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Abstract Landscape 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
Purple and Black
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Monhegan Wharf, Maine Coast, Island, Harbor, Watercolor, Abstract
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Czechoslovakia, Yolanda Fusco came to the United States in 1930. With a full scholarship, Fusco attended the Art Students League in New York where she studied with Vaclav Vyt...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cathedral Woods, Monhegan Island, Maine Coast, Yolanda Fusco, Abstract
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Czechoslovakia, Yolanda Fusco came to the United States in 1930. With a full scholarship, Fusco attended the Art Students League in New York where she studied with Vaclav Vyt...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Unbearable Lightness I, Original art, Oil pastel on paper, Landscape, Abstract
Located in Deddington, GB
Unbearable Lightness I by Richard Whadcock is a beautiful misty landscape depicting a golden translucent sky, brown translucent trees and a hint of orangy rust trees, giving the pain...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Paper

Mixed Media and Watercolor Painting -- Untitled
Located in Troy, NY
This watercolor is a wonderful example of of an abstract southwestern landscape. The colors used in this piece evoke the warmth of the desert it depicts, consisting of a wide range o...
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1970s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Mixed Media, Watercolor

REVERIE AT THE MARSH OF EPISY
Located in THOMERY, FR
This series of paintings is inspired by the relationship between the artist and the Fontainebleau forest region. Here we're talking about the Episy marsh, a sensitive, protected natu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Landschap
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon LANDSCAPE 1956 Gouache on paper 46,5 x 37 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 56’ Provenance: Pri...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Dorpsgezicht
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon DORPSGEZICHT 1953 Gouache on paper 42 x 60 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 53’ Provenance: Pr...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

St. Cirque Madelon, 1958
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon CHURCH COURT, ST. CIRQUE MADELON 1958 Gouache on paper 57 x 45 cm. Signed and dated: lower left "Quirijn ...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Painting on paper, lyrical abstraction, contemporary, music score
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2019. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 41 x 29,5 cm. W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Handmade Paper

Whitehead, Monhegan Island, Maine, Landscape, Seascape, Coastal, Watercolor
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Czechoslovakia, Yolanda Fusco came to the United States in 1930. With a full scholarship, Fusco attended the Art Students League in New York where she studied with Vaclav Vyt...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

village view, 1953
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon VILLAGE VIEW 1953 Gouache on paper 38 x 54,5 cm. Signed and dated: lower left
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Sunset Today
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writes about the drawing: "The sunset today is extraordinary. As the sun sets, its round disc descends towards the horizon to eventually disappear behind it completely. This is when it changes colors, which become more and more intense. This spectacle is always interesting, each time different. No two sunsets are the same. One day it was so beautiful that it inspired me to make this drawing. That day was today, so I titled it Sunset Today. It is a symbolic title. It acts as a kind of reminder – the sun will also be set today. Today is also the day to watch the sun wander over the horizon. Don’t miss it! When we are surrounded by trees, the horizon line is collapsed. As the sun sets, it hides in their branches. Then, for a moment, the trees look as if they are on fire embracing the fiery sun ball...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Ink

Sunrise over Fields
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Acrylic

"With love from Provence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This acrylic painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This landscape painting called "With love from Provence" is done in a modern contemporary e...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

"Dreaming of the south of France"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This acrylic painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This landscape painting called "Dreaming of the South of France" is done in a modern contem...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Dormant Sap
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Dormant Sap" portrays the essence of winter's embrace, where the tree's bare branches stand as silent sentinels against the pale backdrop of a frost-kissed landscape. Executed with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Guided by the sand
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Guided by Sand" is an ink on thick handmade paper depicting a beach landscape and seeking to lead the viewer to happy summer memories. Ink is a formidable emotional catalyst and a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Handmade Paper, India Ink

White sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 29.5x41.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
White sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 29.5x41.5 cm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia,...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Llangorse Lake, Brecon Beacons, Wales, circa 1964. Welsh Landscape. Abstract.
By Roger Cecil
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Roger Cecil. Welsh ( b.1942 - d.2015 ). Llangorse, Brecon Beacons Watercolor and pastel on paper. Signed. Image size 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches ( 49.5cm x 75cm ). Frame size 24.6 inches x 34.6 inches ( 62.5cm x 88cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by the Welsh artist Roger Cecil and dates from around 1964. The watercolor and pastel work is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (our stock frame, which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind glass. The original backboard has been reused but the artwork has been isolated from it using conservation barrier materials. This vintage artwork is in good condition, commensurate with its age. Previous cockling (rippling) of the paper has been eliminated by stretching and the use of a new mounting. Previous foxing and age marks have been mechanically removed and the coarse fiber of the paper has been made good in these areas. The painting is now ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed lower left. Provenance: Previously with the Howard Roberts Gallery, Imperial Buildings, 69/74 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Roger Cecil was a reclusive painter, draughtsman and teacher who was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire in 1942. He lived and worked in Wales for the last four decades of his life, much of it in the house where he was born and brought up. Cecil produced abstract work rich in imagery, poetry and color, which were drawn from his environment, the industrial valley towns and mountains. Prolific and obsessive, he was always a solitary artist, with no affiliations to any group or artistic movement. He worked for more than forty years, with an ever evolving and prolific creative output. His pictures capture the geology and the history of the places he knew so intimately, and the impact of man of that environment. Cecil studied Fine Art at Newport College of Art from 1959 to 1963, where his teachers included John Wright and Thomas Rathmell; in 1963 he gained the College’s highest award in the national diploma in design and a place at the Royal College London. In 1964 he won the David Murray Landscape Award from the RA. He took up his place at the Royal College of Art, but after just a few weeks he was unsatisfied and instead took up manual work in opencast mines and building sites. Cecil later spent some time teaching at Ebbw Vale. From 1995 to 1998 he did his MA, which he gained with distinction in communication design at St. Martin’s College of Art. The BBC made a television documentary on Cecil's work called The Gentle Rebel. For a long time Cecil did not exhibit, through choice, and it was friends who helped to promote him. He then had a series of exhibitions at Business Art Galleries from 1987, and in 1995 the Hill Court Gallery, Abergavenny, held a retrospective of his work. In 1998 Gordon Hepworth and Y Tabernacl both showed Cecil's pictures. Cecil’s works were also shown at the Oriel Myrddin Gallery in 2006 and 20011. The small book which takes the name of the earlier exhibition ”Cariad”; has an introduction by gallery manager Meg Anthony which states; “The magic of Roger Cecil’s work is in part down to the man, for he is enigmatic and surprising, diffident and proud. He has deliberately avoided the art establishment, remaining shy of its protocol and systems of exposure and recognition. He has consciously created the space to pursue his art, away from the pressures of publicity and celebrity...... paint is Roger’s passion.” Cecil’s methods were complex; he worked with a mixture of materials, including oil pastels, sandpaper, primer and plaster. He built up layers and then he rubbed and scratched them away. His work is textured and nuanced, and the color reverberates as if it has a life of its own. The paintings are abstract, but there are echoes of monumental shapes and undulations of the female form, the Valleys - the dark hills embracing the bowls of space and the rich, gritty textures of the industrial and post-industrial landscape, highlighted by intricate, personal marks. Sarah Bradford states: “Scale is an important feature of Roger Cecil’s work; he constantly shifts from near and the far off. He also moves his viewpoint from looking at, to looking down on to. This looking down, as though a bird, onto the world of the painting, comes from exploration of his surroundings and from the ordinance survey maps he takes with him when he walks. He has often said how he is inspired by the language of symbols and lines that are used in maps to delineate the landscape. It is easy to see the connection when looking at the networks of invented footpaths, waterways, and other pinpoint features that can be found in his work.” … Mary Lloyd...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

