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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
"Landscape at sunset-Luberon-France" Watercolor , cm. 29, 5 x 21 1960 ca
Located in Torino, IT
orange, green, sunset Dora Maar is the pseudonym of Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Paris 1907 - 1997). Shrouded in the monumental shadow of Picasso, she has long been - and reductive...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Remains (Body in the Field 5) - 21st Century, Beige, Red, Blue, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 5), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 8) - Contemporary, Green, Red, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 8), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 13) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Oil
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 13), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 12) - Contemporary, Green, Blue, Painting On Paper
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 12), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 18) - Contemporary, Blue, Purple, Monochrome
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 18), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bo...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 7) - Contemporary, Green, Grey, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 7), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 9) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 9), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 15) - Contemporary, Abstract, Green, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 15), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bo...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 10) - 21st Century, Abstract, Pink, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 10), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Paper

Remains (Body in the Field 16) - Contemporary, Abstract, Grey, Beige
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 16), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Paper

Remains (Body in the Field 18) - Contemporary, Purple, Abstract, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 17), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13716 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 19) - Contemporary, Painting, Blue, Beige
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 19), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bo...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 6) - Contemporary, Green, Blue, Red, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 6), 2022 oil on paper (signed on reverse) 16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Lor...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Laid Paper, Charcoal

"Pastel Landscape in Blues 2" Original Impressionist Landscape Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Edith Isaac-Rose "Pastel Landscape in Blues 2" c.1960 Pastel on paper 17"x15" unframed Unsigned Edith Isaac-Rose (1929-2018) Born in Chicago in 1929, and neé Ganansky-Teitelbaum, she graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1951 and moved to New York in 1959 where she lived ever since. Taking as her professional name her parents’ first names, Edith was a prolific artist working first as an abstract expressionist then turning in the 1980s to figurative, political work consisting of drawings, paintings, and embroideries which she called “Daily Rage”. She had been represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery and her work is in the Hirshhorn Museum as well as numerous private collections. Edith, along with her partner of 35 years, Bea Kreloff, (1925-2016), founded Art Workshop International in 1981 where they held art and writing workshops in Assisi, Italy, Monhegan Island, Maine, and Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Edith was a resident at the Westbeth Artist Housing in Greenwich Village and was actively involved with the anti-war movement, gay liberation...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel

"Landscape" Abstract Seascape Contemporary Art Made in Italy -Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
landscape OIl On Paper The painting is sold flat with frame, the total size of the artwork ready to hang is 69x49 cm 2019 he major creative focus of Marilina Marchica has always...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Paper

Abstract Composition - Tempera and Watercolor by Li Xia Yang - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Oriental artist Li Xia Yang. Mixed colored tempera and watercolor painting. Hand-writ...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Tempera

Remains (Body in the Field 22) - 21st Century, Pink, Contemporary, Work On Paper
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 22), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 14) - Contemporary, Green, Yellow, Pink, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 14), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 20) - Contemporary, Blue, Work On Paper, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 20), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Remains (Body in the Field 4) - Contemporary, Blue, Pink, Work On Paper
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 4), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism o...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, 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...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Remains (Body in the Field 21) - Contemporary, Blue, Green, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 21 ), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

"Landscape" Abstract Landscape- Large Drawing - Contemporary Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape mineral oxide on Paper (Canson Papers 300gr) 50x70 cm Original ART Marilina Marchica painting tells of the relationship between man, nature and time, the landscape, the ...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Early 20th Century Black White Abstracted Landscape Charcoal Drawing
By Willard Ayer Nash
Located in Denver, CO
"Abstract" is a charcoal on paper drawing by Willard Ayers Nash (1898-1942) of an abstracted landscape scene. Presented in a custom black frame measuring 22 x 20 x ¾ inches. Image size measures 14 ½ x 12 ¾ inches. Drawing is clean and in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Willard Ayer Nash Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897 Died Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1942 Biography courtesy of Owings-Dewey Fine Art Willard Nash was frequently referred to as “the American Cézanne”. Like the French Post-Impressionist Cézanne, Nash created form with color and did wonderful work with shadows. Prior to his arrival in New Mexico, Nash painted in a formal, academic style that he learned while studying at the Detroit School of Fine Arts. However, under the tutelage of Andrew Dasburg, a fellow Santa Fe...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

