Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Item Ships From: USA
Style: Abstract
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 12, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
EC 16 - textural abstract circle shape nature inspired white sculpted paper
Located in New York, NY
Anne-Charlotte Saliba's artistic universe is largely inspired by nature, its abyssal dimension as well as its vegetal or mineral forms. Her sculpted artworks are a confrontation of s...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Tempest (unique abstract oil painting (Makler and Andre Emmerich Gallery labels)
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Tempest, 1989
Oil painting on gessoed India rag paper with deckled edges
29 1/4 × 25 inches
signed and dated in graphite on the lower front
Unframed (accompanied by ...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Rag Paper
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Fiery Sky
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 28"
Murray Hantman (1904–1999) was a painter, muralist, an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Multiverse
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
SHIZEN SERIES V
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES V, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
Abstract, contemporary, White, mixed media, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
SHIZEN SERIES I
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES I, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
White, Abstract, works on paper
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her painti...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting (inscribed & hand signed twice)
Located in New York, NY
Michael Gallagher
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting on paper (inscribed & hand signed twice), 1990
Acrylic on paper painting
Hand-signed by artist, Signed twice, dated and war...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Geometric Abstraction (abstract expressionist) painting on paper
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Geometric Abstraction, 1971
Watercolor and graphite on graph paper
Signed and dated "Katherine Porter 1971" in pencil on the front
Held in original vintage 1970s met...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Yayoi's Guitar unique signed work on paper by internationally renowned sculptor
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Yayoi's Guitar, 1980
Ink wash drawing
Signed and titled in red ink on the front
Frame included (held in original vintage frame)
Unique 1980 drawing by sculptor Mark di...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media
'Sunset Abstract Collage', Orange County Art Association, Moraga, Nancy Moure
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marianne K. Brown' (American, 20th century); additionally signed, verso, with certification of authenticity and dated 1987.
Brown has taught watercolor and des...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Graphite
Study for Abstract Expressionist sculpture Atman, hand signed twice by di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Atman (hand signed twice), ca. 1978
Marker wash on paper (hand signed twice by Mark di Suvero)
Signed twice by Mark di Suvero on the lower front center and again on the right
15 × 20 inches
Unframed
This original, hand signed marker on wash drawing is a study for di Suvero's sculpture Atman, 1978-1979, in the Cincinnati Art Museum Collection.
About Mark di Suvero:
Internationally renowned sculptor Mark di Suvero was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933. He immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Di Suvero began showing his sculpture in the late 1950's and is one of the most important American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era. A pioneer in the use of steel, di Suvero is without peer in the exhibition of public sculpture worldwide. Mark di Suvero's architectural-scale sculptures - many with moving elements that invite viewer participation - have been exhibited in the United States, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. Di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in Le Jardin de Tuileries and Les Esplanades des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park-Chicago. His work is in over 100 museums and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and Storm King Art Center where he has had three major exhibitions.
Mark di Suvero is a lifelong activist for peace and social justice, and has demonstrated a generous commitment to helping artists. In 1962, he co-founded Park Place Gallery, the first artists' cooperative in New York City. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to realize their ambitions. In 1986, he established Socrates Sculpture Park at the site of a landfill on the East River in Queens, New York. Through his leadership, a 4.5 acre parcel was transformed by a coalition of artists and community members into an open studio and exhibition space. To date, the park has hosted the work of over 900 artists.
Di Suvero received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2000 and the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities in 2005. In 2010, di Suvero was a recipient of the Smithonian Archives of American Art Medal...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Circus Series: Target, Vibrant Colored Abstract Conte Crayon Drawing on Paper
By Margo Hoff
Located in Denver, CO
Circus Series: Target is an abstract crayon on paper drawing by Margo Hoff (1910-2008) created in 1980. Abstract composition in vibrant shades of orange, pink, yellow, and blue with ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
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1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting on paper mid century modern art
Located in New York, NY
Rolph Scarlett
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Painting, ca. 1960
Gouache, Ink, Watercolor on Paper . Hand signed, with original Jonas Aarons Gallery label
23 × 18 3/4 inches
Signed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Black Holes & Wormholes - Blue Green
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Black Holes & Wormholes - Red Orange
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Time Crystals - Square, 2023
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Time Crystals - Hexagon
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Hyper Cube Series
Located in Henderson, NV
Hyper Cube Series. Drawing. 1978. Gouache on Paper. Artist interpretation of a hyper cube.
