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Style: Contemporary
Medium: 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
"Current", Abstract, Contemporary, Turquoise, White, Brown, Watercolor Painting
Located in Natick, MA
"Current" By Sarah Alexander is a 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch swirling abstract watercolor on canvas in a palette of turquoise, white, and soft browns. Part of Alexa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (10)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of pink and green.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent body of work,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Untitled 592 - Geometric Abstract Patterns Watercolor Blue Lilac Purple Ochre
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in watercolor and colored pencil on paper, carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in lavender purple and golden ochre and delicate geo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Ky Anderson "Sun 22.1" Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
By Ky Anderson
Located in New York, NY
"My work falls somewhere between abstraction, formalism and narrative painting. I see the content and story when I look at my work, but shape and color are equally important, along w...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Dirty Fall - Blue Pink Botanical Flowers Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing on cut paper with carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with light pink flowers, the intricate composition is inspired by patterns...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Bridge Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NY
Located in New York, NY
"Bridge" Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NYC
ROMARE BEARDEN (American, 1914-1988)
The Bridge, 1982
signed 'Romare Bearden' (upper left); with...
Category
1980s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 615 - Teal Olive Grass Green Blue Abstract Watercolor Landscape, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in dark indigo and light olive grass green, and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a light teal blue background in t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Underworld
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Underworld, 2025
Alcohol ink and watercolor ink on Yupo paper
14 x 11 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed. External, visible frame and glass in s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled 601 - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Blue Hunter Green Teal, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes in indigo, bright blue and dark hunter green and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a teal grayish blue background. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes.
Melinda H...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
My 80's Heart "Token 4" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, yellow, orange
Located in Jersey City, NJ
My 80's Hart "Token 4" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, yellow, orange
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite
"North Broad" Abstract cityscape, geometric pattern, triangle, mixed media panel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "North Broad" is an original artwork made from pencil, marker, acrylic gouache collage on panel by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 6"h x 6"w and is signed on the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Panel, Permanent Marker, Pencil
"Boys on Blue Bed I" Light Toned Sensual Homoerotic Figurative Watercolor
By Steve Louis
Located in Houston, TX
Light blue toned homoerotic figurative watercolor painting by contemporary Houston, Texas artist Steve Louis. The work features two nude men stretched out ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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
Underworld
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Underworld, 2025
Alcohol ink and watercolor ink on Yupo paper
14 x 11 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed. External, visible frame and glass in s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (2)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of green, orange and purple.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent bod...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (5)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of yellow, red and blue.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent body of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Teal and Orange Abstract Painting with Chine Colle and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant contemporary teal and orange painting (Monotype) and found object collage composition of stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary 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
Untitled 579, 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
"Summer table" (contemporary impressionist still-life acrylic painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract still-life floral artwork "Summer table" I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
My 80's Heart "Token 7" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, blue, orange
Located in Jersey City, NJ
My 80's Heart "Token 7" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, blue, wood, orange
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Panel, Wood Panel, Illustration Board, Graphite
Busy Blue (Abstract Checkered Pattern Gouache and Collage on Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Donise English
Busy Blue, 2020
14" X 17" gouache and collage on paper
This abstract geometric composition on paper features a playful geometric motif that is inspired by the artist's interest in architecture and blueprint drawings. The geometric forms are made in a more painterly, gestural manner rather than with a hard edge. Paint is not heavily built up upon the surface but it certainly exhibits a tactile quality which is characteristic of the artist's aesthetic. English's work celebrates the quirky, unexpected qualities of shapes and colors.
About the artist:
Donise English is a Poughkeepsie-based artist who received her MFA from Bard College and is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Artist Statement:
I am interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. I use gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define my pictorial space. For each piece I create a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure.