"Fresh View of the Day" Large-Scale Work on Paper of Courtyard and Trees Chinese
Located in Edgartown, MA
Large-Scale Work on Paper of Courtyard and Trees Chinese Tradition A Chinese painter cannot avoid confronting and interpreting the Classics. Whether we invoke them by heart or emul...
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1990s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper

A Small City Park, Abstract Painting Acrylic Watercolor Painting, Green Brown
Located in Denver, CO
"A Small City Park", acrylic and watercolor on paper by Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) of an abstract park broken into four quadrants, separated by brown and white striped borders with different shaped ponds. Inspired by City Park in Denver, Colorado where the artist frequented. Presented framed with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 21 ¾ x 18 ¾ inches. Image size measures 12 x 15 inches. Painting is clean and in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Edward Marecak Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Born to immigrant parents from the Carpathian region in Slovakia, Marecak grew up with his family in the farming community of Bennett’s Corners, now part of the town of Brunswick, near Cleveland, Ohio. When he turned twelve, his family moved to a multi-ethnic neighborhood of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenians in Cleveland. His childhood household cherished the customs and Slavic folk tales from the Old Country that later strongly influenced his work as a professional artist. During junior high he painted scenery for puppet shows of "Peter and the Wolf," awakening his interest in art. In his senior year in high school he did Cézanne-inspired watercolors of Ohio barns at seventy-five cents apiece for the National Youth Administration. They earned him a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art (1938-1942) where he studied with Henry George Keller whose work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show. In 1940 Marecak also taught at the Museum School of the Cleveland Institute. Before being drafted into the military in 1942, he briefly attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools of art, architecture, and design. A center of innovative work in architecture, art and design with an educational approach built on a mentorship model, it has been home to some of the world’s most renowned designers and artists, including Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Daniel Libeskind and Harry Bertoia. Marecak’s studies at Cranbrook with painter Zoltan Sepeshy and sculptor Carl Milles were interrupted by U.S. army service in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Following his military discharge, Marecak studied on the G.I. Bill at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1946 to 1950, having previously met its director, Boardman Robinson, conducting a seminar in mural painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Although he did not work with Robinson at the Fine Arts Center, who had become quite ill - retiring in 1947 - he studied Robinson’s specialty of mural painting before leaving to briefly attend the Cranbrook Academy in 1947. That same year he returned to the Fine Arts Center, studying painting with Jean Charlot and Mary Chenoweth, and lithography with Lawrence Barrett with whom he produced some 132 images during 1948-49. At the Fine Arts Center he met his future wife, Donna Fortin, whom he married in 1947. Also a Midwesterner, she had taken night art courses at Hull House in Chicago, later studying at the Art Institute of Chicago with the encouragement of artist Edgar Britton. After World War II she studied with him from 1946 to 1949 at the Fine Arts Center. (He had moved to Colorado Springs to treat his tuberculosis.) Ed Marecak also became good friends with Britton, later collaborating with him on the design of large stained glass windows for a local church. In 1950-51 Marecak returned to the Cleveland Institute of Art to complete his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A year later he was invited to conduct a summer class at the University of Colorado in Boulder, confirming his interest in the teaching profession. In 1955 he received his teaching certificate from the University of Denver. Vance Kirkland, the head of its art department, helped him get a teaching job with the Denver Public Schools so that he and his family could remain in the Mile High City. For the next twenty-five years he taught art at Skinner, Grove, East, George Washington and Morey Junior High Schools. Prior to coming to Colorado, Marecak did watercolors resembling those of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Charles Burchfield. However, once in Colorado Springs he decided to destroy much of his earlier