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Medium: Graphite
Etude 3 - abstract calligraphy ink drawing / painting on paper, black & white
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Puissance, Horse Drawing, Charcoal and graphite on Fabriano paper, white frame
Located in Dallas, TX
Puissance is a beautiful and unique charcoal drawing on paper of a dynamic horse. The Fabriano paper is a high quality watercolor grade set in a custom white wood frame, all archival...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Graphite on paper, 1925
Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925
Created while the artist was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1925.
This is a preliminary drawing to a series of class assignments.
From a sketch book
Image/Sheet size: 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches
Condition: Excellent Slight syrface dirt
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Winchell Heirs
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris...
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1920s Art Deco Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
In Isolation Series VI
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VI" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
1960s American Pop Art hyperrealist drawing Lucky Strike
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking pop art drawing, dating from the 1960s, featuring lettering and a packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Pop art as art movement emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 196...
Category
1960s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Chapter Fine Focus - Contemporary Pencil Drawing Moths on Braid of Hair, 2017
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary pencil drawing by Francine Fox of two meticulously detailed moths on a knotted braid of hair is inspired by the mystical animal and natural world. At 6 x 4 inches, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Untitled, Ballerina", Contemporary, Graphite Drawing, Canvas, Figurative
Located in St. Louis, MO
Joseph Piccillo’s meticulous charcoal and graphite drawings and paintings reveal an exquisite draftsmanship tempered by emotional sensitivity. Piccillo presents an action-based assem...
Category
1990s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
John Lear Male Nude American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Gay Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
John Brock Lear, Jr., an American Modernist artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the D...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Back At The Stables (II)" (2024) By James Van Fossan, Original Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
James Van Fossan's "Back At The Stables (II)" (2024) is an original handmade charcoal and graphite drawing on paper that depicts a cowboy leaning against a sawhorse in a moment of re...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
"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 Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"House Studies Series V", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series V" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Summer Set 8, watercolor monoprint (unique) on Dieu Donne handmade paper, signed
By Arlene Shechet
Located in New York, NY
Arlene Shechet
Summer Set 8, 2005
Watercolor monoprint on dieu donné hand made paper
21 × 27 1/2 inches
Signed and dated in graphite on the front
Exquisite watercolor monoprint on di...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Graphite
Oculus I & III (Diptych, Abstract Geometric Drawings in Graphite on Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Pair of abstract geometric graphite drawings inspired by the moon in white frames
"Oculus I and III" by David Dew Bruner
made in 2024
graphite on paper
Each individual drawing measur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Deals II - colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
1951 Figure study of a Standing Male Nude by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white figure study of a standing nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size:
19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance: Estate of t...
Category
1950s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Nurse and Patient, Original Drawing by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: Nurse
Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed l.r.
Image Size: 7 x 5 inches
Frame Size: 15 x 13 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"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 Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
"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 Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
At Tunbridge Well
By Agostino Aglio
Located in Middletown, NY
Black crayon and graphite with white heightening on blue handmade laid paper. Adhered at all four corners to a period support, on which the title and an illegible date (perhaps 1815) appear to be written in the artist's hand.
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Aglio was born in Cremona is 1777 and his artistic talent was recognized early in his life. He was promised a place at the University in Milan by the Holy Roman Emperor, however, his formal education was upended before it even began by the invasion of Italy and Austria by Napoleon. Aglio joined the war effort and fought in a series of major battles near Venice before becoming seriously ill. At the age of about 23 he was released from duty, and traveled to Rome to focus on his health, and landscape painting. In Rome, Aglio studied with the renowned artist Campovecchio. At the invitation of well known British architect William Wilkins (designer of the National Gallery and University College London), Aglio relocated to London in 1803. He made London his permanent home, and married Letitia Clarke in 1805. He enjoyed a lucrative career painting frescoes in the interiors of high society townhouses, country manors, and major London concert halls and theaters. Most notably, Aglio painted multiple official portraits of Queen Victoria...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
Category
1930s Performance Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Scarecrow" (2019) By Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, Graphite Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Scarecrow" is a beautiful collaboration between fantasy masters Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, done with graphite on mixed media paper, and measuring at 14 x 11 in. in its frame,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Morandi 12 (Abstract Cubist Still Life Painting Inspired by Morandi Bottles)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite and acrylic painting inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle still life paintings
"Morandi 12” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin Strathmore paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
1960s Renaissance Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Vogue Magazine Illustration Turn of the Century - Woman Illustrator
By Helen Dryden
Located in Miami, FL
Early in the artist's career most likely for Vogue Magazine. Signed lower left. Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1...
