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Period: 1930s
Untitled gouache and pencil by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Delightful petite abstract work by American abstract artist Vaclav Vytlacil. About this artist: Born in 1892 to Czechoslovakian parents in New York, Vaclav Vytlacil and his parents ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Cardboard, Pencil

Marie Palmer-Smith - 1930s British Art Deco gouache design
Located in London, GB
MARIE PALMER-SMITH (1899-1997) Silver Cloud Bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse Gouache on silver paper Unframed in mount 15 by 22.5 cm., 6 by 8 ¾ in. (mount size 29.5 by 3...
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Art Deco 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
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American Realist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Figure - Czech Art
Located in London, GB
The work is hand signed in ink by the artist "b.ost" in the lower right corner, and hand dated "36" next to the signature. The drawing was created in 1936. Provenance: Collection So...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in t...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Pencil

Mercedes Matter, New York School Abstract Figures
Located in New York, NY
Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001) Untitled, circa 1937 Pastel on paper 16 x 13 1/2 inches Estate stamped on the reverse Provenance: Estate of the artist Spanierman Gallery, New York Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013 Private Collection, New York, 2021 Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann. In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939. The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband. Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work. The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Paper, Pastel

Rowing Sculling Team Regatta, Life Magazine - African American Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first African-American illustrator/ cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. This early work of 1930 was done on assignment for an interior page of Life Magazine. It features two Rowing teams engaged in spirited competition with cheering onlookers. This is a highly stylized black-and-white illustration and is masterfully executed. The work is composed of two illustrations, 6 x 9 inches and 2-3/4 x 2 inches respectively. It is initialed center bottow ESC. unframed Campbell left the University of Chicago and transferred to and received his degree from the Chicago Art Institute.[3] Professional career During a job as a railroad dining-car waiter, Campbell sometimes drew caricatures of the train passengers, and one of those, impressed by Campbell's talent, gave him a job in a St. Louis art studio, Triad Studios. He spent two years at Triad Studios before moving to New York City in 1929. A month afterward, he found work with the small advertising firm, Munig Studios, and began taking classes at the National Academy of Design.During this time, he contributed to various magazines, notably Life, & Judge Following the suggestion of cartoonist Russell Patterson to focus on good girl art, Campbell created his "Harem Girls", a series of watercolor cartoons that attracted attention in the first issue of Esquire, debuting in 1933. Campbell's artwork was in almost every issue of Esquire from 1933 to 1958 and he was the creator of its continuing mascot, the cartoon character in a silk top hat. He also contributed to The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook. His commercial artwork for advertising included illustrations for Barbasol, Springmaid, and Hart Schaffner...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Pencil, Ink, Illustration Board

Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass.. Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch. Career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1] Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5] In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7] After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Mlle. Jeanne at the Window, No. II
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mlle. Jeanne at the Window, No. II Charcoal on paper, 1933 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum, 1988, "Benjamin Benno: A Retrospective Ex...
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Surrealist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Pastel Portrait of Stella Samuel in the style of Charles Sheldon for Photoplay
Located in Pasadena, CA
The pastel portrait of Stella Samuel, very likely a starlet from the thirties, created in the style of Charles Sheldon, emanates timeless elegance. With a delicate interplay of color...
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Art Deco 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Art Deco Couple In Front of Black and White Art Deco Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco Illustrator Charles Perry Weimer creates a powerfully graphic depiction of a 1930s couple in front of a classic Art Deco building with a...
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Art Deco 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a charcoal drawing by Fernand Léger. The drawing is signed lower right, "F.L. 30". The framed piece measures 17 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 7/8 in. A veteran of the battle of Verdu...
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Cubist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Sculpture project by Fausto Melotti, 1936
Located in Milan, IT
Pencil on watermarked paper. Signed lower left. The drawing is accompanied by an authentication on photo from the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 36 015, showing the data of th...
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Contemporary 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Odalisque, Surrealist Charcoal on Paper Drawing by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
A black and white charcoal drawing on paper by cubist and surrealist artist Benjamin Benno.Rather than depicting fruit or flowers on a table like a tra...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm. Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back. Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker. Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921. During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911. Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
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Abstract Geometric 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

1930s American Farm Scene, Landscape Watercolor Painting Farm Buildings Windmill
By Samuel Bolton Colburn
Located in Denver, CO
Original watercolor on paper painting by Samuel Bolton Colburn (1909-1993) of a small farm situated in a valley near the mountains. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions meas...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Late Art Deco Period Cubist Nautical Harbour Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Art Deco Period, Cubist watercolour of a nautical harbour scene painted by Yan Bernard Morel (dit Yan Bernard Dyl ) in 1939. Yan B. Morel, born on June 18th 1887, was a French painter, landscape designer, decorator, illustrator and film maker. Morel was a friend of Robert Delauney...
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Cubist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Carbon Pencil

