watercolor

1910
Army in action, Kezar Stadium, San Francisco
1942

This is a watercolor painting on paper that shows a composition of men in military uniforms training in a football stadium. The figures in the foreground are lying on the ground with rifles....

late 19th century to early 20th century

This is a watercolor on paper that shows a grassy plain at sunset. Clouds partially obscure a setting sun that appears just left of center and whose light is reflected in a small area of water...

Mother Lode Inn
circa 1850

This is a watercolor, gouache, and graphite painting on paper. The composition shows a rural landscape with tall trees and several gable roof buildings connected by dirt roads. A figure leads a...

20th century

This is a watercolor on paper of a landscape showing a cove on the shore of La Jolla beach. The ocean is painted on the left side of the image with waves washing on shore at center. Large rocky...

late 19th century to early 20th century

This is a watercolor on paper of a mountain landscape. Two light colored mountain peaks appear in the distance at top center. In the foreground, tall pine trees at right and left flank a stream...

late 19th century to early 20th century

This is a watercolor on paper that has a composition of a Mission set in a pastoral landscape. A large white building with a tower appears at center left that is surrounded by a rectangular...

Henry Kaiser's Miracle Ship Yard
1945

A scene of the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, CA.

1922

This is a watercolor on paper depicting a mountain scene of the Grand Canyon. A sloping rock face fills the center of the composition and leads to a narrow strip of flat land along the bottom of...

1922

This is a watercolor on paper depicting a winter scene of Yosemite National Park. A mountain peak partially covered in snow is painted in the distance behind a row of pine and deciduous trees...

1903

Watercolor on paper of a large Redwood tree with its trunk split open at the bottom. The tree is centered in the composition with a path winding around the bottom of the trunk to the foreground...

20th century

This is a watercolor on paper of a fish painted in tones of light blue and centered on a white background.

mid to late 20th century

Watercolor painting on paper has a composition of a mountain landscape. In the foreground, a brown grassy hill slopes upward from left to right. A large Jupiter tree with living and dead limbs...

1970's

Rectangular sheet watercolor study of designs for ceramic pots. A large dome jar with a small lid is painted in blue and orange. It is shown with puzzle-shaped forms on the interior. Brown...

1960

Framed watercolor painting. Description: Watercolor painting of boathouse at Lake Merritt, framed in simple medium light wood frame, glazed, backed with masonite with screw eyes for hanging....

Saddlebag Lake
1927

This is a watercolor and crayon painting on paper that depicts a mountain landscape. The landscape is painted with loose gestural strokes in bright colors. Mountain peaks painted in red and...

1927

This is a watercolor and ink painting on paper. The composition shows a three-quarter profile of the back of a man sitting on a hill at center in the image. The man appears to hold a...

c.1915

watercolor landscape of cliff, tree and ocean

Pluton River near Geysers of California
1857
late 20th century

This is a watercolor on paper with that contains a geometric image made with multiple thin lines. The image has a red and green multiple line border. Blue and yellow wavy lines dominate the...

1962

Watercolor on paper with pastel presents an abstract composition in a vertical format. Tones of brown are painted throughout the image with diffuse green, yellow, and red areas near center....

(camp barracks with trees to be planted, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Watercolor painting on paper depicts a landscape with a tree in a wooden box at lower right near bare ground. A dirt road extends across the center of the image at mid-ground in front of a row...

(men resting, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Watercolor painting on paper depicts nine men resting among boxes at bottom center near a wooden building that appears mostly out of frame at right. Long buildings appear in the distance at the...

(children at play, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Watercolor painting on paper depicts a large group of children and four adults playing outside. Two adults and a group of children join hands in a circle at bottom center with several children...

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