Box 10

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Lubell 10/1: 2

Watercolor (with ink) of a woman embedded in a massive growth of plant life. Red pen ink is used for the woman’s outline and hat. Uses small, open circles for patterns, on both one type of weed (a black plant in the back) and the woman’s shirt. A substantial variety of color is on display, with different tones, shades, and styles used in conjunction to show the variety of plant life here.

37.7 x 27.8 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/1: 3 Gouache (with gray wash and black ink) of a house on a lake shore. While only the house is particularly detailed (with different a different grey for some of the roof tiles), almost all of the rest of the figures use elaborate curves to create a sense of motion (which, along with the grey sky and seemingly shaking tree, is apparently meant to create the image of a storm). In lieu of any outlines, different colors are used to mark space – there are multiple greens...

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Lubell 10/1: 5

Gouache of what appears to be the floor of a body of water, with plant life, rocks, and undulating water in the background. Some yellow bodies (possibly fish) are in the upper-right part of the piece. However, the framing and lack of definitive location or figures makes it hard to specifically identify the subject matter. Signed W. Milius Lubell ’54. Painted on handmade brown paper.

32 x 50.8 cm

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Lubell 10/1: 6

Watercolor (with gray wash and graphite pencil) of a plant, combining soft grays for branches, thin orange curves for stems or flowers, and dark reds for seeds. Its style appears to be somewhat based on Chinese or Japanese art, but without any clear sense of its interest. Additionally, no background is used. Artist likely is Lubell.

38 x 27.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/1: 8 Watercolor (with pen and ink) of a valley in the shadow of a California mountain range. Pen ink used largely for foreground trees, as well as crosshatching on the mountainside (which works in tandem with the light brown watercolor to simulate the ridges). Aside from the blue from the sheet itself, color range is largely limited to browns and greens, albeit with some white for the sky. The “valley” might actually be a lake; one of the grass patterns near the bottom...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/2: 40 Watercolor (with graphite pencil and wash) of a large tree with multiple flowers, possibly cherry blossoms, in bloom. Pencil is used for the outline, but is much more visible when used to define the petals of the upper flowers. Red and yellow wash is used for the trunk and background, respectively, while multiple colors of ink – pink, green, and blue – is used for the buds, leaves, and butterflies. Drawn on paper cut from an artist’s sketchbook. ...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/2: 54 Watercolor (with ink) landscape of a small section of hilly pasture, with houses and telephone poles dotting the space. Work appears somewhat similar to impressionist work, with a general lack of concrete definition to create a sense of contiguous movement and undulating light. Black ink is used for the few concretely-defined figures in the image: the (incomplete) outlines of the houses, telephone poles, and a single silhouette of a person, possibly with...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/2: 121 Gouache (with black ink and pastel) reproduction of a stained glass window in the Chartres Cathedral, depicting a man, surrounded by and calling two angels in the sky, men on either side, and dogs at their feet. The art style is deliberately non-naturalistic, evoking older religious art that tried to avoid physical accuracy. Bright colors are the order of the day, possible to similarly evoke the sense of light breaking through the window; most of the "glass"...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 10/3: 124 Pretty watercolor (with black ink over graphite pencil) of a menagerie of flowers blooming. While the black ink is used for outlines and some minor detailing, most of the effort has been spent on the extensive coloring. Orange, yellow, blue, pink, and grey are used for petals (with multiple permutations), while green and grown define the stems and many leaves. Like many of these nature drawings, there is no wider background space. Flowers depicted are listed...

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Lubell 10/3: 134

Watercolor (with black ink) of various insects. Scattered across the page are butterflies, moths, beetles, a grasshopper and other flying insects. No identified artist.

21.3 x 32 cm