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Style: American Modern
Period: 20th Century
Dancing Animal Critters on a Top Hat, Bear, Frog, Owl, Crane Bird, Bee, Snail
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...
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1980s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
Refer...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cats Watching a Witch on a Broomstick - Vintage Halloween Illustration in Ink
Located in Soquel, CA
Cats Watching a Witch on a Broomstick - Vintage Halloween Illustration in Ink
Halloween scene with cats and a witch in India ink pen by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999). A blac...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, India Ink
Chef Lobster - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Chef Lobster - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a pink lobster behind ...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, India Ink, Pen
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
A two-page spread in India ink pen and watercolor by Irene Pattinson (Ameri...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Pigs on a San Francisco Trolley at Powell Street - Vintage Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Pigs on a San Francisco Trolley - Vintage Illustration
A two-page spread in India ink pen and watercolor by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-199...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Antenna Birds
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1950s
12 1/2 X 9 1/4 in...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...
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1920s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Leaping Marlin (with fisherman on the boat Islander) by John Whorf
By John Whorf
Located in Hudson, NY
John Whorf captures one of the thrilling moments of fishing in this watercolor – when the fish is on the line, but still trying to escape. One of the fastest fish in the world, marlin fishing...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The Bird Lover
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Bird Lover" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower righ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Looking at the Jungle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Looking at the Jungle" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The size is 16.5 x 26.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Charlotte Huntley might have been a renowned graffiti artist – her earliest work consisted of drawing on walls. But fate intervened and she learned to control these urges with a formal education at Scripps College, Chouinard School of Art, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. These early tendencies reemerged not just in painting, but in other artistic ways as well, to the benefit of community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. She spent years as a professional puppeteer and set designer, and developing her own unique watercolor painting style. Charlotte’s use of pointillism. Charlotte Huntley AWS, June Workshop Instructor “Charlotte Huntley has special insights into color and fresh approaches to cliche subject matter. Her work in watercolor is truly unique. Charlotte adapts the Pointillism of Seurat and other post-Impressionists and makes it her own in watercolor. With Pointillism, distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary colors. The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones. Charlotte truly makes the most of this style of painting. Over her illustrious career, Huntley has been awarded a signature membership in 29 watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, Transparent Watercolor Soc. of America, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Watercolor West. Overall, Charlotte has received 45 Awards in National Exhibitions since 2000 – an impressive achievement.
This imaginative Watercolor Artist has had over 575 paintings accepted in National Juried Art Exhibitions in 46 states, also Canada and Puerto Rico, with 113 Awards.
Charlotte has proven to be a popular Juror, knowledgeable Juror, inspiring Workshop Instructor, and an Award-winning Author.The work of Charlotte Huntley is held in collections in the U.S. Canada and Puerto Rico as well as in some European country.
In 2016 Charlotte has been accepted in 14 National Exhibitions with 1 Award: Signature American W/C Society (CA), Rockies West National (CO) , Animals in Art (LA) (Judge’s Award) , Georgia W/C Society , Missouri W/C Society, Society of W/C Artists (TX) , Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN) , Illinois W/C Society, W/C Soc. of Alabama, Rocky Mountain Nat’1 W/C (CO), Alaska W/C Soc., Aqueous USA 2016 (KY), Niagara Frontier W/C Soc . (NY) and Northwest W/C Soc. (WA).
Elite Awards
Sylvan Grouse Guild Award, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
Elite Signature Status , Watercolor Art Society-Houston
Master Signature Member, Western Colorado Watercolor Society
Received over 100 Awards in National Exhibitions:
2014 3K1 Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN), 4lb Place, Soc. of Watercolor Artists (TX) and 5 other Awards.
2013 !st Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Association (TN). Awards Red River W/C Society , West VA W/C Society, Watercolor Wyorning 2012 2nd Place, Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n. (TN). 3’d Place, Cheyenne Artists’ Guild, Awards and 2 others.
2011 lst place Cheyenne Artists Guild, lst place Society of Western Artists, CA 2nd Place Niagara Frontier WS, NY and 6 others.
2010 Best of Watercolor, Arts in Harmony , MN, and First Place, Kentucky W/C Society Aquaventures
2009 Mary Anderson Surnner Award and Gold Medal, Red River Valley, TX
2008 Amy Freeman Award, Texas Watercolor Society, Presidents Award, Arizona Watercolor Association
2007 Founders Award, Watercolor West, CA , Third Place, Red River Valley Museum , TX
2006 AWS Traveling Exhibition
2005 First Place in Painting Division, Girardot, MO
20(A Second Award, Gulf Coast National , TX
2003 Arches Award, Aqueous Open, PA
2002 Best of Show , Visual Arts Center of NW FL, President’s Award, Society of Watercolor Artists , TX
2001 Board Of Directors’ Award, Western Colorado Watercolor Society
2000 Best of Show, Art Wyoming, WY
Books and Magazines
Together with Judi Betts...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pappy (Study for Over and Above: Gorilla), Mid-Century Figurative Drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Pappy (Study for Over and Above: Gorilla), c. 1973
Colored pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower left
7 x 7 inches
20.75 x 19 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Man Riding a Camel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Man Riding a Camel" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blanche Grambs, (Young Bird with Ferns)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. This charming piece places the yooun...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for Mural, Figure on Horseback in Black and White Original Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled graphite on paper drawing by Verona Burkhard (1910-2004) of a figure on horseback. Preliminary sketch for a later completed mural. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 29 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches. Image size is 23 ½ x 16 ¼ inches.
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
Verona Lorriane Burkhard was born on June 8, 1910 to of Henri and Verona P. (Turini) Burkhard, both of whom where artists. She was raised in New Jersey and New York where she studied at the Art Students League under Boardman Robinson and Columbia University under Frank Mechau...
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20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Pinto, 1930s Modernist Line Figure Drawing, Native American on Horse, Black Ink
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1933 drawing, "Pinto" by New Mexico modernist, Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966), black and white line drawing of a Native American Indian figure wearing a feather bonnet headdress on horseback. Ink on vellum, signed lower right. Custom framing is available.
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About the Artist:
Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was raised in Providence, Rhode Island. Hiler took art classes as a child at the Rhode Island School of Design.
When he was older, Hiler studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and William Server’s studio. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Denver, Golden State University, and National College in Ontario, Canada. He continued on to France, studying at the University of Paris in 1919. Hiler lived in Paris from 1919-1934, supporting himself as a jazz musician and a piano player for The Jockey Club.
Hiler moved back to America in 1934, settling in San Francisco. He was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration to paint murals in the Aquatic Park...
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1930s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lily and Bird
Located in New York, NY
Silverpoint and colored pencil on paper, 29 x 23 in.
Signed (at lower right): Joseph Stella
Executed about 1919
EXHIBITED: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 23, 1985–January 4, 1986, American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints, pp. 6, 46 no. 47 illus. // (probably) Richard York Gallery, New York, October 5–November 17, 1990, Joseph Stella: 100 Works on Paper, no. 36
EX COLL.: [Dudensing Galleries, New York]; sale, Christie’s, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 324; [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984]; to private collection, 2006 until the present
An independent-minded artist who adhered to the credo “Rules don’t exist,” Joseph Stella explored a range of styles, media, and themes, willfully ignoring the “barricades erected by ... [the] self-appointed dictators” of the art establishment (Joseph Stella, “On Painting,” Broom 11 [December 1921], pp. 122–23; Joseph Stella, “Discovery of America: Autobiographical Notes,” Art News 59
[November 1960], p. 41). By doing so, he produced a diverse and highly eclectic body of work, ranging from realist figure subjects, pulsating Futurist cityscapes, and modernist religious...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Minou-Study of Head
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minou-Study of Head
Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1984
Signed and dated in pencil by the artist
Minou was Barnet's feline companion throughout many of his most prolific years. It has been said that if you entered Barnet's studio and Minou did not like you Barnet lost interest and dismissed you almost immediately.