Category
1910s Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Gouache
“The Grinch”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original drawing of the Grinch, a character from Dr. Seuss's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!". The drawing is signed by Virgil Ross, an American artist and cart...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
UNTITLED - SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GERHARD MARCKS (1889 1981)
(SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA) 1933. Graphite on wove paper, signed,
dated, 14 ¼” x 7”. Sheet 15” x 10”. S...
Category
1930s Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
La Porcellana (A Market Scene of Porcelain Vendors)
Located in Greenwich, CT
An old master drawing that can live in a very contemporary environment! Remarkable use of line and expression - should be enjoyed in an important spot - can grace a kitchen or livin...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
"The Famished Vampire" (2024) By Timothy Von Rueden, Original Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"The Famished Vampire" (2024) by Timothy Von Rueden is an original handmade graphite drawing that depicts an imprisoned vampire, who's hands are bound and has a cage on his head.
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
In Isolation Series VI
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VI" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
" Ma main de Malade " & " la mère de Rollo "
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 -1963 )
" Ma main de malade " &
" la mère de Rollo "
double face drawing on paper .
framed with museum glass : 51 x 44 cm
work : 31,8 x 24 cm .
this a very rar...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Brookdale, New Jersey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brookdale, New Jersey
Graphite on paper, 1922
Signed with the artist's initials l.l., and dated 1922 (see photo)
Annotated "Brookdale" front and back of she...
Category
1920s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Snowflakes 114 Response, Mandala Pencil Drawing, Desert Landscape, Moon, Pattern
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully rendered cosmic symbols, delicate patterns, and four small circular vignettes of desert landscapes are perfectly balanced in this intricately detailed mandala drawing. Cele...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Fragment by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary seascape painting, ocean, wave
Located in Paris, FR
Fragment is a unique graphite on Figueras paper drawing by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 97 × 53 cm (38.2 × 20.9 in).
The artwork is signed, sold framed un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"Back At The Stables (I)" (2024) By James Van Fossan, Original Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
James Van Fossan's "Back At The Stables (II)" (2024) is an original handmade charcoal and graphite drawing on paper that depicts a cowboy about to lean against a sawhorse.
James Va...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Oculus I (Framed Drawing on Paper of Geometric Abstraction in Black and White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract geometric graphite drawing inspired by the moon
Oculus I by David Dew Bruner
2024
graphite on paper
15 x 11 inches unframed / 19 x 15 inches framed
David Dew Bruner is a dr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
Category
1920s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Seashells 5, photorealist black and white graphite drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly’s laborious method of toning her paper serves as the starting point for her intricate compositions. She begins by covering the entire sheet with up to eight smooth, unmod...
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"Mass Study III", Layered paper and drawing collage, architectural, dimensional
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper collage and drawing artwork titled "Mass Study III" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
17th Century Old Master Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
17th Century Old Master Drawing
Old master drawing with figure and putti
Housed in a handsome contemporary wooden frame
Drawing dimensions 4...
