Metropolitan Fantasy - City at Night with Pulsing Lights
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Miami, FL
Yvonne Jacquette uses pastel on a heavy rag paper to depict an ariel city scene at night with pulsing lights. There is a heavy texture to the paper and the surface is rich and vibra...
Pastel, Rag Paper
"Queens Lights at Night" Yvonne Jacquette, NYC Urban Cityscape Nocturnal Aerial
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Jacquette Queens Lights at Night, 1980 Pastel on paper 28 x 17 inches Yvonne Jacquette was born on December 15, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Stamford, Con...
Paper, Pastel
$25,000
"Tokyo Diptych" Yvonne Jacquette, Japanese Urban Cityscape Nocturnal Aerial
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Jacquette (American, b. 1935) Tokyo Diptych, 1985 Pastel on paper Overall 17 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches Signed lower center Provenance: Carey Ellis Company, Houston, Texas Brooke Alexander, New York Collection of an American Corporation Exhibited: New York, Brooke Alexander, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, April 5 - May 3, 1986, n.p., illustrated; this exhibition later traveled to Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, June 27 - August 24, 1986. Yvonne Jacquette has a preference for high places, a circling plane, a penthouse window, an aerie from which to watch the world. Her work has often depicted the city and man-made landscape from the vantage of angels. It is a privileged perspective, long loved by photographers, who were perhaps the first to recognize the geometric grandeur of the city below. That grandeur structures Jacquette's images but is not its full content. Her work attempts to resolve the visual and emotional pardoxes of the modern metropolis. Only from the tower is there the possibility of order and context. And unlaced beauty. Jacquette first visited Japan in 1982. Nighttime Tokyo, its cars and crowds and canyons of loud Vegas neon, made a vivid and bewildering impression on her. The neon signs, pulsing, scaling the walls of high rises, fascinated the artist, "like Times Square spread over miles." Her fascination was equal parts marvel, confusion, and curiosity—the sparks of art. She returned to Tokyo in May of 1985, choosing hotel rooms with expansive vistas. From these views Jacquette excerpted images for a series of pastel night scenes. The basic forms and colors of each drawing were blocked in during night sessions by the window. She worked in the dark, selecting colors by flashlight. In daylight, she sharpened the geometry and corrected ambiguous passages. She refined the drawings further in the studio until the images read clearly. Photographic correctness was not important. The finished drawings are complete statements, not simply preparatory sketches for paintings. They have the authority of expert witness. In clear, discreet jots of pastel they record the performance of seeing, each touch of color attesting to a moment's close scrutiny. Yvonne Jacquette was born on December 15, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence from 1952 to 1955, when she moved to New York City. Her late husband was photographer Rudy Burckhardt, and the couple were part of a circle of artist friends that included Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, and Mimi Gross. She continues to live and work in New York City, as well as in Searsmont, Maine. A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette’s interest in aerial views, after which she began flying in commercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns. She soon started sketching and painting the landscape as seen from above, beginning a process that has developed into a defining element of her art. Her first nocturnal painting...
Paper, Pastel
$1,200
H 12 in W 22.5 in D 0.13 in
A Charming 1940s Modern Watercolor of a City in Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of a City in Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A well executed early work by Pen, completed during the artist's...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$5,500
H 28 in W 22 in
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue Elevated 19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Watercolor on paper Signed an...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,350
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.13 in
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting
By Omer Ferdi Sahingil
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting Lively landscape of hills with trees and houses by Turkish-American artist Ömer Şahingil (Turkish/American, 1915-1...
Paper, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
$2,750
H 30.5 in W 27 in D 1 in
“St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, SC" 1937 by Sandor Bernath Signed Watercolor
By Sandor Bernath
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: “St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, SC" 1937 by Sandor Bernath (1892-1984). This beautiful view of St. Michael’s Church by Bernath captures one of Charleston’s great...
Paper, Watercolor
$5,500
H 21 in W 26 in
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue El at 8th Street 13 x 18 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1930 ...
Paper, Watercolor
$385
H 14 in W 18 in D 0.13 in
Delightful 1950s Cubist Harbor Scene by Woman Artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Mid-Century Modern, 1950s Cubist watercolor of a brightly-colored dock scene by Chicago and New York artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed "Duis", lower left. Artwork size: 8 1/...
