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Abstract Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
"transfigured from longing", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Ink, Botanicals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "transfigured from longing" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piece...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Paint, Ink
"held like a dream", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Ink, Botanicals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "held like a dream" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piece measure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Monotype
Grass Power, original unique signed drawing, hand signed and inscribed; Framed
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Grass Power, 1979-2014
Mixed Media drawing: marker, ink and pencil on paper
Hand titled, signed and inscribed to Nadine by Mark di Suvero
Frame included:
Floated and f...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker, Pencil, Mixed Media
White and Gold Lace Kimono - Hand Augmented Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-augmented collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Signed "Patricia A. Pearce" in the lower right corner. This piece has an iridescent quality to the coloration. No ...
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1980s Realist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil
$1,085 Sale Price
30% Off
Personne Suite No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Dorothea Tanning (American, 1910–2012)
Initially associated with the Surrealist movement, Dorothea Tanning developed a personal visual language that blurred the boundaries between r...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Bloques Desalineado 2. From The No. 1 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rodrigo Spinel finds in drawing a way to explore the relevance of detail in the construction of images, objects and spaces. The repetition of tiny elements, such as the line in a dra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Norman Adams "Study at Resipole" Original Watercolor c.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Norman Adams "Study at Resipole" Original Watercolor c.1968
Original watercolor on paper
Dimensions 9.75" wide x 8.25" high
The lightly distressed chro...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
17.04.2020 - We are LIVE! COVID-19 Documentary Art Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 17.04.2020 - We are LIVE! COVID-19 Documentary art. (2020)
17.04.2020 - Our life in quarantine has stabilized and adapted to new conditions.
Many people contin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Delicious fruits" (contemporary impressionist colorful still-life painting)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this floral still-life artwork "Delicious fruits" I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Color of unloved #1 & #2 diptych-abstract art in red, yellow, black, white
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise and black. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, be part of diptych and as a proper art piece.
Lena Cher...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Drawing No. 15, 2024 (Starlight Collection), Abstract Painting
By John Diehl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Black lines form a minimalist triangle against a white background, reflecting artist John Diehl's mastery of geometric precision with freehand artistry. Part...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract composition by Julien Dinou - Pastel on paper 64x49 cm
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
$528 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signatur...
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Plano. From The No. 1 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rodrigo Spinel finds in drawing a way to explore the relevance of detail in the construction of images, objects and spaces. The repetition of tiny eleme...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
“Untitled #4”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed in pencil lower right margin. Dated in pencil lower left m...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Piercing Shafts'. Botanical nature tropical green blue leaf sky abstract
Located in Penzance, GB
'Piercing Shafts'
Original artwork, framed ready to hang
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Yucca leaves: lances and swords, flashing shafts of sunlight through the piercing forms, a dance of loyalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Photogram
Landscape - XXI Century, Black, White And Orange, Contemporary Abstract Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ FOGTT (born in 1950) He graduated from the PWSSP in Poznań in 1974 where he studied in the studios of prof. Z.Kępiński and M. Abakanowicz. Initially, his art was considered t...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Lyman Kipp, Untitled Minimalist painting on paper signed and dated vintage frame
Located in New York, NY
Lyman Kipp
Untitled Minimalist painting on paper, 1980
Color oil painting on paper done with ink paint roller
Signed and dated on the front
Unique
Frame included
Signed and dated 19...
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1980s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Abstract drawing n°13 by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Place de la Bastille - China Ink and Watercolor - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Place de la Bastille is a really joyful original drawing on paper, realized around the first decades of XX century by the French artist Eliane Diverly (1914 - 2012).
Titled and date...
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1930s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Harlequin’s Birthday" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field
Located in New York, NY
"Harlequin’s Birthday" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
Harlequin’s Birthday
17 1/4 x 11 inches
Pastel on paper, c. 1965
Titled lo...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Deity of Day and Night of the Ways - Paint by Parimah Avani - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Deity of Day and Night of the Ways is a Drawing realized by Iranian artist and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023.
