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Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Abstract Composition in Red - Watercolor - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition in Red is an drawing on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1970s. Watercolor on paper. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through organic a...
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Follow the white rabbit - line drawing woman figure
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor. The work are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in white wi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Mexican Artist portrait signed work on paper original art acrylic abstract
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Sebastian Barbera (Mexico, 1964) 'Untitled', 2013 acrylic on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 44.1 x 30 in. (112 x 76 cm.) Unframed ID: BAR-121 Hand-signe...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands of Martha Argerich, Drawing, June 2001
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Fractured Light, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor by Danielle Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Danielle Epstein - Fractured Light, Year: 1987, Medium: Watercolor and pastel on paper, signed and titled verso, Size: 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.28 cm)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Watercolor

Cosmic Web - Quantun Form
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology "I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

7.10.24 #20 - Colorful Abstract Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint in fluent b...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Drain Vortex, Surrealist Mixed Media Drawing by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) - Drain Vortex, Year: 2000, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Gold Leaf on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 30 x 41.25 in. ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Harbor Party, Modern Gouache by John von Wicht
Located in Long Island City, NY
Harbor Party by John von Wicht, German (1888–1970) Date: circa 1965 Gouache and Pastel on Japon, signed in pencil lower right Size: 15.5 x 23 in. (39.37 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 22 x ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Oil Pastel

Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 8
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

"Landscape B/W" Minimalist Art on Paper - Large size Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW Mineral Oxide on Paper ( Canson Paper 300gr) 55x75 cm 2022 one of a kind the painting can be shipped with the frame ready to hang, or on a rigid support with passpartou...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Does not see, does not hear, does not speak -line drawing figure with red gloves
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Does not see, does not hear, does not speak. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 15 by 11 inches in size, framed (...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Synchromist Abstraction watercolor by Jay Van Everen
Located in Hudson, NY
Jay Van Everen was a pioneering early American abstractionist known for his affiliation with the Synchromists. His abstract color studies would take him to the forefront of the Ameri...
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1920s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

RosesGold
Located in Westport, CT
Since 1974, Louise P. Sloane has been actively engaged in the studio as an abstract painter. Her work focuses upon geometric forms, grids and patterns. These detail oriented pieces ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

Blue Blossom unique signed work on handmade hand dyed paper ex Tupperware Coll.
Located in New York, NY
Margie Hughto Blue Blossom, 1983 Dyed Handmade paper Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front. Titled on the back. Frame Included in ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Dye, Handmade Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker

"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #1" Wall Hanging Sumi ink layered collage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Delivered and Discarded (Negatives) 1 " is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Sumi Ink, Synthetic Paper

"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #2" layered & manipulated sumi ink on Tyvek
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Delivered and Discarded (Negatives) 2 is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Sumi Ink, Mixed Media, Synthetic Paper

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical style on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Summer for everyone. Contemporary Gouache Painting, Abstraction, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (1948-2022) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at th...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Uncertainty
Located in Zofingen, AG
In Uncertainty, Iryna Burda delicately yet uncompromisingly explores the fragile, unstable state between decision and helplessness, between motion and stillness. This work is not mer...
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2010s Realist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Silent Shout 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantly switching between mediu...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Cluster - Contemporary Pattern Drawing Navy Blue Pink Peach Orange, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
A contemporary drawing with delicate dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink and dark cobalt details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. Thi...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Flag Icon unique signed pastel collage on paper by renowned female artist Framed
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff Flag Icon, 1963 Pastel, graphite and collage Frame included: elegantly framed in hand made wood frame with UV plexiglass Evocative mixed media mid century modern work...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite

"Mask On, You’re Happy Now", Brightly Colored, Rainbow, Abstract, Mixed Media
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brightly colored mixed media artwork titled "Mask On, You’re Happy Now" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, latex paint, marker and handmade sequins o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Thread, Paper, Sequins, Latex, Permanent Marker