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17th Century Old Masters Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
In Isolation Series VII
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VII" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Adélaide
Located in Chicago, IL
Working with a palette of graphite, charcoal, ink, and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
At the Shore
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Dexter's Choice, State II, signed mixed media watercolor (unique variant) Framed
By Larry Zox
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox
Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990
Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges
40 × 60 in
101.6 × 152.4 cm
Edition 8/30 (unique variant)
Frame included
Measurements:
Sheet: 40 inches (vertical) by 60 inches (horizontal)
Frame: 42 inches x 62 inches x 1 inch
Dexter's Choice, State # II is a unique, mixed media work from an edition of 30 unique variants done in pochoir, (25 stencils, 14 colors). Here, Zox uses watercolor instead of inks, which is applied to heavy 300 lb. watercolor paper. Although it is a multiple signed and numbered from the edition of 30, each work of art is unique because of how the paper receives the watercolor brush. In addition, this work is created like a mixed media painting because it has 11 lines added by hand with wax and water based crayons and oil sticks. The unique watercolor technique that Zox employed in making "Dexter's Choice" is documented in the textbook, "Screen Printing: Water Based Techniques,Roni Henning, NYIT ".
Dexter's Choice was published by Images Gallery, and this work was acquired directly from the publisher before they sold out. This work is elegantly floated and framed in a white wood frame.
Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee
Larry Zox Biography:
A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions.
Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock.
In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade.
From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4
In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting.
The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...
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1990s Color-Field Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Oil, Watercolor, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Graphite
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Graphite on paper, 2005
Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo)
In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
buildings with windows overlooking the blue sea, golden yellow and pure forms
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Original-Drawing Time Series-Gladiolus PleinAir-Brit Awarded Artist-Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
Original-Drawing Time-Dahlias&Gladiolus PleinAir-Brit Awarded Artist-ink onPaper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
Original-Drawing Time Series-Gladiolus-PleinAir-Brit Awarded Artist-Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Redingote by student od Jean Louis David drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
An exceptional ink, wash and graphite portrait of a gentleman by Henri-Joseph Hesse, dating from circa 1820, the time of the Bourbon restoration in France. It depicts a dashing figur...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
"Bison" Original Buffalo Painting by Tammy Liu-Haller
Located in Denver, CO
Tammy Liu-Haller's "Bison" is an original, handmade graphite on clayboard, gold leaf and acrylic that depicts a buffalo in profile.
About the artist:
Tammy was born in 1975 in Kingston, NY. She is a realism artist, working primarily in graphite and charcoal. After spending 15 years away from the field, she began drawing again in 2011 and went full-time by 2015.
She is an avid supporter of organizations that rescue, conserve, and protect domestic and wild animals, and she often donates artwork to these causes each year. Tammy has also created a small niche of golf drawings...
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Untitled IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled IV" 1993 is a large graphite drawing on two sheets of paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 23.5 x 37.5 inches, framed size is 32.75 x 46.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection unique signed framed monotype
By Andrea Belag
Located in New York, NY
Andrea Belag
Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection, 2003
Watercolor monotype on paper
Pencil signed and dated on the front
Framed
Gorgeous ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Monotype, Pencil, Graphite
Fright Bites - colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Playful Spirit. Fresh imprint of the impulse, Abstraction by Sve Gri
Located in Zofingen, AG
Shipping in a tube rolled.
This drawing is a fresh imprint of the impulse of the liveliness of the present moment. It is done on white watercolor paper using ink and two pastels.
Wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Graphite
Karen Schiff, Word Snake H, 2014, Gouache, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
19th Century Maritime Seascape, USS Steam Frigate Niagara
Located in Soquel, CA
19th century maritime seascape of a naval ship similar to those used in the war of 1812, by William B. Hoff (American, 1846-1903). This miniature wat...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Graphite
Dream: framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. Wired with all hanging hardware, ready to install. Nazanin Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligr...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
“Arc de Triomphe, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel with graphite tracing of a lively Paris street scene in front of the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The artist is the well known French artist, Andre Vignoles. ...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mid 20th Century, Wales, Caernarfon Castle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wales: Caernarfon Castle
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower right, inscribed and signed to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image 9.5 ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
Category
1890s Ashcan School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.030
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.030 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.030 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
Graphite on paper, 1925
Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925
Created while the artist was studying at the ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper, black & white
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli's "Morghe Sahar 2" is framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. It is wired with all hanging hardware, and is ready to install. Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract drawings with traditional bamboo “ghalams,” or quills. Rather than using these techniques to create religious objects as they were originally used, she explores the secular meaning of line in and of itself. She seeks the complete dissolution of words and prefers instead to create abstract images, her alternative to religious object making.
