All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1920 item #1422512 (stock #JB04414)
A small pencil drawing of several structures on rolling hillsides, drawn in a very impressionist hand, and signed "A C Goodwin" at lower right by one of Boston's most beloved artists, ARTHUR CLIFTON GOODWIN (1864-1929). Written on the backing presumably by another hand and at a later date is the artist's name and "Berkshire Landscape, pencil drawing". The work was acquired in suburban Sudbury, Massachusetts...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1920 item #1425084 (stock #JB04718)
A PAIR of detailed ink drawings, one titled "The Cottage", featuring a tidy home in the English countryside, the other a dated 1911 detailed look at a Gothic church's walls and entrance portal. Affixed to the crumbling old backing is a label for "The Cottage", showing it apparently won the "John J. Burnet Prize" for Alex Nicolson, who was evidently a student in "Club No. 129". So Nicolson was evidently a talented young artist...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1920 item #1438201 (stock #890)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,500.00
"Girl with Hat" attributed to major German Expressionist Max Pechstein. Dated 1917. Framed Ink Drawing. 10 x 7“. Frame Size 23 x 21“ Max Pechstein, (born Dec. 31, 1881, Zwickau, Ger.—died June 29, 1955, Berlin), painter and printmaker, who was a leading member of the group of German Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1920 item #1443815 (stock #1103)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
J. LESSER Battleship 1914 Charlottenburg ink drawing measuring 11x18 2100.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1920 item #1483185 (stock #3559)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
A wonderful landscape drawing in graphite by CARLES, measuring about 4” x 6” on paper, …… Carles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1900 and 1907. He studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, Cecilia Beaux, and William Merritt Chase. In 1907 he traveled to France where he remained until 1910...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1910 item #628183 (stock #5290)
A Charles Dana Gibson THE WEAKER SEX ink sketch study. We are proud to offer this original preliminary ink sketch by the famed American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), the creator of the Gibson Girl. He first came to eminence as the foremost magazine illustrator of his time in the late 19th century, later in life he turned completely to painting. His long and illustrious career takes more room than alloted here to discuss, and is well covered elsewhere on the Internet...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1910 item #1441643 (stock #018)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
Day Lilies in Japanese Vase by H. Badder, June 19, 1910. Framed Gouache 21 x 12", work measures 12“ x 9“
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1910 item #1415914 (stock #JB0946)
This is a drawing in ink, 16 3/4" by 12 1/2" (25 1/2" by 21" in its old stained oak frame), signed at lower right by English-born artist Frederick (Fred) Sommerville Morgan (1865-1932). The name "Fred Morgan" is typically quickly associated with a major British impressionist painter, known for his sentimental genre paintings of little girls and their St. Bernard type dogs, in idyllic landscapes, (which bring to the half million dollar range at major auctions)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1910 item #1445407 (stock #1856)
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$7,500.00
American F. Livingstone Artist Charcoal Portrait of General Pershing 29x24 John Joseph Pershing GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), nicknamed "Black Jack", was a senior United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18. In addition to leading the A.E.F...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1910 item #1422812 (stock #JB04234)
Original 16" by 18" ink on paper drawing of two men in slickers in an overloaded canoe in a rainstorm, their faces reacting to the increasing challenges as they are apparently taking on water, signed at lower right by the noted American illustrator HENRY "HY" SUMNER WATSON (1868-1933). The drawing was evidently produced for eventual publication by Outing Publishing Co., as their violet "PAID" stamp dated April 10, 1907 and "Book Department" appears on the reverse...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1910 item #1422894 (stock #JB04299)
A 19th century European pencil drawing of a classical male figure seated on a drape, holding a staff and a round object, signed with initials at lower right with what appears as "MLB". There is no other hint as to the identity of the artist. The paper has no watermarks. Measurements are 9 1/2" by 7" inside the mat, 14 7/8" by 11 1/4" in inexpensive modern frame behind non glare glass.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1910 item #1440393 (stock #728)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,000.00
Walter Tittle illustration on board signed 21” x 15” The Gibson Girl original pen and ink drawing dedicated by Walter Dana Gibson, circa 1892 Walter Ernest Tittle was born in Sprinfield, Ohio on October 9, 1883. Tittle studied at the New York School of Art and Art Students League under Chase, Henri, and Mora. As well as an artist, he was also a writer who contributed to Century magazine, Scribner's, and Illustrated London News...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1910 item #1481244 (stock #1575)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
was introduced by Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 Gallery and along with John Marin,Arthur Dove and others were the earliest modernist artist in the United States.Biography[edit] Carles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1900 and 1907. He studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, Cecilia Beaux, and William Merritt Chase. In 1907 he traveled to France where he remained until 1910...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1910 item #1419004 (stock #JB0976)
Ink on paper laid on board, 6 1/4" by 4 1/4" (the drawing itself), signed at lower right J.C.F.M. and signed again on reverse of the card "J.C.F...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1910 item #1417258 (stock #JB05280)
A quite old pencil drawing on thin card, 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" inside the mat, 13" by 10 1/4" framed (no glass), apparently by a "Grandmother Stevenson" according to a notation on the reverse side of framing materials. Very faint, at the bottom of the reverse side of the card, in 19th century handwriting, is written: "All that is nature most I love, all the beautiful picture painted by the hand of Him who rests above"/Grandmother Stevenson." This phrase is written again in modern handwriting on th...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1910 item #1417973 (stock #JB01723)
Original very fine, detailed pencil drawing on paper of a seated middle aged gentleman (**NOT A PRINT**!!!!), 17 1/2" by 11" (approximately 25 1/2" by 19" as framed), signed at lower right "K. de Groot", not dated but likely late 19th century. It is hard to believe that this is not a print, the work is so fine and accomplished. Strangely, I can find no artist listing under that name. The work came from the recently broken up estate of an Orange County, California very old Dutch family, from w...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1910 item #1453462 (stock #1647)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
A well done art drawing dated 1904 of a big horn sheep. Measuring 18x22”
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1900 item #1453101 (stock #1569)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,800.00
Robert Henri 1865-1929 As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against American academic art, as reflected by the conservative National Academy of Design. Together with a small team of enthusiastic followers, he pioneered the Ashcan School of American realism, depicting urban life in an uncompromisingly brutalist style. By the time of the Armory Show, America's first large-scale introduction to...