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Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Contemporary miniature graphite pencil landscape drawing black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Light #104" is an original graphite drawing on paper by Bill Teeple, signed on the mat in the lower right corner. This small image of a sunrise over the water is surrounded by a large white mat, isolating this intimate work so that it may be viewed on its own. Art size: 1 7/8" x 1 7/8" Frame size: 14" x 11" "I am the Director of Iowa Contemporary Art (ICON) and Bill Teeple Fine Art, in Fairfield. I have been serious about making art for 50 years, with a degree in art from the University of California at Berkeley. I have taught art in Fairfield for the past 15 years." In the ’70s, Bill and his artist partner Lynn Durham were living in California. Their fantasy/fairy art...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

"Sand, Sea & Sky, " Original Watercolor Seascape signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sand, Sea & Sky" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece features a waterscape in teal with brown sand bars and a deep blue sky...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Wolf Lake A-11, " Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wolf Lake A-11" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper. It is signed in the lower right and titled in the lower left, both in pencil. The work is framed and matted with a white acid-free mat board. Though it seems contrary to the title, the main focus of the image is not a lake, but a yellow and gold field of grass that leads to a distant dark green treeline. The cloudy blue sky meets the horizon, and perhaps the darker line of blue above the trees is the far-off lake. With its restrained palette of yellow, green, and blue, it creates a send of calm. Art size: 22" x 22" Frame size 36 1/4" x 36 1/4" A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life, and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply to her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers. Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture. Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting. Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her. With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Südafrika
Located in Wien, 9
> signed and dated lower rights > titled lower left Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

"Trout Clouds" Watercolor Impressionist Galveston Pier Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Watercolor coastal landscape painting with fishermen on a pier. The painting is done in an impressionist style and is signed by the artist in the lower corner. On the back of the piece is the title and date. The work is framed in a light wooden frame with a tan matte. Dimensions without Frame: H 33 in x W 24 in. Artist Biography: Charles Criner was born in the small East Texas town...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sentinel - Mountain Lions in Graphite on Antique Vellum Architectural Drawing
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Vellum, Graphite

Early Spring - Cedar Elm
Located in Dallas, TX
“Anne Weary, who grew up as a Texas cowgirl, is at home in the outdoors and knows its ways and its language. There is a sort of very quiet but very powerful mysticism in her work, a sense of presence that goes quite beyond words,” writes poet and University of Texas at Dallas professor Frederick Turner in the American Arts Quarterly. Dallas born Weary studied under Olin Travis, Octavio Medellin and Chapman Kelley...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Broadway, Worcestershire /// Contemporary British Watercolor City Scene Village
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ken Burton (English, 1946-) Title: "Broadway, Worcestershire" *Signed by Burton lower left Year: 1988 Medium: Original Watercolor on heavy wove paper Framing: Not framed, but beautifully matted with hand decorated archival French matting Matted size: 21.25" x 26" Image size: 12" x 18" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In mint condition Notes: Provenance: acquired directly from the artist Burton himself in the 1980's. Broadway is a large village and civil parish within the Cotswolds, located in the county of Worcestershire, England. Its population was 2,540 in the 2011 census, a small increase on the 2,496 in the 2001 census. Biography: Born in Peterborough in 1946, Ken Burton's interest in art began at school and led him to an initial choice of career in design and engraving, in which he trained with Joseph Hules, in London. He left in 1970 to enter public service (The British...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Feminine Devine, figure within landscape of birch trees gold tones nature
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint color pencil ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Paper, Color Pencil

Swiss Contemporary Art by Olivier Furter - Mensch III
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper - Framed 102 x 72 x 3 cm
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Fall Birch , colorful monorpint, nature trees
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Suffocation
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil & watercolour on paper
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Rainbow Shell - Watercolor of a Tiny Rainbow Colored Shell on a Blue Background
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rainbow", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a tiny sea shell painted on a blue starry background. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

City. 2014, paper, watercolor, 35x49 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The series is dedicated to the artist's home town Riga. Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Ab...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Lavander Gate Storm
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Col...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Paper

St. Briac, France - watercolor, matted in archival sleeve
Located in Burlingame, CA
St. Briac, France watercolor created by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb creates watercolors with graphite on paper, as a method of personal journaling his travels, both personal and professional. The series of watercolors depicts places where the artist visits, and captures the essence of the place and its atmosphere. This work is 9 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches and is matted in an archival museum mat with an outer dimension of 15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches. And it comes in a crystal clear archival storage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Dinan, France - watercolor, matted in archival sleeve
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dinan, France watercolor created by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb creates watercolors with graphite on paper, as a method of personal journaling his travels, both personal and professional. The series of watercolors depicts places where the artist visits, and captures the essence of the place and its atmosphere. This work is 7 x 10 inches and is matted in an archival museum mat with an outer dimension of 12 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches. And it comes in a crystal clear archival storage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

