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Island for Umberto 06 - 21st Century, Drawing, Nature, Summer
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Island for Umberto 06, 2014 Pencil on paper ( Signed and dated front lower-right corner, framed) 11.6 H x 16.5 W in. 29.5 H x 42 W cm "Island for Umberto" has the literary source in...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Island for Umberto 11 - 21st Century, Drawing, Island, Summer, Sea, Orange, Blue
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Island for Umberto 11, 2014 Colored pencil on paper ( Signed and dated front left corner, framed) 11.6 H x 16.5 W in. 29.5 H x 42 W cm "Island for Umberto" has the literary source i...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color

?! Apollo Daphne - Contemporary, Love, Myth, 21st Century, Green, Violet, Yellow
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
?! Apollo Daphne, 2017 Acrylic, acrylic marker, collages on cardboard (signed, front right corner) 20 5/64 H x 28 11/32 W in. 51 H × 72 W cm The artist...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Cardboard

Surrealist landscape with animal and figures
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Surrealist landscape with doorway, animal and figures Watercolor on heavy paper, n.d. Unsigned Stamped with the artist's estate stamp (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist R...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

House of Dreams - Blue, Red, Drawing, Figurative, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
House of Dreams, 2013 Ink and colored pencil on paper 16.53 H x 11.69 W in 42 H x 29.7 W cm Signed Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where an...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Color Pencil

NEWRY
Located in Portland, ME
Barr, Wyatt. NEWRY. Drawing, Charcoal and ink wash on Arches 300lb. Hot Press Watercolor paper, 2014. The subject is a hillside next to Step Falls in Newry, Maine. Signed and dated. ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Ink

Cape Ann Harbor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower left: H. Gasser / Demonstration / 1951 Provenance Private collection Painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author, Henry Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Le chemin de Mandy by Lélia Pissarro - Figurative art, Landscape, Tempera, Paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le chemin de Mandy by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Tempera and gold on paper 18.4 x 13.7 cm (7 ¹/₄ x 5 ³/₈ inches) Signed lower left, Lélia Pissarro Signed, titled and dated VI. 23 on th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

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Paper, Tempera

Monhegan Path, Summer
Located in New York, NY
Albert Wein had a retrospective and he was called a classical modernist by art critics. He is primarily regarded as one of America's great sculptors but he loved doing drawings, wat...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Green Landscape, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, circa 1926
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Green Landscape" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted landscape painting. The 17.5" x 23.5" watercolor and ink on paper is signed...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) A master of "Magic Realism," French was ...
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1960s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Watercolor on paper, c,. 1890 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist Image/Sheet size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches From Wikipedia "Francis Augustus Lathrop (June 22, 1849 – Oct...
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1890s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000). UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY) Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From a sketchboo...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Isodomo Grilla. From The No. 1 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
By Rodrigo Spinel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rodrigo Spinel finds in drawing a way to explore the relevance of detail in the construction of images, objects and spaces. The repetition of tiny elements, such as the line in a dra...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Building New York
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Building New York Watercolor on paper, c. 1915 Signed by the artist lower right (see photo) Partial watermark: "MADE IN ENGLAND... LINEN FIBER" Excellent, COLORS FRESH AND VIBRANT Br...
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1910s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #15
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #15. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

[untitled] Street Scene with Fruit Vendor.
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created [untitled] “STREET SCENE WITH FRUIT VENDOR” in circa 1950. This unsigned watercolor and came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. It is stamped on the verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez." This piece is in good to very good condition and painted to the paper's edge. The paper size is 14.88 x 15.25 inches (37.6 x 38.6 cm). “Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

UNTITLED (FARM SCENE)
Located in Portland, ME
Smith, Jules Andre (American, 1880-1959). UNTITLED (FARM SCENE). Watercolor on heavy paper. Not dated. Signed, lower right 13 x 18 inches. In very good condition.
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Italian Cityscape
By Victoria Hutson Huntley
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Italian Cityscape Pastel on Strathmore paper, 1968 Signed and dated lower right with the estate signature with the initials RH Image size: 13 3/4 x 10 inches Condition: Excellent Pro...
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1960s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Twilight s #09 - Witches Sabbath - Black and white print of fir trees
Located in London, GB
A group of moss draped fir trees dance together as if they were a coven of witches weaving incantations... "When your eyes have little information, your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps." - Jasper Goodall...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000).; UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY). Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

July 25, Casco Bay
By Susan Headley van Campen
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
July 25, Casco Bay 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 oil paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