China ink, acrylic, and mixed media on Himalayan Washi Lokta paper with ap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic
Cote D'Azur- abstraction art, made in pale pink, turquoise color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The triptych is made with alcoholic ink in pale pink, turquoise color on Yupo paper.
Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$900 Sale Price
25% Off
Basement Systems
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle
Title : Basement Systems
Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, and glitter glue on cardboard drawing pad back
Date : 2019
Dimensions : 18 x 12 x .2 in.
Kory ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...
Explosive Issue - Abstract Small Watercolor Painting
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Explosive Issue is a 13 x 10.5 inches watercolor painting. The main colors are green and gray with accents of orange. Petrov works by applying layers of paint and the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
"Stern Installation 2, 1994" Contemporary Warm Toned Expressionist Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Modern warm toned expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of orange organic forms overlaid with expr...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
"Stern Installation 1, 1994" Contemporary Blue & Red Expressionist Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Modern muted blue and red expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of a painting hanging on a wall ov...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Signed Chinese Calligraphy Drawing, (Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Coll.), Framed
Located in New York, NY
Zhang Hui (b. 1969)
Untitled Calligraphy Drawing (from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection), 2007
India ink on hand made fine art paper
Signed and dated in graphite pencil on...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Snowflakes 140 Cosmopolitan, Crescent Moon, Bee, Insect, Pattern Pencil Mandala
Located in Kent, CT
A carefully rendered bumblebee, delicate patterns, and a small crescent moon are perfectly balanced in this intricately detailed mandala drawing entirely hand-drawn using only pencil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The garden of delights - abstraction art, made in pink, purple, grey color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink in pink, purple, fuchsia, grey color on Yupo paper.
Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styr...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Composition in Orange and Red
Located in London, GB
'Composition in Orange and Red', gouache on paper, by James Pichette (circa 1970s). A dynamic, lively abstract composition by an artist known for such s...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Abstract Figure Mid 20th Century Signed Graphite and Watercolour
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Nude Female Figure
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed right left
Watercolour and graphite on paper, unframed
measurements: 11 x 7.5 inches (overall sheet measures 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Love room. 1950, paper, mixed technique, 27.6x20.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
$1,708 Sale Price
20% Off
'The Sap is Rising!' Contemporary green blue gold spring maple leaves natural
Located in Penzance, GB
'The Sap is Rising!'
Original Artwork, Unframed
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Capturing the pulse and flush of fleeting youth, the maples are dressed in their iridescent finery.
'The Sap Is Ris...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
MANDRAGORA. From The Series Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms”
James Bonachea...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Black White Abstraction 013 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2019
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Black white abstraction 013 (2019)
Painting on high quality, acid free, high density paper.
Conceptual minimalist abstract painting designed in calligraphic st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
1988 "Night Glow I" Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Elaine Kaufman Feiner (1922-2018)
"Night Glow I"
1988
Watercolor and pastel on paper
30"x30" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right, titled reverse
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
$617 Sale Price
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Abstracted Nude Figurative in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Nude Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted figurative by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. A woman's profile of her face and her breasts and leg is shown in bold and playful colors of fluorescent purple, orange, pink and yellow. Black outlines of organic and tribal shapes creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance. The tall and thin size of this piece makes this ideal for those difficult and odd sized walls
Unsigned
Presented "floating" on foam core with black mat surround.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 29"H x 10.75"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$520 Sale Price
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Snowflakes 84 Forester, Mandala Pencil Drawing, Owl, Cosmic Imagery, Landscapes
Located in Kent, CT
A meticulously rendered owl at the center of this graphite drawing is the prominent feature of this mandala. Many cultures associate owls with wisdom, intuition and good judgment, a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Textura. From The No. 5 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rodrigo Spinel finds in drawing a way to explore the relevance of detail in the construction of images, objects and spaces. The repetition of tiny elements, such as the line in a dra...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
What was Left
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle
Title : What was Left
Materials : Watercolor on paper
Date : 2015
Dimensions : 10 x 12 x .1
Description : I hate to waste anything and want to utilize every scr...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Graphite
City 9. 1964, monotype, 44.5x64.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City 9. 1964, monotype, 44.5x64.4cm
Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.)