The poem that is collaged into this work is a historic Iranian ballad, entitled "Morghe Sahar" (Bird of Dawn), written by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and put to music by Morteza Neidavoud in 1921. Some consider this song to be the unofficial anthem of freedom in Iran. The lyrics describe a caged nightingale, urging her to sing with passion and break free. It has been sung in different political contexts, from the constitutional revolution of 1921 through the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
(Male Nude) Untitled, 1973, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1973
Year: 1973
Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board
Size: 40 x 30.25 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed & ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Blue Twisting Grid (Abstract Geometric Work on Paper, Custom Light Wood Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract drawing on paper in light sky blue, black and white with custom light wood frame
'Blue Twisting Grid' by Donise English
30 x 22 inches unframed, 37 x 29 inches custom frame ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite
Balancing Act 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing Act 3 (Abstract Painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper. Unframed.
Balancing Act 3 is part of a series of works on paper started in 2016.
They are created in the evenings and aptly named after busy days of teaching and other responsibilities.
The artist establishes parameters involving the use of a particular palette, certain mark-making gestures and amount of time spent on each drawing.
This work incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuition-based and planned execution.
Tracey Adams is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her artworks reflect a strong interest in musical patterns, rhythms, lyrical compositional elements and what she calls a sense of performance. She lives and works in Carmel, California.
Work by Adams is part of the permanent collections of several museums, including the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Detail Sketch from January 1986, Pure pigment collage, acrylic painting; Signed
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen
Detail Sketch from January 1986, 1991
Pure pigment collage, acrylic painting and drawing
Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed, hand initialed, annotated, dated by hand and with date stamp and stamped by artist and inscribed to Dr. Joseph and Mary Bottino
Provenance: Bottino family
16 1/2 × 21 inches
Unframed
Unique
Robert Petersen is a longtime collaborator, friend and protege of Robert Rauschenberg. Detail Sketch from January 1986, dated by the artist April 20, 1991, as well as April 1, 1991 and April 19, 1991, hand signed, as well as stamped RP several times, inscribed, and bears instructions"can paint over pink and blues and whites", and initialed.
More about Robert Petersen:
Robert Petersen was born in 1945 in the small farm town of Le Mars, Iowa and was raised there until 1952 when he moved with his family to Whittier, California. His education as an artist began in 1963 at Fullerton Community College where his interest in architectural drafting led him to develop a passion for drawing, painting, and printmaking. In 1966, he pursued his love for printmaking further at California State University, Long Beach under the former Tamarind Lithography Workshop printer, Robert Evermon.
In 1969, Petersen went on to work as an assistant printer at Gemini G.E.L. where he printed editions for Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Most notably, Petersen served as one of the head printers for Rauschenberg's Stoned Moon series, during which the two formed a close friendship. In late 1970, Rauschenberg invited Petersen to live and work with him on Captiva Island, Florida, which had recently become the artist's permanent residence and studio. In 1971, Rauschenberg and Petersen...
Category
1990s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
"Tell Your Ride", Line Drawing, Car, Acrylic, Graphite, Color Marker
By James Oliver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This still-life drawing titled "Tell Your Ride" is an original artwork by James Oliver made of acrylic, graphite and color marker on canvas board. This piece measures 12" x 12" frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa /// Philip Pearlstein Pencil Drawing Figurative
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022)
Title: "Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa"
*Signed and dated by Pearlstein in pencil lower left
Year: 1970
Medium: Original Graphite Pen...
Category
1970s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Board, Illustration Board
Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Shit Tzu with graphite drawings
Located in Charleston, US
"Shih Tzu" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate patterns as well as animals. This Shih Tzu dog charms along with Zakanitch's graphite drawings depicting the dog in different positions. Zakanitch was an original exhibitor at Holly Solomon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Gouache
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