William Thon was an American artist noted for his highly abstracted landscape images. He was born in New York City and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to Cocos Islands in the Pacific. He debuted as a professional artist in the 1939 Corcoran Gallery Biennial exhibition. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy, for which he later served as a trustee. He received further recognition with his participation in the 1942 '"Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He held his first one-person show at the Midtown Galleries in New York in 1944. The gallery continued to represent him throughout his career. He had subsequent solo exhibitions at the Smith College Art Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. He received an honorary Doctor of Arts from the Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1957. He was a member of The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of Design. In 1947, Thon’s year-long study at the American Academy proved pivotal in his career, when he began working in watercolor. Upon his return to America, he submitted a watercolor to the 1949 exhibition of the National Academy of Design, and that year, he was voted into the Academy membership. From thereon, he frequently exhibited at the Academy and won prizes, including the Benjamin Altman Prize in 1951, 1954, 1961, 1967 and 1969. In 1951, Thon received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He often traveled to Italy, and in 1955 served in Rome as Artist-in-Residence at the American Academy. Thon chose to live in the relative isolation of Port Clyde, Maine, on a peninsula overlooking the sea, a quiet place, especially in winter. He preferred the company of sailors, craftsmen, lobstermen, a few fellow artists and his beloved wife, Helen. This area is credited as inspiring a stylistic breakthrough for Thon when he discovered an abandoned quarry near his property. There, he created numerous, increasingly abstract paintings of spidery trees with rectilinear slabs of interspersed granite. Each season, Thon would send his paintings off to the prestigious Midtown Galleries in New York City. His works bore the imprint of his vital connection to the raw, natural beauty of rural Maine, its rugged terrain, beautiful virgin forests, intemperate seas, and the human-made scatter of wooden buildings along its rocky shoreline. Thon continued to work even after macular degeneration had left him legally blind. From his estate gift of four million dollars, the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, received the biggest cash donation to that time. Thon was awarded numerous prizes and is represented in over 60 museum collections including, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Butler Institute of American Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, and in Maine, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #1
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #1. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #2
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #2. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #15
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #15. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Upper Tuscany — Mid-century American Expressionism
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...
Watercolor
"Silvery Day, " William Thon, ink wash, sailboats, coastal, modernist
By William Thon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #4
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #4. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #1; LIKELY IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000).; UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #1; LIKELY IN ITALY). Ink and wash on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From a ske...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #3
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #3. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #16. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000). UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY) Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From a sketchboo...
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UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000).; UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY). Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Nude Picnic Virgin Islands
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best known for his rural life & desert landscapes and World War II sc...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Louis Osman FRIBA Pavilion architectural design
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Prince of Wales. We have acquired a large archive of Osman's works form his daughter; to see the other Osman works available, please scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Louis Osman (1914 - 1996) A Pavilion in a Private Park Pen, ink and wash 67 x 100 cm Provenance: the family of the artist. Signed lower right. Osman was as much an artist as an architect. This is likely a portfolio piece from his time studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is as such a piece of architectural history as well as a beautiful Osman design. Osman was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group) by the Bartlett, and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson – we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled coffin...
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
$781
H 10.63 in W 16.93 in D 0.04 in
St. Gregory in Rome - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
By Jan Peeter Verdussen
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gregory in Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741. Ink and watercolour on brown paper. In very good codition. Dated on the lower margin. The origin...
Ink, Watercolor
$470
H 13.51 in W 9.45 in D 0.08 in
Bad Weather - China Ink Drawing by P. Roux - Late 19th Century
By Paul Roux
Located in Roma, IT
Bad Weather is an original artwork realized between the XIX century and XX century by Paul Roux. Original black and white drawing on paper glued on cardbo...
Ink
$15,000
H 16.85 in W 12.25 in
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$125,000
H 18.5 in W 22 in D 1 in
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in the proto-pop art style Davis is celebrated for, 1938, signed to lower right, framed. Image: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches. Frame by Bark: 18 1/2 x 22 inches. LITERATURE: A, Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis, A Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. 2, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. II, p. 632, no. 1232, illustrated. EXHIBITIONS: ACA Galleries, New York American Artists' Congress: Group Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Dec. 3-16, 1939 (SDAB I, 12/3/39, p. 129). Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh, Stuart Davis, Mar. 3-16, 1946. Coleman Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 5 Prodigal Sons: Former Philadelphia Artists: Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Julian Levi, Charles Sheeler, Oct 4 - 30, 1947 (pamphlet), no. 12. PROVENANCE: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowles, New York, Apr. 3, 1956; thence by descent, Private Collection, New York. NOTES: According to the Catalogue Raissonne, "the title 'Street Signs' is recorded in the artist's account books...
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
$1,000
H 18.51 in W 24.41 in D 0.79 in
Mid-Century Modern Paris: A View of the Seine
Located in Norwich, GB
Experience the romance and abstraction of 1950s Paris through this striking original mixed media drawing by the acclaimed American Modernist, Frederick E. Conway (1900–1973). This c...
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$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
$9,500
H 20 in W 22 in
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Mixing Mortar 12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...
Gouache, Board
$55,000
H 9 in W 10 in
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance Arthur Dove (1880-1946) "Barns" 5 x 7 inches Watercolor on paper, 19...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,650
H 21 in W 18 in
1930s American Modernist Landscape Painting by Burchfield Student Albright
By Elizabeth Compton Chase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A striking winter landscape watercolor by American artist Elisabeth Compton Chase, dated 1948, depicting a rural road leading past a red barn and farmhouse set within a snow-covered ...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,650
H 21 in W 18 in
1930s American Modernist Landscape Painting by Burchfield Student Albright
Located in Buffalo, NY
A striking winter landscape watercolor by American artist Elisabeth Compton Chase, dated 1948, depicting a rural road leading past a red barn and farmhouse set within a snow-covered ...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #18
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #18. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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In The Woods
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'In The Woods', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, painterly work, on off-white, wove watercolor paper, the ima...
Watercolor
Under Way
By William Thon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...
Ink
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H 5.19 in W 8.38 in
"Lobster Boats, Maine Coast, " William Thon, ink wash, nautical, seascape, modern
By William Thon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...
Ink
Homeward Bound
By William Thon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Thon, although born in New York, painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s an...
Ink, Watercolor
Full Sail
By William Thon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New York, William Thon painted and lived most of his adult life in coastal Maine. Thon studied at the Art Students League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s and 40s at t...
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