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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Style: Abstract
Rosy Water (Diptych) - abstraction art, made in black, rose, salmon red, white
By Elena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Diptych. Each work is 30 by 40 inches in size. Rosy Water (Diptych)- abstraction art, made in black, rose, salmon red, white and beige on canvas.
Lena C...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
$5,360 Sale Price
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Thoughts - line drawing woman figure with scorched dandelion
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artworks were done with watercolor and ink on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a dou...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mountainscape inspired by M.Saryan-made in yellow, orange, red, blue, turquoise
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The ladscape was done with alcohol ink in yellow,orange,red,blue,green,pink color on Yupo paper. The work is 22 by 28 inches in siz...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Breathers (Flora * Fauna * Fungi * Biota)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Breathers (Flora * Fauna * Fungi * Biota)
Gouache on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art / M...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Magazine Paper
Emergence. Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract painting
By Kate McKennan
Located in Brecon, Powys
Intricate and lively work
Watercolour, Acrylic paint and Ink. On paper framed
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
$731 Sale Price
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Singed roses - abstraction art, made in cherry red, garnet red, white, grey
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The triptych is made with alcoholic ink in garnet red, cherry red, gray, white on Yupo paper. It can be in both horizontal and in vertical positions.
Each ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mystification - abstraction art, made in gold, brown, grey, blue
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in gold, blue,gray, brown color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed with a styrene face on a dou...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The garden of delights - abstraction art, made in pink, purple, grey color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink in pink, purple, fuchia, grey color on Yupo paper.
Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styre...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Shape 6 (2018) - Abstract shape, work on paper, minimalist, golden yellow
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 6 (2018) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only
Abstract, nonobjective, geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract shape innovated by the artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1988 "Night Glow I" Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Elaine Kaufman Feiner (1922-2018)
"Night Glow I"
1988
Watercolor and pastel on paper
30"x30" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right, titled reverse
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
$617 Sale Price
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Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 9, 2001, 25 x 30 inches, Ink on Mat Board
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Untitled - abstraction art, made in orange, turquoise, brown color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in orange, turquoise, brown color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed black with a styrene face o...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid Century Gouache and Oil Pastel Figurative Painting 1960s Bay Area Female Art
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Yellow Purple Figure
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x28" unframed $800
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Blue Flows - abstract painting in green, black, light blue and white color
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in yellow, green, light blue, black and white. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Che...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin
Mother and Child
Located in Astoria, NY
Sarai Sherman (American, 1922-2013), Mother and Child, Ink and Ink Wash on Paper, signed lower right, giltwood frame. Image: 34.75" H x 22.75" W; frame: 38.75" H x 26.5" W x 1.5" D. ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled (Līnea Study), 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Original work by Mary Early. Work is graphite, wax crayon, and sumi ink on Arches paper, 12 1/4 x 16".
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Colorful Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A bright, colorful watercolor abstract by by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Califo...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Acrylic on paper, c. 1975
Signed by the artist in ink lower right (see photo)
An early Modernist Abstraction, created shortly after the death of her husband, Adolf Dehn in 1968.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 18 x 24
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,500
Capitol Afternoon, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist James Nyika depicts a cold January afternoon before a snowstorm near the US Capitol in Washington DC. Glowing in the afternoon light, James captures th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Autumn leaf fall - abstract painting, made in orange, green, broun color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink in orange, green, brown turquoise color on Yupo paper.
Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Searching (II), 2021
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Drawing / Geometric Abstraction / Mythology and Religion / Bright and Vivid Colors / Black and White
Enamel, ink, colored pencil and alcohol ink on paper....
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled (Rabbi Scholar)
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Rosenthal (American 1921-2007) "Untitled: Rabbi Scholar", Figurative Pen/Watercolor on Paper signed in bottom right hand corner, 10.50 x 8 (24 x 20.50 In Frame), Late 20th Ce...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Abstracted Sleeping Figurative in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Sleeping Female Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted sleeping female figurative by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. A woman's sleeping on her side is shown in bold and playful colors of fluorescent purple, orange, pink and yellow. Black outlines of organic and tribal shapes creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance. The tall and thin size of this piece makes this ideal for those difficult and odd sized walls
Unsigned
Presented "floating" on foam core with black mat surround.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 29"H x 10.75"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$520 Sale Price
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"VMP 4" Green, Blue, Red , and Blue Striped Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract geometric painting by artist Mark Byckowski. The work is featured in a series of paintings on a Crescent 100% rag surface watercolor board. The work features ho...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Josette Urso "Float" - Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso
Float, 2022
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in.
