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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BW Landscape, Original Drawing on Paper , One of a kind, Abstract art on Paper
Located in Agrigento, AG
BW Landscape
Mineral Oxide on Paper
(Canson Paper Montval 300gr)
30x40 cm
2025
Original Art
Marilina Marchica, born in Agrigento, where she works and lives,
she graduated in Paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Red Step
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Yellow Landscape, Original Drawing pigment on Paper , One of a kind Large size
Located in Agrigento, AG
Yellow Landscape
Mineral Oxide on Paper
Fabriano Paper
70x50cm
2025
Original Art
Marilina Marchica, born in Agrigento, where she works and lives,
she graduated in Painting at the A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Atmospheric Watercolor Landscape - Fog with Delicate Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Atmospheric Watercolor Landscape - Fog with Delicate Trees
Delicate watercolor landscape of trees in the fog. Wet on wet brush techniques create an atmospheric background to this pi...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Fontainebleau #15 by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, forest, black & white, nature
Located in Paris, FR
Fontainebleau #15 is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 70 × 100 cm (27.6 × 39.4 in).
The artwork is signed, sold un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Glen Lyon, Scotland /// Contemporary Female Artist Watercolor Landscape Country
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gillie Cawthorne (English, 1963-)
Title: "Glen Lyon, Scotland"
*Signed and dated by Cawthorne lower left
Year: 2010
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper
Framing: Not framed, ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
On The Jetty ( Fishing ) - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple white wood frames behind glass. The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Window onto the Sea, Original Drawing, Contemporary Landscape, Architecture
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed.
Medium : Watercolour, Soft Pastel and Oil based col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Watercolor, Pastel, Archival Paper
Pink Cloud Hydrangeas - Floral Pastel Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anna Kudriashova, born in a small town in Russia, has always been an artist at heart. From her youngest years, she was passionate about painting, spending her days immersed in the wo...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace, interiors, desert landscape, earth tones
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace"
2020
Work on paper by Japanese artist Miki Matsuyama, from her iconic artist studio study series featuring an interiors and desert landscape. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Field Grasses, Metallic Gold Botanical Drawing, Grass, Black Paper
By Margot Glass
Located in Kent, CT
This delicate botanical drawing is made with 14 karat gold on painted black paper. The exploration of ephemerality, and the fragility of of field grasses are the focus of this drawin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
cobblestone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "cobblestone" is original artwork made from screenprint Tyvek paint collage on panel by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 6"h x 6"w.
Miriam Singer grew up in Buffalo, New York, In 2000 she received her BA from Brandeis University, and in 2003 her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2004; Miriam Singer has exhibited at James Oliver Gallery. Stanek Gallery, LG Tripp Gallery, Woodmere Art Museum, Space 1026, Friends of the Print and Picture Collection...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Panel, Screen, Paint
"Landscape" Abstract Drawing - Large Size- Contemporary Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mineral oxide on paper (fabriano)
50 x 72 cm it i
Frame options available
her painting tells of the relationship between man, nature and time, the l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Tomas Sanchez
"Untitled" 1995
Pastel on paper
12 x 18 in
Included a certificate of authenticity by the artist
Tomás Sánchez paints imagined landscapes that fall into two radically d...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Ocean Piece: unique drawings of studies for ocean painting (hand signed)
Located in New York, NY
Jennifer Losch Bartlett
Ocean piece: Untitled painting studies, 1975
Ink and pastel, mixed media on graph paper
Boldly signed and dated "Summer 75" by Jennifer Bartlett on the lower right front
Frame included: held in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
Ink and pastel on graph paper drawing.
Boldly signed and dated "Summer 75" by Jennifer Bartlett on the lower right front.
Some of the artist's annotations on the drawings say:
Ocean piece
Sky Water Beach Sometimes looking from water
maybe see mountain
two people on beach lying down
sometimes they face each other
... bwhitefree hand drawing
from water beach w/ towel
sky sand water on a diagonal
on a curve
sky water sand...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Graphite
"Santa Maria della Salute" Venice - Architectural Watercolor Painting - Turner
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Santa Maria della Salute II" is a watercolor painting of the Santa Maria della Salute church and minor basilica in Venice, Italy. This work features hues of orange and tan. This piece is 16 by 20 inches framed.
McLean Jenkins is inspired by the work of JMW Turner, Richard Diebenkorn and Louis Khan.
McLean Jenkins is a practicing architect with McAlpine 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lois Dodd, Landscape painting by renowned female artist (signed and inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd
Untitled Landscape, 1990
Colored chalk on grey wove paper
Signed, dated and inscribed "For Beverly & Howard", lower right.
Original artist's frame included
This unique work...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite
American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Thira Stairway
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Under Scattered Clouds: Abstract Chalk Drawing of Blue Clouds on Vintage Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract mixed media drawing of blue, black and grey clouds on vintage book pages
'Under Scattered Clouds' by Louise Laplante
chalk on vintage collaged book pages.
Artwork measures 26 x 40 inches unframed
30 x 43 inches in light wood frame
This dreamy, whimsical drawing of fluffy light blue clouds was created by Louise Laplante in 2019. The vivid silhouette of clouds are suspended in space, drifting against a background of an early 20th century book of fables. Illustrations on the page include a hot air balloon, a rocking horse, a pheasant. In certain segments the stenciled images are delicately brushed over with a thin wisp of chalk which adds a delicate textured effect to the drawing.
About the artist:
Interested in blending the old world with the new, mixed media artist Louise Laplante combines her original images with ephemera of the past, enticing a conversation about it’s “relevancy to the present.” Her compositions begin with vintage book pages, personal handwritten letters, sheet music, or instruction from old guides on etiquette or science. While the text itself is weighted with reference to a particular subject, the visual of the typed or handwritten words and printed illustrations establish a unique pattern. These layered backgrounds are superimposed with opaque charcoal drawings that are inspired by the themes read between the lines. Most recently, the artist has opted for larger scale work, combining multiple sheets of vintage paper to expand her unique motifs. Laplante exhibits across the Northeast and has shown with Carrie Haddad for more than ten years.
Artist Statement:
My work connects the texts, and ideas, in the vintage book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
“Topsail Schooner under Full Sail”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and ink marine painting of a topsail schooner under full sail. The schooner flies the Betsy Ross flag. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1980...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Frankford + York
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Frankford + York" is original artwork made from acrylic and screenprint on panel by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 6"h x 6"w.
Miriam Singer grew up in Buffalo, New York, In 2000 she received her BA from Brandeis University, and in 2003 her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2004; Miriam Singer has exhibited at James Oliver Gallery. Stanek Gallery, LG Tripp Gallery, Woodmere Art Museum, Space 1026, Friends of the Print and Picture Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel, Permanent Marker, Pencil, Drypoint
Pot Creek, NM, Summer
Located in Dallas, TX
The paper size is 30 1/8 x 44 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Les Indestinés, Charcoal, Original Black & White Drawing, Wave, Seascape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Charcoal and Graphite on Archival Watercolour paper 300Gsm.
Artist : Fabien Granet
Subject : Les Indestinés (series ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Scandal in the Background, London Landscape, Illustrative Contemporary Cityscape
By Laura Jordan
Located in Deddington, GB
Inspiration and process: Laura takes her inspiration from visiting cities and captures her ideas initially through photography. As well as photographing for research Laura will spend a large amount of time people watching and trying to understand how the people of the city function and move about their daily lives. She divides her attention between the physical spaces colour and shape of a city and the cultural economical and social behaviour of a city, eventually being able to combine the different elements and making visual connections.
Once back in the studio she will then create lots of small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Ebren Ha Dor, September, Softening'. Framed contemporary landscape, rural sky
Located in Penzance, GB
'Ebren Ha Dor, September, Softening'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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The dancing light and rapidly changing skies,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Watercolor
The End of Day - Watercolor of Boats in Water with Dock
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"The End of Day" is a watercolor by award-winning L.A. artist and architect Thomas W. Schaller. The watercolor painting depicts a man in a red coat and his loyal dog standing at the edge of a dock and looking out across the lake at distant cottages. Two boats are tied to the dock and the man and his companion seem to be relaxing and enjoying the soothing sounds of the gentle waters and the comforting shade of the over-arching tree. For more works by Thomas Schaller...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Barn with Boat Dock, ' by Unknown, Ink and Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 22" x 29" ink and watercolor painting by an Unknown artist explores an abstracted landscape depicting a boat dock near a barn. In a neutral palette of browns, grays, and...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
'Guijarros y Agua'. Spanish seascape painting, drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
SOPHIA MILLIGAN
'Guijarros y Agua'
Original Artwork (unframed*)
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Winter solstice light dancing on shingles and lapping tidal movements, towering rock formations rise ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Landscape - Original Ink and Watercolor on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in ink and watercolor on paper realized by the Russian artist Angelina Beloff (1879 - 1969)
Good conditions except fo...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"New York Skyline", Contemporary, Plant, Blue, Cyanotype, Photograph, Drawing
By Marie Craig
Located in Natick, MA
Marie Craig’s “New York Skyline” is a pen and ink drawing of the skyline of New York City on a unique cyanotype photograph of leaves and blossoms which has been toned to fade away ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photogram, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Graham Nickson, Orvieto "Black Sun" original watercolor painting, Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Graham Nickson
Orvieto "Black Sun", 2000
Watercolor painting on Lanaquarelle paper
Hand signed, titled and dated by Graham Nickson on the back
This exquisite watercolor painting dep...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Heather on Rock, Oil Pastel, French Landscape, Sky with Clouds
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Bruyère sur un rocher (Title - FR) / Heather on a rock
This diptych reads like a visual meditation on the link between sky and earth, between the ephemeral and the grounded...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]" is an original pen and ink, and acrylic wash artwork by Sarah Kaizar measuring 24"h x 30"w framed.
