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Forbes was the official artist for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. His public works include the cover of Time Magazine; 19 commemorative stamps for the US Postal Service, including the Ronald Reagan stamp; and official artworks for the Kentucky Derby, Indianapolis 500...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
By Charles Maurin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
Graphite on paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Lucien Goldschmidt (1912-1992), noted art
...
Category
1890s French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Landscape with Cattle
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mytoge Mountain Road, Utah, Summer
By Jane K. Starks
Located in Dallas, TX
Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
A Stunning ca. 1950s Cubist Watercolor of Irises by Rita Duis (Astley-Bell)
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning Modern Cubist watercolor on paper of purple irises by Chicago and New York artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed and inscribed "Duis A.W.S." (American Watercolor Society...
Category
1950s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Study for Tongue Cloud Over London with Thames Ball (framed original drawing)
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This gestural Claes Oldenburg drawing features subdued watercolor hues of green, orange, brown and grey. Pictured is “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 with Oldenburg’s wife Coosje van Bruggen. They imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...
Category
1970s Pop Art Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Brightly Colored 1950s Textile Design by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful 1950s textile design (Black, yellow, blue, pink, red tones) by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective.
Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Verse 1 through Verse 60
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Verse 1 through Verse 60
From: Leyli o Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209CE)
This folio comprises the first 60 verses of the epic Persian poem
“The masnavi of Leyli va Majnun (4,60...
Category
Early 1600s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Graphite on paper, 2005
Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo)
In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled
By Mark Fox
Located in Houston, TX
Mark Fox
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic ink and wax crayon on paper
50 x 38 inches
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paint...
Materials
Wax Crayon, Acrylic
$10,000
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp lower right
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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Al Hirschfeld’s Take on Judy Garland Stands out among His Many Love Letters to Broadway
The revered artist created delightful caricatures of stage and screen performers for more than 75 years. This one is a prime example.
This Tempting Wayne Thiebaud Watercolor Is the Perfect Summer Treat
Although he also produced pensive portraits and idyllic landscapes, the artist’s best-known images are of ice cream, cakes and other colorful sweets.
In This Surreal Painting, the Pink Foot of Patriarchy Squashes a Pumpkin Worshipped by Women
In ‘Gourd,’ Isabel Rock creates a mythic scene that looks fresh and contemporary but feels as old as Eden.
Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.