Vintage Texas Landscape Cattle Painting sgnd Butler

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1970: item #780640
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From an Estate a great mid century Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Painting of Hereford Cattle in what appears to be either West Texas, parts of Central Texas or South Texas. A Barbed wire fence and scrub brush separates the foreground from the Cattle,on the fence sit two Crows, in the background is the clear blue sky of a hot day above the Hills. A painting which accurately catches the essence of a small group of Cattle on a hot Texas day in the shade of scrub brush, If you are a Rancher or ... Click for details

JULIUS BLOCH (1888-1966) WATERCOLOR/BLACK AMERICANA

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1940: item #780133
JBloch

Julius Bloch, one of the prominent Jewish artists of Philadelphia, was a social realist painter whose subjects focused on the working classes. His admiration for Thomas Eakins, also a social realist, likely contributed to his interest in these subjects. For many years, he was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his message to students was that one needed to know life in order to paint life. Bloch began his career painting floral still lives, but witnessing Depressio... Click for details

CONFEDERATE CAVALRY OFFICER/WATERCOLOR WM H BROWN

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1900: item #778940
Confederate

This wonderful watercolor on artist board of a Confederate cavalry officer in full uniform with rifle, sword and horse is by Southern American artist William Henry Brown (1808-1883). With touches of graphite and red and white gouache, the painting is signed lower right and dated 1882. Known for his portraits and full-length silhouettes of prominent mid-19th-century Americans (as published in "Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" in 1846 by lithographer E.C. Kellogg), Brown was born in Ch... Click for details

MLW Plein Air Painting Early California Impressionist

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1920: item #778840
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Small, early 20th Century, Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, pencil) on paper, signed by monogram, "MLW," lower right corner. This charming little painting bears a noticeable resemblance to the considerably more developed, and highly collectible works of Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, and includes those often present elements in her paintings of mountains, valley, and the stylized eucalyptus trees of California. Regrettably, however, we are completely uncertain of this artist's identity. The image,... Click for details

Harbor Symphony Watercolor

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1970: item #778656
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Very nice watercolor showing a blazing orange sky over a tranquil harbor. I believe this to be c1950 (not examined out of frame). Housed in a limed oak frame, total size is 11 1/2 x 13 1/2", watercolor alone 7 1/2 x 9 1/2". Nice use of dark colors to show the shadowed boats in harbor.

Chinese Scroll Painting : Horse, Seals & Calligraphy

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 2000: item #778609

This original contemporary 20th Century Chinese watercolor painting measures 18 by 70 inches (painting only) and about 22 by 86 inches, including the brocaded scroll it is mounted on.

It has the seal and signature of the artist, Jiang Jingyu, along with what appears to be 10 or 11 additional artist or collector seals. ... Click for details

Watercolor Portrait of Sisters by Cunningham

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1900: item #778486
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Watercolor portraits of sisters by the artist, H F Cunningham (fl. 1846-1849). The portrait of the two young ladies, probably sisters, depicts one seated and wearing a white dress, the other standing, and dressed in blue. Behind is a classical column and a landscape. Signed to the obverse and reverse, and dated 1850. Also inscribed and dated "Exeter 1850" on the reverse. Rectangular, 44 cms. X 32 cms. (17 ½ inches X 12 ½ inches). Later period style frame, 50 cms. X 63 cms. (19 ¾ inches X 24... Click for details

Rare 1892 Eliza Stone Hidden Faces Folk Painting Listed

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1900: item #778292
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Four hidden faces in this rarely seen outside of museums, original Watercolor and Ink Painting on paper, by "Eliza R. Stone," also known as Elizabeth Stone; dated "1892." This naive 19th Century miniature watercolor depicts a large ink urn with tree branches and green foliage on either side, all within a very faint graphite circle. Inscription reads: "75 years in 1892; Painted by Eliza R. Stone; 4 faces." In this 19th Century "hidden faces" painting, there are four numerals, "1, 2, 3, 4," eac... Click for details

Chinese Scroll :Small Fish in Lotus Garden __Hong Jun

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 2000: item #778230

This original Chinese watercolor painting measures 25 by 25 inches (ink and watercolor painting only) and 29 by 69 inches, including the brocaded scroll it is mounted on.

It has the seal and signature of the artist, Hong Jun, along the lower right side of the painting. It also has a collector's seal in the lower left corner. ... Click for details

Watercolor of a Soldier by J.M. Farquhar

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1920: item #778158
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3rd Lt. Dragoons, 1815

J.M. Farquhar (American, early 20th century)

Watercolor on paper, signed.

Provenance: from the collection of Alan Shepherd, Jr.

Painting size: 12.37... Click for details