It’s an off-beat, diverse community t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen
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Lake Murten
Located in Genève, GE
Black and white etching on watercolor paper signed dated
Category
1950s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Engraving
In the port. 1972, cardboard, mixed media, 19x17.2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the port
1972, cardboard, mixed media, 19x17.2 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Paper
Winter Night in Canmore, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and sky
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Factory IX: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Monoprint, Monotype, Handmade Paper
"Summer" - nature, green, naturalism, oil painting, botanical
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 33 by 27 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism. Her work is often heavily...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Patch of Light - Havana Cuba Watercolor of Architecture Building
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Patch of Light" is a watercolor by award-winning L.A. artist and architect Thomas W. Schaller. The painting depicts the weathered facade of a historic building in Havana, Cuba draped with sporadic cast-shadows and a tangle of powerlines stretched across the foreground. Look closely to see the dog peering from the doorway. This watercolor painting of architecture is primarily painted in tan, brown, purple, and navy colors. For more works by Thomas Schaller...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Pink Palms, Rainforest Beach', Hawaiian Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tremewen' for Ian Tremewen (Australian, born 1954), additionally signed, verso, dated 1993 and titled, 'Poster Idea, #9328, Pink Palms, Rainforest Beach'
A watercolor and gouache study for a gallery exhibition at the Village Gallery, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
Ian Tremewen began showing his watercolors with Village Gallery in 1976 while living on Maui. Born in Montreal and now based in Australia, Tremewen has spent much of his life in the Caribbean and Hawaiian tropics. Tremewen's work reflects the interest he feels for light, space and shadow working in sculpture, contemporary glass and textiles. His abstract interpretation of the amorphic shapes of nature, coupled with his design and composition enable him to present his work with a view that is distinctly his own.
Artist's Statement: "As an artist, I can experiment with many aspects and combinations. I've always been fascinated by the psychedelic colours hidden in rainforests. For me, these elements invite abstraction, where a shape, along with colour and texture, defines an object. There now appears to be a refreshing openness emerging in the art world. I feel there is a freedom to stretch and explore ideas and alternatives like never before using mediums and concepts that are expanding the world of art and design.”
