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
Purple and Green Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor composition with soft purple and green tones, accented with red by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson ...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Color Pencil and Graphite on Mylar. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a group of drawings where the artist continues her work touching upon environmental matters...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Blue & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue & yellow abstract watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed on verso and unframed. Image...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Diptych Edge of Whimsy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Left of Center, purple and green abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Green Abstract
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract with green and black swirling together by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 9"H x 12"W. Purchased from the es...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Indian Contemporary Art By Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 328
Located in Paris, IDF
Tryptich
16 x 11 inches each
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in International Fashion Mark...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Kyong Lee's series combines colour and language to visually represent the external environment. The proce...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Black and White Fantastical Figure Abstract Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white pen and ink abstract figurative drawing depicting a fantasy animal skull-like shape. Framed and matted in a silver frame. Previously with DuBose Gallery, a leading na...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Figurative Abstract - Blue Face
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Street art style figurative abstract of blue face by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower right. Unframed. Ima...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Gentle Current - abstract nature inspired white minimal collage of clay on paper
Located in New York, NY
The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Clay, Polymer
1M 1 CENT POSTAGE DUE. Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1M 1 CENT POSTAGE DUE, 2023
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Frame size: 43 cm H x 43 cm W x 3 cm D
Image size: 30 cm H x 30 cm W
Unique
Ivory Wood Bro...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Gift II. 1992, a / e, paper, etching, 23x13 cm
Located in Riga, LV
JEKATERINA GRYAZEVA
Born in Latvia, Riga 1968
Education
1979 - 1986 J.Rozentals Secondary Art School (Riga).
1987 - 1993 Academy of Art (Riga, Latvia), department of Graphics,...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
Ink #4 (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Ink, watercolor, gouache on Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Image size: 12” x 8.25” - 30,5 x 21 cm.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
'Pointillist Still Life', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1966.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others.
Selected Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984:
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition
Selected Solo Shows:
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Thoughts About The World Underwater'
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Emotional Color Chart 161 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Chart 161 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano-Terra paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a series of drawings...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Modern Geometric Abstract in Primary Colors with Pink, Vintage Pastel Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
A striking modern abstract pastel on paper by listed Monterey, California artist Henry Elinson (American, 1935-2010), 1980. Featuring clean lines and bold geometric shapes in a palet...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
3.3M, 1000 REVERSE RIGHT "WATERMELON GRAND". Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
3.3M, 1000 REVERSE RIGHT "WATERMELON GRAND"
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Image size: 30 cm H x 15 cm W
Frame size: 43 cm H x 28 cm W x 4 cm D
Ivor...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
300K, 100 OBVERSE LEFT "WATERMELON NOTE". Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
300K, 100 OBVERSE LEFT "WATERMELON NOTE"
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Image size: 30 cm H x 15 cm W
Frame size: 43 cm H x 28 cm W x 4 cm D
Ivory Wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Kathleen Beausoleil, Rejuvinate, 2013, blue ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Inner Space #9: geometric abstract painting; yellow, red, blue, green & gray
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker's latest series, "Inner Space," analyzes a single motif built from repeating parallel lines that is commonly found in his work. In this series of...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Last Night
Located in Columbia, MO
Last Night
Ink, graphite, and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Graphite
Neige (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Neige (Abstract painting)
Collage, Gouache, acrylic and oil pastel on Arches paper — Unframed
Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustrator and colourist based in France ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache
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
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, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Signature #XIIII
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #14
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
15M RINGERS. Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
15M RINGERS, 2023 by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Frame size: 43 cm H x 43 cm W x 3 cm D
Image size: 30 cm H x 30 cm W
Unique
Ivory...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Emotional Color Chart 176 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Chart 176 (Abstract painting)
Pencil and Acrylic on Fabriano-Pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Heavy Bristol type
Size image: 22.75 x 28 inches
Paper size: 22.75 x 28 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"#152 – GOOD GIRL", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#152 – GOOD GIRL" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 152 of a found copy of Ernest Heming...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Optical Pastel Pencil Expressionist Abstract
Located in Pasadena, CA
The work presented here appears to be a pastel, probably enhanced with pencil, where the material almost entirely saturates the surface. The accumulation of strokes layered into a de...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Stage Design, wax crayon drawing by Sir Terry Frost RA
Located in London, GB
Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Stage Design
Wax crayon drawing
21 x 42 cm
Sir Terry Frost was a British abstract artist known for his vibrant use of colour, geometric forms, and express...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon
Piccolo V
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Piccolo V
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic and collage on black paper
Paper: Wove black
Size image: 12.5 x 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modern British, St. Ives group William Black watercolour of three boats
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Black (British, fl.66-69)
Three boats
Watercolour and ink pen
Inscribed with title, signed and dated `Three Boats William Black 68’ (lower edge)
8 x 5.3/4 in. (20.3 x 14.7 cm.)