Erle Loran mixed media drawings of landscapes, set of 6
Located in San Rafael, CA
Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999) Set of six landscapes Each mixed media on paper Two signed, lower right and left corners Sheet (largest, unframed): 8.25"h x 11.25"w. Loran was a very influential Bay Area artist whose works are held in public collections across the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, de Young Museum, SF MoMA...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Ink, Pastel, Crayon

Trees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Provenance: William M. Chambers Fine Art Acquired directly from the owner by previous owner See info verso A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in man...
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1940s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Abstract Landscape" Watercolor Painting
Located in Austin, TX
Abstract landscape resembling a blue, green, yellow, and white. This piece is painted with watercolor and measuring 13" x 13". The frame measures 22" x 24".
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1970s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"House in Provence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
I enjoy working on impressionist artworks with an expressive touch. This is the one of the artworks which was inspired by the beauty of the south of France and in particularly, by P...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Oil Pastel

"The Provencal coast"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I enjoy working on semi-abstract artworks with an impressionist touch. This is the one of the artworks which was inspired by the seasides of the south of France. P...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

"Windy summer day"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This painting called "Windy summer day" is done in an expressive impressionist style. Such ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

Dyptic around the Episy marshes
Located in THOMERY, FR
This series of paintings is inspired by the relationship between the artist and the Fontainebleau forest region. Here we're talking about the Episy marsh, a sensitive, protected natu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

1949 Mid Century Finnish Abstract Impressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor landscape of Finland countryside in Winter during WWII by O. Mokolio (indistinct) (American, 19/20th Century), 1949. Signed and dated lower right corner. Conditi...
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1940s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Canvas

JOURNEY BEYOND: 'FAR AWAY'- CAPTIVATING WATERCOLOR AND INK MASTERPIECE
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Explore 'Far Away': Linda Clerget's enchanting masterpiece on paper, measuring 40 x 50 cm (15.7 x 19.7 inches). This exquisite piece features a gentle watercolor background in sooth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Mountain and Sky, Deer Island, Maine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mountain and Sky, Deer Island, Maine Watercolor on paper, 1985 Signed in ink lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Done while at their summer home in Deer Island, Main...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

EMI (Spirit): Divinity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting depicts a state or quality of being divine, a higher state/ consciousness only obtained by mastering true duality within the divine. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Untitled (Abstract, Vibrant, Drips, Neon, Gestural, Contemporary, Expressionism)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Russell Shoemaker Title: Untitled Year: 2018 Medium: Gouache on Yupo Paper Size: 12 x 9 inches Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist Russell Shoemaker received his BFA from the ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Synthetic Paper

'Sunset Landscape', Hamburg, Rivne, Volhynia, Rivne Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Kosmiadi' for Georg Kosmiadi (Ukranian-German, 1886-1967) and dated, '66'; additionally signed verso, 'Georg Kosmiadi', inscribed with serial number and dated, '20/9/66'. Georg Kosmiadi was a resident of Rivne before moving to Hamburg in 1940 where he worked as an art teacher. Kosmiadi exhibited at the Rivne Regional Museum and a regional art...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

"The French coast"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I enjoy working on semi-abstract artworks with an impressionist touch. This is the one of the artworks which was inspired by the seasides of the south of France. P...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

Kathleen Beausoleil, Renew, 2018, blue ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Kathleen Beausoleil, Rejuvinate, 2013, blue ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Kathleen Beausoleil, Transverse 2023, pink ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

"Sierra Country", Abstracted Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant abstract landscape watercolor titled "Sierra Country" by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1984. Titled, signed, and dated on verso. Presented in a painted metal frame, without glass. Image, 23"H x 31"L. Measures: 30"H x 37"W. Erle Loran was a modernist of urban and coastal views and geometric painting. Erle Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art under the direction of Cameron Booth...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled Drawing by William O'Brien (INV# NP4044)
Located in Morton Grove, IL
William O'Brien Untitled Drawing (INV# NP4044) ink on paper 11.88 x 9" (30 x 23 cm) 2004 signed by artist provenance - The Nevica Project Chicago-based artist William J. O’Brien is ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Black and white abstract painting by Modern British artist Ewart Johns
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
1997 black and white abstract by Modern British artist Ewart Johns. Ewart Johns (British, 1923 – 2013) Black On White IV Acrylic on canvas laid down on board Signed with initials an...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Board