Solo Exhibitions:
Napua Gallery, USA
Village Gallery Contemporary, USA
Karratha Art Centre, Australia
Metro Arts, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Grand Orbit, Australia
Paperworks Gallery, Canada
Corporate Art West, USA
Budds Beach Gallery, Australia
Pandanus Art, Australia
Tremewen@Marine, Australia
Group Exhibitions:
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Australia
Ritz-Carlton, USA
Contemporary Art Gallery, USA
Parliament Building, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
Nordstroms, USA
Tattersalls Club, Australia
Honolulu Academy of Art, USA
Federation...What About the Nation? Museums and Galleries Foundation, Australia
Selected Awards:
Hui Noeau, USA
Suncorp Biennial, Australia
S.O.S. Festival, Australia
Hawaii Watercolour Society, USA
Heritage Art Festival, Australia
R.E.I.Q. Bicentennial, Australia
Woven Image, Australia
Art Maui, USA
Courier Mail Art Prize, Australia
Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Paradise Art Award, Australia
Commissions:
Sydney Airports Corporation, Australia
Lloyds Of London...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Autumn Cotilion - Japanese Style Gyotaku Painting on Marbled Mulberry Paper
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
In Japan they are known as Nishikigoi, or living jewels. These brilliantly colored varieties of the Amur carp have been selectively bred by family owned fisheries for generations. When I began this series of Gyotaku (Japanese fish printing) I studied the many varieties of Koi, each with their own unique colors and patterns. My particular favorites are the Tanchos which can be identified by the distinct red spot on their heads. To create these pieces I print common carp I catch myself with sumi ink using traditional techniques used by Japanese fisherman dating back the mid 1800's. I then tint the images using watercolor. In each piece I hope to translate a sense of movement to give the viewer a sense of calm one might experience watching the living versions lazily meandering around a serene pond. —Jeff Conroy
Several koi swim in a circle while autumn leaves fall on the surface of the water in this Gyo-tako method of painting by artist Jeff Conroy. After inking and taking impressions of the koi, the artist then uses watercolors to enhance their beauty. By using marbled mulberry paper to print on, he has created the illusion of water with the swirls of the mulberry paper. The paper itself has a soft hue and slightly wavy texture adding the overall feel of the artwork. This artwork is unframed. Contact gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Autumn Cotillion
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
25h x 37w in
63.50h x 93.98w cm
JEC103
Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression. It is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art form of its own. Gyotaku is a Japanese method of printmaking that traditionally utilizes fish, sea creatures or similar subjects as printing "plates" in its process. The literal translation of the word is "fish stone rubbing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink, Mulberry Paper
On the Roof, Original Drawing, Gouache, Pool, Contemporary Landscape, Sky
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Unique Work, Handmade Artwork. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed.
Materials : Gouache painting and oil based pencils ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Archival Paper, Gouache
Fall, Fossil Bend
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Factory X: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
"Santa Maria della Salute I" - Venice - Watercolor Painting - Turner
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Santa Maria della Salute I" is a watercolor painting of the Santa Maria della Salute church and minor basilica in Venice, Italy. This work features hues of blue, orange, green and yellow. This piece is 14.5 by 17.75 inches framed.
McLean Jenkins is inspired by the work of JMW Turner, Richard Diebenkorn and Louis Khan.
McLean Jenkins is a practicing architect with McAlpine 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
WILD BEACH - Contemporary Atmospheric Sea Landscape Oil Pastel Painting
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Ship Wreck 1 (Warm) - Contemporary Atmospheric Sea Landscape Oil Pastel Painting
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
ISLAND-PERCY PRIEST - Landscape Painting of Nashville Tennessee Lake - Oil
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Wild Poppies, Ellen Williams, Original drawing, minimalist drawing for sale
Located in Deddington, GB
Wild Poppies by Ellen Williams [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Coloured pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm
Complete S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Waves
Located in New York, NY
Waves
1913
Inscribed in ink and pencil, recto; Extensive notes in pencil, verso
Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
3.5 x 5.5 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in N...
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1910s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
beach, three-dimensional inflatable ink drawing on paper, rocks, sun and bluesea
Located in Carballo, ES
This work is part of the latest production by artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Pontevedra). In this series, Ruth works on heavyweight paper with bouncy paint. She brings this material from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Printer's Ink, Handmade Paper
"Morning Dew"
By Doris Howard
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed and vibrant depiction of a spider web by Doris Howard (American, b. 1935). Signed "Doris Warner" in the lower left corner. Tag on verso from the "Harvest of Colors" exhibition at Roberts Field...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
"The 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
News From a Faraway Land, Original Drawing, Interior Scene, Vase, flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with an anti-UV varnish and it is not framed.
Medium : Oil based color pencils on Hahnemühle Fine A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed Watercolor, Trees, African American Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed original brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1950.
WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES is an original watercolor brush and ink on paper, hand signed in ink pen by African-American artist, teacher, and printmaker Ronald Joseph (1910--1992) Artwork depicts an abstract landscape, is in good condition, paper tape remaining on reverse side edges, mounted in an archival acid-free mat, unframed.
Artwork paper size - 18 x 21.5 in.
Year created - c. 1950
About the artist -
Ronald Joseph (1910 -1992) was born on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies In 1910. When he was very young, his mother decided to move to the United States but she could not afford to take him with her. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Joseph, a childless couple who were friends of Joseph’s mother, adopted him. Afterwards, the Joseph family moved to the Island of Dominica, where they stayed for ten years. In 1921, his foster parents also decided to come to the United States. In New York, Joseph met his mother but remained living with his foster parents.
