Sylvia Spicuzza

"Teacher (The Echo, Milwaukee Normal)" original ink drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza

ca. 1940

This exquisite yet unfinished drawing by American cartoonist Al Capp, entitled 'Golf,' presents a humorous view of the beloved game. The composition depicts fo...

Signed with estate stamp, J.V. double sided. 6-3/4" x 4-3/4" art 18" x 15-1/4" frame Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

"Woman In Fancy Costume Estate #752" is a watercolor and graphite signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. A woman stands with arms stretched out. The lady is wearing a red and white stripped outf...

In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene from the theater or opera, showing five women on stage. Three of the women have their backs to the viewer, while one...

In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store. Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper 8 x 5.75 inches, artwork 14 x 12 inches, frame Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left. Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading. Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...

In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...

Lying Man is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Enrique Vasi. Pencil drawing on paper. Includes frame: 32,6 x 1.5 x 24.3 cm Date and signed on the back

Birds in Morocco is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt in mid-20th Century. Watercolored pen drawing on paper. Fair conditions. Foxings. Includes frame (fair condition) :...

People in room with dog in the middle is an original pencil sketch drawing on paper realized in ink and pencil in the 19th Century by Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852). Good condition, minor cosmetic wear.. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin. Tony Johannot (1803 – 1852) was a famous French painter, illustrator and engraver. Among his most famous illustrations: those of the Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux by Ch. Nodier (1830), by Don Quichote...

Woman standing arms raised is an ink and pencil drawing and red line on paper realized by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau in the early 20th century. Hand-signed by the artist, on the top ...

Portrait of Igor Stawinsky is an original drawing in China ink realized by an anonymous Artist in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft stroke...

Coloured crayon, ink and pencil Signed lower right The Henry Moore Foundation has suggested a date of 1948 for the drawing and that it originally was part of the 1947-49 sketchbook ...