Drawing 3 & 4 - black & white, minimalist, gestural, abstract, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Lynne Fernie prefers working in black and white. She enjoys the pure pleasure of drawing, the first art form she began to work in. Drawing 3 & 4, two panels of jet bla...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Latex, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Blue Triptych of Trio of Palms, Tropical Botanical Cyanotype, Watercolor Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These triptychs are large pieces that feature lush blues, making them an impressive addition to any beautifully designed space. Each triptych is printed by hand and carefully crafted to capture the unique essence of these natural environments, with a focus on the interplay of light and shadows, and the subtle nuances of tone and texture. The beach and ocean scenes depict the dynamic beauty of waves crashing against the shore, with the cyanotype process lending a dreamy, ethereal quality to the images. Similarly, the forest and wood scenes offer a glimpse into the hidden depths of nature, with the cyanotype process lending a sense of mystery and wonder to the images, while the lush blues of cyanotypes imitate the sky and clouds perfectly. These triptychs are perfect for anyone who loves to surround themselves with the beauty of nature, and they make an excellent centerpiece for any beautifully designed space. Details: + Title: Desert Palm Trio + Year: 2024 + Edition Size: 20 + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided + Measurements : 100x210 cm (40 x 84 in.) Each paper measures 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.) each, a standard frame size + All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's. Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun. Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative...
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2010s Naturalistic Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Monotype, Rag Paper

Monet Blue by Lélia Pissarro - Tempera
Located in London, GB
Monet Blue by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Tempera and gold on paper 21 x 14.7 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 5 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro Executed in 2023 This work is accompanied by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold

Silver Pencil Shape (Bourgognone) - Original Contemporary Abstract Drawing
Located in Boston, MA
"Silver Pencil Shape (Bourgognone) 17.0 x 14.0 x 0.2, 0.5 lbs Acrylic paint on archival paper Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: ""This is a drawing made with acrylic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Study for Abstract Expressionist sculpture Atman, hand signed twice by di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero Study for Atman (hand signed twice), ca. 1978 Marker wash on paper (hand signed twice by Mark di Suvero) Signed twice by Mark di Suvero on the lower front center and a...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Permanent Marker

Soul Flowers 57 Donna's Portal - Staircase Doorway Black and White Drawing, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
A tiny black figure ascends a stairway to a portal surrounded by meticulously rendered patterns. This contemporary drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper. Framed in...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Pen

