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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.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

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Style: Contemporary
Rainy Day - Near Paris, France
By Bart Forbes
Located in Dallas, TX
"Rainy Day - Near Paris, France" is a watercolor on Canson Aquarelle French cold press watercolor paper. The price does not include a frame. The overall paper size is 6 x 9 inches. In addition to being one of America’s foremost illustrators, Bart Forbes creates paintings and watercolors for himself. This private and very personal work, is painted from his mind’s eye. Forbes’ oil paintings express a time of day or a mood through his use of color, texture, and composition. Forbes moved to Dallas in 1967, after completing graduate study at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, following his BFA in art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Forbes was the official artist for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. His public works include the cover of Time Magazine; 19 commemorative stamps for the US Postal Service, including the Ronald Reagan stamp; and official artworks for the Kentucky Derby, Indianapolis 500...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

The Belltower of Piza, a Pleine Aire Study in Pen and Chalk, Matted and Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful pleine aire study of the Leaning Bell Tower of Pisa is by Christopher Ganz. This drawing is matted and framed in a metallic frame measuring 17.5h x 14w inches. Christopher Ganz The Belltower of Piza colored pens & chalk 11h x 8w in 27.94h x 20.32w cm CG0003 -ARTIST STATEMENT- I depict my person in multiplicity with different selves representing dramatis personae. My likeness is both implicit and symbolic in the portrayal of my narrative; the drama involved in creating art and the artist’s role in society. I use realism to invite the viewer into mysterious inner worlds that are layered reflections of the outer. Dehumanizing environments are imbued with art historical references as a critique of power structures. The artist is an Everyman who is at odds with society and his self. Visually my work is a celebration of society’s dark undercurrents and its overlooked absurdities. I use charcoal and printmaking media as their tenebrous values add a fitting metaphor. The nuances of light and shadow seduce viewers into a world their better judgment would have them avoid. This provokes a sense of disquietude that causes viewers to assess our world through the austerity of a colorless, yet not humorless, light. -BIO- Christopher Ganz grew up in Northeast Ohio and from early on had a fertile imagination and an interest in art. Christopher's artistic education truly began at the University of Missouri, where his love of the human form led to many figure drawing classes and his exposure to the wonders of printmaking. Christopher's then went onto graduate school at Indiana University and a summer abroad program in Italy was a dream realized. Christopher then grasped charcoal with a renewed vigor and large, sfumato-laden drawings ensued. Christopher's artistic influences are many; from a seminal exposure to Dore's engravings of the Divine Comedy, to Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, and up to Lucian Freud, Mark Tansey...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Paper, Chalk

Dissolution Drift (Gowanus)
Located in New York, NY
Ink, watercolor, pencil, charcoal pencil on paper available framed Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Charcoal, Graphite, Watercolor

Untitled 065 (Contemporary Abstract Landscape in Bright Pastels on Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Pastel on paper Paper size is 17 x 14 inches, 18 X 14.5 x 1 inches framed Custom black wood frame Vince Vella’s landscapes are the work of a spontaneous painter obsessed with his ma...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

Red Barn
Located in Dallas, TX
In her work, Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Acrylic, Paper

The Crew, photorealist graphite graffiti drawing, 2015
Located in New York, NY
An homage to cannabis and weed culture, Mary Reilly works with both powdered graphite and graphite pencil on paper in her photorealist drawing, "The Crew." The artist memorializes tr...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite, Archival Paper

Tent Rocks
Located in Dallas, TX
Brian Cobble’s landscapes tend to particularly focus on the interplay of man and his surroundings, whether natural or built. A signature attention to the liminal aspects of a scene, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Linocut, Mulberry Paper

Fence Line
Located in Dallas, TX
In her work, Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper, Acrylic

Black Sky (The Cave Series), 2
Located in New York, NY
Black Sky (The Cave Series), 2, 2015 graphite on paper 77 x 112 cm
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Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Black Sky (The Cave Series), 4
Located in New York, NY
Black Sky (The Cave Series), 4 graphite on paper 77 x 112 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Entry (Modern Realist Black & White Watercolor Painting of Front Door Building)
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white watercolor on paper 6 x 4 inches 21 x 17 inches framed brown wood artist made frame, white mat This listing is offered by Carrie Haddad Gallery, based in Hudson, NY. ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Binocular" Large Scale Watercolor painting of the Moon
Located in New York, NY
36"x72"watercolor on paper, available unframed, signed on reverse by New York artist, Thomas Broadbent. Please inquire about framing options. This highly detailed and masterfully rendered watercolor depicts a dual view of the Moon...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Two More for Joy, Jane Peart, Contemporary digital drawing, Animal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Two more for Joy by Jane Peart [2021] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital drawing on paper Edition number 100 Image size: H:35 cm x W:24 cm Complete Size of Unfram...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Digital, Paper

Original-Sunlit-Prayers Series-Cat with Dahlias IV -landscape-UK Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
* Varnished, ready to be dispatched, in time for Christmas delivery worldwide guarantee if ordered now. The 'Sunlit' series is an exploration of the colour yellow and its impact on i...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold, Gold Leaf

Red Robin 'Taos Village' Native American Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Red Robin (American, 1912-1991) Taos Village, circa 1950's Watercolor on paper Signed in watercolor and in pencil lower left Sight: 8.5"h x 11"w, In a black and gilt frame with linen...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Pomegranate, Veneto, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Color Pencil

