Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Time (Measure & Passage Of)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Time (Measure & Passage Of)
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Yellow Geometric Watercolor by Susan Michod
By Susan Michod
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Susan Michod, American
Title: Untitled
Year: 1977
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Broken, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
By Emily Redd
Located in Yardley, PA
charcoal on paper on panel :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Winter, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Emily Redd
Located in Yardley, PA
painting on paper - abstract figure/face :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed:...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Veiled Series LX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Spring (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Spring (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create b...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Emotions - abstract painting, made in violet, orange color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in violet, orange color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed black with a styrene face on a mat bo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
0118.4 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.4 (Abstract Painting)
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Psychic Garden (Meteor) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Glitter
Freedom as Flooding Blood - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Freedom as Flooding Blood is a drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellen...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
"Untitled" Betty Parsons, 1977, Female Mid-century Abstract Expressionist
Located in New York, NY
Betty Parsons
Untitled, 1977
Signed and dated lower right
Gouache on paper
5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches
Renowned as an esteemed and legendary art dealer who for more than three decades was...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Female #5
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another baboon face work from the very talented ant Pearce. Clever stuff. Ink on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Light Box No. 2614 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Metal
Josette Urso "Float" - Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso
Float, 2022
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in.
(urso234)
Josette Urso’s paintings are driven by a sense of urgency. Working from her observations of her surrounding enviro...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Pastel Crayon Drawing Color Abstract, Seasonal Letter John Von Wicht
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Virginia Field, arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Bernard Childs, John Ford and Andy War...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pastel
Abstracted Floral 2
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media pastel and watercolor on paper by American female artist Adele Becker.
This work is currently being offered unframed.
Proceeds from the sale of this work wi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Yellow Dress - Original handsigned gouache
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
Yellow Dress
Gouache on paper
Signed in the lower right corner
Dimensions 37,5 x 15,5 cm (15 x 6")
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Blue Flows - abstract painting in green, black, light blue and white color
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in yellow, green, light blue, black and white. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Che...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Resin
U 164 - Tiffany blue abstract geometric minimalist 3D paper composition
Located in New York, NY
Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that startle in their intricacy an...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Untitled No. 32 (Modern Black & Grey Bold Line Abstract Drawing in Black Frame)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical charcoal drawing on thick, high quality Arches paper
25 x 20 inch charcoal drawing on 30.5 x 22.5 inch Arches paper
35 x 28.5 inches in black frame with AR non-glare glass ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Chrysler Building No 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chrysler Building No 1 by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, India Ink, Pastel
Untitled 1 (Modern Black Charcoal & Gray Abstract Still Life Drawing on Paper)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
18 x 14 inch drawing on 20 x 16 inch Aquarelle Arches Paper
24 x 20 x .5 inches framed
Thin profile black metal frame, 8 ply white mat
Ralph Stout's works on paper reveal a drau...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Untitled-abstraction art, made in orange, salmon red, turquoise, ice ocean
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in orange, salmon red, turquoise, ice ocean color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-qua...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 447
Located in Paris, IDF
41 x 61 x 0.1 cm each set of three
India ink and acrylic paint on archival paper
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pu...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Irene Rice Pereira Modernist Gouache Drawing Painting Abstract Expressionist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Irene Rice Pereira,
Mixed Media on Paper (American, 1902-1971)
Titled "The East Wind Carries the Seed"
Hand signed l.r. "I. Rice Pereira".
Paper: 14.1/8"h x 18.25"w
Irene Rice Pe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Warm Field
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Warm Fiels" 1978 is a watercolor on C.M. Fabriano paper by noted Japanese artist Kaji Aso, 1936-2006. It is signed and dated at the lower...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Africa (mountain)- abstract art, made in yellow, orange, blue, pink, grey, green, brown
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in yellow, orange, blue, pink, grey, green and brown color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) - Concetto Spaziale - Lithograph with hand-cut - 1967
Located in Varese, IT
Lithograph with hand-cut central slash incision by Fontana
limited edition, numbered as 57/150.
paper size: 47 x 35 cm
framed size: 67 x 65 cm
very good conditions, with deep strong ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
"Sunlight" - Abstracted Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright abstracted landscape by Maxine "Mickey" Spencer (American, 1927-2011). Strong blues and magentas create an abstracted scene, evoking a body of water with trees...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Sole Letter of Freedom - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The Sole Letter of Freedom is a drawing realised by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Wings -abstract painting, made in rose, pale blue color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed without glass on a double mat board dark blue or gray wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Metropolitan Landscape, 2012 - acrylic, 68x93 cm.
By Russo Tomaso
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Reflection (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Reflection (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Work will be shipped rolled in a tube.
