American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's dress. Inscribed "Nettie Rosenstein at Marshall Field". Most likely a design study for a print adv...

Matisse style pastel tulips in vase on kitchen table Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free paper...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 ½ inches unframed sheet, 15 x 12 ½ inches framed, signed lower left About the Artist: Nan Watson...

Oil pastel still life of wine and coffee on striped outdoor table Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free paper The artwork is titled and signed on the front and also comes with a certificate of authenticity. Artworks are shipped rolled in a secure tube. This is a safe and reliable packaging method that ensures your artwork arrives in perfect condition while keeping shipping costs affordable. Bring the warmth of the French Riviera into your space with this vibrant oil pastel still life inspired by Mediterranean summer living. This artwork captures a joyful outdoor table scene featuring coffee, wine, lemons, and palm leaves arranged across bold blue and white stripes. Created in the expressive style reminiscent of Raoul Dufy, this pastel drawing celebrates color, movement, and relaxed coastal elegance. A close-up perspective from above shows hands holding glasses of red and white wine alongside heart-shaped plates filled with fresh orange slices and a dark green olive oil bottle...

A striking 1940s Modern cubist still life drawing by Notable Chicago and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky. Image size: 4 x 5 inches. Archivally matted to 13 1/4 x 16 inches. Estate stamped and numbered 58, lower left. Stanley Bielecky was an Indiana artist who painted the American Scene, from the industrial factories and workers around East Chicago to the pastoral settings of Mackinac Island...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's white ermine wrap. Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago dep...

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885-1979) Abstract Floral Still Life Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed lower right 24 x 19 inches 29.5 x 24.5 inches, framed A versatile pain...

Untitled, Still Life of Shell Graphite on paper, 1945-1951 Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo) Condition: Excellent Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches EMIL BISTTRAM (189...

Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...

A stylish, vintage early 1940s woman's fashion design featuring an advertisement study for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics. Artwork size: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Pencil on paper. Arc...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's scarf & hat. Inscribed "First Night", which in the 1940s may refer to either New Year's Eve celeb...

British-born, New Jersey-based, George Drittler was primarily know for landscapes. In this still life that expansive approach serves him well. Richly drawn, with pottery, books and a...

Still Life with Tromp L'Oeil Graphite and watercolor on a book page. Signed in ink by the artist lower right corner (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist (Estate No. 00916 verso) Ray Sommer (the artist's son) Joseph M. Erdelac (No. 18 JME verso) Book page verso is an illustration of a Durer woodcut...

In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This ink drawing with a lobster, crab, and a shrimp, was probably for a cookbook; the sheet is cut in a free-form, modernist...

In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This was probably for a cookbook. The dimensions are for the drawing. The sheet is somewhat larger, 7 x 6 1/2 inches.

In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. The symmetrical nature of the drawing suggests it was for a book or magazine project with facing pages -- possibly a cookboo...

KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicat...

Delicate watercolor of vegetables. Japanese eggplant and radishes and a squash gourd. Framed 18 X 20 image is 11 X 13.5 Claus Hoie was a Norwegian-American...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's jewelry, shoes and accessories. Inscribed: "Diamond pin, Black, Starr and Gorham Bag by Lilly Daché Glo...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's evening wear. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: Co...

Naive art still life with tulips fruit and wine glasses Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free pa...

Oil pastel drawing of man reading newspaper on Los Angeles freeway Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm a...

Pop art woman oil pastel drawing with white glasses and earrings Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm aci...

Oil pastel drawing of a man and woman in love looking through a window Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 g...

Outsider art oil pastel drawing flowers in blue vase still life Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid...

Keeshond dog sitting in hammock eating pizza oil pastel art Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-fre...

Surreal oil pastel drawing with UFO and pink feminist symbols Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-f...

Oil pastel breakfast still life with croissant and coffee Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free paper The artwork is titled and signed on the front and also comes with a certificate of authenticity. Artworks are shipped rolled in a secure tube. This is a safe and reliable packaging method that ensures your artwork arrives in perfect condition while keeping shipping costs affordable. This charming oil pastel still life captures a cozy breakfast moment featuring coffee, croissant, and jam arranged on a whimsical table setting. Rendered in soft pastel colors against a purple background, this artwork brings warmth, playfulness, and a nostalgic children’s book illustration style to your space. The composition includes delightful details such as a book-shaped plate, paper cutouts, a small vase of flowers, polka dot coffee cup, and stacked books, creating a storytelling scene full of personality and charm. The close-up perspective enhances the intimacy of the breakfast setting while maintaining a modern decorative aesthetic. This hand-drawn oil pastel illustration blends modern still life with playful, contemporary design, making it ideal for collectors who love food art, cozy interiors, and whimsical illustration styles. oil pastel, breakfast art, food illustration, croissant art, coffee art, still life, kitchen decor, purple art, pastel drawing, food artwork, table scene, cozy kitchen, bakery art...