"Linen" Abstract Colorful Organic Patterned Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary organic abstract watercolor painting by Texas based artist Tina Ruyi. The work features red, blue, and orange flowing shapes in a wavy pattern reminiscent of a rolling h...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Little Hills" Abstract Colorful Organic Patterned Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary organic abstract watercolor painting by Texas based artist Tina Ruyi. The work features red, blue, and yellow cylindrical shapes in a wavy pattern reminiscent of a rolli...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Refugees
Located in Paris, IDF
Dry pastel on paper
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Horizon - Painting, Watercolour, Sea Coast Landscape, Britany
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Watercolour, Acrylic Painting and Charcoal on paper. Work Title : Braconner l'Horizon Artist : Fabien Granet (FR) The work is signed, titled and dated verso. Unique work. Size : H30xW40cm. With archival Mat, not framed. Ready to be framed in a regular 40x 30 cm frame. Born in 1970 the artist lives and works in France. The majority of his drawings and paintings are inspired by the wild landscapes of Brittany in France. " The drawing as a gesture allows me to exploit a (re)mise-en-scene as so many possibilities in the making. Through the quality of drawing as a marker of thought, it is not a question of constructing "dream worlds" but rather of setting up a device that would allow for a conscious dialogue of a certain perception of the real." Fabien Granet is pursuing a research on the perception of the landscape, on our ways of trying to represent it, to understand it, to understand its structures. The drawn "landscapes" are thus as many projections of the artist, which convene and reveal his artistic path, the influences of his culture, his utopias, his dystopian fantasies. Another shift where the quasi scientific concern of objective rigor and the mental construction of an construction of an individual course. The drawing appears in this sense as an act as much as a work which The drawing appears in this sense as an act as much as a work which is registered in a research and a quest to pierce the enigma of the real. In his landscapes, Fabien Granet evokes a process of the mind, where shreds and fragments become entangled in a re-arrangement of of reality. Snippets of architecture and geometrical figures draw human and his gaze into it. The landscape is a human creation, but how does human try to perceive it, how does he understand its constructions? what is his mental image of it? Chaos and structure intersect in a paradox of our vision of the world: the artist picks out the sensitive elements in a reflection on the possibilities in the making. Solo exhibitions : 2023 "GRAND ERRE" Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Aix en Provence / 2021 "Les Indestinés" (Drawing Now Art Fair) Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2017 "mise-en-paysage" galerie Tokonoma - Paris / 2015 "Shiftings" galerie White Project - Paris / 2012 "Risée" galerie G&G - Paris / 2011 "Transistoires" galerie P&Z - Angoulême / 2010 "Tandis que? Group exhibitions (selection) : 2021 " SUMMER TALENTS " - Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand / 2019 " FEEL GOOD " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2019 " Naturalia " Mexico / 2019 " (re) mise-en-scène " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Aix-en-Provence / 2019 " ScapeLand " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2019 " Blanc Ciel " espace d'art associatif La Perception - Creuse/ 2018 " Angle Mort " Ici. Gallery - Paris/ 2018 " Drawing in Gallery " Galerie ALB - Paris/ 2017 " Where form meets Art " Antwerp Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Two World
Located in Paris, IDF
Coal & dry pastel on paper
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen, Pigment

"The Racetrack Paddock and Thoroughbred Owners, " Saratoga Springs, Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951) The Racetrack Paddock and Thoroughbred Owners, Saratoga Springs New York, circa 1978 Watercolor on paper 9 x 12 inches Signed and d...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor, Paper

Qunu Landscape with Nguni Cow - Nelson Mandela, Former President, Original Art
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Nelson Mandela, Qunu Landscape with Nguni Cow, Signed Original Artwork Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's as...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

VFD #4, watercolor, California, industrial, architecture, building, training
Located in Riverdale, NY
VFD #5 is an industrial watercolor painting on paper by California artist, Ferdinanda Florence. It is 11x7.5, unframed. It is based on the building in Vallejo California where the ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled Trucks
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Untitled Jonas Wood charcoal on thick paper 60 x 13” signed COA from Wood Kusaka Studios 2003 VERY RARE!
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper

Home
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are premiering the paintings of a just discovered French artist Jade Bocquillon. A gifted artist living in Provence in the South of France, The work of Jade Bocquillon evokes dee...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 3
Located in New York, NY
Michael Ricardo Andreev Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 3, 2013 Ink on paper 28 x 50 cm (diptych)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 2
Located in New York, NY
Michael Ricardo Andreev Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 2, 2013 Ink on paper 28 x 50 cm (diptych)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 1
Located in New York, NY
Michael Ricardo Andreev Plasma Flares with Contrails at Dusk 1, 2013 Ink on paper 28 x 50 cm (diptych)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Perhaps in the Right Track Towards the Infinite
By Dimitris Foutris
Located in New York, NY
Dimitris Foutris Perhaps in the right track towards the Infinite, 2015 mixed media on paper 69 x 200 cm (diptych)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Black Sky (The Cave Series)
Located in New York, NY
Panos Familis Black Sky (The Cave Series), 2015 graphite on paper 77 x 112 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Contemporary landscape drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including David Barnett, Richard Dupont, Reginald K. Gee, and Ekaterina Smirnova. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary landscape drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 2.25 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 $66 and tops out at $45,000, while the average work sells for $1,511.

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