'Garden Entrance' - Architectural Watercolor Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Garden Entrance" is a watercolor painting featuring subtle hues of green, blue and yellow. This work is framed measuring 15.5 by 14 inches. McLean Jenkins is inspired by the work of JMW Turner, Richard Diebenkorn and Louis Khan. McLean Jenkins is a practicing architect and his work derives from and celebrates the classical forms of his trade. Working in graphite, ink and watercolor, McLean employs a gestural approach that frees his hand to explore a subject’s essence. His compositions rely on the quick, decisive sketch and are then given over to the whims and splashes of watercolor. Spontaneity, movement and spirit are all emphasized and his drawings collectively form their own narrative of his passion for architecture. The city of Venice has captured McLean’s imagination since his first trip there as a 12 year old boy. Over the years a kind of courtship with the city has evolved, and its impact has motivated and sustained his development as both architect and artist. His work depicting the city has been recognized within the architectural profession by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in its award to McLean of the J. Neel Reid...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Graphite

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Ebonas II
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Col...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Paper

EMERALD COAST MORNING TIDE - Landscape Painting of the Sea & Sky Oil
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Archival Paper

Cloud Lake - Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent vessels are suspended upon the surface of the water in this surreal landscape entitled "Cloud Lake". This landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smallest water droplet. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75 inches. Christina Haglid Cloud Lake watercolor and gouache on paper 11h x 8w in 27.94h x 20.32w cm CMH053 Artist's Statement Tiny Sanctuaries There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences. At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Canopy, Trees Emerging from a Vase, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Tree roots emerge from a vase to create a forest of trees in Christina Haglid's "Canopy". The artist invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Meticulous in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. Christina Haglid Canopy watercolor and gouache on paper 11h x 8w in 21.75h x 18w in framed CMH033 Artist's Statement Tiny Sanctuaries There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences. At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Geologies Series 9050
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak Title: Geologies Series 9050 Materials: Drawing on 140# Fabriano Artistico Date: 2018 Dimensions: 30"x22" Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tuc...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Handmade Paper, Color Pencil

Dustanburgh Castle /// Contemporary Watercolor English British Landscape History
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gillie Cawthorne (English, 1963-) Title: "Dustanburgh Castle" *Signed and dated by Cawthorne lower left Year: 2008 Medium: Original Watercolor on paper Framing: Not framed, b...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Neighbors No 3
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative watercolor in mainly green from Mary Robertson whose paintings Wayne Thiebaud calls "Joyous and meditative colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Steepe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Thira VII Rooftops
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Col...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Paper

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Blue Gate III
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore Col...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Paper

VFD 3, watercolor, unframed, Industrial landscape, work on paper, Building
Located in Riverdale, NY
VFD #3 is an industrial watercolor painting on paper by California artist, Ferdinanda Florence. It is 11.25 x 7, unframed. It is based on the building in Vallejo California where the fire department conducts training. Ferdinanda Florence was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Arlington, VA. She received a degree in art history and studio art at The American University in 1994, and has continued to pursue a successful professional life as a scholar, teacher, and practicing artist. She earned her Master’s degree in art history at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1998. A second-generation Armenian-America, Ferdinanda has explored in her research the role of place in artistic expression. Her Master’s thesis detailed the link between Armenian religious rituals and church architecture. In her travel to sites in France, Italy, and Germany, she has researched the symbolism of doorway and floor decoration in Romanesque buildings. In her artwork, she uses industrial sites in her home city of Vallejo to explore issues of place on a more personal level. Ferdinanda’s exhibitions reflect her varied interests and concerns. Her work has appeared at the Di Rosa Preserve, Napa (“All in the Family IV,” 2005); the University of San Francisco Law School (“Creative Justice: A Social Art...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Transizione Ecologica
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and th...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Paper

"Dew Drops" - pastel drawing, landscape, bunny, animal, grass, green, flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 22 by 22 inches. Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Canvas, Oil Pastel

POSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE - Circular, Contemporary Landscape/Abstract
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In POSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE, Peña combines representational elements of a bright green landscape in the background with a more abstracted silhouette of a house in the middle gr...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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PVC, Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

