PAINTINGS
Spring on the Mississippi, 1956 Oil on canvas 28 ½ x 35 ½ inches
Composition 117 (Yellow on Green), 1935-36 Oil on canvas 21 x 33 inches
Summer School Washington University, 1956 Oil on canvas 29 x 36 inches
Festive City, 1978 Oil on canvas 36 x 32 inches
Composition in Brown, 1973 Oil on canvas 33 x 44 inches
Penetration, 1984 Oil on canvas 28 x 40 inches
Untitled (Interlocking Forms), 1935-36 Oil on canvas 36 x 46 inches
Duet in space, 1983 Oil on canvas 20 x 36 inches
A294, 1945 Ink and gouache on paper 20 x 26 inches
A295, 1942 Ink on paper 19 ¾ x 26 inches
A297, 1942 Crayon and watercolor on paper 19 ½ x 25 ⅞ inches
A204, 1946 Gouache on paper 11 ¾ x 17 ¾
A207, 1946 Gouache on paper 10 ⅜ x 13 ⅜ inches
A208, 1946 Gouache on paper 11 ¾ x 14 inches
A215, 1946 Gouache on paper 10 x 13 inches
A269, 1946 Gouache on paper 11 ⅜ x 17 ¼ inches
Untitled, 1922 India ink on paper 15 x 17 ½ inches
Delaware Valley in Autumn, 1948 Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches
Winter Morning, 1952 Oil on canvas 16 x 26 inches
Autumn Day in Missouri, 1950 Watercolor 12 x 17 ¾ inches
Missouri Barnyard, 1947 Gouache on paper 18 x 25 ½ inches
Missouri Harvest, 1950 Watercolor 17 ¾ x 20 ¼ inches
Mountain Flowers Watercolor on paper 23 x 17 inches
Mississippi Levee, 1948 Watercolor 19 ¾ x 26 inches
Seascape (Sold) Watercolor on paper
Spanish Town, 1956 Gouache on paper 8 ¼ x 10 ½ inches
Chess Player, 1946 Oil on canvas 5 x 8 inches
Riverbend, Missouri, 1955 Oil on paper 8 x 5 ½ inches
Old Underpass, MO 1951 Oil on paper 7 x 8 inches
Hamburg Harbor, 1956 Oil on parchment 7 x 13 ½ inches
Ruined Buildings, 1944 Gouache on paper 9 x 11 ½ inches
Tempest II, 1947 Oil on paper 11 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
Yellow Composition, 1977 Oil on paper 5 x 8 ½ inches
Orange Cliff, 1962 Oil on paper 12 x 8 ¼ inches
Untitled 72, 1972 Oil on paper 5 x 7 inches
Begonias in the Window, 1944 Oil on canvas 5 x 8 inches
Two Figures, 1941 Gouache on paper 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Harvest, 1949 Oil on paper 6 x 8 ½ inches
A124, 1942 Gouache on paper 6 ½ x 12 inches
A127, 1942 Gouache on paper 8 ½ x 11 ½ inches
Garden with Sculpture, 1944 Oil on canvas 5 ½ x 9 ¾ inches
Purple Pendulum, 1984 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches
Untitled (Purple and Red Jester) Gouache on paper 10 ½ x 12 inches
Isolated Units, 1970 Oil on canvas 28 x 41 inches
Opposition, 1977 Gouache on paper 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches
Inscriptions on the Monolith, 1946 Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
Abstract (Sold) Oil on board 12 x 20 inches
Forms in Balance, 1949 Oil on canvas 22 x 16 inches
Untitled (Sunrise Landscape) Watercolor on paper 8 x 6 inches
Under Tall Trees, 1963 (Sold) Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches
Untitled 560, 1979 Collage 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches
Collage 122, 1973 Collage 9 x 6 ½ inches
Collage 525, 1981 Collage 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches
Collage 536, 1981 Collage 7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches
Collage 703, 1985 Collage 6 x 8 inches
WOODCUTS & TEXTILES
Sunny Day, In the Redwoods Color woodcut 24 x 17 inches
Spring Color woodcut 20 x 12 ½ inches
Decent into the Mojave Desert Color woodcut 12 x 24 inches
Winter, St. Louis Color woodcut 15 x 24 inches
Mississippi Bluffs I Color woodcut 17 x 12 inches
Mississippi Bluffs II Color woodcut 17 x 11 ½ inches
Mississippi Bluffs III Color woodcut 18 x 12 ¾ inches
Desert Landscape, 1972 Color woodcut 11 ½ x 17 ½ inches