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Figure 8s.3- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 5, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
The Waters Above The Waters Below (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
The Waters Above The Waters Below (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c
HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Abstract
watercolor and graphite on paper
14 x 16 1/2 inche...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Algodón de Seda. FIne art drawing Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Algodón de Seda, 1978 by Amelia Cajigas
Image size: 3 H x 2.75 W inches.
Frame size: 12 Hx 11.5 W x 1 D inches.
White Frame
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Amelia Cajigas. Artist. He was born in 1932 in Paz de...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Play Drawing #4 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #4 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Daisies and Sunflowers - Still Life Oil Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Daisies and Sunflowers - Still Life Oil Pastel on Paper
This fun, quirky oil pastel by a David Mark (American, 20th C) features bright, abstract yellow and white flowers with contra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Portrait 2" Drawing 23" x 17" inch by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait 2" Drawing 23" x 17" inch by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko
Unique work
ball pen, spray paint, paper 180g
ARTIST BIO:
Oleksandr Miroshnychenko lives and works at his studio in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Ballpoint Pen
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dovetail 5 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Dovetail 5 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
After A Rain #2 unique abstract signed collage on paper with orig Castelli label
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen
After A Rain #2, 1987
Collage on Paper: Pencil, Oil, Acrylic and Cloth
Hand signed, dated and titled on lower front with Castelli Graphics label on the back
Frame Inc...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Textile, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mountain Reverie Series 11, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A breathtaking panorama of mountains emerges from the mist in artist Siyuan Ma's piece. The abstract imagery takes the viewer into a dr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Alhambra Castle in Spain, Charcoal Drawing by Etienne Poirier
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning charcoal drawing by French artist Etienne Poirier (1919 - 2002). This work is a charcoal-on-paper composition depicting an interpretation of the famous Alhambra Palace in ...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Whimsically rendered forest scene, original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
Original lithograph , artist signed and numbered. Very good condition. Paul Charlot French, act painter, landscape painter, abstract , and water color artist. This piece is from my p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dust 3
Located in New York, NY
FRAMED SIZE 22 x 27 inches
Jody Rasch’s work is drawn from various science practices, including astronomy, biology, and sub-atomic physics. In his subject matter and technique, Rasc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vellum
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Particle Shower 5
Located in New York, NY
Jody Rasch’s work is drawn from various science practices, including astronomy, biology, and sub-atomic physics. In his subject matter and technique, Rasch builds on historical conce...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vellum
Abstract watercolor (de-accessioned from Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), w/ label)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Duran
Untitled #1 (with Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) label), 1974
Watercolor on paper
Includes labels from the Museum of Modern Art rental gallery label and Donna Schneier Inc; the artist's name is written on the board, not signed
18 × 23 1/2 inches
Unframed
This work was removed from the original vintage frame but comes with the back board with the original labels from MOMA Rental Gallery in New York and Donna Schneier Gallery in Manhattan (and later Palm Beach)
Robert Duran Biography (courtesy of KARMA):
Robert Duran (b. 1938, Salinas, CA; d. 2005, New Jersey) found his way from San Francisco to New York City in the mid-1960s, where he became associated with a Minimalist cohort that included Brice Marden, David Novros, and Paul Mogensen...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Rose Breasted Mazurka" Watercolor Painting - abstract, landscape, colorful
Located in Marmora, NJ
Kurt Herrmann
10x11” (26x28 cm) unframed
watercolor on paper
2022
Artist Watercolor statement:
I went to Siberia in 1994 for the adventure and to paint. I came home with my first ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Many Worlds
Located in New York, NY
FRAMED SIZE 27 x 21 inches
Jody Rasch’s work is drawn from various science practices, including astronomy, biology, and sub-atomic physics. In his subject matter and technique, Rasc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Particle Shower 4
Located in New York, NY
FRAMED SIZE 22 x 27 inches
Jody Rasch’s work is drawn from various science practices, including astronomy, biology, and sub-atomic physics. In his subject matter and technique, Rasc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vellum
Multiverse
Located in New York, NY
FRAMED SIZE 19 x 25 inches
Jody Rasch’s work is drawn from various science practices, including astronomy, biology, and sub-atomic physics. In his subject matter and technique, Rasc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract organic drawing titled “Drift”
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
An expressive watercolor and mixed media painting with bold brush strokes and earth tone colors. It is signed on the front and back and coated with a semi gloss archival varnish for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Cliff Face, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I like creating interesting textures in my watercolors. I used some acrylic inks in this watercolor. Painting comes with a white mat ready for framing in a standard frame. :: Paintin...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled I -- Make an Offer!