(urso234)
Josette Urso’s paintings are driven by a sense of urgency. Working from her observations of her surrounding enviro...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Deep Blue
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Michael Marlowe is a studio artist, art director and production designer working in the film and television industry. Marlowe’s large-scale painting process takes an abstract approac...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Burton Wasserman
Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction, 1967
Color pencil on thin vellum paper
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the front
Frame Included: elegantly ...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Vellum
Madison Chautauqua, Original Painting
By Judy Mudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Judy Mudd demonstrates a sweeping view of Madison from the Ohio River. As part of her Marine collection, she spotlights the vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Shoreline Trail, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar paints a rural setting in this impressionist piece. She uses her refined skills to convey a grass field's softness and intricacies. Meanwhile, she leads the viewer along the walking path into the welcoming shadows and shelter of the copse of trees ahead. "One can almost feel the crunch underfoot," says Catherine.
About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Shape 44 (2019) Minimalist abstract shape, work on paper, green stylized seven
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 44 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only
Abstract, nonobjective, minimalist geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Pair of Abstract Dimensional India Ink Drawings in Black and Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period Abstract expressionist pair of India ink drawings by San Francisco artist Louis E. Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed "L. Nadalini" lower right and titled...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Laid Paper
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Orchid & Red, unique signed work on handmade hand dyed paper ex Tupperware Coll.
Located in New York, NY
Margie Hughto
Orchid & Red, 1983
Dyed Handmade paper
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front. Titled on the back.
Unique
Frame Inclu...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Dye, Handmade Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Science * Laws of Nature (One of the Arts)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Science * Laws of Nature (One of the Arts)
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Seated Nude Figure
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Gestural watercolor of a colorful seated nude figure by California artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed and dated "Doris Warner, 5/71" on ...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Carnivore
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Carnivore
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art / Minimalism and C...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Abstract Composition - Ink and Watercolor on Paper by Peter Dischleit - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original mixed media drawing in ink and watercolor on paper realized by Peter Dischleit (1940-1993) in the second half of the XX century, in 1973.
Hand-si...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Love Affair 9 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Love Affair 9 (Abstract drawing)
Colour pencil on two layers of Mylar — Unframed.
Love Affairs" is a series of drawings on two layers of thin, translucent paper resembling ice. Each...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Night Rodeo - contemporary abstract painting w/ yellow, green, red lines on blue
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. This painting combine...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Color of unloved #1 & #2 diptych-abstract art in red, yellow, black, white
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise and black. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, be part of diptych and as a proper art piece.
Lena Cher...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Gobelin. 1943, paper, mixed technique, 11.9x10.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Līnea Study), 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Original work by Mary Early. Graphite, wax crayon, and sumi ink on Arches paper, 12.25 x 16".
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
"Female Nudes" Pink, Blue, Yellow, and Black Abstract Modern Figurative Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, sky blue, yellow, and black abstract modern figurative drawing by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. The drawing depicts four nude women behind what appears to be windows. Si...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
'Abstract', Marin, Watercolor Artists of San Francisco, De Young Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Cunningham' for Alfred A Cunningham (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965.
Alfred Cunningham was active in Northern California from the 1950's thro...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Because You Are Dead - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Because You Are Dead is a drawing realised by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signe...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Serene * Serenity
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Serene * Serenity
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art / Minimali...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley
Metallic abstract geometric symbols
Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / G...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vibration * Frequency * Feelings
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Vibration * Frequency * Feelings
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Untitled No. 26 (Modern Black & Grey Abstract Fruit Drawing in Black Frame)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical charcoal drawing on Arches paper
18 x 13 inches unframed
25 x 20 inches in black metal frame with AR non-glare glass & 8-ply mat
This contemporary, abstract charcoal drawin...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled No. 32 (Modern Black & Grey Bold Line Abstract Drawing in Black Frame)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical charcoal drawing on thick, high quality Arches paper
25 x 20 inch charcoal drawing on 30.5 x 22.5 inch Arches paper
35 x 28.5 inches in black frame with AR non-glare glass ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$1,920 Sale Price
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Untitled (blue & red diamonds)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Untitled (blue & red diamonds)
Gouache on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Magazine Paper
Birth (One of the Arts)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Birth (One of the Arts)
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstracti...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Magazine Paper, Acrylic
Time (Measure & Passage Of)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Time (Measure & Passage Of)
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Rocio Rodriguez "16-Oct-14" Abstract Oil Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Rocio Rodriguez
October 16, 2014, 2014
pastel, oil pastel and charcoal on paper
18 x 24 in.
framed 22 x 28 in.
This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez featu...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Paper, Pastel
Untitled 2012
Located in London, GB
Ink and acrylic on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets int...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled-abstraction art, made in orange, salmon red, turquoise, ice ocean
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in orange, salmon red, turquoise, ice ocean color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-qua...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Atlantic Coast Cornwall Framed 1970s Cornish Coastal Landscape Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Elizabeth Rosemary Ziar.
English ( b.1919 - d.2003 ).
The North Coast Of Cornwall, West Penwith.
Watercolor.
Signed Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 15 i...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A View from the Back, Original Painting
By Judy Mudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Judy Mudd captures a unique perspective on one of her signature rural landscapes, representing a grand old barn from the rear of the property. She uses...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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