Bloques Huecos 3 Puntos. From The No. 3 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Bloques Huecos 3 Puntos, 2019 by Rodrigo Spinel From The No. 3 Series Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. Image size: 21 cm H x 14.8 cm W Frame size: 32 cm H x 26 cm W x 4 cm D ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory, color theory, and philosophy, a writer of art criticism both in German and English, and, above all, a practicing artist. Bluemner was an intense man, who sought to express and share, through drawing and painting, universal emotional experience. Undergirded by theory, Bluemner chose color and line for his vehicles; but color especially became the focus of his passion. He was neither abstract artist nor realist, but employed the “expressional use of real phenomena” to pursue his ends. (Oscar Bluemner, from unpublished typescript on “Modern Art” for Camera Work, in Bluemner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as cited and quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner [1991], p. 60. The Bluemner papers in the Archives [hereafter abbreviated as AAA] are the primary source for Bluemner scholars. Jeffrey Hayes read them thoroughly and translated key passages for his doctoral dissertation, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory [University of Maryland, 1982; UMI reprint, 1982], which remains the most comprehensive source on Bluemner. In 1991, Hayes published a monographic study of Bluemner digested from his dissertation and, in 2005, contributed a brief essay to the gallery show at Barbara Mathes, op. cit.. The most recent, accessible, and comprehensive view of Bluemner is the richly illustrated, Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhib. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.]) Bluemner was born in the industrial city of Prenzlau, Prussia, the son and grandson of builders and artisans. He followed the family predilection and studied architecture, receiving a traditional and thorough German training. He was a prize-winning student and appeared to be on his way to a successful career when he decided, in 1892, to emigrate to America, drawn perhaps by the prospect of immediate architectural opportunities at the Chicago World’s Fair, but, more importantly, seeking a freedom of expression and an expansiveness that he believed he would find in the New World. The course of Bluemner’s American career proved uneven. He did indeed work as an architect in Chicago, but left there distressed at the formulaic quality of what he was paid to do. Plagued by periods of unemployment, he lived variously in Chicago, New York, and Boston. At one especially low point, he pawned his coat and drafting tools and lived in a Bowery flophouse, selling calendars on the streets of New York and begging for stale bread. In Boston, he almost decided to return home to Germany, but was deterred partly because he could not afford the fare for passage. He changed plans and direction again, heading for Chicago, where he married Lina Schumm, a second-generation German-American from Wisconsin. Their first child, Paul Robert, was born in 1897. In 1899, Bluemner became an American citizen. They moved to New York City where, until 1912, Bluemner worked as an architect and draftsman to support his family, which also included a daughter, Ella Vera, born in 1903. All the while, Oscar Bluemner was attracted to the freer possibilities of art. He spent weekends roaming Manhattan’s rural margins, visiting the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, sketching landscapes in hundreds of small conté crayon drawings. Unlike so many city-based artists, Bluemner did not venture out in search of pristine countryside or unspoiled nature. As he wrote in 1932, in an unsuccessful application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, “I prefer the intimate landscape of our common surroundings, where town and country mingle. For we are in the habit to carry into them our feelings of pain and pleasure, our moods” (as quoted by Joyce E. Brodsky in “Oscar Bluemner in Black and White,” p. 4, in Bulletin 1977, I, no. 5, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut). By 1911, Bluemner had found a powerful muse in a series of old industrial towns, mostly in New Jersey, strung along the route of the Morris Canal. While he educated himself at museums and art galleries, Bluemner entered numerous architectural competitions. In 1903, in partnership with Michael Garven, he designed a new courthouse for Bronx County. Garven, who had ties to Tammany Hall, attempted to exclude Bluemner from financial or artistic credit, but Bluemner promptly sued, and, finally, in 1911, after numerous appeals, won a $7,000 judgment. Barbara Haskell’s recent catalogue reveals more details of Bluemner’s architectural career than have previously been known. Bluemner the architect was also married with a wife and two children. He took what work he could get and had little pride in what he produced, a galling situation for a passionate idealist, and the undoubted explanation for why he later destroyed the bulk of his records for these years. Beginning in 1907, Bluemner maintained a diary, his “Own Principles of Painting,” where he refined his ideas and incorporated insights from his extensive reading in philosophy and criticism both in English and German to create a theoretical basis for his art. Sometime between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner’s life as an artist was transformed by his encounter with the German-educated Alfred Stieglitz, proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue. The two men were kindred Teutonic souls. Bluemner met Stieglitz at about the time that Stieglitz was shifting his serious attention away from photography and toward contemporary art in a modernist idiom. Stieglitz encouraged and presided over Bluemner’s transition from architect to painter. During the same period elements of Bluemner’s study of art began to coalesce into a personal vision. A Van Gogh show in 1908 convinced Bluemner that color could be liberated from the constraints of naturalism. In 1911, Bluemner visited a Cézanne watercolor show at Stieglitz’s gallery and saw, in Cézanne’s formal experiments, a path for uniting Van Gogh’s expressionist use of color with a reality-based but non-objective language of form. A definitive change of course in Bluemner’s professional life came in 1912. Ironically, it was the proceeds from his successful suit to gain credit for his architectural work that enabled Bluemner to commit to painting as a profession. Dividing the judgment money to provide for the adequate support of his wife and two children, he took what remained and financed a trip to Europe. Bluemner traveled across the Continent and England, seeing as much art as possible along the way, and always working at a feverish pace. He took some of his already-completed work with him on his European trip, and arranged his first-ever solo exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, and Elberfeld, Germany. After Bluemner returned from his study trip, he was a painter, and would henceforth return to drafting only as a last-ditch expedient to support his family when his art failed to generate sufficient income. Bluemner became part of the circle of Stieglitz artists at “291,” a group which included Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. He returned to New York in time to show five paintings at the 1913 Armory Show and began, as well, to publish critical and theoretical essays in Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. In its pages he cogently defended the Armory Show against the onslaught of conservative attacks. In 1915, under Stieglitz’s auspices, Bluemner had his first American one-man show at “291.” Bluemner’s work offers an interesting contrast with that of another Stieglitz architect-turned-artist, John Marin, who also had New Jersey connections. The years after 1914 were increasingly uncomfortable. Bluemner remained, all of