American Modernist Abstract Mining Scene Watercolor Painting, Red Green Brown
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
1935 American Modernist watercolor on paper by Frank "Pancho" Gates (1904-1998). An abstract scene of a mining town in the mountains, completed in colors of red, green, yellow, and black. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outside dimensions measure 14 ¼ x 17 ¼ inches. Image size measures 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. Painting is clean and in good condition, has had restoration work - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: A Colorado modernist artist and theater set designer, he grew up in Edgewater, Colorado, near the Manhattan Beach Theater and the winter quarters of the Denver Post’s Sells-Floto Circus which he frequented as a youngster. These two places introduced him early on to the theater. Additionally, his father toured the United States in a wire walking act with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Gates began his association with the theater in 1919 when just out of high school. He initially worked with scenic artist, Jack Stein, at the old Tabor Theater in the Tabor Grand Opera House (demolished in 1964) in downtown Denver. Soon after that, he became an assistant scenic artist to George Bradford Ashworth, a famous New York stage set designer, who during the summer designed sets for the Elitch Gardens Theater in northwest Denver. Gates later produced the sets there until 1928. He was offered a scholarship to Colorado A & M College (now Colorado State University) in Fort Collins but declined because of his growing commitment to the theater. He followed his tenure at Elitch’s with positions at the Denham Theater in Denver and the Palm Theater in Pueblo. Upon returning to Denver, he became a free-lance artist for studios producing scenery for stage shows at the city’s Tabor, Denver, Paramount, Alladin, Rivoli, Broadway, Orpheum and Empress Theaters. He moved to California, perfecting his craft at the Pasadena Playhouse, a training school for young actors and actresses pursuing stardom in the movies. Later associated with the Technicolor Corporation, he helped to produce the film used in early color movies such as Becky Sharp (1935) and the Garden of Allah...
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Georgetown (Church in the Mountains, Colorado), Modernist Landscape Ink Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Georgetown, Colorado, vintage 1938 WPA era ink drawing/painting on paper of a church set in a rocky mountain landscape by Charles Bunnell (1897-1968). Black on a creamy white paper, signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 16 ¼ x 14 ½ x 1¼ inches. Image size is 7 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches. Drawing is clean and in good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Charles Ragland Bunnell Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Charles Bunnell developed a love for art as a child in Kansas City, Missouri. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Searching the Car - Desaturated Colors Muted Warm Yellows and Grey
Located in Miami, FL
This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s. Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's. Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Illustration Board

Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century, Sight size is 16 x 12 inches. The drawing is currently at the framers. A photo will be posted asap. A...
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Place de la Bastille - China Ink and Watercolor - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Place de la Bastille is a really joyful original drawing on paper, realized around the first decades of XX century by the French artist Eliane Diverly (1914 - 2012). Titled and date...
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Contemporary 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Pen Drawing - Pen Drawing by Leo Longanesi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Pen Drawing is an original pen drawing realized by Leo Longanesi in 1937. The drawing is in good conditions, no signature. Leo Longanesi, born Leopoldo...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

2 STUDIES FOR REVOLUTION II (Grosvenor School Color Linocut)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (British 1872-1951) STUDIES FOR THE COLOR LINOCUT REVOLUTION II, 1931 Pencil on thin wove paper. Unsigned. Consists of two 3 inch square pencil drawings on one sheet of thin wove paper 10 x 7 3/8 inches. Preliminary studies for Power's Grosvenor School...
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Futurist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal, 1930 Handsigned by the artist in pencil LCD4084
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern
Located in New York, NY
MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern. Signed with a "Ramstonev" stamp lower right. RAMSTONEV Cooperative Art Project (1937-1939). In the l...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper, Watercolor

Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition) Graphite on paper, 1938 Initialed "B" by the artist lower right corner Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison for his "Degenerate Art" Image size: 7 x 6 3/4 inches Housed in raw silk matting in a reproduction Gugenheim style frame with OP3 Acrylic Frame dimensions: 16 x 17 x 1 1/2 inches Condition: Folded in quarters by the artist to hide the drawing from the Gestapo Irregular margins Provenance: Estate of the artist Phillips Auction, New York Borghi Inc. "Back in Berlin, Das Geistreich had become a lonely island of individualism in a menacing sea of Nazism. The Bauhaus had been closed down by the government in 1933, and artists such as Bauer were increasingly ostracized. Many had already fled the country. Rebay wrote Bauer in August 1937 to report that she had visited the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, which featured many artists from their Der Sturm days, including works by Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, and, of course, Bauer. Why Bauer lingered so long in this hostile environment remains a mystery. He was not Jewish, yet his patron was one of the richest Jews in the world. This association would not go unnoticed in Nazi Germany. In July 1937 Bauer traveled to Paris because his work was included in an exhibition called Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, organized by the Musée du Jeu de Paume. In this large survey of the period, his painting was shown alongside the work of Picasso, Georges Braque, Léger, Chagall, and Joan Miró. It is believed that while he was in Paris he received word from friends that it was too dangerous to return to Berlin; yet he ignored the warning. According to the Rebay documentarian Sigrid Faltin, it is likely that his sister, a Nazi zealot who had disowned him, turned him in to the authorities for his art. Bauer was suddenly a prisoner in Berlin. Defiant, he scavenged scraps of paper and pencils while in prison, so that he could continue to draw." Courtesy Weinstein Gallery...
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal, 1930 Handsigned by the artist in pencil LCD4087
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Untitled Senza Titolo, Italian Futurism, Drawing
Located in London, GB
MINO DELLE SITE 1914-1996 [Domenico Delle Site] Lecce 1914-1996 Rome (Italian) Title: Untitled Senza Titolo, 1935 Technique: Signed and Dated Crayon...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Pencil