In 1926 Ronald Joseph received a scholarship for the Ethical Culture School, were he spent two and half years of his high school period. At this time he obtained an art scholarship through Dr. Henry Fritz, with whom he became acquainted
through his art teacher in public school. Joseph was taken into the Saturday art class, where he was the only black participant. An artistic prodigy, Ronald Joseph had his student works shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ronald Joseph
graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1929. He was honored as “the most promising” young artist in New York City’s schools. He began his study at Pratt Institute in 1931 and graduated in 1934.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Joseph participated in many exhibitions of African-American art, the Works Progress Administration mural project, and the Harlem Artists Guild.
Ronald Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the declaration of World War II and was posted as a member of the ground crew in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Michigan. At the end of the war in 1945, he received his G. I. Bill of Rights
scholarship.
In 1948, he was presented with the Rosenwald Fellowship. The funds allowed him to live and work abroad – first in Peru for two years, then in Paris. Joseph used the G.I. bill to study in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. He described this period of his
life as being “independent of economy”. His work from these travels is largely undocumented; according to Rosenwald scholar, Daniel Schulman, many pieces of art are undated or simply dated “1948-1952”. After this period he came back to
New York without money and work and indicated this as period of hardship.
Ronald Joseph left the U.S. in 1956, disappointed in the unreceptiveness of the art world to his work with mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he felt guilty for having left the U.S. during a period when blacks were struggling for their civil
rights; on the other, he felt “lucky” to have been able to live and work in place where he did not feel discrimination as intensely. He emigrated to Belgium and later settled permanently in Brussels. Ronald Joseph was married to Claire Joseph
and they had a son, Robin Joseph.
In 1989 Joseph returned to the United States after an absence of thirty-three years to attend the Lehman College exhibition and symposium and to renew his old friendships. Afterward, he returned to Brussels where he continued to work as a
painter, living there for the remainder of his life.
Ronald Joseph started his artistic career in Harlem, New York City at the Harlem Community Arts Center, where he was one of the youngest pupils. Joseph studied lithography and other printmaking techniques with Riva Helfond, who taught him many aspects of the process based on simple techniques, including how to operate the press, and how to prepare the stones. Helfond played a significant role as a teacher of lithography at the Harlem Art Center. Joseph produced his first lithographs under her supervision, and this was at a time when she was just beginning to learn the medium herself. At the Harlem Community Arts Center Joseph met Robert Blackburn, who was his classmate. In 1937 Ronald Joseph depicted Blackburn, in one of his most famous works, that is now located at The Metropolitan Museum collection. Experimenting with lithography and etching, as well as woodblock and silkscreen printing, Joseph explored the techniques of printmaking alongside his friend Robert Blackburn. Joseph described the Harlem Art Center as a “healthy and lively” place, where he had made wonderful friends. In the late thirties, he also served as a teacher at the Harlem Community Arts Center. There Joseph met younger artist Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight. They formed a friendship, where they enjoyed conversations and visiting museums together. Both Joseph and Knight would hire Lawrence to pose for them. Jacob Lawrence considered Ronald Joseph to be a very intellectual artist.
In the 1930s, Joseph became chairman of the Harlem Artists Guild and represented it in Washington with Stuart Davis and Hugo Gellert. Ronald Joseph was also a participant in the mural section of WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940).
Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by Picasso, Braque and other European artists while most of his contemporaries focused on social realism. By 1943, he was hailed by art historian James Porter as New York’s “foremost Negro abstractionist painter”. His pastels and gouaches from the late forties and early fifties showed a highly structured abstraction combined with a studied spontaneity. Ronald Joseph’s finely tuned abstractions often incorporated representational elements along with apparently “purer” forms. He described this aspect of his work in these terms: “It’s not abstract and abstract at the same time. It’s pure creation.” His works from the 1950s employed both still life and landscape as pretexts for masterly exercises in nearly abstract pictorial construction related to cubism and fauvism.
During World War II, Joseph was drafted. After the war he formed “a kind of a group” with Robert Blackburn, Charles White, Larry Potter, and Reginald Gammon...
