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Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Style: Expressionist
Point Sur Light House, Big Sur, California - Cyanotype / Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this unique cyanotype and watercolor landscape of the Point Sur Lighthouse in Big Sur, California by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th centu...
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1980s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Photographic Film, Watercolor

Body in the Field #2 - Red, Blue, Drawing, Coloured Pencils, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #2, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Pastel, Ink Drawing Rocks And Cloud Landscape Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Landscape Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol) Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink, Watercolor

Body in the Field #1 - Red, Landscape, Coloured pencil, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #1, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Body in the Field #9 - Landscape, Orange, Red, Coloured pencil
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #9, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Body in the Field #12 - Landscape, 21st Century, Wax pencil
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #12, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of ...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Body in the Field #6 - Green, Canvas, Landscape, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #6, 2022 coloured pencils on canvas 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947) The Sudden Shower Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Gabriel 1946. SUDDEN SHOWER. / SUNSHINE. WIND AND RAIN’ (lower edge) 5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Body in the Field #10 - Contemporary, Red, Yellow, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #10, 2022 coloured pencil on canvas 9.84 H x 6.29 W in. 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

Body in the Field #15 - Contemporary, Red, Blue, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #15, 2022 coloured pencil on canvas 9.84 H x 6.29 W in. 25 H x 16 W cm Signed on reverse Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body thro...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Color Pencil

'Amalfi , Italy, View of the Bay' signed original painting circa 2005.
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Amalfi, view of the bay' circa 2005 signed original painting by Andy Gradwel b.1968. mixed media on paper (current site size) 27cm x 36cm glazed and mounted frame47cm x 56cm Eveni...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

Grey Day Grauer Tag - Landscape Cow Germany
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 22" [1922] in the lower left image. It is also hand titled in pencil “Grauer Tag” [Grey Day] in the lower l...
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1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor

Large Israeli Watercolor Gouache Painting Jerusalem Landscape Moshe Gat
Located in Surfside, FL
A signed watercolor gouache painting in frame. Framed: 26.5 X 32.5 Image: 19 X 25 Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935. in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jeru...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

British 20th C painting of a moody seascape by maritime artist Trenaman Back
By Robert Trenaman Back
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Trenaman Back (British, 1922 – 2004) A moody coastal scene Gouache on paper with gum arabic 9.3/4 x 18.1/4 in. (24.5 x 46.5 cm.) Robert Trenaman Back is best known as a marit...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Expressionist Watercolor Landscape Painting Jewish Modernist
By Jennings Tofel
Located in Surfside, FL
signed and bears the artist's studio label verso. Genre: Impressionist Subject: Landscape Medium: watercolor Surface: paper Country: United States Dimensions: 11.5 X15.5 Jennings (...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Dark Toned Italian Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Dark tonal Italian landscape with hits of yellow greens and reds. The pastel image is framed in a natural wooden frame with a white matte. Artist signed the work in the bottom right ...
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20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

David Smith Sulzer Engineering Works I Switzerland Watercolor Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles Bonhams, Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

European Architectural Colonnaded Arcade Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Vassiloff, Russian/American (1906 - 2000) Artist Boris Vassiloff was born on March 24, 1906 to Julia Nikolaevna and Boris Ivanovich Vassiloff in Russia. He died peacefully on D...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Board

Algerian French Vibrant Colorful Expressionist Beach Scene Oil Pastel Drawing
By Armand Henri Nakache
Located in Surfside, FL
Armand Nakache was the foremost champion of Expressionism in France, an area unfairly shunned by a society more attracted to the charms of classical painting, Impressionism, Post-Imp...
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20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Corner of 9th and de Chirico surreal urban landscape warm black Grey and red
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on Grey toned archival paper signed and dated. This is a large pastel painting suitable for framing under glass. The artist is reminded of the great Italian painter after...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper

The Day I met a Man Named Precise under the Parachute Jump, Coney Island
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Secret Garden, Portal, colorful pastel on paper, abstracted flower pattern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper Ms. Morgan says: During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Lights, Parachute Jump and Smile, Coney Island, colorful, text
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Secret Garden, White Lilies, colorful pastel painting on toned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Secret Garden, Iris, colorful abstracted floral pastel on dark paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper Ms. Morgan says: During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Thunderbolt, Coney Island, colorful pastel with historic amusement park
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherm...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Birch Abstract, dark mixed media, mylar, trees, abstraction, muted colors w gold
Located in Brooklyn, NY
mixed media on mylar Among the best selling works by Audrey Frank Anastasi are the birch trees, "process-oriented works, drawn and painted in various media. According to Ms. Anast...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Mixed Media