1926. 9 IX Ludza – 1980. 21 II Lester, Great Britain – graphic artist.
He was born a...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Monotype
$854 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled - Paper, White, Abstract, 21st Contemporary, Minimalist
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled, 2016
White silicone on paper
78 × 58 3/10 in
198 × 148 cm
Signed on reverse
Berszán depicts in his drawings and paintings the primary turmoil where the violence of the un...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silicone, Paper
1959 Black & White Mid-Century, Surrealist Abstraction by Artist Desmond Mclean
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959 black and white, Mid-Century, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame. Image size: 15 1/2" x 22 1/2". Framed size: 25" x 21".
McL...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled 24 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Energy Clearing Drawing #1: Framed Gestural Abstract Drawing, Black Ink on Paper
Located in Hudson, NY
Minimalist gestural abstract drawing on paper with black ink
"Energy Clearing #1", by Jeanette Fintz, 2019
22 x 30 inches, 28 x 35.5 inches in natural wood frame
Wire and d-rings for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Imagination Meets Reality 2
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
New York City 8 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-308
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pencil
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Yellow Red
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
The Storm, 140x140cm, collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020
* Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabels own words:
The Storm
It started with a butterfly flapping its wings, which caused an ant to drop a leaf it was carrying, the leaf fluttered and spun, it tickled the nose of a fox returning to its den, the fox sneezed which awoke a sleeping dog, the dog barked and the fox screamed, a baby in a house began to cry. The storm clouds gathered, threatening, grey, black, blue, like swollen bruises from the blows of life. Round and round they whirled, the butterfly flapping and flipping with them. People looked out of their windows and knew that the sky was falling on their heads. The swirling vortex opened and all life was sucked away, never to be seen again. All that was left was the tiny butterfly who shrugged its tiny shoulders and flapped its wings.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
A certificate of authentication comes from Gallery Art 1821...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Watercolour squared abstract by Modern British artist Adrian Heath
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920 – 1992)
Squared abstract
Pencil, pastel, gouache and watercolour
Signed with Initials and dated `AH 78` (lower right)
8.3/4 x 7.3/4 in. (22 x 19.5 cm)
Ad...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
ocean, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Jane Ferrari
Located in Yardley, PA
Watercolor - printer ink on photographic paper :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: S...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
GUIA UPS. Stamp. Drawing on paper. From The Series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is based in the contrast of the two images, the air waybill and the postage stamp, from different times but similar in their function. The artist seeks to enlighten the c...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
SAINT TATIANA (2)
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting, executed in rich shades of blue and gold, depicts Saint Tatiana in a moment of deep spiritual connection with nature. The central figure is Saint Tatiana,...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Veiled Series LX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Snowflakes 125 Oneness, Planets, Crescent Moon, Patterns Mandala Pencil Drawing
Located in Kent, CT
A meticulously detailed mandala containing tiny vignettes of celestial bodies, planets and miniature landscapes with endless horizons is depicted in carefully applied graphite on pap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
'Lily in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - The Future of Children
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Pen, ink, marker, pencil, watercolor & colored pencils on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. Hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil, Pen
Chamaecyparis Eureka - Original Black and White Abstract Calligraphy Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
New York artist Thomas Hammer is known for his motion filled ink works on paper. The physical process of creating his ink paintings involves a degree of performance. The brushwork re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Hoag's Object - Yellow, Blue, Collage, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Hoag's Object, 2022
collage on paper
30 H x 30 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe.
The new series of collages...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Mid Century Abstracted San Francisco Bay Line Drawing Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract geometric landscape, an expressive black and white line drawing done in pastel, by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Unsigned, but was acquired from the artist's estate. Presented in a new black mat with foam core backing. Provenance: Estate of Earle Loran; David Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