ouevre, embarking on a totally new direction unlike anything he had previously done. Initially, in the 1940s he was influenced by surrealist imagery and Paul Klee, and in the West by Indian petroglyphs and Kachinas. His first one-person show at the Garrett Gallery in Colorado Springs in 1949 featured paintings and lithographs rendered in the style of Magic Realism and referential abstraction. The pieces, including an oil Witch with Pink Dish, foreshadowed the output of his entire Colorado-based career, distinguished by a dramatic use of color, intricacy of execution and attention to detail contributing to their visual impact. He once observed, "Each time I start a new painting I always fool myself by saying this time keep it simple and not get entangled with such complex patterns, color and design; but I always find myself getting more involved with richness, color and subject matter." An idiosyncratic artist proficient in oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and casein, he did not draw upon Colorado subject matter for his work, unlike many of his fellow painters in the state. Instead he used Midwest landscape imagery, bringing to life in it witches and spirits adapted from the Slovakian folk tales he heard growing up in Ohio. A number of his paintings depict winter witches derived from the Slovak custom in the Tatra Mountains of burning an effigy of the winter witch in the early spring to banish the memory of a hard winter. The folk tale element imparts a dream-like quality to many of his paintings. A devote of Greek mythology, he placed the figures of Circe, Persephone, Sybil, Hera and others in modern settings. The goddess in Persephone Brings a Pumpkin to her Mother, attired as a Midwestern farmer’s daughter, heralds the advent of fall with the pumpkin before departing to spend the winter season in the underworld. Train to Olympus, the meeting place of the gods in ancient Greece, juxtaposes ancient mythology with modernity creating a combination of whimsy and thought-provoking consideration for the viewer. Voyage to Troy #1 alludes to the ancient city that was the site of the Trojan Wars, but has a contemporary, autobiographical component referencing the harbor of the Aleutian Islands recaptured from the Japanese during World War II. In the 1980s Marecak used the goddess Hera in his painting, Hera Contemplates Aspects of the Art Nouveau, to comment on art movements in the latter half of the twentieth century Marecak’s love of classical music and opera, which he shared with his wife and to which he often listened while painting in his Denver basement studio, is reflected in Homage of Offenbach, an abstract work translating the composer’s musical colors into colorful palette. Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, the title of his earliest surrealist painting, is a soprano aria from Verdi’s opera, La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny or Fate, a favorite Marecak subject). His Queen of the Night relates to a character from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. In addition to paintings and works on paper, he produced hooked rugs, textiles and ceramics. He likewise produced designs for ceramics, tableware and furniture created by his wife Donna, an accomplished Colorado ceramist. Both of them generally eschewed exhibitions and galleries, preferring to quietly do their work while remaining outside of the mainstream. He initially exhibited at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1948 receiving a purchase award. The following year he had his first one-person show of paintings and lithographs at the Garrett Gallery in Colorado Springs. In the 1950s and early 1960s he participated in group exhibitions at the Print Club (Philadelphia); Amarillo Public Library (Texas); annual Blossom Festival Show (Canon City, Colorado); Adele Simpson’s "Art of Living" in New York; Denver Art Museum; and the Fox Rubenstein-Serkey Gallery (Denver); but he did not have another one-person show until 1966 at the Denver home of his friends, John and Gerda Scott. They arranged for his first one-person show outside of Colorado held two years later at the Martin Lowitz Gallery in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, California. That same year his work was featured at the Zantman Galleries in Carmel, California. Thereafter he became an infrequent exhibitor after the 1970s so that his work was rarely seen outside his basement studio. In 1980 he, his wife and Mark Zamantakis exhibited at Denver’s Jewish Community Center, and four years later he had a one-person show at the Studio Gallery in Denver. In 1992 he was included in a group show at the Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery in Denver, and a year later received a large, posthumous retrospective at the Emmanuel...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Kenneth Rowntree: 'Abstract Australian Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