his life, proud of his German cultural legacy, contributing regularly to German language journals and newspapers in this country. The anti-German sentiment, indeed mania, before and during World War I, made life difficult for the artist and his family. It is impossible to escape the political agenda in Charles Caffin’s critique of Bluemner’s 1915 show. Caffin found in Bluemner’s precise and earnest explorations of form, “drilled, regimented, coerced . . . formations . . . utterly alien to the American idea of democracy” (New York American, reprinted in Camera Work, no. 48 [Oct. 1916], as quoted in Hayes, 1991, p. 71). In 1916, seeking a change of scene, more freedom to paint, and lower expenses, Bluemner moved his family to New Jersey, familiar terrain from his earlier sketching and painting. During the ten years they lived in New Jersey, the Bluemner family moved around the state, usually, but not always, one step ahead of the rent collector. In 1917, Stieglitz closed “291” and did not reestablish a Manhattan gallery until 1925. In the interim, Bluemner developed relationships with other dealers and with patrons. Throughout his career he drew support and encouragement from art cognoscenti who recognized his talent and the high quality of his work. Unfortunately, that did not pay the bills. Chronic shortfalls were aggravated by Bluemner’s inability to sustain supportive relationships. He was a difficult man, eternally bitter at the gap between the ideal and the real. Hard on himself and hard on those around him, he ultimately always found a reason to bite the hand that fed him. Bluemner never achieved financial stability. He left New Jersey in 1926, after the death of his beloved wife, and settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where he continued to paint until his own death in 1938. As late as 1934 and again in 1936, he worked for New Deal art programs designed to support struggling artists. Bluemner held popular taste and mass culture in contempt, and there was certainly no room in his quasi-religious approach to art for accommodation to any perceived commercial advantage. His German background was also problematic, not only for its political disadvantages, but because, in a world where art is understood in terms of national styles, Bluemner was sui generis, and, to this day, lacks a comfortable context. In 1933, Bluemner adopted Florianus (definitively revising his birth names, Friedrich Julius Oskar) as his middle name and incorporated it into his signature, to present “a Latin version of his own surname that he believed reinforced his career-long effort to translate ordinary perceptions into the more timeless and universal languages of art” (Hayes 1982, p. 189 n. 1). In 1939, critic Paul Rosenfeld, a friend and member of the Stieglitz circle, responding to the difficulty in categorizing Bluemner, perceptively located him among “the ranks of the pre-Nazi German moderns” (Hayes 1991, p. 41). Bluemner was powerfully influenced in his career by the intellectual heritage of two towering figures of nineteenth-century German culture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A keen student of color theory, Bluemner gave pride of place to the formulations of Goethe, who equated specific colors with emotional properties. In a November 19, 1915, interview in the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Abendblatt), he stated: I comprehend the visible world . . . abstract the primary-artistic . . . and after these elements of realty are extracted and analyzed, I reconstruct a new free creation that still resembles the original, but also . . . becomes an objectification of the abstract idea of beauty. The first—and most conspicuous mark of this creation is . . . colors which accord with the character of things, the locality . . . [and which] like the colors of Cranach, van der Weyden, or Durer, are of absolute purity, breadth, and luminosity. . . . I proceed from the psychological use of color by the Old Masters . . . [in which] we immediately recognize colors as carriers of “sorrow and joy” in Goethe’s sense, or as signs of human relationship. . . . Upon this color symbolism rests the beauty as well as the expressiveness, of earlier sacred paintings. Above all, I recognize myself as a contributor to the new German theory of light and color, which expands Goethe’s law of color through modern scientific means (as quoted in Hayes 1991, p. 71). Hayes has traced the global extent of Bluemner’s intellectual indebtedness to Hegel (1991, pp. 36–37). More specifically, Bluemner made visual, in his art, the Hegelian world view, in the thesis and antithesis of the straight line and the curve, the red and the green, the vertical and the horizontal, the agitation and the calm. Bluemner respected all of these elements equally, painting and drawing the tension and dynamic of the dialectic and seeking ultimate reconciliation in a final visual synthesis. Bluemner was a keen student of art, past and present, looking, dissecting, and digesting all that he saw. He found precedents for his non-naturalist use of brilliant-hued color not only in the work Van Gogh and Cezanne, but also in Gauguin, the Nabis, and the Symbolists, as well as among his contemporaries, the young Germans of Der Blaue Reiter. Bluemner was accustomed to working to the absolute standard of precision required of the architectural draftsman, who adjusts a design many times until its reality incorporates both practical imperatives and aesthetic intentions. Hayes describes Bluemner’s working method, explaining how the artist produced multiple images playing on the same theme—in sketch form, in charcoal, and in watercolor, leading to the oil works that express the ultimate completion of his process (Hayes, 1982, pp. 156–61, including relevant footnotes). Because of Bluemner’s working method, driven not only by visual considerations but also by theoretical constructs, his watercolor and charcoal studies have a unique integrity. They are not, as is sometimes the case with other artists, rough preparatory sketches. They stand on their own, unfinished only in the sense of not finally achieving Bluemner’s carefully considered purpose. The present charcoal drawing is one of a series of images that take as their starting point the Morris Canal as it passed through Rockaway, New Jersey. The Morris Canal industrial towns that Bluemner chose as the points of departure for his early artistic explorations in oil included Paterson with its silk mills (which recalled the mills in the artist’s childhood home in Elberfeld), the port city of Hoboken, Newark, and, more curiously, a series of iron ore mining and refining towns, in the north central part of the state that pre-dated the Canal, harkening back to the era of the Revolutionary War. The Rockaway theme was among the original group of oil paintings that Bluemner painted in six productive months from July through December 1911 and took with him to Europe in 1912. In his painting journal, Bluemner called this work Morris Canal at Rockaway N.J. (AAA, reel 339, frames 150 and 667, Hayes, 1982, pp. 116–17), and exhibited it at the Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912 as Rockaway N. J. Alter Kanal. After his return, Bluemner scraped down and reworked these canvases. The Rockaway picture survives today, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (color illus. in Haskell, fig. 48, p. 65). For Bluemner, the charcoal expression of his artistic vision was a critical step in composition. It represented his own adaptation of Arthur Wesley’s Dow’s (1857–1922) description of a Japanese...
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Abstract Composition, Graphite, colored pencil and paper collage, Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Murray Untitled Abstract Composition, 1990 Graphite, colored pencil and paper collage on paper (frame bears the original Paula Cooper Gallery label) Signed and dated Spring...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite, Mixed Media