William Black is a little known and underrated member of the St Ives artist group who, having worked as an architect after the Second World War, went on to work as an artist following the inheritance of money in the early 1950s.
He was a self taught artist, producing numerous deconstructivist sculptures in the 1960s. He moved to St Ives in Cornwall where he knew artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. There is a clear architectural element to the sculptures that he made . They illustrate an assemblage of fragmented shapes and forms of a deconstructivist nature.
William Black’s artwork is very much rooted in the time and Cornish School...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
It Smelled Like Earth and was Cold to the Touch
Located in Columbia, MO
It Smelled Like Earth and was Cold to the Touch
Ink and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
American Contemporary Art by Katherine Filice - With Only The Moonlight To Guide
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, chalk & mica on sculpted paper
Framed 47 x 41 x 2 in, white wood frame
Katherine Filice is an award-winning American abstract artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Hollister, Northern California, USA. Her work is known for its exploration of environmental topics, with a focus on our human understanding of centuries-old forests, particularly concerned with articulating the energy, memories, and stories that vibrate through the ancient trees and woodland landscapes. Filice's artistic development has been shaped by a blend of traditional art education and invaluable guidance from artists, critics, and educators through various critique programs. She has also garnered over 100 design awards for her commercial work. In addition, Filice holds a BS degree from the University of San Francisco. Her extensive education and professional experience have greatly influenced her exploration of human relationships and their reflection within our environment. Katherine has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her paintings and drawings are held in private and corporate collections worldwide. Her most recent solo exhibitions include “Lost & Found” at 1202 Contemporary and "Lost in the Woods" at the Pacific Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Chalk
Remains (Body in the Field 1) - 21st Century, Work On Paper, Red, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 1), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Original work by Yvon Taillandier - 1020 Provence - Figuration libre
Located in PARIS, FR
Very nice original work of Yvon Taillandier.
The work of Yvon Taillandier is related to the free figuration, mixing image and language. His painting has an aesthetic closeness to th...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Prospectus 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Prospectus 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Graphite on paper, Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphit...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Halo drawing abstract
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Halo, Drawing, study for a sculpture. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Michael Davis My sculptures and installations are physically and symbolically multilayered mechanisms that react to environ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
untitled-#3, *abstract with suggestion of landscape, green, yellow, blue
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage #3
2022
acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, yellow, white
irregular texture surface
abstract
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled 2302 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2302 (Abstract Drawing)
Oil and paper on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled 2305 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2305 (Abstract Drawing)
Gouache and paper on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled 2311 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2311 (Abstract Drawing)
Oil on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nature abstraction
Located in Greenwich, CT
Briggs is s significant Post War artist who can bring substantial prices and interest with his works from the 1950's. His style during this period was "action painting" and expressi...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 28.2.12 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 28.2.12 (Abstract Drawing)
Pen and Inkjet on Paper - Unframed.
Caldicott's drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines....
