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Style: Abstract Impressionist
French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape City Square with Equestrian Statue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“City Square with Equestrian Statue" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5 x 7 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Castle Overlooking The Bay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
itle: "Castle overlooking fields" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5 x 7 inches (Height x Width) Signed: No Stamped Verso: Yes Con...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Park Scene with White Grand Building
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Park Scene with Building" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 4.75 x 7 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeable ...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Paris River Bridge Scene with Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Bridge Scene with Trees" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7 x 8.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeable f...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Village Scene Upon a Hilltop
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Village Scene Upon a Hilltop" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.3 x 8.2 inches (Height x Width) Signed: No Stamped Verso: ...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape City Square with Equestrian Statue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“City Square with Equestrian Statue" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no ...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Seaside Scene With Pier and Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Seaside Scene with Pier" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeabl...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Judith Brenner, Sophie Dancing 2, Original Abstract Impressionist Nude Sketch
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner Sophie Dancing 2 Original Nude Drawing Mixed Media on Paper Sheet Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed (Please note that in situ images are purely an indi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

State of Grace
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: State of Grace Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Circle Lime
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: Circle Lime Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, pap...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Afternoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: Afternoon Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, pape...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Touch of Fall watercolor and pastel painting by Nell Blaine
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed "Nell Blaine" upper left in pencil. Signed, titled, dated verso on sheet. Signed, titled, dated verso on backing panel. The artist. Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Purchased by private collectors c.1994. By descent. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). From her November 15, 1996 NYT obituary: Nell Blaine, a widely respected New York landscape painter and watercolorist, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital. She was 74 and had homes in Manhattan and Gloucester, Mass. Ms. Blaine, who had been hospitalized since July, had been confined to a wheelchair since 1959, when she contracted polio. Ms. Blaine was born in Richmond, Va., in 1922, and first studied at the Richmond School of Art, now part of Virginia Commonwealth University. She moved to New York in 1942 to study painting with Hans Hofmann and later studied etching and engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. During her first years in New York, her work, which had previously been tightly realist, turned abstract, inspired by Mondrian, Leger and Jean Helion. At one time she was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists. She was also a founding member of the Jane Street Gallery, one of Manhattan's earliest artists' cooperatives, and had her first solo show there in 1945. Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation. Inspired in part by a trip with Larry Rivers in 1950 to Paris, where she was especially impressed by the work of Vuillard and Bonnard, she immersed herself in the tradition of 19th-century European painting. From the mid-1950's, she cultivated an increasingly painterly and colorful style, usually working directly from nature, or still life, with particular emphasis on the forms and hues of flowers. Her work retained a sense of all-over structure and pulsating energy that she nonetheless credited to abstract art. ''It all goes back to Mondrian,'' she would say. In the 1950's, Ms. Blaine was prominent among a circle of New York artists and poets that included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Mr. Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro Sr. and Rudy Burckhardt. She had her first solo show of representational work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953 and was represented by the Poindexter Gallery until it closed in 1978, and, in recent years, by the Fischbach Gallery. During the 1950's she supported herself as a commercial artist, designing brochures for art galleries. In 1955, she designed the original logo, column heads and layout for The Village Voice. In 1957, Ms. Blaine was featured in Life magazine as one of five leading young female artists in America. In 1959, after several months of traveling and painting in Greece, she contracted severe bulbar polio on the island of Mykonos. ''To Nell Blaine,'' an exhibition organized at Poindexter to raise money for her hospital bills, included the work of 79 artists, including Saul Steinberg, Robert Motherwell, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mr. Rivers, Ms. Freilicher and Robert Rauschenberg. After eight months in a New York hospital, including five months in an iron lung...
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1990s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

Alfred Henry Hart (1866-1953) - Framed Watercolour, Market Place, Blandford
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour study by Alfred Henry Hart. Well presented in a wash-line mount and gilt-effect frame. Signed to the lower left. On watercolour paper.
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Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'Avon Walk, No 5' Mixed media painting . Signed original c2005
Located in Frome, Somerset
Walks along the River Avon in Somerset. Estuary to the river in Bath and forking to The rivers beyond,. A journey of light, form, sound and essence. A generally graphic approach in ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Two avocados" (contemporary impressionist oil painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to the scenes of everyday life. This painting is called "Two avocados". Thi...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Paper

House of Magenta - Original Playful House Home Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we h...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 14.75 x 11 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 10 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Bare Trees With Open Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 12 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting Landscape of Caussols Plateau, Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 12 x 14.75 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Beach Scene Of Pointe de la Torche, In The Region Of Finistère Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 13 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting The Village of Thiery, Provence.
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 12.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

"Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting Turquoise Sea At Pors Scaff, Brittany "
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 8.5 x 10.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Sandy Bruised Sky Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 8.25 x 11.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the art...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Peaceful Beach On A Cloudy Day
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 13 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Of Cloudy Pors Carn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 13 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting Rocky Shore & Blue Sea Coastal Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 8.5 x 10.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Plouha Beach at Dusk, Brittany
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting Coastal Landscape of Trégon, Brittany
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting The Valleys of Vou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 8.5 x 10.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist Painting Seascape The Beach of Port Blanc, Penvénan
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Soft Color Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 7 x 10.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting The Countryside Of Plougrescant
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 13 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artist...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Seascape La Cote Sauvage France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Atelier Scene
Located in Astoria, NY
Philip Laughlin (American, 1936-2024), Atelier Scene with Nude Figure, Pastel on Board, 1986, signed and dated lower left, signed and with Art Students League of New York label to re...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Board