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1950s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
"APPLE BLOSSOM AND YEW", watercolor, flowers, tree, berries fruit, flora pattern
Located in Toronto, Ontario
APPLE BLOSSOM AND YEW is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. This is part of a series by the artist examining the inherent geometry and co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Ghost Ranch Encantado 11
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Trees and Sun
Located in New York, NY
Trees and Sun
1927
Color pastels on ivory wove paper
10.375 x 7.25 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1920s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Big Tree - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Symphonie, Original Oil Pastel, Contemporary Landscape, Sea Scape, French coast
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Symphonie (Title - FR)
Work : New Original Drawing, Handmade artwork and Unique Work.
Medium : Oil Pastel and Oil pencils on archival Fine Art paper. The work has been tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Le Phare, Original Oil Pastel, Contemporary Landscape, Sea Scape, French coast
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Le Phare (Title - FR)
Work : New Original Drawing, Handmade artwork and Unique Work.
Medium : Oil Pastel and Oil pencils on archival Fine Art paper. The work has been tre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
"The Tower, Cannes" - Urban Landscape
By Shelley Lazarus
Located in Soquel, CA
Lively depiction of Cannes, France by California artist Shelley Lazarus (American, b. 1936). Artist's info on verso (redacted for privacy). Presented in a red wood frame with a double mat. Paper size: 10.5"H x 7"W
Shelley Lazarus (American, b. 1936) is a Los Angeles based artist who studied at Syracuse University, Pratt College, and Parsons School of Design, and has been teaching art for over 20 years.
Lazarus’ main goal as an artist is to bring a sense of movement and a sense of emotion to her paintings through the use of color. Her landscapes are done mostly on location, where she can feel the power of the atmosphere around her and through the use of color, composition and the movement of space, capture the subtle nuances that reflect in the light.
Lazarus was born and educated in New York, where as a teenager she began her art studies at Pratt College while still attending Lincoln High School. She later was a student at Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design. In 1973 she relocated to the Los Angeles area with her husband and their three sons. Although her art career was interrupted for a time, in 1981 she became involved with the Brentwood Art Center.
Since then, she has been actively pursuing her art career. Her works have been shown annually in both local and national shows. These works have received numerous awards including a Diptych and a Triptych that were in the International Art Competition for the Olympics in 1984, first place from the San Fernando Valley Art Club for a watercolor in the Santa Monica Mountain Celebration, and the recent Oklahoma National Watercolor investment award. She is a member of the Watercolor Honor Society and a signature member of the Oklahoma National Watercolor Society.
Her paintings are in the collections of private, corporate, and public sectors in the US and abroad, including the library at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is an active participant in Women Painters West, Valley Watercolor Society, Gallery 825 and Valley Institute of Visual Arts (VIVA).
Lazarus has taught art to both children and adults. At the present time she is teaching advance watercolor painting studies to adults at the Brentwood Art Center. She also teaches plein-air painting during the summer months and has given private lessons to those in the entertainment industry as well as to royalty.
In 1993 she became involved in the formation of TAG Gallery, a co-op gallery located in the Miracle Mile...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Paris by Night - Original Watercolour - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Paris by Night is an original watercolour realized by an artist of the 1960s.
Good condition, no signature.
Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Basilica di San Marco, Venezia - Original Drawing - Christopher Ganz
Located in Chicago, IL
Christopher Ganz
Basilica di San Marco, Venezia, 2020
white ink, chalk & colored pencil on paper
12h x 18w in
30.48h x 45.72w cm
CG0079
-ARTIST STATEMENT-
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Color Pencil
Road - Original Pen Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Road is an original blue China ink drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the early 20th Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Unreadable signature on the lower ...
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Early 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Ghost Ranch Encantado 7
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cry Me a River (a fleuve)
Located in Columbia, MO
Cry Me a River (a fleuve)
2017 cca.
Acrylic, graphite, pen, gesso and gel medium on paper
22 x 30 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Church in Prague, Pastel Drawing by Kamil Kubik
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Church in Prague by Kamil Kubik, Czech/American (1930–2011)
Pastel on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 19.5 x 25.5 in. (49.53 x 64.77 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Yellow Butterflies" - pastel drawing, nature, plants, still life, landscape
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 27.5 by 35 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Ecueils - Watercolor, Contemporary Painting, Seaside
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Watercolor, Acrylic Painting and Charcoal on paper. Contemporary Painting, Seaside
Work Title : Ecueils
Artist : Fabien Granet (FR)
The work is signed, titled and dated verso. Unique work.
Size : H26xW21cm. Museum matting & backing included, framed in a 30x24 cm standard aluminium 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" with 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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