Farindola 3
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

British Impressionist Painting Fishermen And Boats On The Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 15. x 21.5 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Gold Monet by Lélia Pissarro - Tempera
Located in London, GB
Sold directly on behalf of the artist Gold Monet by Lélia Pissarro (B. 1963) Tempera and gold on paper 21 x 14.7 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 5 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro Execute...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold

Connecticut Hills
Located in Miami, FL
This later work by Lyonel Feininger approaches almost full abstraction. It was executed in 1950 at a crucial moment in American art history. Abstract Expressionism and non-representational art were in full gear and taking the world by storm. Yet Feininger who was associated with the German expressionist groups: Die Brücke...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Watercolor

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache abstract morden White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Prison 14, Unique, signed, Graphite pencil and ink drawing on paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley Prison 14, 1995 Graphite pencil and ink drawing on paper. Hand signed. Titled. Dated. Framed. Hand signed on lower right front corner Unique Frame included Unique earli...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Graphite

'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎)
Located in London, GB
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Taiwanese artist, Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎) (1956-59). Although elements of landscapes often appear in paintings produced by various cultures, before the 17th century in the West they were only peripheral. In 5th century China, shan shui or landscape painting developed, expressing harmony and natural beauty. These were among the first paintings to make landscape their subject (ref: 'The Short Story of Art...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Urban Calligraphy
Located in Paris, FR
Framed work On a white background, JonOne interprets dense, modern calligraphy in black. The repetition of free-form shapes and the dripping effect create a dense, expressive motif....
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Silk