"Star Lake Reflections - Autumn, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Star Lake Reflections - Autumn" is an original watercolor painting on antique Whatman watercolor paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The image is an abstract r...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Five at the Rail, View of Racetrack and Crowd, Saratoga Springs, New York
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951) Five at the Rail, Saratoga Springs Racecourse, New York, circa 1978 Watercolor on paper 4 3/4 x 6 inches Initialed lower right: Dig...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Blue Thumbergia, Botanical in Watercolor and Gouache, Matted and Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid Blue Thunbergia watercolor on paper 7.25h x 4.50w in 16.75h x 13.75w in framed CMH008 Christina Haglid Artist's Statement I used to write a lot of poetry, and it has shaped the narrative process in my artwork. Now painting has replaced writing. Objects in the painting are considered like words placed on a page. I use flowers, manipulated objects, and architecture together in compositions to symbolize the subtle conversations and interactions between them. They are placed in imaginary landscapes that are inspired by actual places and travels. All the paintings are watercolor and gouache on stonehendge paper, and they are made up almost entirely of individual brushstrokes. EDUCATION 1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art 1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art 1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture EXHIBITIONS 2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL "Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL 2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL 2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled] “Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Boom, Bust, Repeat - Nick Peña - Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In BOOM BUST REPEAT17, Peña creates a silhouette of house and fills it with sharpe-edged shapes that contain gradients and saturated hues of red, green, and violet. He balances these colors with muted tones of orange and yellow . The viewer can create a house that is yet to be built in between the gaps here. In "Boom, Bust, Repeat", Peña remarks on a house and landscape that has yet to take place. The painting is created with watercolor and acrylic paint on paper. In the foreground we see Sintra board or flattened PVC that has been CNC routed. In the "soil" beneath the house are small circular lines that have been hand drawn with India ink. The Sintra board has been cut to reveal arrows in the negative space pointing upwards as to hint at a boom in the market. Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment and national psyche. The realization that both the idealistic pursuit of happiness and the relevance of painting in a technologically driven world informs his practice. With each composition the labor begins with digital composites of a fragmented American landscape in peril —where tension lies in the contrasts between past and present, analog and digital, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability. In his most recent series the American home (stability) and fragmented and shifting landscape (instability) are veiled by a digitally produced mat. Traditionally a mat is, by definition, a flat, thin piece of paper based material included within the picture frame and serves as additional decoration when framing artwork. He activates this commonly overlooked material by using a non-traditional material, Sintra (flattened sheet of PVC), that has a negative digitally drawn image cut-out. This cut-out might, at first glance, look hand cut however, a more astute viewer would realize the precision is mechanical. The mat has been transformed from inactive decoration to digitally produced veil that represents the technologically anxious precision we surround ourselves with. Nick Peña...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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PVC, Wood, Paper, India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Belvedere for children - Book illustration, Polish artist, Watercolor painting
Located in Warsaw, PL
Illustration for book by Michał Rusinek 'Belvedere for children' JOANNA RUSINEK Printmaker, illustrator of children's books, author of press ill...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Living on the Edge" Colorful Landscape Nature Bright Animals Watercolor
Located in Wellesley, MA
Living on the Edge, Watercolor on Paper, 6 x 7 1/4 Inches, is one of a series of paintings, watercolors, mosaics, and prints by Lisa Houck, a very established artist from Boston wit...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Oasis with Reindeer Shaman & Bear Tracks" Original Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Oasis with Reindeer, Shaman, & Bear Tracks" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett that incorporates iridescent watercolor, rubber stamps, and a pressed ginko leaf on 100...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Rag Paper

"Venice Shapes" Watercolor on Kilaminjaro Watercolor Paper signed by Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Venice Shapes" is an original watercolor painting on Kilaminjaro watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fire Season
Located in Santa Monica, CA
India ink on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink

Fire Season
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Rare Untitled Monotype with Hand Coloring by Ed Baynard
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ed Baynard (American, 1940- 2016) Untitled Monotype with handcoloring on paper! 1981 28-1/2 x 36-3/4 inches (72.4 x 93.3 cm) (paper size) Frame is included. Approx - 34.5 x 40.75...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Monotype

"Space Sense, " Multi-scene Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Space Sense" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features three distinct scenes--a green rainy scene with two figure...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Illustration Board

Willow - Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper with Single Bud Vase and Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
A single bud vase, a willow tree seeming to grow inside a confined vessel, all appearing to float upon a sea of moving water are the subjects of Christ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Knarsdale, South Tyne Valley, UK /// Contemporary Watercolor Female Artist Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gillie Cawthorne (English, 1963-) Title: "Knarsdale, South Tyne Valley, UK" *Signed and dated by Cawthorne lower right Year: 2003 Medium: Original Watercolor on paper Framing...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Rebecca Island Getaway, " Oil Pastel on Rag Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rebecca Island Getaway" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper right. It depicts a group of people seated at an outdoor...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Board

"The Shooting Star, " Black and White Nightscape Ink Wash signed by Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Shooting Star" is an original ink wash painting by Dan Muller. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features a star moving towards the crescent moon over a hilly landscap...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Vase - Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Purple Glass Vessel, Pale Blue & Beige
Located in Chicago, IL
A small purple vase floats on a dreamy background of pale blues fading into a warm beige. The artist achieves a remarkable delicate quality by multip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Swiss Contemporary Art by Olivier Furter - Leaving SF III
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper - Framed 72 x 102 x 3 cm
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