Trees, Large Watercolor Painting by Richard Karwoski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trees Richard C. Karwoski, American (1938–1993) Date: 1984 Watercolor on Canvas, signed Size: 50 x 67 in. (127 x 170.18 cm)
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor

Coffee Peloton XXXI
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXXI by Eliza Southwood [2022] original Coffee on Paper Image size: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59.5 cm x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

November. 2016. acrylic on canvas, 60x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Always inspired by nature, Ingrida Irbe makes the viewer feel the atmosphere of November. Brave expressive strokes convey the wind gusts, while bright warm colors allow to enjoy an i...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Misty Morning on the Farm, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar presents an old barn on top of a sloping road in rural California. As a plein air painter, she sometimes ventures out in less-than-ideal weather conditions. "The day was cold and foggy, but this made for beautiful, nuanced colors and muted tones delightfully rendered in watercolor," shares Catherine. She draws inspiration from the Swedish painter Carl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Winter Field, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The colors of winter gleam in artist Karin Johannesson's ethereal display of flowers. She depicts an interpretation of a winter field in Ontario, Canada. Flou...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Bar du Central, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist James Nyika paints a glimpse of the Bar du Central facade bustling with patrons. He captures the famous cafe in full sunlight in the heart of Paris. "I love the cafes and bars. They are a critical part of the identity of the city," says James. He draws inspiration from these iconic locales after visiting many through the years and develops them as an integral part of his repertoire.


About the Artist
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."


Words that describe this painting: Paris, bar, cafe, Bar du Central, tables, restaurant, dining, facade, sunlight, awning, arch, architecture, paper, watercolor, travel, Europe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Cafe la Liberte, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"No holiday season is complete without the romantic overtures of Paris," says artist James Nyika. He displays an impressionist cityscape along a charming street of pastry and coffee shops. The iconic Cafe la Liberte...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Sumac, colorful Abstract Impressionist landscape gouache
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield found peace and inspiration in regular solitary walks through nature throughout the pandemic. Her most recent body of work diaristically documents her constitutional...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Lunch on Sparks, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In an impressionistic style, artist Maurice Dionne paints a busy mall filled with pedestrians on Sparks Street in Ottawa, Canada. "During lunch, many office w...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

It's The Journey, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Often we forget about those little things in life that make us happy," says artist Maurice Dionne. He displays a couple out for an early evening walk with th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Returning From the Market, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Maurice Dionne paints an urban scene of people walking along the pavement. The piece captures the movement of the crowd of the downtown market loaded w...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Waiting, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two young men relax near the Rideau Canal in Ottawa in artist Maurice Dionne's impressionist piece. They enjoy the fresh air and bright warm sunshine right downtown. He captures the wonderful and quiet spot...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

L'Estaque, 1985 - oil paint, 81x100 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower Left Gérard Altmann, né à Paris le 23 septembre 1923 et mort à Paris le 19 avril 2012, est un peintre français. Il est le p...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head) Graphite on laid paper Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist by descent to his Grandson Depicts the artist's wife Carolyn. Most probably created in Nashville, Indiana Related to the painting entitled "Maiden" in the Haan Museum, Lafayette, IN (see photo) Condition: Excellent Archival framing with TruVue Conservation Clear glass Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches Frame size: 18 7/8 x 16 inches Louis Oscar Griffith (1875-1956) Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club. He made his first trip to Brown County...
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1920s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

A Brush of Pink, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Judy Mudd paints a dreamy pink sunset in a charming country landscape. Part of her ongoing rural series of outback sceneries. She draws inspiration fro...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Lake at Dusk, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Kristen Brown depicts a parting of trees revealing a quiet lake at dusk. The peaceful composition captures the brilliant colors of evening light with f...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

In the Misty Mooring, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"I wanted to make the boats in the foreground the focus of this marine scene," says artist Judy Mudd. "Therefore, I reimagined the more complicated image of the original photograph and created the misty, mysterious, and flowing environment of this piece." She depicts a cloudy harbor with boats parked...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Woman on a Patio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio Pastel on paper, c. 1915 Unsigned Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Fine Art Thomas French Fine Art Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed) Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery. One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68) Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils. The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke. One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68) In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works. In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University. Courtesy, AskArt “Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. Art Studies in Europe In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian. Giverny and American Impressionism Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Julii, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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"Restaurant Julii is a wonderful new fixture on the Washington, DC landscape," says artist James Nyika. "I was strolling the neighborhood and came across this...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The White Dream, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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Softly painted narcissus blooms form a bouquet of fresh fluorescence. "I painted this piece while taking part in an online demo with IranSheen," says artist F...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Living on Country Time, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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"Getting away to the country offers a quiet and peaceful moment," says artist Posey Gaines. "It lends itself to times of reflection and meditation." Posey pai...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Stronger Together, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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Narcissus is a holy flower for artist Fatemeh Kian. "I painted this with love and passion," she shares. An elegant composition with a delicate balance of oran...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Cheerful Lantern, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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By combining two different reference photos, artist Fatemeh Kian produced this elegant floral composition. "One photograph featured a wall-mounted light, and ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Hidden Forest Falls, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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"I love waterfalls, and this painting was inspired by a similar waterfall, although this exact scene doesn’t exist," shares artist Joanie Ford...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel

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