Featured Watercolors or lithos?

I picked up these what appear to maybe be watercolors but maybe not by a architect Albert william meinzen. Each picture has a label on the back with his name and a date circa 1900s. The scene is of furniture. I found one link about him but that is all I found. I did find a listing from a seller on ebay that are selling prints that have the same scene as mine but those were from a architectural book from the early 1900s. So I am hoping someone could shed some light on what these are. Thank you for any info

 

here is the ebay listing i found

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1869432468...lcmKivgw7Pb9rNcJmurzdt0UumSZ|tkp:BFBMqtDwyK9l

 

Those look like a school assignment. All of soft furnishings. If the date is accurate, in 1921, he was working as a draughtsman and taking an architecture course by mail so could be. He had no issue; I wonder who would have taken the trouble to frame those so long after his death. One of his siblings or their descendants, I'd assume. By way, your eBay link has expired.

Debora

 

Yes to Debora's assessment. The seller you have linked says his image is from an ICS book, as in International Correspondence Schools.

 

Damn, I'm good. I owe it all to reading the complete works of Sherlock Holmes at the age of 13. Deductive reasoning.

Debora

 

Now that you mention it-you are good ! Did your profession align with your sleuthing talents,or has it always been used as a hobby (passion) ?
Seems to be part of yr genetics.

 

Interesting question. Just the way my mind works. And I've read mysteries non-stop since I met Nancy Drew when I was 10.

Debora

 

A working link (I hope ...) to the Ebay listing
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186943246840

Edit...
Nope not working when clicking on it ... Only working if copy-pasted in a new tab

 

Try this ...

https://www.ebay.com/str/savagesalesofmaine

 

same result: black screen, with white pixel

 

The forum must be having an issue with links.
I can open it via my browser.

 

It's adding a 'rover.ebay' part (in this case http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=5337485078&toolid=10001&mpre=) to the hyperlink, and that seems to be the cause.

 

Got it! And too interesting. Figure 27. That was what was to be copied. And here's another. Figure 18. Someone pulled apart the pages of the course's materials and is selling them separately.

Debora

 

No reason to think the OPs isn't a watercolor as (carefully) labelled.

Debora

 

http://www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=Albert_William_Meinzen_(1889-1949),_Architect

 

" Meinzen moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana in September, 1948 in order to be nearer to his brother and sister."

 

Yes, framed long after his passing. Interesting that as value sentimental.

Debora

 

Not exactly Andrew Wyeth but the chap gave it his best-must've been considered even wackier in the 40's to be an Artist than it is now ! Then again,it wasn't a dot.com virtual reality era (cept radio ?),so maybe folks appreciated the arts more,or in a different way back then.
There's a chance they read more surrounded by less media noise.

 

You could make a lot more money as an illustrator then! It kept dropping throughout the 20th century but whewww they made amazing money compared to today. Illustration was utilized everywhere in ads, magazines, posters, books. Comics were on every newsstand and grocery checkout. Contracts were more favorable to illustrators then too. Fine art has always had a mystique too although that's always been rigged like every other thing.