By Kenneth Rowntree
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Rowntree Abstract Australian Landscape Watercolour 27.5 x 33cm Signed (top left) and dated ‘Kenneth Rowntree ’85’ Provenance: Anderson & Garland Studio sale of Kenneth Rowntree lot 263 Tuesday 8 September 2009 For biographical details and other works by Rowntree click here. Rowntree visited Australia in 1984/85. In this painting he picks up various vignettes from the Australian landscape in six separate blocks. Two relate to the sky, with almost-unbroken blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, three relate to desert areas, with a whole array of different textures, and one is a luscious green. In one of the desert scenes he has picked out two road signs, in typical Rowntree fashion, reducing them to their simplest form. In her essay Kenneth Rowntree: A Strange Simplicity (published in Kenneth Rowntree A Centenary Exhibition Published by Moore-Gwyn Fine Art and Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, on behalf of the artist’s estate, on the occasion of the centenary of Kenneth Rowntree’s birth) Alexandra Harris makes reference to this painting noting: "Later, in 1986, just when the young David Hockney was collaging the signs and road-markings of Route 138 in Pearblossom Highway, Rowntree was in Australia painting yellow diamond-shaped road-signs as bright icons in open country. Wherever he went, Rowntree captured both the unfamiliarity of places and their relationship to things he knew. Heading into the Australian outback, he painted a road-sign as he would paint a rail signal at Clare in Suffolk or nautical markers at Swansea." Hockney’s 1986 Pearblossom Highway may be seen in the Getty and it is worth noting that Rowntree was in fact painting the yellow sign in 1985, so a year before Hockney. Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997) Rowntree was born in Scarborough and educated in York where his father managed the local department store. Young Kenneth’s work was displayed there and his first major commission arose from an advertisement at the store. After the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he studied at the Slade School, meeting Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden and then moving to north Essex to work with them as members of the group of Great Bardfield Artists. Between 1940 and 1943 he was one of the team of over 60 artists engaged by the War Artists Advisory Committee for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, to record the face of England and Wales before wartime action – or development – changed it for ever. Rowntree’s keen sense of design, and fascination with the quirky and the vernacular made him an ideal candidate to interpret our built heritage’s more unusual aspects. In 1951 he painted murals in the Lion and Unicorn pavilion for the Festival of Britain, he decorated the route of the Queen’s Coronation procession (some of the works being acquired by Her Majesty). During a teaching job at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he was driven, perhaps by his experiences recording Britain, to record the decorated barges that belonged to the Oxford Colleges. These wooden Victorian ceremonial barges had belonged to the London livery companies, but were acquired in their later life by the Colleges to be used as changing rooms and clubhouses for the College boat clubs – depending on the size of the barge rowing eights were stored on board too. Part way through painting one of them Rowntree thought his drawing incorrect until he realised that it was the boat that was moving. It was in fact sinking. These days the Colleges have modern (but unromantic) boat houses; a handful of the barges remain – restored – in private hands. In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle (latterly part of the University), which as British art schools went was one of the most progressive. The Master of Painting was the abstract constructionist Victor Passmore...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel 11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk. Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art B...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel. Signed and dated '62 lower right. 9 x 12 inches (sight) and 15. 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches framed. BIO Robert Dash is known for his Hamptons paintings...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977 Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker 14 × 11 1/4 inches Boldly signed in black marker o...
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1970s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, India Ink, Permanent Marker

Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (Ameri...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Laid Paper

Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California lands...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Laid Paper

Three Pyramids + Blue Ball
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”. Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor. As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting. Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
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1970s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Figurative Art / Representations of Architecture / Watercolor / Cityscapes and City Scenes / Abstract versus Figurative Art. Ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Luna's Tire Shop, hand cut collage bright limited color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage: Hand cut color-aid paper on gessoed heavyweight watercolor paper framed in a flat gray painted wood frame with plexi. Philomena is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA fr...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Blue sky over the loch
Located in Deddington, GB
Blue sky over the loch by Natalie Bird [2022] original Pastel Image size: H:36 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

'No Way Back 1, ' by Josette Simon-Gestin, Etching and Pastel Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 11.5" X 10.75" unframed mixed media pastel drawing and ink etching on paper created in 2021 by Josette Simon Gestin is from the artist's series titl...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Etching

Mid Century Abstract Vertical Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor fragment of a sunset over a field by Irene Pattinson (American, 20th Century). Tag on verso reads "Miller Fine Art / The Estate of Irene Pattinson". Unsigned. Acq...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Tissue Paper

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. Details: + Title: Serene Cove Ripples + Year: 2022 + Edition Size: 100 + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided + Measurements : 100x140 cm (40 x 55.2 in.) Each paper measures 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.) each, a standard frame size + All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's. Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Lith...

"The Winter Valley" Purple and Brown Toned Winter Landscape Townscape
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, purple, and green toned winter landscape pastel drawing by German-American painter, Wolf Kahn. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a gold frame...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

"Salt and Sky, " Abstract Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape painting by Melissa Kircher is made with watercolor and ink on paper. It features intricate line work over washes of paint to create a whimsical coastal hill-scape scene in a cool and earthy palette. The painting itself is 11.5" x 8.5", and measures 18.5" x 16" framed. The paper is matted and professionally framed in a warm silver frame. It is wired and ready to hang. This piece pairs beautifully with Peaceful Tides and Sea View by the same artist. Please see the three hung together in the image gallery. Contact us for more information or to purchase the three paintings together. Melissa Kircher is a painter and illustrator who enjoys everything bold and beautiful. She works with acrylics, watercolor, and ink to create pieces that invoke her deep love of nature and the human spirit. Kircher graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Gordon College...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

"Peaceful Tides, " Abstract Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape painting by Melissa Kircher is made with watercolor and ink on paper. It features intricate line work over washes of paint to create a whimsical coastal hill-scape scene in a cool, earthy palette. The painting itself is 11.5" x 8.5", and measures 18.5" x 16" framed. The paper is matted and professionally framed in a warm silver frame. It is wired and ready to hang. This piece pairs beautifully with Salt and Sky and Sea View by the same artist. Please see the three hung together in the image gallery. Contact us for more information or to purchase the three paintings together. Melissa Kircher is a painter and illustrator who enjoys everything bold and beautiful. She works with acrylics, watercolor, and ink to create pieces that invoke her deep love of nature and the human spirit. Kircher graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Gordon College...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

"Sea View, " Abstract Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape painting by Melissa Kircher is made with watercolor and ink on paper. It features intricate line work over washes of paint to create a whimsical coastal mountain scene in a cool palette. The painting itself is 11.5" x 8.5", and measures 18.5" x 16" framed. The paper is matted and professionally framed in a warm silver frame. It is wired and ready to hang. This piece pairs beautifully with Salt and Sky and Peaceful Tides by the same artist. Please see the three hung together in the image gallery. Contact us for more information or to purchase the three paintings together. Melissa Kircher is a painter and illustrator who enjoys everything bold and beautiful. She works with acrylics, watercolor, and ink to create pieces that invoke her deep love of nature and the human spirit. Kircher graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Gordon College...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Ink