Provenance:
Susan Teller Gallery, prior to 2005 (one of Barnet's friends and dealers)
Babcock Galleries, 2005-2008
This drawing is related to a similar composition reproduced in the Richard Boyle catalog for Babcock Galleries.
References:
Boyle, Will Barnet Drawings, related to works reproduced on pp. 21, 41 (see photo of page 41)
Minou is the cat on the back right.
Condition: Excellent
Stray ink and paint consistent with a working studio drawing
Archival framing with DEN Glass (see photo)
Image size: 9 x 11 7/8 inches
Frame size: 17 x 19 inches
Will Barnet
Born May 25, 1911, Beverly, Massachusetts, US
Died November 13, 2012 (aged 101), New York City, US
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.
Biography
Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher...
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1980s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Blanche Grambs, Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, later developed a career in illustration. This drawing, watercolor and ink on trac...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, (Market Woman), El Embassy Room, Hotel Guatemala
Located in New York, NY
This ink drawing by Alfred Bendiner just proves yet again that he just had to keep on drawing and drawing. But clearly the package of the menu cover and pages was worth keeping -- a happy memory...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Young Owl)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Although we use the word 'pencil' fo...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blanche Grambs, Eagle
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Here an eagle, a majestic bird-of-pr...
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1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Seated Cat, " Charcoal Drawing with Stamped Signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Morris Graves, Abandon Nest
Located in New York, NY
This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature.
Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled, Wine Bottle and Bird outside of a Bird Cage in Moody Brown
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated to lower edge 'Paul Rand 11.52'. Collection of the artist - Mounted along upper eduge to matboard, Unframed.
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1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
untitled (Exotic Bird in Fantastic Landscape)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Painting of Exotic Birds in Fantastic Landscape leaning against a wall))
Graphite on paper
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Pr...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Rönnebeck returned to Germany where he served as an officer in the German Imperial Army on the front lines. Twice wounded, including in the Battle of Marne in France, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Iron Cross. During the war Hartley fell in love with Rönnebeck’s cousin, Lieutenant Karl von Freyburg, who was killed in combat. As a tribute to Freyburg, Hartley created Portrait of a German Officer (1914) now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
After the war Rönnebeck traveled in Italy with German writer, Max Sidow, and German poet, Theodor Daubler, doing a series of drawings of Positano and the Amalfi Coast that formed the basis for his lithographs on the subject. The death of his finacée, the young American opera singer Alice Miriam in 1922 and his own family’s increasing financial problems in post-World War I Germany led him to immigrate to the United States in 1923. After living briefly with Miriam’s family in Washington, DC, he moved to New York where he became part of the avant-garde circle around Alfred Stieglitz. His essay, "Through the Eyes of a European Sculptor," appeared in the catalog for the Anderson Gallery exhibition, "Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans: 159 Paintings, Photographs & Things, Recent & Never Publicly Shown, by Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz."
In New York Rönnebeck began producing Precisionist-style lithographs of the city’s urban landscapes which he termed "living cubism." Some of them were reproduced in Vanity Fair magazine. Through Stieglitz he met Erhard Weyhe head of the Weyhe Gallery who, with its director Carl Zigrosser, arranged Rönnebeck’s first solo American exhibition in May 1925 at the gallery in New York. Comprising some sixty works – prints, drawings and sculpture – the show subsequently traveled on a thirteen-month tour of major American cities. Until the end of his life, the gallery represented him, along with other American artists Adolf Dehn, Wanda Gag, Rockwell Kent, J.J. Lankes, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Marsh and John Sloan.
