Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
1930's Tremont Temple, Judaica Watercolor, Bronx New York City
By Ben Ganz
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed Judaic synagogue watercolor by Jewish American artist Ben Ganz. He depicts the front gates of the Tremont Temple, Bronx New York from 1939. The art...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketches - Drawing in Pen- Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is a modern artwork realized by Brunello Uloa Serena.
The artwork consist in three sketches realized in pen.
Includes frame
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Paper
Nude - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Design for Modernist Riverside Tearoom architectural drawing Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
Design for Mod...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape- Drawing by Armin Guther - 1970s
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original Watercolour realized by Armin Guther in 1970s.
Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (35x50 cm).
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right ...
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1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
On Ischia
By Hans Franta
Located in Wien, 9
If you compare Hans Franta’s earliest works – from around 1911 to 1920 – with his later work from the years after the Second World War, the fact becomes obvious that you are dealing ...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer - Drawing by Michael Burgess - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer. Graphite - Using a series of sharpened pencils ranging from 6B to 2H. A labor of love.
Michael Burgess: "When I w...
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1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Boucher au Travail - Original Drawing by Pierre Gatier - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boucher au travail is an original drawing in charcoal and watercolor realized by Pierre Gatier in the mid-20th Century.
good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted throu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Temple in the Garden - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Temple in the Garden is an original artwork, pencil, watercolor and charcoal on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period early 20th Century.
It's an evocative...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Hebron, 1969 Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Baruch Nachshon, was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, in the city of Haifa.
Nachshon began to paint in early childhood, and developed his relationship to art and to artists throu...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph, Watercolor
The Tree - Pencil Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Tree is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in pencil and watercolor.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Bright Seascape in Capri, Nautical Cyanotype Triptych, Mediterranean Blue Waves
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Lithograph,...
Laurence Dunn, SS Kentish Coast (c.1925) Merchantman Tramp Steamer
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Marie Franke - Original drawing by Gustave Bourgogne - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Marie Franke is an original drawing realized in the first decades of the 20th Century by the French artist Gustave Bourgogne (Veignè, 1888 - Paris, 1968).
Original pencil on paper. ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Les Mains de ma mère - Original Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mains de ma mère is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Edouard Dufeu in the 1880s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions and aged with some diffused foxing ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original China Ink and Watercolour realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900).
Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Trees - Original China Ink and Pen Drawing by Gustave Pierre- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is an Original China Ink and Pen Drawing realized by Gustave Pierre.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (48.5x32.5 cm).
Gustave René Pierre...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Ink
Pieve di Cadore - Drawing - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Pieve di Cadore - Titian's House is an original modern artwork realized in 1940 by an unknown artist.
Ink drawing on paper.
Hand signed and titled on the lower margin.
Fair condit...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - Tall French Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tall French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper , unframed
size: 18.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and r...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
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1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
Robert Tavener: Lansdown Parade, Cheltenham architectural watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pen
Laurence Dunn, Drawing of Coastal Tramp Eastleigh, Kent (c.1925) T A Soliffe
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Gouache
Cloudy Mountain Landscape - China Ink Drawing attr. E.T. Compton - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cloudy mountain landscape is an original modern artwork attributed to Edward Theodore Compton.
Located and dated on the back of the artwork.
...
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19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Dark Toned Modern Abstract Angular Landscape Drawing of a Small City or Village
Located in Houston, TX
Dark toned modern abstract pastel drawing by Texas-born artist Eugene Massin. The work features a small city or village tucked away behind green foliage. Signed in front lower left c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Bonnie Bill - Tugboat at the Dock in Boston - Seascape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Harbor scene by Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014). The Bonnie Bill is docked along with several other boats. Seagulls circle overhead in a pale sky. The colors in this piece are bold - red boats, rich blue ocean, and dark brown wood on the pier.
Signed and dated "C. Patterson Weist 1955" in the lower right corner (the date is covered by the mat)
Presented in a new white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 20"H x 23"W
Paper size: 14.25"H x 17.75"W
Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014) was an artist known primarily for her watercolor compositions. She won several awards throughout her career, including the jury award for graphics from the Illinois Watercolor Society. Weist was originally from the Boston area and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and then Harvard. After spending time teaching art and as an illustrator, Weist moved to Crete, Illinois and opened her own studio, where she spent the remainder of her professional career.
Education:
1949-50 Lomma, Sweden
1951, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1953, B.F.A. Degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Work:
1953, Commercial Artist, Vincent Edwards Art Agency, Boston, MA
1954-1957, Art Editor and Illustrator, Baby Post Magazine, New York, NY
1960-1964, Painter and Art Teacher, Lynchburg, VA
1965-1971, Book and Magazine Illustrator, Delafield, WI
1972, Studio, Crete, IL
Exhibitions and Memberships:
1971 - Alverno Art Fair, Milwaukee, WI
1971 - Elmwood Plaza Art Fair (Best in Show), Racine WI
1971 - Brookfield Square Winter Art Show (First Place, Watercolors), Waukesha, WI
1973 - Marathon County Historical Museum, Wausau, WI
1982 - Park Forest Art Fair, Park Forest, IL
Member, Wisconsin Watercolor Society
Member, Kettle Moraine...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Girl by Shore - Original Drawing by Edmond Cuisinier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl by Shore is an original drawing in pencil realized in the early 20th Century by Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917).
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions with small cutting....
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Design for Modernist dental surgery mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
Design for Mod...
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ancient Ruins - Watercolor by Abraham Rademaker - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Ruins is an original old master artwork realized by Abraham Rademaker in 18th Century
Wonderful watercolor by the famous 18th-century painter an...