Canyon Floor, 1965 Color woodcut 11 x 21 inches
Death of a Day Lilly II, 1954 Color woodcut 19 x 23 inches
Cathedral of the Redwoods Color woodcut 33 x 18 inches
Giant Redwoods Color woodcut 37 x 17 inches
Monuments of the West, 1965 Color woodcut 9 x 24 inches
Autumn Color woodcut 19 x 25 inches
Open Construction Color woodcut 17 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches
Open Construction Color woodcut 17 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches
Entanglement, 1976 Color woodcut 14 ½ x 11 inches
Manhattan, 1945 Color woodcut 17 ¾ x 11 ½ inches
Forest Clearing, 1964 Color woodcut 16 x 21 ½ inches
Young Boy, 1930 Woodcut 13 ½ x 9 inches
Self Portrait, 1931 Woodcut 11 ½ x 9 inches
Gandi, 1931 Woodcut 11 ½ x 9 inches
Self Portrait, 1973 Woodcut 24 x 17 inches
Cree, 1973 Woodcut 17 x 11 inches
Apache Geronimo, 1973 Woodcut 21 x 13 ½ inches
Evening Walk, 1977 Woodcut 14 x 11 ⅛ inches
In the Woods, 1980 Woodcut 18 x 14 inches
Green Moon Color woodcut 20 ¼ x 12 ½ inches
Tree at Night Color woodcut 11 ¼ x 16 inches
Floating Seeds I, 1951 Color woodcut 16 x 9 ½ inches
Dreams, 1965 Color woodcut 12 x 17 inches
Summer Day, 1969 Color woodcut 11 ½ x 21 inches
Nocturn, 1970 Color woodcut 11 x 18 inches
Expanding Force, 1974 Woodcut 15 x 11 inches
Escape, 1975 Color woodcut 9 x 20 inches
Monumental Structure, 1976 Intaglio print 15 x 10 inches
Abstraction (Sold)
Trespassing, 1984 Color woodcut 11 x 14 inches
Green Vision, 1981 Color woodcut 11 x 16 inches
Summer Heat Color woodcut 12 x 17 ¼ inches
Circle and Square Color woodcut 19 x 17 ½ inches
Shimmering Waters, 1962 Color woodcut 11 ½ x 17 inches
Margaret Schrobsdorff-Drewes Textile, 1939 Wool 61 x 44 inches
Margaret Schrobsdorff-Drewes Hooked Rug with Biomorphic Design Wool 95 x 33 ½ inches
b. 1899, Niederlausitz, Germany
d. 1985, Reston, Virginia
Born in Niederlausitz, Germany, on July 27, 1899. Drewes was a pupil of Klee and Kandinsky. He arrived in San Francisco in 1926 and lived there for one year. While there, he created about 23-29 etchings, drypoints, and aquatints of landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, and portraits (including one of Albert Bender). In 1927, he left for Japan and Korea and returned to NYC in 1930. During the 1950s, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis. Drewes died in Reston, VA, in 1985.
Source: Hughes, Edan Milton. “Werner Drewes.” In Artists in California, 1786–1940. San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989.
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Werner Drewes: Retrospective, McCaughen & Burr Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO
1985
Werner Drewes: A Retrospective, National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, DC
1984
Werner Drewes: Woodcuts and Paintings, Georgetown University Art Gallery, Washington, DC
1977
Werner Drewes: Prints and Drawings, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
1972
Werner Drewes: A Retrospective Exhibition of Prints, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO
1968
Werner Drewes: Prints and Paintings, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Werner Drewes: Woodcuts and Paintings, Washington University School of Fine Arts Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1959
Werner Drewes: Woodcuts and Watercolors, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1954
Werner Drewes: Prints and Paintings, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1948
Werner Drewes: Prints and Paintings, Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1942
Werner Drewes: Woodcuts and Paintings, Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD