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Medium: Watercolor
Owl Flower Potted Plant - Original Radiant Abstract Botanical Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
To Break, To Blossom 24/05
Located in New York, NY
Aida experiences resilience: she paints, she breaks and she rebuilds. Watercolor, subtle and delicate, turns into great sculpture. The beauty of scars in her work — imperfect and fra...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Watercolor Painting on Handmade Indian Paper: Blackbird A
Located in New York, NY
Guillermo Bublik is an Argentinian/American painter based in New Jersey.
His works are easily recognizable by their bold combinations of colors and
abstract geometric forms. Commonly...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2000 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 - Blush
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Our Masks
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor and Ink on paper
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artis...
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2010s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$2,240 Sale Price
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In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No. XIX
Located in Houston, TX
Michael Tracy
In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No XIX, 1992
22 1/2 x 30 in (57.2 x 76.2 cm), unframed
25 1/2 x 33 1/2 in (64.8 x 85.1 cm), framed
JPHB 5649
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Josette Urso "Bella" Watercolor on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Of her recent works, Urso states, "I make exploratory paintings, working in response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intu...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chroma VIII - Monstera, Painting, Watercolor on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
2023 / 16 x 20 / Metallic watercolor and pen on black Canson illustration board Abstract metallic bubbles form a composition derived from dream state, representative of a Monstera le...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Golfers and a Caddy
Located in Missouri, MO
Fred Conway
“Two Golfers and a Caddy” c. 1965
Pen, Ink & Watercolor on Paper
13 x 17 inches
Signed
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School from 1929 to 1970, Frederick Conway...
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1960s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pen
Athirst VI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
$3,600
Josette Urso "Sea Chain" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Of her recent works, Urso states, "I make exploratory paintings, working in response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intu...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Maguelone I
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Artist: JOSÉ MARÍA SICILIA (Madrid, 1954).
Name: “Maguelone I”, 2005.
Technique: Watercolor on Japan paper.
Presents label of the Estarte Gallery, Madrid.
Signed and titled in th...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Josette Urso "Nest" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso "Nest" Water Color on Paper
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Triptych-Drawing Time-Gladiolus-PleinAir-Brit Award Artist-ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Painting Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
MIchail Grobman
Gouache and watercolor on paper
Hand signed Lower Left and Dated 1964.
Described inn Cyrillic Russian verso.
Dimensions: L:13.25" W: 11.75".
Michail Grobman (Russ...
Category
1960s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Painting Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Gorbman, Russian Born 1939.
Watercolor on Green Paper, Black Fish with Yellow Dots.
Hand signed Upper Left, Dated 1964.
Signed verso and Described.
Dimensions: 10 X 7.25 i...
Category
20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Painting Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Gorbman, Russian Born 1939.
Watercolor on Green Paper, Black Fish with Yellow Dots.
Hand signed Upper Left, Dated 1964.
Signed verso and Described.
Dimensions: 10 X 7.25 i...
Category
20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"American Bald Eagle Flying Through Silver Clouds Between..." by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"American Bald Eagle Flying Through Silver Clouds Between Heaven and Earth" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed on the lower left center. It incorporates watercolor, ink, iridescent acrylic, rubber stamps, collage, and oil pencil. This piece depicts a surrealist landscape. A cow with an cowl perched on its back stands in the lower left corner, and tracks lead away from it across the bottom of the picture. A small turtle approaches a pond in the lower right. In the center register of the image, two leaves have been collaged into an abstractly-drawn forest. The eagle of the title is shown in several stages of its flight through the blue and yellow sky.
Art size: 7 15/16" x 9 1/2"
Frame size: 15 1/4" x 16 1/8"
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art dealer began at age nineteen when, as a fine arts student, he sponsored an exhibition of work by fellow student artists. In 1966, he opened his first gallery in a converted basement apartment at Wisconsin Avenue and 21st Street. David’s talents for recognizing undervalued artists and for meeting the needs of art lovers, art collectors and artists have created a vibrant, flourishing gallery and collection of over 6,000 works of art.
David was born and raised in Wisconsin. He has been painting in watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels as well as fine art photography. David has more than 10 different series he has developed over the years. They include Abstract, Surrealism, Morph Dog, Up North Birch Bark, Impressions of Mexico City, Southwest, Fireworks, Famous Artist Paying Homage and Garden Panorama. Influential artists include Vermeer, Miro, Kandinsky, Chagall, Nolde and Klee. David has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and public television programs regarding his beautiful gallery, collection and knowledge and passion of fine art. David also has work in the permanent collection Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
Exhibits
“Morph Dog Series”, David Barnett Gallery, 1996
“Renewal", Art Escape Gallery, Thiensville, WI, 2003
“Recent Watercolors", David Barnett Gallery, 2003,
Lora D. Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
“Group Show”, Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, May-June 2004
"Homage to Kandinsky", David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2014
Collections Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Private collections throughout the United States and around the world including collections in Wisconsin, Maryland, New York, Washington D.C., Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Kentucky. International collections in Brazil, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Articles Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Barnett Gives His Work an Exhibit" by James Auer, November 1996 Exclusively Yours...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Other Medium
Abstract Mixed Media environmental art collage Andre Emmerich Gallery, Signed
By Judy Pfaff
Located in New York, NY
Judy Pfaff
Untitled, 1994
Collage, Mixed media, Gouache and Leaves on paper, in Artist's Frame. Signed with Andre Emmerich & Bellas Artes Gallery Labels - accompanied by original shi...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Josette Urso "Lake and Sky" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso
Lake and Sky, 2022
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 in.
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
"one day into the next" abstract cityscape, geometric, trees, watercolor, marker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "one day into the next" is an original artwork made from watercolor and marker on panel
by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 10"h x 8"w.
Miriam Singer grew up in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Panel, Permanent Marker
"Motherhood" Watercolor painting 14.5" x 11" inch (1991) by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Motherhood" Watercolor painting 14.5" x 11" inch (1991) by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine A...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Morph Dog Series: Kachina, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Kachina," is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed along the lower center edge. This image depicts a Kachina, an ancestral spirit in Pueblo reli...
Category
1990s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study #26, 1960s Gouache painting Signed Framed Pace & Hudson Gallery provenance
Located in New York, NY
Jack Youngerman
Untitled Study #26, 1967
Gouache painting on paper (with original JL Hudson and PACE Gallery labels)
Hand signed and dated '67 on the front; J.L. Hudson Gallery Label on Verso.
Unique Abstract Expressionist work on paper
Frame included
Framed
Measurements:
Framed:
15 inches by 15 inches by 1.5 inch
Artwork:
7.75 inches by 7.5 inches
Provenance
From the estate of Anne Markley Spivak
J. L. Hudson Gallery Label affixed to verso (back).
The J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
This 1967 unique, signed gouache painting by renowned abstract expressionist painter Jack Youngerman was acquired from the estate of Anne Markley Spivak. It is held in the original vintage metal frame with the original J.L. Hudson Gallery label, as well as the PACE gallery label on the verso
The artwork has been newly loated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame; the original labels from the original back board have been affixed to the back to preserve provenance.
Jack Youngerman Biography
Jack Youngerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 1926. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 and studied at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1947 and, that same year, he returned to Missouri to finish his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism before moving to Paris on a G.I. scholarship.
In Paris, Youngerman enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, studying drawing with Jean Souverbie. He explored Paris, taking in the cathedrals, museums, and history in order to grasp a greater sense of art history. He also traveled to the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Greece on fine art excursions.
In 1948, Youngerman became friends with Ellsworth Kelly, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cesar – fellow students at Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He married Delphine Seyrig in 1950, and later that year he had his first group exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Paris. He visited the studios of Constantín Brancusi and Jean Arp and became heavily influenced by the organic forms present in their work. He also met artist Alexander Calder through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, and experimental filmmaker and artist, Robert Breer...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Naked Poverty No.1
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was once a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during 1980s in Tianjin Polytechnic University a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$5,680 Sale Price
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Wow Woah - Abstract Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper Blue Branches Droplets, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink, watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on two pieces of cut paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in shades of blue with p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Lao (1.23.98)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
watercolor on Arches, framed
Throughout Mala Breuer’s career she completed well over 400 watercolors and works on paper that preceded each and every one of her large works on canv...
Category
1990s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paysage linéaire by José Gerson - Gouache on paper 69x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1980s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Carbon Pencil
$240 Sale Price
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Signed and dated watercolour painting by Henry Moore, 1981 'Four ideas'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)
Four Ideas for Sculpture
Signed and dated ‘Moore/81’ (lower right)
Pencil, watercolour, crayon, charcoal and ball point pen on paper
24.5 ...
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20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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 Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Watercolor 3
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Moulin du Roy paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lie on a Cloud, purple abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sunlight on the Lattice of Memory, 2025
Located in New York, NY
Jacquelyn Strycker
Sunlight on the Lattice of Memory, 2025
risograph on handmade paper with sewing, acrylic gouache, and watercolor
8.5 x 11 in.
(Str001)
Pattern is also prominent ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Untitled (Abstraction)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
aka Beni Kosh
Untitled (Abstraction)
Watercolor on paper, 1970's
Unsigned
Ben Kosh Estate Stamp verso, No. 754
Condition: Very good
Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 9/16 inches
Provenance: Estate the Artist
Bingham & Vance, Shaker Heights...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Donna Schuster “Nude Bathers” Watercolor, Pencil and Gouache
Located in LA, CA
Donna Schuster (1893-1953) “Nude Bathers” watercolor, pencil and gouache within a giltwood carved frame and protective glass. Signed ‘Donna Schuster’ (Lower Right), circa 1920-1930.
...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Dune I" Watercolor on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in (1977) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dune I" Watercolor on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in (1977) by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibi...
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20th Century Post-War Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space', 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
Does not see - line drawing figure with red gloves
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Part of the triptych “Does not see. Does not hear. Does not speak”. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 i...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor 7, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 7 is a 13.5" x 10.5" , watercolor on paper. It is filled with earthy colors and organic shapes.
Melinda Hackett is a mid-career New York Artist. She received her BA at ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°3 - Pastel on paper 45x69 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper to frame
Category
1980s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Three Pyramids + Blue Ball
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Abstract vs. Figurative Portrait - Watercolor by Cuban Artist Alain Pino
By Alain Pino
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract vs. Figurative Neutral Original Watercolor by Cuban Artist Alain Pino
Pino’s new works continue his exploration on the intersection between identity and industrial design. ...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
By Elsie Driggs
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass..
Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch.
Career
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1]
Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5]
In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7]
After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
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1930s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Abstract Composition III" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition III" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fin...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona. 1920. Watercolor on watercolor board. Study for Seeber 189. 10 3/8 x 14 1/4. Signed lower left; titled verso. An exquisitely subtl...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,800 Sale Price
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untitled
Located in New York, US
Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин; 25 October 1897 – 22 January 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter.
Suet...
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1920s Suprematist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
"Barns"
5 x 7 inches
Watercolor on paper, 19...
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1940s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Land', C. 1997 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
A Sky Woven with Openings, 2025
Located in New York, NY
Jacquelyn Strycker
A Sky Woven with Openings, 2025
risograph on handmade paper with sewing, acrylic gouache, and watercolor
8.5 x 11 in.
(Str002)
Pattern is also prominent in the li...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Untitled (mama study) III
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Intored, geometric abstraction, unique signed painting on hand made paper Framed
Located in New York, NY
JACK YOUNGERMAN
Intored, 2015
Watercolor painting on Dieu Donne handmade paper with one deckled edge
Pencil signed and dated on the front
This is a unique painting on paper
Provenan...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
Located in New York, NY
Walter Darby Bannard
Ammersee #2, 1975
Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper
Signed, titled and dated lower recto
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...
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1970s Color-Field Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Mixed Media on Paper with three-dimensional collage elements, signed in pencil lower right, unframed. 23" H x 30" W. Provena...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil, Graphite
Home to the Mailbox (Abstract, Biogram, Warm, Pastel, ~22% OFF - LIMITED TIME)
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kory Twaddle
Home to the Mailbox (Abstract, Biogram, Warm, Pastel)
Watercolor on Deckled Edge Watercolor Paper
Year: 2020
Size: 20 x 26 inches (50.08 x 66.04 cm)
Signed, titled and d...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 9 x 9 inches
condition: very good and impressive
provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists studio and are all featured in the artists Catalogue Raisonne.
Jacques, Paul, Firmin Coulais is a French painter born on March 22 , 1955 in Fenioux ( Deux-Sèvres ) and died at the age of 56, the June 25 , 2011 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres). Born into a farming family, he was the seventh of eight children.
Suddenly becoming a quadriplegic at the age of six following poliomyelitis, he overcame this handicap by building with determination an independent life centered on artistic practice and an intense social life. For more than thirty years his house and his workshop have been the center of attraction for many artists, art lovers or simply friends of Niort and all of France.
Coulais began to paint with his mouth, as an autodidact. In 1978, he made the acquaintance of a plastic art teacher who advised him and engaged him on the path of watercolour. The freedom granted to him by this technique as well as the flexibility of its application fascinate him. This meeting and the friendship shared with his teacher, lead him and very quickly direct his work from figurative to abstraction in a way that he explores and that he will then find in the works of Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
Admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, he studied there from 1981 to 1984 and obtained the National Superior Diploma in Plastic Expression at the age of 31. A few years later, Jacques Coulais exhibited at the Museum of Niort and since then, his career has been punctuated by his participation in numerous exhibitions organized very regularly in various French cities as well as abroad.
In the 1990s, the AAPBP, Association of Mouth and Foot Painting...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Morris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing
Located in New York, NY
This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature.
Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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