AMERICA S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS)
By Joseph Webster Golinkin
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS). “Beat to the Finish” is a 1967 watercolor by Joseph Webster ...
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1960s Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Staten Island
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island Watercolor on paper, c. 1928 Signed with the Estate stamp lower left Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches Titled on verso Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"La Famille Jean Guillemette à la plage Trouville" French pastel on paper
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper 14 ½ x 20 inches (37 x 51 cm) Framed: 34 ¾ x 40 inches (88 x 102 cm) Signed lower right: H. Claude Pissarro Signed and titled on verso: "La Famille Jean Guillemette a...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Paper

untitled (Hillside in Spring)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Hillside in Spring) Gouache on paper, c. 1965 Signed with the estate stamp lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist by decent William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia. Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
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1960s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Plan of a Part of Newport, R. I. Showing Changes... O. H. P, Belmont, Esq.
Located in New York, NY
PLAN OF A PART OF NEWPORT, R.I. SHOWING CHANGES IN HIGHWAYS ASKED FOR BY O.H.P. BELMONT, ESQ. The original ink and watercolor plan on paper from 1907. The plan is extremely large; if fully assembled it would measure no less than 11.5 feet in height and 6.5 feet in breadth. Segmented and backed on modern linen in four sections – each section is 70 x 39 inches. This grand oversized folding map can be folded down to four sections each 17.5 x 11 inches and stored in a modern made leather and marble paper case 18 x 11.75 x 3 inches. Text continues, "Prepared for Charles Warren Lippitt at the office of J. P. Cotton, C.E. Newport, R.I. Oct. 28, 1907." A fine manuscript plan of the Bellevue neighborhood of Newport, depicting the street layout and the detailed footprints of the area’s many mansions. The plan was produced at the behest of Charles Warren Lippett (1846-1924), who served as governor of Rhode Island from 1895-1897. The Lippett “Breakwater” mansion is also shown on this plan, situated at the southernmost tip of the peninsula. Though the circumstances are unclear, Lippitt seems to have requested the plan be drawn out of some concern for road construction proposed by Oliver Hazard Perry...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic More Art

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Ink, Watercolor

Colon [Panama]
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
Reynolds Beal painted this watercolor entitled “Colon” [Panama] in the spring of 1923. The paper size of this painting is 7 x 10" (17.7 x 25.3 cm). It is signed, titled, and dated ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

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Watercolor, Pencil

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

Night Fishing at Saint Maurice
By Emile Noirot
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Emile Noirot 1893" at lower right overall dimensions, including frame, are 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
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1890s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Country Farmhouse with Dog, Watercolor on Paper, Landscape, Original Art
By Henry Soulen
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Country Farmhouse" is a 9 x 10.5 inches, watercolor on paper painting by American illustrator, Henry James Soulen. The landscape is signed "H J Soulen" in the lower left, it is newl...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Duomo, Florence
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Duomo, Florence Watercolor, 1914 Signed and dated lower center edge (see photo) Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. Condition: Excellent Image size: 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches Frame size: 24 1/4 x 22 inches Donald Shaw MacLaughlan was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada on November 9, 1876. His family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1890 where he began to experiment with different art media; watercolor, oil painting and finally, etching – with a few attempts at lithography. He spent much of his early years at the Boston Public Library studying the work of printmakers, from Durer and Rembrandt to the 18th century English, French and Italian masters. Like many American artists of the time MacLaughlan traveled to Europe to study in Paris, enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied further with Jean Leon Gerome and Jean Paul Laurens. In 1899 he began producing etchings, which became his major interest until his death in 1938. He became acquainted with James NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and other artists who created etchings and spent time studying the etchings of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and other old masters in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Both Rembrandt and Whistler would have major influences on his art. In 1900 he created a set of 25 etched views of Paris and in 1901 exhibited two etchings in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He returned to the U.S. in 1903, then went back to Paris the following year. He traveled extensively in Europe, visiting England, Switzerland, Italy and Spain as well as various locales in France. His etched views of Venice were well-known. MacLaughlan exhibited views of Paris, Rouen, Normandy and Italy in 1906 in a solo show at the American Art Association Galleries in Paris. He also displayed his work in the 1906 exhibitions of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français. MacLaughlan even instructed other expatriate Canadian artists then living in Paris, most notably Clarence...
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1910s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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 steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of the artwork from the e...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Snow scene by Hughes Claude Pissarro, Cantepie, Sous la Neige
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Cantepie, Sous la Neige by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Pastel on card 51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches) S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and ...