Lights, Parachute Jump and Smile, Coney Island, colorful historic amusement park
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

"Trees, " Watercolor Painting of a Winter Scene signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Trees" is an original watercolor by David Barnett. It depicts some dark leafless trees and shrubs. The artist signed the piece lower right. 24" x 18" art 29 1/4" x 23 1/4" frame ...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Star Lake Autumn, " Multicolored Watercolor Landscape signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Star Lake Autumn" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. It depicts the view of a lake through some trees. The artist signed the painting in the lower right. 6" x 4"...
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1990s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Footloose in Carefree, AZ, " Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Footloose in Carefree, AZ" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece in the lower left corner. David Barnett has done several pieces centered ...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Entrance to the Iridescent Garden-First Day of Spring, " Mixed Media signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Entrance to the Iridescent Garden-First Day of Spring" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artwork is signed in the lower right. Barnett used iridescent watercolo...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Beautiful Blond Girl with Elves - Arts and Crafts - Glasgow Girls
Located in Miami, FL
A fantasy scene with Elves and a beautiful girl lost in thought at the base of a tree. Elizabeth Mary Watt, G.S.W.A. In 1919, she was elected as ...
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1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Pigment

"Lillies in Bloom"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
One of several prominent women associated with the artistic life of Cincinnati at the turn of the century, Annie G. Sykes was recognized for her colorful, Impressionist-inspired watercolors. Throughout her long and successful career, she explored a variety of themes ranging from landscapes, flowers and the figure to the picturesque scenery of New England, Europe and Bermuda. Sykes was born Annie Sullings Gooding in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her father, Josiah Gooding, was a silversmith and engraver, and her mother, Ann, was a gifted needle-worker. Stimulated by the example of her parents, Sykes developed an interest in art during her childhood, honing her skills as a draftsman in art classes at school by drawing flowers, trees and other natural forms. She initiated her formal studies at the Lowell Institute in Boston in 1875, attending drawing classes there until 1878, when she enrolled at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts. Sykes is believed to have studied at the museum school until her marriage to Gerritt Sykes in 1882. Following her nuptials, Sykes and her husband moved to Cincinnati, at that time a flourishing cultural center dubbed the "Queen City of the West." While Gerritt and a friend established the Franklin School for boys, Sykes continued to follow her artistic inclinations. Desirous of refining her skills, she enrolled at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1884. Throughout the next ten years, she continued her training under such noted American painters as Frank Duveneck and Thomas Satterwhite Noble. Although she occasionally worked in oil, watercolor became Sykes' favorite medium of expression. Despite the birth of two children--Milly in 1885 and Anne in 1888--Sykes successfully balanced the demands of home and family with her professional aspirations. She began contributing to the annual exhibitions of the Boston Art Club in 1890 and the New York Watercolor Club the following year. In 1892, she became a charter member of the Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati, where she would exhibit regularly until 1923. In 1895, Sykes had her first solo show at the Traxel & Maas Gallery in Cincinnati, exhibiting a group of her watercolors. Local critics praised her fresh, vibrant colors and her spontaneous technique, and in a review in the Cincinnati Enquirer she was identified as representing "the new school of impressionism." Sykes's longstanding relationship with the Cincinnati Art Museum began that same year, when she first participated in that institution's annual shows. Indeed, between 1895 and 1926, she would exhibit there on forty-two occasions. Sykes also had a show (with Emma Mendenhall) at the Cinncinati Art Museum in 1908, and a three-person exhibition (with Emma Mendenhall and Dixie Selden) two years later. Sykes's work was also featured in the annual watercolor shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Water Color Club and the Ohio Water Color Society. Her numerous professional affiliations included the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in New York and the Cincinnati Museum Association. Her standing among her peers was such that she was often invited to serve juries of selection, along with such eminent painters as Duveneck, Noble, Maurice Prendergast and Edward Redfield. Prior to 1900, Sykes' was active in and around Boston, Cincinnati, and in Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where her family had a summer home. After the turn of the century, she spent many summers in Cape Porpoise...
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20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Cloudy Sunset, Coney Island, wildly colorful abstract sky, water, beach
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherm...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Pastel

Parachute Jump, Shooting Rays, Coney Island
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. Ms. Morgan says: When I finally started riding the subway again during Covid isolation - going down to the ocean was a real treat. The collection of fisherma...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Expressionist landscape drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist 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, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Zsolt Berszán, Janet Morgan, David Barnett, and Lucien Génin. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist landscape drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 2.9 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 $85 and tops out at $80,000, while the average work sells for $1,200.

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