Floyd Newsum

Modern Surreal Abstract Pastoral Farm Landscape Drawing of Two Women and Animals

1990

Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...

Modern abstract figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist on the figure's left hip. Hung behind glass in a ...

Black and white figurative drawing by Texas artist William Anzalone. The drawing depicts nude women dressing up. Signed by the artist at the bottom right. Framed in a beautiful black modern frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 16.63 in. x W 21.5 in. Artist Biography: William Anzalone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Black and white figurative drawing by Texas artist William Anzalone. The drawing depicts a nude woman in solitude taking off her ro...

Black and white pen and ink abstract figurative drawing depicting a fantasy animal skull-like shape. Framed and matted in a silver frame. Previously with DuBose Gallery, a leading na...

Abstract modern figurative drawing by Native American artist R.C. Gorman. The work features a large group of faceless figures representing the Navajo people who were forcefully remov...

Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) ink and gouache drawing on paper titled "Darkened Man", signed lower right, circa 1957. Provenance: Grace Borgenicht gallery, Jeffrey M. Kaplan collection. bears label verso Art: 31" H x 22" W; Frame: 36" H x 27" W. Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. He was included in the MoMA show, Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism along with Alexander Archipenko, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Eugene Berman, Reg Butler, Lovis Corinth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud, George Grosz, Alexei Jawlensky, Oskar Kokoschka, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and more. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella, Vincent Longo, and Nicholas Krushenick were frequent exhibitors. the gallery has represented many well-known artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Blackburn, Lois Dodd, William King, Chaim and Dorothy Koppelman, Roy Lichtenstein, Harold Krisel...

A drawing by Henry Moore. "Sculpture Motives" is a semi-abstract, figurative drawing, ink, watercolor, and wax crayon on paper in beige, white, and black platte by British modern art...

Artist: Thomas Guise – Scottish (1916- 1984) Title: Witness Year: 1965 Medium: Watercolor, pen Size: 14.75 x 17.75 inches Signature: Signed, dated lower right. Titled en verso Condition: Good Frame: Unframed This watercolor and ink painting is by the noted Scottish artist, Thomas Gladstone Middleton (TGM) Guise (1916-1984). He received instruction at the Edinburgh Academy and went on to study art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, Royal Scottish Academy (1947-1949). Guise also traveled and exhibited in the U.S. This particular work was exhibited at the Los Robles Gallery in Palo Alto, CA in 1968. The painting is unframed on artist's board. It is in very good condition with no flaws to note. Biography 1916 - Born on Davidston Farm near Cromarty, Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland. 1921 - 1938 Educated Inverness and Edinburgh, Scotland. 1939 - 1946 Served with the Royal Artillery. 1946 - 1980 Worked in painting, process engraving, printing, lithography and commercial art with Featherhal Press. 1947 - Award for Life Drawing. 1984 - Died, Edinburgh, Scotland. Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984 RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC. Trends Arun Art Centre The Bath Festival Exhibition by FPS (Modern Art) Solo Shows 1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival 1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States 1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States 1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival 1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...

Drawing on paper, signed up left.

Framed Size: approx 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches Fred Conway (1900-1973) "Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back" Pen/Ink/Watercolor on Paper Site Size: approx. 10 x 13 inches Framed Size: approx. 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School from 1929 to 1970, Frederick Conway...

Alexander Calder Handwritten, signed letter, 1956 Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page. Unique 11...