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Pastel

Splashes of Ohio City (No. 3)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Splashes of Ohio City (No. 3) Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2012 Signed lower right (see photo) Titled and dated on verso Part of a series of watercolors commissioned by the Cleveland Cl...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Monhegan House, Modernist watercolor, Maine, (Fisherman’s Shack)
By Albert W. Wein
Located in New York, NY
Albert Wein visited Monhegan, Maine and created a modernist series of watercolors depicting the landscape, coast and life on the Island. Richly colored, t...
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20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Breaking Up of the Penelope
By Edward Dobrotka
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942 Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo) Exhibitions: Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso) Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso) "Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring. Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Farmyard in Snow
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Original watercolor by John Whorf; winter scene Signed lower right: John Whorf Framed dimensions: 21 x 27 inches John Whorf was born in Boston in 1903. His father, Harry Whorf, was ...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Campbell Beach, Mentor
By Emma Lane Payne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist in ink lower left. Annotated in pencil lower left: "Campbell Beach, Mentor" Provenance: By descent from the estate of the artist.
Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right Provenance: Estate of the Artist References And Exhibitions: With the artist's own original presentation (frame and matting) Two simil...
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1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

untitled (Lost Ship in a Misty Sea)
By Henry George Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower left
Cobblestone Passage with Flowers, Original Watercolor by Peruvian Artist
By Altino Villasante
Located in Doylestown, PA
The artwork is a 22 x 30 inches, original watercolor painting of a cobblestone passage, adorned by brightly colored, overgrowing flowers. This stunning and charming townscape was painted by Peruvian artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

PORCH - MONHEGAN
By Henry Kallem
Located in Portland, ME
Kallem, Henry. PORCH - MONHEGAN. Ink on paper, not dated. Signed in ink within the matrix, lower right. 16 x 20 inches, the full sheet. In excellent condition.
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Fisherman on the Rocks
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in Philadelphia, he became a nationally recognized cartoonist for his work with the "Evening Bulletin," a Philadelphia newspaper. In 1950, he had his own television show called ...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Figures de Profil by Paulémile Pissarro, 1972 - Pencil on paper
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED Figures de Profil by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Pencil on paper 12.9 x 20 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 7 ⁷/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro- Proven...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

BEACH UMBRELLA, PANAREA
Located in Portland, ME
Crossley, Greg (Canadian/American, born1952). BEACH UMBRELLA, PANAREA. Colored pencils on black paper, 2009. Signed and dated in pencil. 6 3/8 x4 1/2 in...
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Early 2000s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

ISLAND, SEA, AND SKY I, PANAREA
Located in Portland, ME
Crossley, Greg (Canadian/American, born1952). ISLAND, SEA, AND SKY I, PANAREA. Colored pencils on black paper, 2011. Signed and dated in pencil. 5 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches (image) on a lar...
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Early 2000s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

Scène de rivière, près de Lyons-la-Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Scène de rivière, près de Lyons-la-Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Watercolour and crayon on paper 31.5 x 48.3 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 inches) Signed lower left, Paulémile - Pissarro...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor

Paysage de l Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour, Coastal scene
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage de l'Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and pencil on paper 27 x 38 cm (10 ⅝ x 15 inches) Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo Executed circa 1904 This work ...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

A VENEZUELAN STATION and THE FALLS OF "EL NEGRO" CUYUNI RIVER
By Harry Fenn
Located in Portland, ME
Fenn, Harry. A VENEZUELAN STATION and THE FALLS OF "EL NEGRO" CUYUNI RIVER. Ink and wash, 1896. Two drawings, the original artwork for illustrations accompanying "Glimpses of Venzuela," an article by W. Nephew King published in Century Magazine, July, 1896, pp. 358-368. Each about 9 x 11 inches, in very good condition, and framed. King is best known for his writings about the Spanish-American War of 1898. Harry Fenn, 1845-1911, was born in England, but worked in the United States. He was a painter, and printmaker, but is known primarily as a book and magazine illustrator. He illustrated books of poetry for John Greenleaf Whittier, and in 1870 was hired to do illustrations for Picturesque America, which was edited by William Cullen Bryant...
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1890s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic Polymer, Ink

Thomaston Maine, Original Rooftop View Townscape in Watercolor
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Thomaston, Maine" is a 15 x 13.5 inches, watercolor townscape, signed in the lower left, and framed behind glass. Ranulph Bye was born in 1916 in Princet...
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20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

UNTITLED (lake)
By Deborah Cornell
Located in New York, NY
pastel drawing on paper of a lake with trees in brown frame
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

PLUM ISLAND GRASS
By Deborah Cornell
Located in New York, NY
pastel on paper landscape brown wood frame
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

"A View of Nuremberg" 19th century English watercolor on paper
By Thomas Sidney Cooper
Located in New York, NY
Brown, grey and pink washes on beige paper 4 x 3 3/4 inches (10 x 9.5 cm) Signed: In Nuremberg Provenance Commissioned from the artist by Daniel Wadsworth Coit (1787 – 1876), and th...
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Mid-19th Century English School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

La Maison Rose, Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape, watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE La Maison Rose, Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour, ink and ...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

European Pastoral Scene on Vellum. Probably Eighteenth Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unknown (European, probably Eighteenth Century) Shepherds and Peasants in a Landscape Ink, watercolor, and gouache on vellum; 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches Framed: 20 x 28 inches (approx.)
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18th Century Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Vellum

Rocks and Sea
By Robert Swain Gifford
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Alber...
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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