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Medium: Watercolor
"Burst of Creativity" (contemporary impressionist floral painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of summer flowers which are full...
Category
2010s Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Dragonfly and Port Wine Magnolia, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar displays a scarlet dragonfly landing on the branch of a magnolia bush. She captures the fleeting moment as it sips nectar from the flower. Its red wings match the fully bloomed magnolia, fittingly complementing the verdant green leaves. Catherine effectively uses organic curved lines to draw the viewer's eye through her intricate arrangement of buds, blooms, and leaves.
About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Conversation" - Charcoal and watercolor abstract expression, Limited editon 15
Located in London, GB
"Conversation" intertwines the raw, emotive qualities of charcoal with the fluidity of watercolor. The juxtaposition of the two mediums and dimentions creates a dynamic interplay of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photographic Film, Charcoal, Watercolor, Giclée, Film
"Sierra Country", Abstracted Landscape Watercolor
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant abstract landscape watercolor titled "Sierra Country" by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1984. Titled, signed, and dated on verso. Presented in a painted metal frame, without glass. Image, 23"H x 31"L. Measures: 30"H x 37"W.
Erle Loran was a modernist of urban and coastal views and geometric painting.
Erle Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art under the direction of Cameron Booth...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Bright Collage Sewn with White Thread on Watercolor Paper, Down by the River
By a.muse
Located in New york, NY
In an Art Brut style Down by the River, 2022 by a.muse is a contemporary watercolor collage work on paper. The art on paper is a collection of vibrant images arranged like a patchwor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled 580, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Eggplant Purple, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and dark eggplant purple with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Color is Life — Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernest A. Dieringer, Untitled (Color is Life), watercolor, 1959. Initialed 'ED' and dated ' '59' in red pencil at the top and bottom sheet edges—the artist's indication that the work can be viewed from either side. Signed 'Dieringer' in pencil in the bottom support board margin.
A fine abstract expressionist work, watercolor on white wove paper, with fresh, bright colors; the image extends to the sheet edges, spot glued to the original cream wove backing board, in very good condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 x 10 15/16 inches; backing board size 13 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches.
Provenance: ex. Collection Alexander Raydon. The collector/dealer's well-known 'Raydon Gallery' was established in 1962 on 82nd Street and Madison Avenue, New York City.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ernest Dieringer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on a National Scholastic Scholarship, beginning his career with the Chicago-based Wells Street Gallery in 1957. He showed his work with other abstract artists, including Robert Natkin and John Chamberlain. The gallery was considered a vanguard space in Chicago for exhibiting emerging abstract artists from the surrounding area. Artists associated with the gallery eventually became known as the Wells Street Group. Due to the success of the gallery, Dieringer and other group members were invited by the Manhattan-based contemporary art dealer...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper
Bright and colorful abstracted figural painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Bra...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
The feather of the soul by José Gerson - Gouache on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1970s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil
Follow the white rabbit - line drawing woman figure
By Mila Akopova
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Summer Set 8, watercolor monoprint (unique) on Dieu Donne handmade paper, signed
By Arlene Shechet
Located in New York, NY
Arlene Shechet
Summer Set 8, 2005
Watercolor monoprint on dieu donné hand made paper
21 × 27 1/2 inches
Signed and dated in graphite on the front
Exquisite watercolor monoprint on di...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Graphite
Vibrant Alan Davie Scottish Colorful Surrealist British Pop Art Village Painting
By Alan Davie
Located in Surfside, FL
Alan Davie, Scotland (1920-2014).
Gouache painting with watercolor
'Village Myth'
Hand signed ('with love') lower left,
1982
Dimensions: with frame 37.5"H x 30.25"W; image, 28"H x 22.5"W.
James Alan Davie (1920 – 2014) was a Scottish painter and musician.
Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, the son of Elizabeth (née Turnbull) and James William Davie, an art teacher and painter who exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1925. During this formative period Davie discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot, whose prose is echoed in letters home as well as his own verses.
Alan Davie studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1941. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists.
After the Second World War, Davie played tenor saxophone in the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, which was based in Edinburgh and broadcast and toured in Europe. He also earned a living making jewellery during the postwar period. Davie began teaching basic design in the jewellery department at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts led by the Scottish artist William Johnstone, where colleagues included artists Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Patrick Heron. In 1961, Davie’s jewellery was featured in The International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery at London’s Goldsmith’s Hall, a milestone in the history of jewellery making in Britain where an impressive roster of international and British artists including Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Victor Pasmore and John McHale...
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1980s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Dorothy Dehner, (Poster Design), mid-century, for Willard Gallery
Located in New York, NY
This (Poster Design) was made for the exhibition 'Dorothy Dehner, Sculptures and Watercolors,' at the Willard Gallery, May 7 through 31, 1957.
It's a perfect mid-century American i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Untitled" Hans Hofmann, circa 1943 Navy Blue Olive Green Early Abstract Work
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann
Untitled, circa 1943
Signed lower right
Oil and watercolor on paper
22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
The only artist of the New York school to participate directly in European m...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
English Purple-Hued Watercolor Painting - Abstract Leaf Impressions
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Softly-toned watercolor abstract painting by English artist Spe, featuring a variety of purple, fuchsia, and pink hues with pressings of leaves and flowers. Displayed on a white mat ...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Water lilies" ( contemporary acrylic colorful impressionst painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In my art practice I love to use bright colors which boldly contrast with complementary colors so I could get unusual original compositions and structures.
The objective of this art...
Category
2010s Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Everything is Connected
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Everything is Connected, 2025
Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic inks on paper
14 x 10 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. Exte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Heinrich Neuy Watercolor "comodo", 1986
Located in Berlin, DE
Watercolor on paper, 1986, by Heinrich Neuy ( 1911 - 2003 ) Monogramed, titled and dated lower in the middle. Framed.
Measurements: 17.72 x 13.78 x 0.91 in ( 45 x 35 x 2,3 cm )
He...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 600, Teal Blue, Olive Green, Indigo Patterns, Abstract Landscape
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in indigo, bright blue and olive green complement a teal grayish blue background. Signed on verso.
Exploring a world ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"Green Square #19" Diana Kurz, Abstract Expressionist Gestural Green and Purple
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Green Square #19
Gouache on paper
25 x 19 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Untitled', c. 1990's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Llangorse Lake Brecon Beacons Wales Circa 1964 Welsh Abstract Landscape Painting
By Roger Cecil
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Roger Cecil.
Welsh ( b.1942 - d.2015 ).
Llangorse, Brecon Beacons.
Watercolor & Pastel Mixed Media On Paper.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches ( 49.5cm x 75cm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Spirit', 1992 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1998 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Linda Turner, Meditation Is Play, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Pencil
"Little Blobs" Contemporary Colorful Watercolor Geometric Dot Grid Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful geometric abstract grid painting by contemporary Texas artist Tina Ruyi. The work features an 8x5 grid of colorful shapes in cool toned colors. Signed and dated in the front...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Suprematist composition red circle and black square - line drawing woman figure
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic and watercolor in red and black color on watercolor paper 360g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (black) with a s...
Category
2010s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1992 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 7, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Deals II - colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
0103: contemporary abstract gestural painting w/ yellow, pink & blue lines
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Free shipping with code ART2021SHIP through December! Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and sea...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
1950s "Sitting in Chair" Mid Century Figurative Pratt Graphic Arts Center
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Sitting in Chair"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additio...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
"Untitled" Betty Parsons, 1977 Ink and Watercolor Abstract Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Betty Parsons
Untitled, 1977
Signed and dated lower right
Watercolor and ink on paper
5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches
Renowned as an esteemed and legendary art dealer who for more than three ...
Category
1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Double-sided British Painting Bridge Figure Flyfishing In The Shallow Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 14.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woodland Reflection — Mid-Century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Irving Lehman, Untitled (Woodland Reflection), watercolor, c. 1955. Unsigned, with the artist's estate stamp verso: 'Original Artwork By: IRVING G. LEHMAN Russian/American 1900-1982'...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2007 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 598, Gray Blue, Lavender Blue, Olive Green, Mauve, Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in a lavender shade of blue and periwinkle blue with a delicate navy leaf pattern complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1996 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"#159 – SLEEP", ink, pencil, gouache, vintage book page, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#159 – SLEEP" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 159 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Red Poppy - line drawing woman figure with flower
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (gold) with a styrene face on a double mat b...
Category
2010s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French Neo-Impressionist Pointillist Abstract Mid 20th Century Small Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Abstract Design
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right in the image and again in the margin
gouache painting on paper, unframed
unfinished sketch on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 71 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artist selects certain words and phrases from the page to isolate as a poem, and then draws, inks, redacts and paints the rest of the page according to the text of the poem. Here the poem reads: "Then it's hopeless? / But sometimes I cannot hope. / I cannot." Note the poem is outlined in dark red and purple radiating lines, while outside there are lighter violet, blue and white lines.
From Amy Williams – "My recent work is focused on making treated book pages using a found vintage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
1960s "Storm at Sea" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract SF Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Storm at Sea
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on paper
35.75"x33.25 float mount black wood frame measures 38.5"x1.5"x36"
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Doble Standard 2. From The Series Doble Standard. 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 pr...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
"Witching Hour" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a deep blue and magenta palette, with two large organic planes of washy color layered over one another for a b...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
Bronze and white capsules - line drawing figure with ultramarine disk, stripes
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor in bronze and ultramarine blue color on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size...
Category
2010s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Lust
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass.
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Passion - Watercolor Drawing by Antonietta Valente - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Passion is an original watercolor on paper 300g/m2 realized by Antonietta Valente in 2020.
Hand-signed and dated on the back. Perfect conditions. C...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dexter's Choice, State II, signed mixed media watercolor (unique variant) Framed
By Larry Zox
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox
Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990
Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges
40 × 60 in
101.6 × 152.4 cm
Edition 8/30 (unique variant)
Frame included
Measurements:
Sheet: 40 inches (vertical) by 60 inches (horizontal)
Frame: 42 inches x 62 inches x 1 inch
Dexter's Choice, State # II is a unique, mixed media work from an edition of 30 unique variants done in pochoir, (25 stencils, 14 colors). Here, Zox uses watercolor instead of inks, which is applied to heavy 300 lb. watercolor paper. Although it is a multiple signed and numbered from the edition of 30, each work of art is unique because of how the paper receives the watercolor brush. In addition, this work is created like a mixed media painting because it has 11 lines added by hand with wax and water based crayons and oil sticks. The unique watercolor technique that Zox employed in making "Dexter's Choice" is documented in the textbook, "Screen Printing: Water Based Techniques,Roni Henning, NYIT ".
Dexter's Choice was published by Images Gallery, and this work was acquired directly from the publisher before they sold out. This work is elegantly floated and framed in a white wood frame.
Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee
Larry Zox Biography:
A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions.
Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock.
In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade.
From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4
In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting.
The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...
Category
1990s Color-Field Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Oil, Watercolor, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Graphite
Blue Twisting Grid (Abstract Geometric Work on Paper, Custom Light Wood Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract drawing on paper in light sky blue, black and white with custom light wood frame
'Blue Twisting Grid' by Donise English
30 x 22 inches unframed, 37 x 29 inches custom frame ...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite
Three Figures with Umbrellas, ca. 1954
Located in London, GB
LYONEL FEININGER 1871-1956
New York 1871-1956 New York (American/German)
Title: Three Figures with Umbrellas, ca. 1954
Technique: Signed Pen Brush and Ink Drawing with Watercolour...
Category
1950s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
French Neo-Impressionist Pointillist Abstract Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Abstract Design
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 8.75 x 6 inches (overall the sheet measures 11...
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Mid-20th Century Pointillist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Contemporary Asian Cartoon Fantasy Art Mixed Media Drawing Tang Wei Hsu Anime
Located in Surfside, FL
Tang-Wei Hsu (1980 born in Changhua, Taiwan) obtained a BA in Architecture at the Shih Chien University and finished an MFA in Visual Arts at the Tainan National University of the Ar...
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2010s Street Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Pink Bouquet - Contemporary Flowers Inc, Ecolina Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lands End 2005 No. 4 / blue watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric cobalt blue Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that refle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Bridge Behind Fishing Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 14.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vue des Invalides
By Louis Valtat
Located in PARIS, FR
Watercolor on charcoal lines
Signed L.V lower right
Provenance:
- Belgium, Private collection.
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fright Bites - colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
After Ingres Drawing
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"After Ingres Drawing" is a figurative Modern pencil and watercolor on paper work by Paul Wunderlich in 1973. The artwork is 26 1/8 x 19 inches and 35 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 2 inches with th...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Karen Schiff, Word Snake H, 2014, Gouache, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Casual classic- earth tone circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
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