Watercolor, Paper
$385
H 14 in W 18 in D 0.13 in
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Watercolor, Paper
$1,800
H 22.5 in W 18 in
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work. Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9 A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,600
H 24 in W 29 in D 0.13 in
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Scene, New York City by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Dynamic 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Lower Manhattan, New York City by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). The image is watercolor, pastel and c...
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
$385
H 14 in W 18 in D 0.13 in
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Watercolor, Paper
$5,500
H 19 in W 25 in
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) New York City Skyline 14 x 21 1/2 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,500
H 9 in W 12 in
Modernist Conte Crayon Drawing Beach Scene David Burliuk Russian Futurist
By David Burliuk
Located in Surfside, FL
David Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967) Three figure on the beach (Hamptons, Long Island New York) Conte crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed lower left. Unframed Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions David Davidovich Burliuk (Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; 1882-1967) was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as "the father of Russian Futurism." David Burliuk was born on 21 July 1882 in the village of Riabushky (near Lebedyn, Ukraine) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Burliuk's family was artistically inclined; two of his brothers were talented artists as well, Nikolai and Volodimir Burliuk. The Burliuk family partly descended from Ukrainian Cossacks on their father's side, who held premier positions in the Hetmanate. His mother, Ludmyla Mikhnevich, was of ethnic Belarusian descent. From 1898 to 1904, he studied at Kazan and Odesa art schools, as well as at the Royal Academy in Munich. His exuberant, extroverted character was recognized by Anton Azhbe, his professor at the Munich Academy, who called Burliuk a "wonderful wild steppe horse". During a time of significant industrialization and political change, movements such as the famed Der Blaue Reiter, a group Burliuk associated with in 1912, while he was in Munich, emphasized a shift away from the classical styles of the past, prioritizing the innovations of the future. In 1907, he made contact with the Russian art world; he met and befriended Mikhail Larionov, and they are both credited as being major forces in bringing together the contemporary art world. In 1908, an exhibition with the group Zveno ("The Link") in Kiev was organized by David Burliuk together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, his brother Volodymyr (Wladimir) Burliuk and Aleksandra Exter. The exhibition was a flop, especially because they were all unknown painters. The Burliuks and Larionov left for the aforementioned brothers' home in Chernianka, also known as Hylea; it was during this stay that their work became more Avant-Garde. That autumn, while visiting Ekster, they organized an exhibition which took place in the street; it was a success, and enough money was raised to go to Moscow. In 1909, Burliuk painted a portrait of his future wife, Marussia, on a background of flowers and rocks...
Paper, Conté, Crayon
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H 22.25 in W 26.75 in D 2 in
Shinjuku Pleasure District, Tokyo (Japan cityscape)
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Yvonne Jacquette (b.1934). Shinjuku Pleasure District, Tokyo, 1985. Pastel on brown handmade paper, sheet measures 22.25 x 26.75 inches; 30 x 33.5 framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Provenance: Mellon Bank Corporate Collection; Brooke Alexander Gallery. Biography: Born Pittsburgh, PA, 1934 Education 1952-56 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Solo Exhibitions 2016 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings 1981-2016, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Yvonne Jacquette; Aerials, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Yvonne Jacquette: The High Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Yvonne Jacquette, Aerials: Paintings, Prints, Pastels, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Yvonne Jacquette, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2009-10 Yvonne Jacquette: The Complete Woodcuts, 1987 – 2009, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO. 2008 Picturing New York: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY Yvonne Jacquette, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Yvonne Jacquette: Arrivals and Departures, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Works on Paper, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO 2003 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2002-03 Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 2000 Yvonne Jacquette – Evening: Chicago and New York, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Yvonne Jacquette: Maine Aerials, Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME Paintings and Works on Paper by Yvonne Jacquette, Hollins Art Gallery, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA 1997 Yvonne Jacquette: Vantage on High, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Yvonne Jacquette Frescoes, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME 1995 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels, 1992-1994, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1992 Yvonne Jacquette: Frescoes, Monotypes, Pastels and Prints, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1991 Yvonne Jacquette: Aerial Views, Rudy Burckhardt: Photographs, Jewett Hall Gallery, The University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME Yvonne Jacquette, Elizabeth Galasso Fine Art Leasing, Ossining, NY 1990 Drawings and Monotypes, O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME Paintings, Frescoes, Pastels 1988-1990, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1988 Looking Down: Prints by Yvonne Jacquette, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels: New York Triptychs, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1986 Yvonne Jacquette, Tokyo Nightviews, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Yvonne Jacquette: Works on Paper, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 1985 Yvonne Jacquette, Yurakucho Seibu/Takanawa Art, Tokyo, Japan 1984 Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 Currents 22. Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Drawings and Pastels, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Yvonne Jacquette: Drawings and Pastels 1982-83, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1982 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1981 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings and Pastels, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1979 Yvonne Jacquette: The Night Paintings, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1976 Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY 1974 Yvonne Jacquette: 22nd Street, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1971 Yvonne Jacquette: Recent Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1965 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 The American Dream: Pop to the Present, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom New York, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY Dust on Butterflies’ Wings, A Pastel Invitational, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC Painted Landscapes, Heritage Museums & Gardens, Sandwich, MA 2016 Boundless Nature: Real and Imagined, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Masterworks on Paper, Portland Museum of Art, ME Differing Views: Rackstraw Downes, Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, Andrew Lenaghan and Rod Penner, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Edith Schloss (1911-2011): Myths and Mountains, A Retrospective, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Maine Collected: Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Multiverse, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 2014 The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2013 Impressions: Selections from Stewart & Stewart, 1980 to Present, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI, November 30-January 6, 2013 Maine Women Pioneer Exhibition: Homage, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, ME 2012-2013 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Paved Paradise, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY Forms of Realism, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA 2011 Remembering 9/11, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Island Press: Three Decades of Print Making, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2010 Couples: Parallel Journeys, ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy, Tel Aviv, Israel Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Oblique/Acute, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT Neither Model nor Muse: Women as Artists, The McNay, San Antonio, TX Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspirations, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 2009 URBAN: Cityscapes from the Permanent Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, WV Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME Trees, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Lives of the Hudson, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Near and Far: Contemporary Fine Prints, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI Night, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY Different at Every Turn: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, February 4 – March 31, 2009, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, Greenvale, NY traveled to: Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, April 8 – 28, 2009; Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, Vermont, May 23 – June 28, 2009; Albany Institute of History & Art, NY, July 3 – August 23, 2009; SUNY Potsdam, NY, September 17 – October 17, 2009; US Military Academy at West Point, NY, October 29, 2009 – January 10, 2010 2008 Evening Light, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.; traveled to The Painting Center, New York, NY, April 12 – May 17, 2008 to: Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY 2007-08 Urban Landscape,” Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME 2007 The Constructed Landscape, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME 2006 Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Main Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Vinalhaven Press Prints from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Collection, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Contemporary Maine Monotypes, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME A Century of Maine Prints: 1880s – 1980s, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME American Matrix: Contemporary Directions for the Harn Museum Part II, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, Fl. Metropolis: The Global Outlook: Depictions of International Urban Environments, obby Program Exhibition, David, Polk and Wardell/Shorenstein, New York, NY Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Contemporary Maine Monotypes, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME To Know The Dark: American Artists’ Visions of Night, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 2005 Collaboration in Print: Stewart & Stewart Screenprints 25th Anniversary, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Disegno: The One Hundred and Eightieth Annual Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY Very Early Pictures: An exhibition of drawings made by Contemporary Artists When They were Children, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Women Artists, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN The City, Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY 2004 Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Art Gallery Collection, Sweet Briar, VA, 2008 National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Over 100 Years of New York City in Art, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY Night New York, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY New York, New York, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain. Traveled to CajaGranada. NYC, DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Kaleidoscopes, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA My Mother’s An Artist, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York, NY 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 2003 Mapping Maine: Four Contemporary Views, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME I Love New York, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY The Way They See It, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Collector’s Show and Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR The Power of Wings, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 2002 Crisis Response, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI New York City, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME Looking at America, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Past, Present, Future, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME 2001 Up on the Roof, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY Varieties of Maine Realism, curated by Carl Little, The Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Fresh/Fresco: Contemporary fresco painting, The Educational Alliance Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY ReAppearance: Realism in Contemporary Art, Simmons Visual Arts Center, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA 2000 The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by Sixty Women, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY On Paper: Katherine Bradford, Alison Hildreth...
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