Late March - Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent vessels are suspended upon the surface of the water in this surreal landscape entitled "Cloud Lake". This landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smallest water droplet. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75 inches. Christina Haglid Cloud Lake watercolor and gouache on paper 11h x 8w in 27.94h x 20.32w cm CMH053 Artist's Statement Tiny Sanctuaries There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences. At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

"The New Bike, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The New Bike" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features a man on a motorcycle riding...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Found Objects

Diario, 3 de agosto de 2016
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Frank Mujica was born on December the 20th, 1985 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro Academy of fine Arts from 2000 to 2004 and at the Superior Institute of Art I...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Swiss Contemporary Art by Olivier Furter - Landscape II
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on wood cardboard - Framed 32 x 32 x 3 cm
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Cardboard, Wood

Forest in Laski - XXI Century, Contemporary Pastel Drawing, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
Maka Cielecka Graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Worked in Canada and in the Netherlands as a graphic artist. In the mid-90s she began her extensive travels, including t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Cardboard

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen, Ink, Pigment

"Crossroads A-73, " Hazy Pastel Landscape signed by Jan Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Crossroads A-73" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel landscape drawing. The landscape figures a yellow field in the foreground and a cluster of deep green trees in the middle ground, behind which the tiniest strip of water is visible in light blue. On the distant horizon, a dark green hill meets a serene blue sky. Art size: 16" x 12" Frame size: 29 1/2" x 25 1/2" Framed to conservation standards. Matted with a cream-colored acid-free mat board and glazed in UV Clear Glass that filters 99% of UV Rays to inhibit fading. All this is housed in a traditional moulding in a gold finish. A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply with her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers. Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture. Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting. Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her. With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Steam - Nasturtium Flower Encased in a Paper Lantern on Wayward Seas, Watercolor
Located in Chicago, IL
"Steam", by Christina Haglid, is a small, exquisite watercolor. A single nasturtium is suspended inside a paper lantern, floating on turbulent water, the steam escaping from the lantern propelling it forward. The fragility of the environment has always played an important role in Haglid's work. As a child growing up on the East Coast, the ever changing seaside landscapes intrigued her. This fragile balance between nature and her subject matter is as delicate as a paper lantern floating on the ocean. Christina Haglid Steam, 2019 watercolor and gouache on paper 8h x 9w in 18.75h x 19w in framed CMH034 Artist's Statement Tiny Sanctuaries There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences. At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night which will return to its purpose during the day. My intention is to not show the failure because I imagine all these objects make it through to better times. Allegories of survival. Someone comes by and finds the paper crane, the rowboat owners return and see their boat undisturbed, and the slide during the day brings joy. EDUCATION 1993 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art 1991 B.F.A., Maryland Institute, College of Art 1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture EXHIBITIONS 2019 "Tiny Sanctuaries", Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 "Gallery Group" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011 “Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL "Meticulous Details: Conservators' Paintings" The Architrouve, Chicago, IL 2010 “Art Chicago” Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 “Botanica” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 “Botanicus” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 “Arts Botanica” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL 2005 “Blumen: Group Show” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004-05 “Think Small” Illinois State Museum, IL [traveled] “Christina Haglid: Microworlds” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC [solo exhibition] 2004 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 “Small to Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002 “Art of the 20th Century” NY Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, NY, NY “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 “Group Fusion” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 "Small & Mighty II" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL "Christina Haglid, New Work and Amy Lowry-Poole, Bugs and Buds" Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 “Small & Mighty” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL “Views II” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 “Maleri” Galleri Carl Michael Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden “1987 – 1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction” David Beitzel Gallery, NY, NY “On and Off the Wall, Gallery Group” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1996 “Small Works” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL., Special Recognition Award 1994 “Unknown Chicago” Gallery 312, Chicago, IL “15 x 15” (Alumni Exhibition), Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1993 “Graduate Summer Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI “Graduate Thesis Exhibition” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI “Michigan Fine Arts Competition” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI 1992 “Word of Mouth” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1991 “Drawing: A Covert and Private Affair” West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ “Senior Exhibition” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1990 “Fiber Exhibition” Fox Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Landscape - Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolor drawing realized by Armin Guther in 1986. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner. Good conditions, including a white cardboard passe-partout (40...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Under the Magnolia" - pastel drawing, nature, figurative, surreal, dream, dark
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 53.5 by 39 inches. Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealis...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Notre Dame de Paris - Drawing by Adolf Reinhold Hallman- Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Notre Dame de Paris is a drawing in pen on cream-colored paper, made in the mid-20th Century by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hall...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen

Swiss Contemporary Art by Olivier Furter - Île-de-France IV
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper - Framed 72 x 102 x 3 cm
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

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