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18th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Windows - Pencil Drawing By Norbert Meyre-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Windows is an original Drawing on paper realized by French painter Norbert Meyre in the mid-20 century.
Drawing in pastel.
Good conditions.
The ar...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Landscape - Rome - China Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape - Rome" is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of 18th Century, in 1700s.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
...
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18th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape - Charcoal and Watercolor By Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original Charcoal and watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Good condition, hand-signed by the artis.
Some sketches of the artist on the back of the paper.
...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Sketches - Original Drawing by Unknown - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by an Unknown artist in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
In the Wood - Original Watercolor by Jean Delpech - Mid-20th Century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
In the Wood is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some ripping and small ...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape - Original Drawing by Edmond Cuisinier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in Pastel realized in the early 20th Century by Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917).
Good conditions except for consumed right-margin.
The artwork is depi...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Castel View on a Lake - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Castel view on a lake is a modern artwork realized in the late 19th by a Dutch Artist.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Includes a gilded frame: 66.5 x 40 x 80 cm
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Late 19th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Vibrant Mexican Watercolor Painting - The Boat Dock
By Armando Sanchez
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful gouache of a boat dock by 20th Century artist Armando Sanchez from charming Mérida, Mexico. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a g...
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2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
View of Bougival - Drawing by G. Bruelle- 1874
Located in Roma, IT
View of Bougival is an original drawing in pencil and ink realize by Gaston Bruelle in 1874.
Good conditions. Hand titled and dated.
The artwork is represented through soft pencil ...
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1870s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Ocean Liner and Sailboats in Holland - Original Gouache & Watercolor painting
Located in Paris, FR
Frank Myer BOGGS (1855-1926)
Ocean Liner and Sailboats in Holland
Original Gouache & Watercolor painting
Signed bottom left
On paper 35 x 53 cm (c. 14 x 20 in) at view
Presented in...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Urban Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card, mounted in a frame
size: 15.5 x 15 inches
condition: very good, the card frame is slightly stain...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Windmill on the Plains, 1940s Watercolor and Ink Mixed Media Modernist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Windmill on the Plains' is watercolor and ink on paper painting by Jenne Magafan. Depicting a large windmill on a 1940s Colorado farm scene with sheds and a fencing in the backgroun...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled III" 2001 is a graphite drawing on paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left by the artist. The artwork size is 13.5 x 16.5 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 22.35 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Sugár Andor "Contorted Trees", original pastel on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Contorted Trees" by noted Hungarian painter Sugár Andor (1903 - 1944) is a pastel on paper created in 1923. The artwork represents a number of trees, bent by the wind in what appear...
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1920s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Classical French Figures in City -1950's French Modernist Cubist Painting signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Figures
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper board, unframed
size: 13 x 9.25 inches
condition: very good and re...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache
Untitled IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled IV" 1993 is a large graphite drawing on two sheets of paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 23.5 x 37.5 inches, framed size is 32.75 x 46.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Night Light
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Night Light" is a watercolor on paper by noted Indian artist OM Prakash Sharma, 1932-2019. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner. The artwork size is 15 x 11 inches, framed size is 22 x 17.85 inches. Framed in a black frame, with black and white matting. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Om Prakash Sharma (born 14 December 1932) is an Indian painter, visual artist, professor, writer and sitarist based in New Delhi, India. He was bestowed with National Award for Painting of Lalit Kala Akademi in 1969, by the President of India. Sharma has won All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society's Annual Art Exhibitions thrice in 1966, 1967 and 1969, and has been awarded with multiple awards at various state exhibitions.
Sharma was born in 1932, in Bawal, Haryana. He attended Meerut College where he graduated in drawing and paintings in 1951. Sharma earned The National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1958 from Delhi Polytechnic with First Class and Distinction. From 1964 to 1966, Sharma attended Columbia University and Art Students League of New York as a Fulbright scholar where he completed his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts and Art History
Om Prakash Sharma's career as an artist spans over six decades. His work as an artist has been centered around New Delhi. Sharma is known primarily as a practitioner of a uniquely Indian visual style. Sharma started his career as an artist in 1956 during annual exhibition at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society in Delhi. His paintings has been exhibited at over 100 solo and group exhibition. His art works has been part of permanent collections at various art galleries and museums including Berlin Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Moscow and Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan. He is regarded as the one of the founders of the Neo-Tantra art...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
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1940s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Landscape - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1960s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape" (1940) is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sheet dimension: 18.5...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - China Ink Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a china ink drawing realized by Albert Decaris in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Village Laundry Laying
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Petit Paysage non Prémédité - Pen Drawing on Cardboard by Paul Conte - 1980s
By Paul Conte
Located in Roma, IT
Petit paysage non premeditè is an original artwork realized by Paul Conte.
Black pen drawing on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right. Titled on the lower left.
Very good con...
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1980s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Mexican House with Porch
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Modernist Watercolour On Paper, Trees At Buckfast Abbey
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 1960s work on paper of a group of trees at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, by Alban Atkins. Signed bottom left, titled and dated to the reverse. There is also a collection or accession number to the backboard.
Atkins has captured the sculptural nature of the tree trunks as they have grown in the landscape giving the work a feeling of living, writhing things as well as an abstract feel in the composition.
Atkins was one of the group of important artists chosen and commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark...
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1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper, Pastel, Ink
The Border - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Border is an original watercolor drawing on paper, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower, illegible.
Good condition.
The artwork...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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