All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1440644
A vintage drawing in brown and sepia colored pencil, featuring the ruins of the historic old Tumacacori Mission between Tucson and Nogales, Arizona, signed "Marjorie Hardaway", titled and dated 1946. The work is by a talented artist of the day who appears to be not recorded. The mission on the Santa Cruz River was started by the Spanish in the late 1700's and by the early years of the 19th century had already been replaced and enlarged...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1442623 (stock #976)
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 : Charcoal : Pre 1950 item #1419556 (stock #JB02311)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop), this is a fine image in charcoal on paper, 13 3/4" by 16 1/2" as inexpensively framed without mat, signed at lower right by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1950 item #1452702 (stock #1429)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Manfred Schwartz (November 11, 1909 in Łódź, Poland – November 7, 1970 in New York City, United States) was a Polish-born American artist who was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He also studied with Charles Hawthorne, John Sloan, and George Bridgman” …....
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1950 item #1432950
A truly high quality charcoal drawing decidedly in the modernist vein, featuring two female figures, probably nuns, in an intriguing and mysterious landscape, one holding in her hand a Christian cross. The work, measuring 18" by 12 1/2" (25 1/2" by 19 1/2" framed), is signed at lower right "Joseph", which according to a biography in Hughes' Dictionary of California Artists is the typical signature of JOSEPH MARSH SHERIDAN (1897-1971)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1950 item #1415885 (stock #JB0215)
This is a superb charcoal on paper drawing laid to an old board, signed at upper right (look carefully to find it, in the final photo) Ernest W. Scanes. The paper measures 17" by 22". I would date the work to the 1930's or 1940's, judging from the excellent WPA regionalism style. Indeed, this greatly resembles a number of "AAA" (Associated American Artists) lithograph prints of the period...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1950 item #1443543 (stock #1095)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
Elizabeth Fisher Washington “Resting”,Chartres,Fr. 9x10” Pastel on paper 1871-1953 Washington was the great-grandniece of President George Washington and a highly regarded miniaturist and portrait painter. She studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. There she won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1912. Elizabeth also a member of the Plastic Club...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1471289 (stock #1030)
An original vintage charcoal drawing of Christmas Carolers in winter snow by William Gropper. Charcoal on paper signed lower right presented matted and framed. Image size 13 x 17" overall framed size 19 x 25". Biography: William Gropper was a painter and political cartoonist who is best remembered for his striking social commentary. He was born in 1897 on the Lower East Side in New York City to a large, poor immigrant family...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1950 item #1423615 (stock #JB02319)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) this is a sketch in soft pencil on paper, the drawing and frame 11 3/4" by 16 1/2", signed at lower right, and titled there in the artist's hand "On the Ways/Provincetown", by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1950 item #1420129 (stock #JB03038)
Pencil on paper drawing of a young man, in true 1930's American Scene style. The work measures 12 1/4" by 9 1/2" inside the present mat, the full sheet extending under the mat (some of the drawing is hidden by present mat) 14 1/2" by 11 3/8". The work is unsigned. I would imagine that the artist would be someone listed, judging from the quality and sensitivity of the portrait...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1421026 (stock #JB05071)
A fine drawing (10 1/2" by 15 1/4" inside the present mat, 18" by 21 1/2" as framed (no glass) by the well listed Czech artist MAX SVABINSKY (1873-1962), featuring cloud formations and a sliver of land below. The artist signed at lower right and dated the work 1949. The medium appears to be charcoal or soft pencil on paper, with a bit of brown color included. A Svabinsky oil painting sold for over $300,000 at auction in the Czech Republic in 2016...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1950 item #1419663 (stock #JB02316)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop), this is a fine image in soft pencil on paper, the drawing itself 14 1/2" by 15 1/2", in a simple frame without mat, signed at lower right by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Marker : Pre 1960 item #1421132 (stock #JB04427)
A large felt tip marker drawing of a fetching nude woman pictured against a patterned background, 29" by 19 1/2" inside the linen liner, signed at lower right and dated there 1960 by the noted Romanian-born American film director, and talented artist, JEAN NEGULESCO (1900-1993). The line drawing (in the style for which Negulesco is known) has the feeling of Matisse. The drawing was part of the extensive collection of famous West Coast interior designer TONY DUQUETTE (1914-1999), and was sold a...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1960 item #1421832 (stock #JB04623)
Ink drawing "Wooded Road", measuring 11" by 16", unframed, circa 1930's or 1940's, signed at lower right by listed American artist ISOLDE THERESE GILBERT (1907-1986). There are two labels, discovered when the piece was opened up (frame is low quality and worn). One red-bordered label gives the artist name, work's title, and size; another, of The City Library Association, Springfield (MA) Museum of Fine Arts, again provides title/artist name. Gilbert was born in New York City and died in Danbu...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1960 item #1468540
A white ink on tan paper line drawing of a young Polynesian woman, signed at lower left and dated there 1956, by the well-known, important Hawaiian modernist artist MADGE TENNENT (1889-1956). The work measures 12" by 9" and is currently unframed, protected just in a sleeve, the backing bearing a rubber stamp of Juniper Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. Tennent was born in England and led a long and distinguished life in the fine arts. Educated in Cape Town, South Africa where her parents had moved, she...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1960 item #1442203 (stock #188)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
William Zorach (February 28, 1889 – November 15, 1966)[1] was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer. He won the Logan Medal of the arts. He is notable for being at the forefront of American Artists embracing cubism, as well as for his sculpture. He is the husband of Marguerite Thompson Zorach and father of Dahlov Ipcar, both artists in their own right. Zorach Gorfinkel was born in 1889 into a Lithuanian Jewish family, the son of a barge owner,[2] in Jurbarkas (Russian: Eu...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1960 item #1423532 (stock #JB03756)
PAIR of drawings, one in pencil, consisting of two sketches of apparently the same figure, from varying angles (11 1/2" by 8 1/4"), the other in red chalk, of a nude model (15 1/2" by 11 3/4"). Both are signed by noted California artist BEN CARRE (1883-1978) and are identically framed (23 1/2" by 19 1/2"). Carre was born in Paris and was an early set painter for the Paris Opera, Comedie Francaise, and Covent Garden. He became an early art director for the Gaumont Film Studios, painting trompl...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1960 item #1453500 (stock #1654)
Nude Study In Charcoal By G.Seitz Dated 1953 24x16” The work is done by an American artist who worked from life studies in the studio