In the summer of 1925, as the guest of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Rönnebeck first saw Taos, New Mexico, which Marsden Hartley had encouraged him to visit. It was there that he met his future wife, Louise Emerson, an easel painter and muralist. A year later they were married in New York before relocating to Denver. He served as director of the Denver Art Museum from 1926 to 1930 where he invited Marsden Hartley to lecture on Cézanne’s art in 1928. Rönnebeck fostered the development of the museum’s collection of American Indian art and the curation of modernist art exhibitions. In addition to his work at the museum, he was professor of sculpture at the University of Denver’s College of Fine and Applied Arts from 1929 to 1935, and wrote a weekly art column in the Rocky Mountain News.
His best known Denver sculptures from the late 1920s in bronze, copper, stone, wood and terra cotta include a reredos, The Epiphany, at St. Martin’s Chapel; The History of Money (six panels) at the Denver National Bank; The Ascension at the Church of Ascension; and the William V. Hodges Family Memorial at Fairmount Cemetery. At the same time he did a series of terra cotta relief panels for La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the 1930s his bas-relief aluminum friezes of stylized Pueblo and Hopi Indian Kachina masks...
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20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
H 22.5 in W 18.5 in D 0.75 in
Bird and Branches
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, later developed a career in illustration. Her botanical illustrations are especially admired.
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"ANGUS AND PUMPJACKS" TEXAS WATERCOLOR MID CENTURY
Located in San Antonio, TX
Michael Frary
(1918 - 2005)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 21.5 x 29.5
Frame Size: 28.5 x 36.5
Medium: Watercolor
1978
"Augus and Pump Jack"
Biography
Michael F...
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1970s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1962 Horse Show
By John Groth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: John Groth – American (1908-1988)
Title: 1962 Horse Show
Year: 1962
Medium: Drawing: sepia ink wash on paper
Sight Size: 12.25 x 18 inches. 31.1 x ...
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1960s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cover for “The Pulse” Magazine, February 1907
By Grant Wood
Located in New York, NY
Grant Wood
(American, 1891 – 1942)
Cover for “The Pulse” Magazine, February 1907
Signed with monogram, GDV,
and graduation year ’10, center right
Pen and ink on paper, laid down
18 ¾ x 12 ⅜ inches (47.6 x 31.4 cm)
Provenance: The artist; from whom acquired by:
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fennell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1898-1985); his estate sale, Leslie Hindman, Chicago, 11 May 1986; where acquired by:
Private Collection, Chicago; by whom consigned to:
Thomas French Fine Arts, Akron, Ohio; from whom acquired in 2006 by:
John C. Fitzpatrick, Iowa City, Iowa, and Eastport, Maine, 2006-2020
Sold for the benefit of the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, Maine
Long before there was American Gothic, before Paul Revere, Daughters of Revolution and Parson Weems’ Fable, before the rhythmic landscapes, witty and frightening character studies, and evocative lithographs of the Midwest, the precocious talent of Grant Wood was already in evidence. Wood was essentially self-taught, but precious little of his earliest works survive. The beginnings of his artistic career are to be found at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. There he and Marvin Cone...
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20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
Seagulls nautical Gulls seascape paintings
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful set of four ca. 1920's painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Watercolor on paper, they are close in scale, the smallest measuring 14 x 20 inches; the...
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1920s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Colorful Pastel Drawing of Parrot
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel drawing of a parrot on paper by Lamar Briggs.
Painting itself: 20.25 in. W x 21.75 in. H
Lamar Briggs (b.1935-2015) was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and attended the Univers...
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1980s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Horse
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original graphite on paper drawing by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1917.
This extremely rare work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been aut...
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1910s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
BLACK-BACKED GULLS
By James Fitzgerald
Located in Portland, ME
Fitzgerald, James Edward (American, 1899-1971). BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Watercolor and ink on paper, 1950s. Unsigned. 22 x 30 1/2 inches. Provenance: estate of the artist to Gleason Fine Art...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Horses in the Rain
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern watercolor by American artist Robert Noel Blair.
This wonderful work is a study for the artist's painting which is a part of the permanent collection of the Met...
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1940s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
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