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Summer Valley Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 8.5 x 10.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Pastel abstract drawing of a red garden by Modern British artist Ewart Johns
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A brightly coloured and joyful abstract pastel work by Modern British artist Ewart Johns. Ewart Johns (British, 1923 – 2013) Red Garden Pastel Signed with initials and dated ‘EJ 87’...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Impressionist outdoor painting "Ocean effect in la Rochelle"
Located in THOMERY, FR
This series of paintings is inspired by the relationship between the artist and nature. The initial sketches are made on the spot in different mediums (watercolour, pencil, gouache, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mountains 003 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2020
Located in Sempach, LU
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Mountains 003 (2020) Abstract landscape, painting in black, grey, white colors. Artwork represents Alps in winter, covered with snow and mist above it. Paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Paper

Landscape - Australian art 60s exhib Abstract landscape painting female artist
By Judy Cassab
Located in London, GB
An original watercolour on paper by famous listed Australian female artist Judy Cassab. This stunning painting is a bold, adventurous and confident abstract expressionist landscape w...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Touch of Fall watercolor and pastel painting by Nell Blaine
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed "Nell Blaine" upper left in pencil. Signed, titled, dated verso on sheet. Signed, titled, dated verso on backing panel. The artist. Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Purchased by private collectors c.1994. By descent. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). From her November 15, 1996 NYT obituary: Nell Blaine, a widely respected New York landscape painter and watercolorist, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital. She was 74 and had homes in Manhattan and Gloucester, Mass. Ms. Blaine, who had been hospitalized since July, had been confined to a wheelchair since 1959, when she contracted polio. Ms. Blaine was born in Richmond, Va., in 1922, and first studied at the Richmond School of Art, now part of Virginia Commonwealth University. She moved to New York in 1942 to study painting with Hans Hofmann and later studied etching and engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. During her first years in New York, her work, which had previously been tightly realist, turned abstract, inspired by Mondrian, Leger and Jean Helion. At one time she was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists. She was also a founding member of the Jane Street Gallery, one of Manhattan's earliest artists' cooperatives, and had her first solo show there in 1945. Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation. Inspired in part by a trip with Larry Rivers in 1950 to Paris, where she was especially impressed by the work of Vuillard and Bonnard, she immersed herself in the tradition of 19th-century European painting. From the mid-1950's, she cultivated an increasingly painterly and colorful style, usually working directly from nature, or still life, with particular emphasis on the forms and hues of flowers. Her work retained a sense of all-over structure and pulsating energy that she nonetheless credited to abstract art. ''It all goes back to Mondrian,'' she would say. In the 1950's, Ms. Blaine was prominent among a circle of New York artists and poets that included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Mr. Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro Sr. and Rudy Burckhardt. She had her first solo show of representational work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953 and was represented by the Poindexter Gallery until it closed in 1978, and, in recent years, by the Fischbach Gallery. During the 1950's she supported herself as a commercial artist, designing brochures for art galleries. In 1955, she designed the original logo, column heads and layout for The Village Voice. In 1957, Ms. Blaine was featured in Life magazine as one of five leading young female artists in America. In 1959, after several months of traveling and painting in Greece, she contracted severe bulbar polio on the island of Mykonos. ''To Nell Blaine,'' an exhibition organized at Poindexter to raise money for her hospital bills, included the work of 79 artists, including Saul Steinberg, Robert Motherwell, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mr. Rivers, Ms. Freilicher and Robert Rauschenberg. After eight months in a New York hospital, including five months in an iron lung...
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1990s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pastel