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that cre...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Three Women with Earrings in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Three Women with Earrings Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted profiles of three women wearing earrings by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. Three women's profile in in bold cobalt blue and playful colors of fluorescent red and yellow. Black outlines and tribal designs creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance. The tall and thin size of this piece makes this ideal for those difficult and odd sized walls
Signed lower left corner
Presented in new, acid-free black mat.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 30"H x 11"W
Image size: 28.50"H x 9.50"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Unknown, Untitled Abstract Watercolor, 10 x 12 ( 15.50 x 18 In Frame), 1961
Colors: Green, Yellow, Black, Brown, White
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Gouache, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on paper
Signed and dated in black ink, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in Peekskill, New Yo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
The Dead Tiger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Yellow Arc, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Bill Buchman
Located in Yardley, PA
Large bold watercolor on Arches watercolor paper with mat and modern European silver-gold wood frame with non-glare plexiglass and off white mat.. Photo of this piece in frame avail...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tangle 17 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Tangle 17 (Abstract painting)
Mixed water-based drawing media on Arches paper - Unframed.
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almos...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands of Martha Argerich, Drawing, June 2001
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo)
Condition: E...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Polarity #3 - unique, signed watercolor on paper abstract geometric color field
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #3, 1981
Acrylic on paper
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Signed and titled in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on paper by ren...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study for Abstract Expressionist sculpture Atman, hand signed twice by di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Atman (hand signed twice), ca. 1978
Marker wash on paper (hand signed twice by Mark di Suvero)
Signed twice by Mark di Suvero on the lower front center and again on the right
15 × 20 inches
Unframed
This original, hand signed marker on wash drawing is a study for di Suvero's sculpture Atman, 1978-1979, in the Cincinnati Art Museum Collection.
About Mark di Suvero:
Internationally renowned sculptor Mark di Suvero was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933. He immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Di Suvero began showing his sculpture in the late 1950's and is one of the most important American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era. A pioneer in the use of steel, di Suvero is without peer in the exhibition of public sculpture worldwide. Mark di Suvero's architectural-scale sculptures - many with moving elements that invite viewer participation - have been exhibited in the United States, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. Di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in Le Jardin de Tuileries and Les Esplanades des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park-Chicago. His work is in over 100 museums and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and Storm King Art Center where he has had three major exhibitions.
Mark di Suvero is a lifelong activist for peace and social justice, and has demonstrated a generous commitment to helping artists. In 1962, he co-founded Park Place Gallery, the first artists' cooperative in New York City. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to realize their ambitions. In 1986, he established Socrates Sculpture Park at the site of a landfill on the East River in Queens, New York. Through his leadership, a 4.5 acre parcel was transformed by a coalition of artists and community members into an open studio and exhibition space. To date, the park has hosted the work of over 900 artists.
Di Suvero received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2000 and the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities in 2005. In 2010, di Suvero was a recipient of the Smithonian Archives of American Art Medal...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Post Street
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Midtown' 2012, is by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, past...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite
Emily Berger, Garden, 2016, paper, ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Synthetic Paper
Shape 9 (2019)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 9 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only.
Abstract geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract muted yellow shape innovated by the artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Marino Marini (1901-1980) - Orizzonte (1979) - Color lithograph on Arches paper
Located in Varese, IT
lithograph on Arches paper, edited between 1979-1980
Limited edition of 75 copies plus 50 in roman numbers
signed in blue crayon by artist in lower right corner and numbered XXIII/L ...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract White Daisy Flowers on Turquoise Background by Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract White Daisy Flowers on Turquoise Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' In...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Canvas
Fire - Original handsigned watercolor and tempera
Located in Paris, IDF
Ervin NEUHAUS
Fire
Original watercolor and tempera on heavy paper
Handsigned bottom right
Authenticated with the stamp of the Estate sale on the back
21 x 21 cm (c. 8 x 8 inch)
Ex...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Chrysler Building No 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chrysler Building No 2 by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite
Andra Samelson, Stars of Tallapooza, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 5, 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 Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Blossom Light from Blood- Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Blossom Light from Blood is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-si...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Abstract Composition - Watercolor - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s in Italy.
Watercolor on laid paper.
Passepartout is included: dimensions 50 x 35 cm. Image Dimension...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Parking space- grey blue 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 Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
"Dark N Stormy, " Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a dark blue palette and washy layers of paint. "In this deep blue piece," the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
Inquietudine - Painting by Maurizio Gracceva - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Inquietudine is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2012.
Colored mixed media on plywood
Title, date, techinique and sign on the back.
Author of numerous p...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Plywood, Pastel, Acrylic
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