Rocks, Stonington, ME
Located in Lawrence, NY
Unsigned, Gifted the artist Charles Cajori by the artist. Accompanied by COA. Mercedes Matter was destined for a life in art. She was the daughter of Mercedes de Cordoba, a former model for Edward Steichen and other members of the Photo-Secession, and Arthur B. Carles, an important early modernist American painter who studied the art of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse in Paris in the 1910s. This early and persistent exposure to modern art led Matter herself to begin painting at the age of six. In the early 1930s, she studied with the artist Hans Hofmann, like nearly every important American abstract painter of the next generation. This German-born painter is of course famous for teaching the concepts of abstract painting that would define the New York School: the “push-pull” approach to composition and the focus on the picture plane. During the Depression, Matter worked for the Works Progress Administration alongside Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Lee Krasner. The project she and de Kooning collaborated on was directed by Fernand Léger, for whom she served as a translator. In the early 1950s, Mercedes was among the first female members of the Club, an organization of downtown artists that held frequent discussion evenings; she was also a regular at the Cedar Tavern. For Mercedes, “The Club was marvelous. It brought together in one place, at one time, the greatest diversity of artists—as nothing had done before or has since. . . . The end of that marvelous time came when American art became big business...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

'Maine Coastal Landscape, ' by P. Krewer, Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 26.5" x 16.25" watercolor painting by artist P. Krewer depicts a rocky coastal landscape in Maine. In the foreground are several rock clusters on the coastal edge in mult...
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1950s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

'Submerging, ' by Lisa Miceli, Watercolor on Paper Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 15" x 22" watercolor on paper painting by Lisa Miceli depicts an imaginative abstracted landscape. This painting is part of the "latticeWorks Series."...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

"Frozen Tracks in Snow", contemporary abstract landscape acrylic & crayon, paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An acrylic and caran d'ache abstract drawing of the moment in the season when it is so crips and quiet that your shoes make clear tracks frozen in the snow. This drawing was produce...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Abstract Cityscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract cityscape watercolor with loosely defined landscape elements and geometric shapes by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 19...
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1980s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

A view over the loch
Located in Deddington, GB
A view over the loch by Natalie Bird [2022] original Pastel Image size: H:36 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Sun Setting Over Mwnt and A Cottage Garden in Monmouthshire
Located in Deddington, GB
Duncan MacDonald Johnson A Cottage Garden in Monmouthshire Original Landscape Painting Watercolour Paint on Paper Image Size: H 56cm x W 76cm The work is sold mounted but not framed . Overall size with mount is H 73cm x W 94cm Sold Unframed The work is sold unframed although shown as framed in the photographs Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. A cottage garden in Monmouthshire is an original landscape painting by Duncan MacDonald Johnson. The sunlight in spring brought out the richness of this garden in Monmouthshire in contrast to the farmland surrounding it. It was a joy to sit in this garden for two days and watch Spring bloom all around me. Duncan MacDonald Johnson Sun Setting Over Mwnt Original Watercolour Painting Watercolour on Paper Unframed size : H 56 cm x W 76 cm Overall size with mount is H 73cm x W 94 cm The work is sold mounted but not framed . Sold unframed The work is sold unframed although shown as framed in the photographs Sun Setting Over Mwnt is an original watercolour painting by Duncan MacDonald Johnson. This piece was painted on the cliff path from Aberporth to Mwnt in Ceredigion in 2015. It was completed in situ as the sun was setting. It is a quiet spot...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Salcombe Sail Boats and Sailboats and Five Houses Diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Salcombe Sail Boats and Sailboats and Five Houses Diptych Overall size cm : H58 x W48 Jessica Leighton Salcombe Sail Boats Original Seascape Painting Mixed Media and Acrylic Paint o...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Low Reservoir, colorful Abstract Impressionist landscape gouache
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield found peace and inspiration in regular solitary walks through nature throughout the pandemic. Her most recent body of work diaristically documents her constitutional...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil

The Cliff, Abstract Colorado Landscape, American Modernist Pastel Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract Colorado mountain landscape by Eric James Bransby (1916-2020). Pastel on paper in colors of green, orange, blue, and purple. Presented in a custom frame with archival materi...
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1990s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Pastel, Archival Paper

"Snow Fence", contemporary abstract winter landscape, acrylic & spray on paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An acrylic and spray paint abstract drawing of that moment when the snow has just fallen and sticks to the colorful picket fences within town. Fresh and fluffy. This drawing was pro...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper

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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