Resume:
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Bard College 1986
Bachelor of Science in Art History
State University College at New Paltz 1977
Additional Study: New York Studio School (Drawing Marathons)
Columbia University, School of Architecture
Women’s Studio Workshop
TEACHING Professor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie,NY
Coordinator, Interior Design Program, Florence, Italy campus 1992-present
AWARDS
Finalist, “Saatchi Showdown” 2010
Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent,
University of Bridgeport, CT 2000
Purchase Prize, “11th National Juried Exhibition”
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore 1999
First Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts ‘95”
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995
Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX 1994
Honorable Mention, “National Juried Exhibition”
University of Bridgeport, CT 1993
Individual Artists Fellowship in Sculpture
Dutchess Arts Fund 1992/93
Tallix, Morris, Singer Internship in Sculpture
Tallix Foundry, Beacon, NY 1990/91
SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Let’s Stay in Touch”, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
2015
“Off the Grid”, Arts & Culture Program, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
“Gridspace”, KMOCA, Kingston, NY
“Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Assuming Identity”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2013
“Modern Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region”, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Stone Canoe/Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2012
New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Contemporary Painters (Who Just Happen To Be Women)”,
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, Cambridge School, Weston, MA
“Dear Mother Nature”, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY
“Fresher Paint”, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY
Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2011
“Process+Content: Donise English”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Donise English-Paintings”, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
“Gender Matters/Matters of Gender”, Freedman Gallery,
Albright College, Reading, PA
2010
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Encaustics: Wax and Image”, Westchester Community College White Plains, NY
“Dots, Lines and Figures”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Spring Awakening”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Clay City Dreams”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Texture, Pattern, Fragment”, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School Providence, RI
2009
“Collage”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Working in Wax”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
“Encaustic 2009”, College of New Rochelle, NY
“Three Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Convergence: The Human Experience”, Howard County Center for the Arts, MD
2008
“Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and Exquisite Corpse”
Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2007
“Patterns and Light”, Blue Hill Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
“Suckers and Biters”, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
“100 Artists, 100 Watercolors”, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY
“On/Of Paper”, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
“The Love Show”, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2005
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
“Small Tales”, Valdosta State University, Georgia
National Juried Exhibition, Art Institute and Gallery
Salisbury, MD, Juror: Stephen Haller
“Greed, Envy, Jealousy, Fear”, TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY
2004
“Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections”
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Girl Art Now”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
3 Person Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA
“The Feminine Eye”, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
“Women Painting Women”, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
“Thought Patterns”, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
“Surface, Matter and Artifice”, Dutchess Community College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003
“Beefcake/Cheesecake”,Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
Santa Ana, CA,Juror: Jamie Wilson, Curator
Halpert Bienniel, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center
“The Great White Oak”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2002
“Cat Calls”, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn
“Hudson Valley Regional”, SUNY New Paltz
Juror: Sydney Jenkins, Director, Ramapo College Art Galleries
2001
One-Person Exhibition, Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Beyond the Surface”, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago
One-Person Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2000
“Vision 2000...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
Untitled 588, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Olive Green, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and olive green with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed on verso....
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Colorful Abstract Watercolor Collage Work on Paper, Sweet Life I by a.muse
By a.muse
Located in New york, NY
In an Art Brut style Sweet Life I, 2022 by a.muse is an abstract watercolor collage․ This work on paper is a collection of memories of summer, fragments of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink, Board
"#70 – I AM TIRED", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, vintage, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#70 – I AM TIRED" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 70 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
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...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"#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
Watercolor 21
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Arches 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 native an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor 20
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Arches 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 native an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Rock in a Hard Place" - conceptual work on paper - earth pigments - Goldsworthy
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Rock in a Hard Place" is a conceptual work on paper featuring black, white and grey hues.
Andrew Herzog is inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy, Olafur Eliason...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
Untitled 4 - Contemporary Expressive Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
Urszula Wilk – artist statment:
I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finiteness of the painting. This phys...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
"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
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
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
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
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 Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Südafrika
Located in Wien, 9
> signed and dated lower rights
> titled lower left
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Composition - Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
China ink and watercolor.
Aut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed Watercolor, Trees, African American Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed original brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1950.
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES is an original watercolor brush and ink on paper, hand signed in ink pen by African-American artist, teacher, and printmaker Ronald Joseph (1910--1992) Artwork depicts an abstract landscape, is in good condition, paper tape remaining on reverse side edges, mounted in an archival acid-free mat, unframed.