Abstract Expressionist Paris Landscape Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Yankel, pseudonym of Jakob Kikoine, born on April 14 , 1920 in Paris, is a French painter and sculptor. He is the son of the painter Michel Kikoine. Born in Boucicaut hospital, Jacques lived as a child in the artists' colony La Ruche in Paris. He grew up to the age of ten at La Ruche, the workshop created for artists by the sculptor Alfred Boucher, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Around him live also other artists, including the inseparable Pincus Krémègne and Chaïm Soutine, arrived from Vilnius in Russia where they met. It is an extraordinary intellectual and artistic universe where the genius of the artists and their great poverty rub shoulders in a Paris which hosts this Expressionist school which will become "the School of Paris". Chagall, Modigliani, Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Max Jacob and others. When he had just started studying at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris, he was forced to flee to Southern France with his family to escape the Nazis. During the Second World War, he held temporary jobs in printing and engraving workshops, notably at the Draeger printing press in Toulouse, where events led him to take refuge with his family. From 1940 to 1945, he pursued very advanced studies of geology at the Faculty of Sciences, specializing in micro-geology. He graduated in 1943. In 1947, he participates episodically as an amateur painter in the Chariot group, with the artists Jean Hugon, Michel Goedgebuer, Robert Pagès, Christian Schmidt, Andre-Francois Vernette, Jean Teulieres. The group is active until 1954. In 1949, he was hired by the Colonial Office for the geological map of Gao - Timbuktu - Tabankort in French West Africa . From this episode, he will keep a certain taste for African art of which he will become a collector. The following year, he unexpectedly met Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Gao. The latter encourages him to return to painting. He won the Neuman First Prize, which he shared with Reginald Pollack and a Fénéon Prize Scholarship. Among his friends are Clavé, Cottavoz, Pelayo, Hanna Ben-dov, Pollack, Jean Jansem, Roger Lersey. In 1953, accompanied by Orlando...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel

"Summer in Provence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I enjoy working on semi-abstract artworks with a touch of impressionism. This is the one of the artworks which was inspired by the beauty of the south of France and ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting The Surroundings Of Carnac Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Body in the Field #11 - Landscape, Coloured Pencil, 21st Century, Red, Blue
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field #11, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Trevor Frankland RWS -original large fantasy cubist style watercolour GRAND TOUR
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Trevor Frankland PPRWS RBA RI RE LG (1931-2011) British TITLE: "Grand Tour Revisited No.4" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: watercolour on paper...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Serene Cove Ripples, Mediterranean Seascape Diptych in Blue & White, Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Serene Cove Ripples" is a gorgeous original cyanotype diptych showing calming sea ripples in a Mediterranean cove. Deta...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Photogram, Photographic Film, Monotype, Lithograph, Dye Transfer, Color,...

EMI (Spirit): Mother Earth
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
EMI (Spirit): Mother Earth was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper MOTHER-EARTH is considered a living being and the provider of all that is on Earth. Shipping Procedure Ship...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting Landscape Overlooking The City Of Nice
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting The Hills of Baou De Saint-Jeannet, Nice
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 12 x 16 inches Good condition. Provenance: from the artists esta...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Manuel Facal, Etching on paper, "Fondo V" (Original, 1985) Sunset, Yellow, Green
Located in Carballo, ES
Esta obra se trata de un grabado original del famoso artista Manuel Facal (A Coruña, 1943), perteneciente al grupo Atlantica, el grupo de artistas más fam...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Etching, Paper

Painting A Beautiful View Of The Cap Frehel Beach, Northern Brittany
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Trapped In The Mind Of The Religious
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Trapped In The Mind Of The Religious was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper This painting depicts the story of a girl going through a spiritual journey toward enlightenment b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Abstract landscape drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract landscape drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Zsolt Berszán, Erle Loran, David Barnett, and Annemarie Ambrosoli. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract landscape drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $49 and tops out at $200,000, while the average work sells for $839.

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