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Inkjet
"Cloud", Contemporary abstract painting on linen, natural pastel and peach tones
Located in Dallas, TX
"Cloud" is an elegant and contemporary abstract layered painting with peach, neutral and orange tones on an elegant white linen canvas. Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian lux...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment, Linen, Raw Linen
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Color pencil, ink pen and Chinese ink on wooden panel
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel, Color Pencil
Shells , 2021, 50x35 cm, acrylic on cardboard
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Shells , 2021, 50x35 cm, acrylic on cardboard
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Remains (Body in the Field 11) - Contemporary Art, 21st Century, Yellow, Blue
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 11), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Kenneth Rowntree: 'Abstract Australian Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Rowntree
Abstract Australian Landscape
Watercolour
27.5 x 33cm
Signed (top left) and dated ‘Kenneth Rowntree ’85’
Provenance: Anderson & Garland Studio sale of Kenneth Rowntree lot 263 Tuesday 8 September 2009
For biographical details and other works by Rowntree click here.
Rowntree visited Australia in 1984/85. In this painting he picks up various vignettes from the Australian landscape in six separate blocks. Two relate to the sky, with almost-unbroken blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, three relate to desert areas, with a whole array of different textures, and one is a luscious green. In one of the desert scenes he has picked out two road signs, in typical Rowntree fashion, reducing them to their simplest form. In her essay Kenneth Rowntree: A Strange Simplicity (published in Kenneth Rowntree A Centenary Exhibition Published by Moore-Gwyn Fine Art and Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, on behalf of the artist’s estate, on the occasion of the centenary of Kenneth Rowntree’s birth) Alexandra Harris makes reference to this painting noting:
"Later, in 1986, just when the young David Hockney was collaging the signs and road-markings of Route 138 in Pearblossom Highway, Rowntree was in Australia painting yellow diamond-shaped road-signs as bright icons in open country. Wherever he went, Rowntree captured both the unfamiliarity of places and their relationship to things he knew. Heading into the Australian outback, he painted a road-sign as he would paint a rail signal at Clare in Suffolk or nautical markers at Swansea."
Hockney’s 1986 Pearblossom Highway may be seen in the Getty and it is worth noting that Rowntree was in fact painting the yellow sign in 1985, so a year before Hockney.
Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997)
Rowntree was born in Scarborough and educated in York where his father managed the local department store. Young Kenneth’s work was displayed there and his first major commission arose from an advertisement at the store. After the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he studied at the Slade School, meeting Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden and then moving to north Essex to work with them as members of the group of Great Bardfield Artists.
Between 1940 and 1943 he was one of the team of over 60 artists engaged by the War Artists Advisory Committee for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, to record the face of England and Wales before wartime action – or development – changed it for ever. Rowntree’s keen sense of design, and fascination with the quirky and the vernacular made him an ideal candidate to interpret our built heritage’s more unusual aspects.
In 1951 he painted murals in the Lion and Unicorn pavilion for the Festival of Britain, he decorated the route of the Queen’s Coronation procession (some of the works being acquired by Her Majesty).
During a teaching job at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he was driven, perhaps by his experiences recording Britain, to record the decorated barges that belonged to the Oxford Colleges. These wooden Victorian ceremonial barges had belonged to the London livery companies, but were acquired in their later life by the Colleges to be used as changing rooms and clubhouses for the College boat clubs – depending on the size of the barge rowing eights were stored on board too. Part way through painting one of them Rowntree thought his drawing incorrect until he realised that it was the boat that was moving. It was in fact sinking. These days the Colleges have modern (but unromantic) boat houses; a handful of the barges remain – restored – in private hands.
In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle (latterly part of the University), which as British art schools went was one of the most progressive. The Master of Painting was the abstract constructionist Victor Passmore...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
K1959 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
K1959 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink on paper - unframed
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which he is a notorious collector.
Harald Kröner's work is very much about perc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, oil on paper - unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which h...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil
Gushing 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Gushing 3 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment and Color Pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
Gushing represents a transition between Peerna’s earlier Maelstrom series based on circular motion, and t...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Pigment
Garden Flowers - Framed Pink Flowers in Vase Ready-to-Hang Original 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"nothing more, nothing less 2 of 6" - earth pigment, texture, marble, soft
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
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