Whimsical oil pastel illustration of women feet in red heels Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-fr...

Colorful Matisse inspired living room oil pastel artwork with purple walls Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 2...

Oil pastel drawing of a man and woman in love looking through a window Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 g...

Oil pastel still life drawing of a pink wire shopping basket with tulips and fruit Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand draw...

Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's day dresses. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Pencil on paper. Artwork is unframed, archivally matte...

Colorful oil pastel illustration of playful underwear hanging on clotheslines in a naive childlike style Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It...

Oil pastel drawing of a minimalist summer table with watermelon and popcorn Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on ...

Oil pastel still life drawing of tulips in a blue vase on striped tablecloth Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on...

Interior still life with chair, table and flowers India ink on three ring binder wove paper, late 1950's Signed upper left in ink (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the Artist (estate...

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885–1979) Hibiscus, 1935 Gouache, graphite and colored pencil on paper Signed and dated center 16.5 x 11.5 inches 21 x 15.75 inches, framed A ver...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's suit coat and hat. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Pencil and colored pencil on paper. Archivally...

A fine ca. 1938 graphite on paper, study of classical drapery by notable New York Modernist artist, Jan Matulka. The image is drawn on the back of a typewritten, folded sheet of bus...

Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...

In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This drawing was probably for a magazine, perhaps House and Garden or House Beautiful. It is signed and dated in pencil on the...

Vibrant oil pastel portrait of woman with dark wavy hair and red lips Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gs...

Colorful oil pastel drawing of two figures in desert landscape Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-...

Colorful oil pastel bathroom interior artwork with plants Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 70 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free ...

Pink Waterlily, 1940 Charcoal and pastel on textured paper 7 x 9 3/4 inches (17.8 x 24.8 cm) Signed and dated at lower center: Joseph Stella 1940 Joseph Stella’s artistic career def...

Oil pastel drawing of a colorful interior room with plants and blue cabinet Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It...

Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018 "Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else." "Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...

Artichoke illustration inspired by Henri Matisse style Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free paper The artwork is titled and signed on the front and also comes with a certificate of authenticity. Artworks are shipped rolled in a secure tube. This is a safe and reliable packaging method that ensures your artwork arrives in perfect condition while keeping shipping costs affordable. This original oil pastel drawing features a charming artichoke still life, presented in a red and green polka dot vase...

"500 Calories al mode" The Perfect Meal - Menu - Dessert - Collograph Watercolor The artwork "500 Calories al mode" by Betty Swift, created one of a group show at San Francisco Stat...

Best known as an impassioned supporter and avid collector of modern art, Earl Horter was also an artist himself. Largely self-taught, Horter was a highly skilled draftsman and engrav...

Paul Simon's Live Concert Setup - Technical Drawing in Pen on Heavy Cardstock Detailed, accurate drawing of musical equipment for a live concert. The instruments and equipment are r...

This artwork "Still Life with Knife" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the low...

Early modern original watercolor and gouache ad layout for Foley's by Houston portraitist Robert C. Joy. The work features a mink stole laid out in the shape of a question mark. Ther...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Watercolor...

White Iris with Fern, c. 1925 Crayon and silverpoint on paper, 17 x 12 inches (43.2 x 30.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches Signed twice in pencil, at lower right and lo...

Pink Waterlily with Green and Black Background, 1940 Crayon and pencil on paper 10 3/8 x 13 11/16 inches (26.4 x 34.8 cm) Signed and dated at lower right: Joseph Stella / 1940 Josep...

Silverpoint and crayon on paper 4 11/16 x 3 inches 11.9 x 7.6 cm Framed dimensions 8 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches Provenance The artist; By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946; By desc...

Though signed "Yolanda," the artist of this gouache and watercolor painting is unknown. The still life, contained and symmetrical, is dominated by the form of a pear. On either side,...