Artwork paper size - 18 x 21.5 in.
Year created - c. 1950
About the artist -
Ronald Joseph (1910 -1992) was born on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies In 1910. When he was very young, his mother decided to move to the United States but she could not afford to take him with her. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Joseph, a childless couple who were friends of Joseph’s mother, adopted him. Afterwards, the Joseph family moved to the Island of Dominica, where they stayed for ten years. In 1921, his foster parents also decided to come to the United States. In New York, Joseph met his mother but remained living with his foster parents.
In 1926 Ronald Joseph received a scholarship for the Ethical Culture School, were he spent two and half years of his high school period. At this time he obtained an art scholarship through Dr. Henry Fritz, with whom he became acquainted
through his art teacher in public school. Joseph was taken into the Saturday art class, where he was the only black participant. An artistic prodigy, Ronald Joseph had his student works shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ronald Joseph
graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1929. He was honored as “the most promising” young artist in New York City’s schools. He began his study at Pratt Institute in 1931 and graduated in 1934.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Joseph participated in many exhibitions of African-American art, the Works Progress Administration mural project, and the Harlem Artists Guild.
Ronald Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the declaration of World War II and was posted as a member of the ground crew in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Michigan. At the end of the war in 1945, he received his G. I. Bill of Rights
scholarship.
In 1948, he was presented with the Rosenwald Fellowship. The funds allowed him to live and work abroad – first in Peru for two years, then in Paris. Joseph used the G.I. bill to study in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. He described this period of his
life as being “independent of economy”. His work from these travels is largely undocumented; according to Rosenwald scholar, Daniel Schulman, many pieces of art are undated or simply dated “1948-1952”. After this period he came back to
New York without money and work and indicated this as period of hardship.
Ronald Joseph left the U.S. in 1956, disappointed in the unreceptiveness of the art world to his work with mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he felt guilty for having left the U.S. during a period when blacks were struggling for their civil
rights; on the other, he felt “lucky” to have been able to live and work in place where he did not feel discrimination as intensely. He emigrated to Belgium and later settled permanently in Brussels. Ronald Joseph was married to Claire Joseph
and they had a son, Robin Joseph.
In 1989 Joseph returned to the United States after an absence of thirty-three years to attend the Lehman College exhibition and symposium and to renew his old friendships. Afterward, he returned to Brussels where he continued to work as a
painter, living there for the remainder of his life.
Ronald Joseph started his artistic career in Harlem, New York City at the Harlem Community Arts Center, where he was one of the youngest pupils. Joseph studied lithography and other printmaking techniques with Riva Helfond, who taught him many aspects of the process based on simple techniques, including how to operate the press, and how to prepare the stones. Helfond played a significant role as a teacher of lithography at the Harlem Art Center. Joseph produced his first lithographs under her supervision, and this was at a time when she was just beginning to learn the medium herself. At the Harlem Community Arts Center Joseph met Robert Blackburn, who was his classmate. In 1937 Ronald Joseph depicted Blackburn, in one of his most famous works, that is now located at The Metropolitan Museum collection. Experimenting with lithography and etching, as well as woodblock and silkscreen printing, Joseph explored the techniques of printmaking alongside his friend Robert Blackburn. Joseph described the Harlem Art Center as a “healthy and lively” place, where he had made wonderful friends. In the late thirties, he also served as a teacher at the Harlem Community Arts Center. There Joseph met younger artist Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight. They formed a friendship, where they enjoyed conversations and visiting museums together. Both Joseph and Knight would hire Lawrence to pose for them. Jacob Lawrence considered Ronald Joseph to be a very intellectual artist.
In the 1930s, Joseph became chairman of the Harlem Artists Guild and represented it in Washington with Stuart Davis and Hugo Gellert. Ronald Joseph was also a participant in the mural section of WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940).
Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by Picasso, Braque and other European artists while most of his contemporaries focused on social realism. By 1943, he was hailed by art historian James Porter as New York’s “foremost Negro abstractionist painter”. His pastels and gouaches from the late forties and early fifties showed a highly structured abstraction combined with a studied spontaneity. Ronald Joseph’s finely tuned abstractions often incorporated representational elements along with apparently “purer” forms. He described this aspect of his work in these terms: “It’s not abstract and abstract at the same time. It’s pure creation.” His works from the 1950s employed both still life and landscape as pretexts for masterly exercises in nearly abstract pictorial construction related to cubism and fauvism.
During World War II, Joseph was drafted. After the war he formed “a kind of a group” with Robert Blackburn, Charles White, Larry Potter, and Reginald Gammon...
Category
1950s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ghosts - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1980s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Ghosts is an original watercolor realized by Leo Guida in the 1980s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical techni...
Category
1980s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Breakfast at Night - Abstract Spray Paint and Fiber on Paper, Black and Purple
Located in Gilroy, CA
Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Yarn, Ink, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (1)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of purple and blue.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent body of work...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (6)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of orange, pink and blue.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent body o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (4)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of yellow, purple and blue.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent body...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Apple in the Windfall - Abstract Pattern Drawing Yellow Fruit Blue Branches 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in yellow with violet blue, red and teal create an intricate composi...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Blue Hound's Tongue - Abstract Pattern Drawing Violet Flowers Green Leaves, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in violet blue, green, red, orange and pink create an intricate comp...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Codicis Liber", Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition of stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2009. Titled "Codicis Liber", which is...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" by Kim Jones
By Kim Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kim Jones, American (1944 - )
Title: Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Year: 1988
Medium: Ink and Gouache, signed and dated verso
Size: 20 x 15.5 in. (50.8 x 39.37 cm)
Frame Size: 2...
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1980s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Watercolor Landscape View of a Lake
Located in Houston, TX
Watercolor painting of a landscape with a lake and trees in the background. Mainly blue and fall colored tones. Signed and dated by the artist in the bottom left corner of painting.
Artist Biography: William Zaner also known as Bill Zaner...
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1960s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
nude watercolor painting lovers
Located in Roma, GB
Abstract modern art.
Vivid colours.
Female Nude Painting
Collective exhibitions:
2023 London biennale, Chelsea, Old Town Hall;
2023 YICCA International art contest, Venice, f...
Category
2010s Contemporary 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
Untitled
By Matthew Kolodziej
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor, cut out and construction on paper, 2013
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 22 x 30 inches
Frame size: 30 x 37 inches
Archiv...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Color Interaction IV (3)' - color theory, glass beads, bright, saturated, grid
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of green, orange and purple.
Atlanta-based artist and designer Gretchen Wagner is influenced by the use of color and their interactions. Her most recent bod...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in charcoal and watercolor on paper realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artis...
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1970s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
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
Untitled 606 - Teal Blue Dark Olive Green Patterns Abstract Landscape, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in watercolor and colored pencil on paper, carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in indigo, bright lapis blue and oli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - The Dead Walking
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Marker, watercolor, ink, wash & pen on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been fea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
Three Faces Eight Leaves, XXth century
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Milan, IT
Gouaches on paper. On the back there are stickers from Sotheby's Auction with the artist's name and the original title "Three faces eight leaves". These are two similar drawings, with the same subject albeit with small differences, and colored with different techniques. Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted artist: writer, playwright, playwright, he also dabbled in the visual arts, loving to experiment with all the avant-gardes of his century. Jean Cocteau published his first book of drawings in 1923, at just 36 years old. In it the poet portrayed his friends Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie...
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20th Century Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"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
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 ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"The Gift" Original Watercolor on Paper Floralscape by William Verdult, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
"The Gift," an original watercolor on paper by William Verdult, is a piece for the true collector. The artist's genius reflects a fiery artistic approach that inspires unexplored fee...
Category
1970s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
"Amay, " Oil Pastel and Watercolor on Red Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Amay" is an original oil pastel and watercolor drawing on red paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstracted figures and mountain shapes i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
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
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