Foire de Paris 1937 advertising poster design gouache Art Deco Tricolore
Located in London, GB
To see our other Designs including Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Anonymous Foire de Paris...
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Art Deco 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Fishing - Original China Ink Drawing by E. Berman - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The fishing is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized in 1938 by the Surrealist artist Eugène Berman. Monogrammed and dated "E. B." in China ink on the lowe...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Edward McKnight Kauffer design for poster for ‘BP Ethyl for Snappy Engines’ 1934
Located in London, GB
To see our other designs, including architectural designs and our Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or sen...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Fish"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Ramstonev Co-operative Project (1937 - 1939) In the late 1930s, Charles Ramsey became close friends with Charles Evans and ...
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction Pen and ink on paper, 1932 Signed and dated in ink lower center Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches Frame size: 16 1/2 x 12 1/2" Provena...
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Abstract Geometric 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Ink

Transcendental Abstract Pastel Drawing, 1930s Framed Abstract Geometric Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage 1939 transcendentalist painting by early New Mexico artist, Emil Bisttram (1895-1976) with a stylized cross motif in colors of Pink, ...
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Untitled: Clocks 1 (2nd Year in Black)
Located in New York, NY
M Finke, "Untitled: Clocks 1 (2nd Year in Black)", Modern/ Abstract Watercolor Painting signed and dated in Pencil, Early 20th Century, February 13, 1930 Colors: Black, Grey, White ...
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Dancing Motion.
Located in New York, NY
Drawing, 1938. Signed and dated with the artist cypher. Paper size 7 9/16 x 6 1/4" (19.3 x 15.8 cm). Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, wa...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Edmund D. Kinzinger was born in 1888, to an upper-middle class family in Pforzhein, Germany. In Munich he studied at the Kirr Schule and the Staatliche Akademie, and pursued graduate studies at the Academie Modern, Paris. Before serving in the German Army, Kinzinger was a master student of Adolph Holzel at the Staatcliche Akademie, Stuttgart; he returned to study under Henrich Waldschmidt after nearly five years of artillery service. Several of Kinzinger’s fellow students in Germany, such as Johannes Itten, would go on to be associated with the Bauhaus school. Coming into contact with all manner of artistic influences in Europe after World War One, Kinzinger’s work may be viewed as a “synthesis” of modernist styles. The influences of Abstract Expressionist, Cubist, and Futurist styles in Kinzinger’s work at this time are symptomatic of his contact with the likes of Hans Hofmann, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Archipenko. Philip Van Keuren...
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Cubist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Crayon, Paper

The Balcony (Drawing for Plate I, Planches de Salut)
Located in London, GB
LOUIS MARCOUSSIS (1883-1941) (Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus) 1878 or 1883 Łódź, Poland – 1941, Cusset, France (Polish/French) Title: The Balcony (Drawing for Plate I, Plan...
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Cubist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

"Composizione geometrica " Tempera su carta cm. 33 x 35 1930 ca
By Vittorio Osvaldo Tommasini Farfa
Located in Torino, IT
FARFA ,Pseudonimo del pittore e poeta italiano Vittorio Osvaldo Tommasini (Trieste 1881 - Sanremo 1964). Partecipò alla prima mostra futurista di Torino (1919), e fece parte del gru...
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Futurist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

Margaret Macadam, Seagull and Sailing Boat Watercolour Art Deco Design (c.1930)
Located in London, GB
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Abstract 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled (13-J1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (12-P1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (9-Q1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (8-L1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (6-F1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (3)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper

Aenea and Dido - Original Pencil Drawing by Alberto Savinio - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Enea e Didone (per Raffaele Carrieri) is a pencil drawing on paper, realized by Alberto Savinio in 1931, hand-signed and inscribed. Hand signed dedication to the italian writer and poet Raffaele Carrieri. Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Fourteen Ideas for Sculpture - 20th Century, Watercolour on paper by Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, crayon on cream medium weight wove Signed with pen and ink lower left 'Moore/39'
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Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil, Crayon, Ink

1, 000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair
Located in New York, NY
1,000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair. Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981) "1939 World’s Fair Mural Study for the Hall of Medical Sciences...
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Abstract Geometric 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Plaster, Paper, Oil, Gouache

"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
Located in Wellesley, MA
Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the ...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
Located in Wellesley, MA
Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the ...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
Located in Wellesley, MA
Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the ...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

"Untitled Abstraction" Pen and Ink Drawing Black and White Greyscale Geometric
Located in Wellesley, MA
Abraham Walkowitz (1878 -1965) Abraham Walkowitz was a Russian-born American artist who arrived in New York in 1889 and who went to Paris in 1906 where he met the Steins and the ...
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American Modern 1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen

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