The Mekong River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper. Miranda Maher’s ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Honolulu Watercolor, unique signed work on paper by famed LA Pop Artist, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston Honolulu Watercolor, 1992 Watercolor on handmade paper with deckled edge in artist's hand made frame with studio label verso Signed, titled and dated in pencil lowe...
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1990s Pop Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Whatever Man
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor and collage on paper Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary a...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Geometric Female Nude in Pink and Mauve – circa 1970
Located in Firenze, IT
Geometric Female Nude in Pink and Mauve – circa 1970 Medium: Tempera on cardboard Dimensions: H 65 cm x W 33 cm approx. Description: The female body is reimagined through a composit...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Illustration Board

Biogram to the Pharmacy in Anaheim (Abstract, Bold, Figurativ, Collage, 40% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kory Twaddle Biogram to the Pharmacy in Anaheim (Abstract, Bold, Figurativ, Collage) Mixed Media Collage on Heavy Paper Year: 2020 Size: 22 x 28.25 inches (55.88 x 71.75 cm) Signed, ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Many Wonderful, Colorful Geometric Abstraction with Bold Overlapping Shapes
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant watercolor by Sarah Brenneman features bold, interlocking geometric forms in bright hues of yellow, red, blue, green, and pink, all outlined with a sense of sculptural d...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil

In a State of Depression...
Located in Zofingen, AG
Title: In a State of Depression… Gallery Description: In this piece, Iryna Burda immerses the viewer in the fragile space of the inner world of a person engulfed by depression. She ...
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2010s Realist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

"Abstract Composition IX" Abstract Painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition IX" Abstract Painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy signed & dated Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his na...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Georgian Contemporary Art by Dali Nazarishvili - Lake
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on French paper Framed, 50 x 60.5 x 1 cm, paper frame Dali Nazarishvili is a Georgian female artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2001, she...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Georgian Contemporary Art by Dali Nazarishvili - Sunset
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper Framed, 39 x 51.5 x 1.5 cm (Plastic brown frame with gold) Dali Nazarishvili is a Georgian female artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. S...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Untitled
Located in London, GB
'Untitled' abstract composition, mixed media on soft board, Japanese ink, oil, pencil and gouache by Erez Yardeni (2018). Beautifully balanced, stunningly...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Oil, Gouache, Board, Pencil

'Midsummer's Noon'. Sunflower abstract painting blue yellow floral abstract
Located in Penzance, GB
'Midsummer's Noon' Original Artwork. Unframed ________________________ With transitory beauty, the sunflower turns to face the brazen light of the solstice sun. 'Midsummer's Noon' ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Photogram, Acrylic

Barrilete 2
Located in New York, NY
Barrilete 2, 2015 Ferrite and graphite on paper 9.80h x 7.90w in Unframed Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Untitled - Drawing by Fred Bugs - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bugs (1997) Untitled 21x30 cm Mixed media on paper Year: 2024
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media

Fig. 9 BASE VERDE, NARANJA and BASE, Triptych. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fig. 9 BASE VERDE, NARANJA and BASE, Triptych, 2025 by Rodrigo Spinel From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series Indian ink on 350g Strathmore Bristol paper Overall Frame size: 73.4 H x 174....
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Snowflakes 150 Be, Planets, Spiritual Theme, Nature Mandala Pencil Drawing
Located in Kent, CT
Meticulously intricate patterns and little ringed planets surround the edges and reach outward from the center of this circular mandala. Vignettes with tiny landscapes and endless ho...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

"Glyphs II" Abstract Painting 20" x 28" inch by Ahmed Yousry
Located in Culver City, CA
"Glyphs II" Abstract Painting 20" x 28" inch by Ahmed Yousry Medium: ecoline on paper Ahmed Yousry was born in Alexandria in 1993. In 2017, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Belarusian Contemporary Art by Dasha Buben - Conversations with my Inner Child
Located in Paris, IDF
Color pencils on paper Framed 40x 50 cm Dasha Buben is a Belarusian artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the Belarusia...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

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