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Interesting abstract watercolor with nicely matted with light colored suibstantial wood frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Labyrinth" Acrylics and Ink on Paper in Hues of Raw Umber, Black and White
Located in New York, NY
"Labyrinth" 2021, 23.5" x 21.5" vertical drawing on paper by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (featured in Elle Decor, the New York Times, Traditional Home, Veranda Magazine, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled (Abstract, Vibrant, Drips, Neon, Gestural, Contemporary, Expressionism)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Russell Shoemaker
Title: Untitled
Year: 2018
Medium: Gouache on Yupo Paper
Size: 12 x 9 inches
Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist
Russell Shoemaker received his BFA from the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Synthetic Paper
Project for Sculpture in Chalon-sur-Saône (unique sculptural drawing for France)
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Project for Sculpture in Chalon-sur-Saône, 1992
Marker, Watercolor and Ink Wash on Paper.
Hand signed and dated by artist on lower right front
Frame included
The rare ...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Unique drawing Geometric Abstraction on postcard conceptual art (hand signed)
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
Sol LeWitt
Unique Geometric Abstraction on Postcard, 1982
Original drawing done on postcard from the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), mailed, stamped and postmarked (franked) from Spolet...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Postcard, Mixed Media, Offset
"Buzz Tripper" Watercolor Painting -bold, abstract, landscape, colorful, travel
Located in Marmora, NJ
Kurt Herrmann
10x11” (26x28 cm) unframed
watercolor on paper
2022
Artist Watercolor statement:
I went to Siberia in 1994 for the adventure and to paint. I came home with my first real body of work. It was a collection of watercolors, and ever since they have been my vehicle to explore wherever I happen to be. I take them wherever I go. Watercolor is fast and there is little time to think. I’m reacting to what is presented in front of me, and more importantly what I am feeling within. I’ve painted all over the world but this particular group represents the landscape where I live in the Appalachian...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Lake Arbutus" Watercolor Painting -travel, bold, abstract, landscape, colorful
Located in Marmora, NJ
Kurt Herrmann
10x11” (26x28 cm) unframed
watercolor on paper
2022
Artist Watercolor statement:
I went to Siberia in 1994 for the adventure and to paint. I came home with my first real body of work. It was a collection of watercolors, and ever since they have been my vehicle to explore wherever I happen to be. I take them wherever I go. Watercolor is fast and there is little time to think. I’m reacting to what is presented in front of me, and more importantly what I am feeling within. I’ve painted all over the world but this particular group represents the landscape where I live in the Appalachian...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1960s Figural Graphite Drawing by Artist Albert Radoczy
Located in Stone Mountain, GA
Exceptionally rendered graphite drawing by artist Albert Radoczy. Delicate mark-making of female figure. Signed and dated lower right. Presented in a handsome vintage giltwood frame,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Stonecat Flashback" Watercolor Painting -bold, abstract, landscape, colorful
Located in Marmora, NJ
Kurt Herrmann
10x11” (26x28 cm) unframed
watercolor on paper
2022
Artist Watercolor statement:
I went to Siberia in 1994 for the adventure and to paint. I came home with my first real body of work. It was a collection of watercolors, and ever since they have been my vehicle to explore wherever I happen to be. I take them wherever I go. Watercolor is fast and there is little time to think. I’m reacting to what is presented in front of me, and more importantly what I am feeling within. I’ve painted all over the world but this particular group represents the landscape where I live in the Appalachian...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Touch of Fall watercolor and pastel painting by Nell Blaine
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...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pastel
Sea Ranch, Modern Pastel Abstract, Drawing, Pastels on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece was painted with soft pastels on acid free, heavy 140 lb. hot press Arches oil paper with deckled edges. Paper size measures large 22.5" x 30". This has approx. 1.5" margin of natural paper border for framing. Currently signed on the back only for horizontal and vertical orientation. I would be happy to sign on the front upon request. Sold without mat or without frame. Sea Ranch - original large soft pastel painting with organic shapes...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Untitled" Acrylics, Pencils, Oil Pastels on Paper in Neutral Hues of Taupe
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" 2019, 25" x 31" horizontal drawing on paper by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (featured in Elle Decor, the New York Times, Tradi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
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