Original, authentic watercolors and drawings of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dwight William Blaney (American 1865-1944) -Near Caen, France, Sept. 3rd, 91. Pencil on paper, 5.75 x 8 inches. Signed lower right: Dwight Blaney-/ To Geo. R.A. * Inscribed lower left: near Caen. Sept. 3rd. 91. Doll & Richards label, verso. *Geo R.A. likely refers to the British artist George Richmond, R.A.
English School, 18th/early 19th Century - Rhuddlan Castle, Hintshire, N. Wales, Ca. 1780-1820's. Watercolor on cotton woven paper, unmounted. 8 x 10.50 inches. Unsigned. Titled in ink verso, likely in the artist's hand. A couple of small spots of foxing in the sky, time-toning at the perimeter, otherwise fine condition. Framed. Price: $375.00
Harry Fenn (American 1837-1911) - Aquatic Gardening, As it was in the Beginning, 1895. Pen, ink and wash with gouache highlights, 7 x 12 inches. Signed lower left: H. Fenn, 95. Pristine original condition. Original Century Co. label verso with title in the artist's hand. Various other stamps, numbers and notations verso.
Samuel S. Frizzell (American 1844-1885) - The British are Coming, Ca. 1870. Watercolor on paper, 7 x 6 inches. Signed lower left: S.S. Frizzell. Original condition, original frame. Samuel S. Frizzell was a lithographer or portraits, sheet music and advertisements in Boston during the 19th century, as well as a painter. His original works of art are very seldom found.
The Weed Meadow, 1883
William Hamilton Gibson (American 1850-1896)
Watercolor and gouache en grisaille on a buff colored paper
3.50 x 8.75 inches
Signed lower left: WHG (monogram) in black watercolor
Signed lower right: WHG (monogram) in pencil, and inscribed: Copyright 1883/Harper & Brothers in pencil Titled and signed beneath the image: The Weed Meadow/W. Hamilton Gibson, in pencil (see image below) Titled on the frame verso, once in pencil, once in ink: The Weed Meadow.
Original condition, original matte and wood frame
Sheet size 8 x 15 inches.
The present sketch was reproduced in: Highways & Byways, 1883. Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1883.
Gordon Hope Grant (American 1875-1962) - The Swordfisherman, Circa 1920's. Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower right: Gordon Grant. Excellent condition, framed. Early Grand Central Art Galleries, New York label verso from their first address on Vanderbilt Avenue.
A rare, early masterfully executed watercolor by Gordon Grant painted in the Atlantic off the Massachusetts, circa 1920's. At age 13, he was sent to school in Scotland, leaving San Fancisco on the four-month sail around Cape Horn, which remained a permanent influence on his career. He studied art at the Heatherly Art school and then at the Lambeth School of Art in London. In 1895, he became a staff artist for the San Francisco Examiner. The next year, he took the same type of job for the New York World and covered the Boer War for Harper's Weekly. He also worked for Puck magazine for eight years and did illustration for children's and adult books.
In addition to painting in both oils and watercolor, Grant was a master lithographer and etcher.
The present work has been in storage since 1989.
John Haberle (American 1856-1933) - From Kitchen Window to the Corner of Lighthouse Road and Morris Avenue, New Haven, Feb. 4, 1931. Pencil on paper, 5.75 x 4 inches. inscribed across the bottom, by Haberle and inscribed: For Cuba. Original condition, matted, unframed. A note from Vera Haberle Derumer, the artist's daughter verifies that the drawing was done by her father.
John Henry Hill (American 1839-1922) - Chestnut Tree and Lily Pads, 1864. Pen and ink on paper, 8 x 7.25 inches. Signed lower right: J. Henry Hill, 1864. Excellent condition, framed. The present work is the original pen and ink drawing executed in preparation for a wood engraving of the same subject. The Brooklyn Museum of Art owns a pencil drawing on wood of the same scene which appears in a 1969 catalogue titled: Drawing of the Hudson River School, catalogue number 73, page 88 and page 120.
Donald Morris Kirkpatrick (American 1887-1966) - Figures on the Beach, Barbados. Watercolor on paper, mtd. on board, 13 x 17.50 inches (image size). Signed lower right: D.M. Kirkpatrick. Excellent original condition, titled on the verso in the artist's hand. Provenance: Descended in the family of the artist. One of many works by the artist in stock, including, oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings.
Jervis McEntee (American 1828-1891) - Lake George, Sept., 1863. Pencil on paper, 7.50 x 9 5/8 inches. Inscribed lower left: Lake George/Sept. - 63. Excellent condition, framed. On August 28th, 1863, Sanford Robinson Gifford wrote from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to Jervis McEntee at his home in Rondout inviting him to go on a sketching expedition, along with Richard William Hubbard and Worthington Whittredge. In September, 1863 the group traveled to Lake George, Lake Champlain, Lake Placid and Mount Whiteface. This rare drawing of Lake George by McEntee might be the only known pencil drawing by McEntee from the trip to Lake George.
Jervis McEntee (American 1828-1891) - Rock Study, Catskills, 1857. Pencil on paper, 12 x 17.50 inches. Inscribed lower left: Aug. 1857. Excellent original condition, framed. In 1857, McEntee took a studio in New York City, at the Tenth Street Studio building, alongside his friends Sanford Robinson Gifford and John Frederick Kensett. The present drawing was likely executed near Rondout, New York.
George Henry Smillie (American 1840-1921) - The Adirondack Mountains and Boquet River, Elizabethtown, New York 1868. Watercolor on paper, mtd. on board, 7.75 x 14.75 inches. Signed lower left: Geo. H. Smillie, Sep. 1868/Elizabethtown. Original condition, unframed. A masterwork on paper by Smillie, from the artist's finest period.
James David Smillie (American 1833-1909) - Hundred Islands, Lake George, N.Y., circa 1874. Watercolor on paper, 11 x 7 inches (sight size). Signed lower left: J.D. Smillie. Signed, titled and inscribed verso, in the artist's hand, on the original backing board. Excellent condition, framed in the original moulding. Provenance: Private collection, Maryland.
Charles Volkmar (American 1841-1914) - Rainbow Trout, (Probably Edison), New Jersey. Oil on heavy paper, 12 x 18 inches (image size). Signed lower right: Chas. Volkmar. Pristine condition. Charles Volkmar was a painter and an etcher as well as an important craftsman whose family's involvement in the development of the ceramics industry in northeastern America played an important role in the Aesthetic movement. Charles, born in Baltimore worked most of his adult life in New Jersey. His brothers Carl and Leon, as well as his father Charles Volkmar, Sr., were all involved in artistic pursuits, and it was obviously that young Charles would follow in the same tradition. Charles would travel to Europe at the beginning of the Civil War, joining countless other young American artists in Paris, studying landscape painting under Henri Harpignies, as well as the work of Jean-Francois Millet and Charles Emile Jacque. His work included landscape painting as well as painting pottery and tiles in France, after which he returned to the United States and went into the ceramics business. Volkmar Pottery and the tiles and ceramics they produced. It is believed Charles may have also been involved in the stained-glass industry for a period as well. Rainbow Trout, Edison, New Jersey is a masterpiece by Volkmar painted in the Aesthetic tradition. The influence of Japanese painting is clearly evident in both subject and composition. A group of four rainbow trout have come to the surface of the transparent water as the fish on the far right appears to have found an insect which has captured the attention of the other three. Volkmar had often painted ducks by a lake in Edison, but this work depicting fish is quite possibly unique.