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
Safe Flight - Ink and Watercolor Abstract Painting With Green and Gray Colors
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Safe Flight is a 16 x 19 inch ink and watercolor painting. The main colors are green and gray. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there. The contrast bet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Perch (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Perch (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Work will be shipped rolled in a tube.
Werfel emp...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Cut 39 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Ink, laquer, cutting, collage on paper - Unframed
This work is part of one of 4 on-going series of large works on paper.
The name of this series, "Cut", relates to the technique us...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled 01 - Abstract, Drawing on Canvas, Gray, Organic, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 01, 2016
Wax crayon on canvas
(Signed on reverse)
78.74 H x 59.05 W in
200 H x 150 W cm
Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrate, as a surface on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax Crayon
Untitled 04 - Contemporary, Abstract, Black, Organic, Small, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 04, 2015 - 2016
Mixed technique: oil paint, adhesive on paper
(Signed on reverse, Framed)
8.26 H x 5.9 W in
21 H x 15 W cm
Zsolt Berszán’s work...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Adhesive, Oil
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
Untitled 07 - Contemporary, Monochrome, Abstract, Black, Organic, Small, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 07, 2015 - 2016
Mixed technique: oil paint, adhesive on paper
(Signed on reverse, Framed)
8.26 H x 5.9 W in
21 H x 15 W cm
Zsolt Berszán’s work speaks of repulsion and fasc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Adhesive, Oil
Untitled 01 - Abstract Art, Drawing, Organic, Contemporary, Graphite, Gray
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 01, 2016
Graphite on paper (Signed on reverse)
77.95 H x 58.66 W in
198 H x 149 W cm
Zsolt Berszán’s work speaks of repulsion and fascination a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Ink and acrylic on handmade wasli paper - Unframed
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric de...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Untitled 03 - Abstract Drawing on Canvas, Green, Contemporary, Gestural
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 03, 2016
Wax crayon on canvas
(Signed on canvas)
78.74 H x 59.05 W in
200 H x 150 W cm
Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrate, as a surface on w...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax Crayon
Aparejo #2. Abstract painting on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aparejo #2, 2022
From the series Illusions of the Line
Gliceé print and Chinese ink on canvas
Image size: 100 cm H x 70 cm W x 0.3 cm D.
Frame size: 102 cm H x 72 cm W x 4 cm D.
Nat...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Giclée
Veiled Series XX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Aparejo #1, Gliceé. Abstract painting on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aparejo #1
From the series Illusions of the Line
Gliceé print and Chinese ink on canvas
Image size: 100 cm H x 70 cm W x 0.3 cm D.
Frame size: 102 cm H x 72 cm W x 4 cm D.
Natural ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Giclée
Aparejo #1 and #2. Abstract Paintings. Diptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aparejo #1 and #2. Diptych
From the series Illusions of the Line
Gliceé print and Chinese ink on canvas
Overall size:
Image size: 100 cm H x 140 cm W x 0.3 cm D.
Frame size: 102 c...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Giclée
P1.13 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
P1.13 (Abstract painting)
Gouache and collage on Japanese paper - Unframed
This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
0118.5 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.5 (Abstract Painting)
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Diagram Drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Diagram Drawing 2 (Abstract Drawing)
Colored pencil on paper - Unframed.
This work will be shipped rolled in a tube.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
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
Stem in Black #1 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal & Oil stick on paper - Unframed.
Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
0118.3
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty years, drawing has provided a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
$1,807
Starfall. Item 5
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Digital
Starfall. Item 1
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color
Shape of Resonance 19
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micron pen on paper, framed
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen
British, Adrian Heath gouache painting, 1964 in creams and whites
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920-1992)
Squared foliage
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated `Heath 64’ (lower right)
29.1/2 x 21.3/4 in. (75 x 55.3 cm.)
Born in Burma, Adrian Heath moved to...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
House of Magenta - Original Playful House Home Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Moiré Indigo (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Moiré Indigo (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper and Netting - Framed.
Image's dimensions: 32 x 29 cm/12.5 x 11.4".
The Moiré project is an exercise in optical and formal aesthet...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
T #1- intricate beige 3D abstract aerial landscape pulled paper fiber drawing
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicateness are what best characterize Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Using a sharp tool to carefully pull the fiber of the paper from the front, the artist gives bi...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Abstract Pastel Crayon Drawing Color Abstract, Seasonal Letter John Von Wicht
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Virginia Field, arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Bernard Childs, John Ford and Andy War...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Oil Pastel
Untitled - Paper, White, Abstract, 21st Contemporary, Minimalist
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled, 2016
White silicone on paper
78 × 58 3/10 in
198 × 148 cm
Signed on reverse
Berszán depicts in his drawings and paintings the primary turmoil where the violence of the un...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silicone, Paper
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Graphite and color pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, this artwork was made by tightly c...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil, Graphite
Golden Green 07 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Golden Green 07 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflectiv...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk.
Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art
B...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Guna TT (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Encaustic on Shikoku paper - Unframed.
The title, Guna, is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘string, thread or strand’ and was inspired by Adams yoga practice.
“It’s a key concept in variou...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Encaustic
Diagram Drawing 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Diagram Drawing 3 (Abstract Drawing)
Colored pencil on paper - Unframed.
This work will be shipped rolled in a tube.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 24 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 24 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano-Terra paper - Unframed.
"This work is part of a series titled ""Drawing for 3 configurations', em...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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
Abyss
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, Handmade Paper
$1,200
Spring (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Spring (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her colo...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Frame size: 15 x 21 inches
Provenance: Jan Cowles
...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
There Is More, Painting, Watercolor on MDF Panel
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a special watercolor on board painting - watercolors on a museum quality acid free clay on wood panel. This means that the painting can be framed without glass just like a no...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Don´t Talk To Me About Valentines Day, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting was done on Valentine´s day! What's your opinion on this day? Watermarks and lines, scratches and other watercolor effects ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Facing It, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting is exploring thoughts, emotions.... Watermarks and lines, scratches and other watercolor effects are important to my work and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Such A Rainy Day, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting is exploring storm, rain, sea, light.... and so is a metaphor for feelings and emotions and the light behind it all. Watermark...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Test Pattern 12 (Grey study) (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Test Pattern 12 (Grey study) (Abstract painting)
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
"Harlequin’s Birthday" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field
Located in New York, NY
"Harlequin’s Birthday" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
Harlequin’s Birthday
17 1/4 x 11 inches
Pastel on paper, c. 1965
Titled lo...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled, by Clemens Briels Pencil on paper, framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, by Clemens Briels
Pencil on paper
2008
Image size: 11 H cm. x 10.5 W cm.
Framed: 20.7 H cm. x 20 W cm.
Clemens Briels is a painter born in the Netherlands in 1946. At a yo...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
4.29 15 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
4.29 15 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Gouache on archival paper - Unframed.
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Ambassade 47 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Located in London, GB
Ambassade 47 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Watercolor on hot press paper - Unframed
This work is part of the watercolour series titled Ambassade which was named after a visit a...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"By the Seat of Her Pants", Abstract, Contemporary, Watercolor Painting, 2018
Located in Natick, MA
Sarah Alexander's 22 x 30 inch Watercolor on Aquabord painting "By the Seat of Her Pants" is a joyous and playful spiral of color. Rich orange, reds and blues coil around in a whirlwind of motion depicting the joys and emotions of a busy and full life. The painting is done on a clay panel made especially for watercolor, and sealed with a polymer varnish. The painting sits on a 2.5 inch wood cradle for a contemporary look and does not require framing. The painting is signed in the lower right hand corner.
Sarah Alexander is a contemporary mixed media artist with an emphasis on watercolor and drawing using unconventional surfaces and techniques. Her work is in private collections and has been shown extensively throughout New England, and abroad. Her work has been published by North Light...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Woven lines 39 - abstract red blue green yellow dominant ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon algorit...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
CDV 16 - earth tone, abstract geometric circle with burn holes on paper
Located in New York, NY
Nathalie Palomino is a French self-taught artist practicing pyrography on paper. Her perpetual quest for light and transparency in her works pushes her to multiply the perforations o...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Vibrant abstract picture of jar and flowers by Modern British artist Ewart Johns
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful and peaceful abstract still life painting done in pastel. Vibrant colours such as red, yellow, blue and green burst through the picture to create a living and loving peac...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Ref 19013) (Abstract Drawing)
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Untitled (Ref 19013) (Abstract Drawing)
Ink on paper - Unframed.
Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delig...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 7 (Pink) (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 7 (Pink) (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano-Terra paper - Unframed.
"This work is part of a series titled ""Drawing for 3 configurations', ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
Etching - Unframed.
This print is last in edition.
This etching refers to a Steamboat Springs, Colorado street. It...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
Untitled 7 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 7 (Abstract painting)
Pigment, silica medium and gouache on paper - Unframed.
Marcy Rosenblat describes herself as having an affinity for process art, a method of art maki...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pigment
Rainy Day (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Rainy Day (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and pigments on lacquered wood board - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigment...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Pigment
Charles Pulsford ARSA 'Abstract Harbour' watercolour Modern British Art Scottish
Located in London, GB
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Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950s British black and white abstract by Norman Edgar Hubert
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Edgar Hubert (British, 1906 – 1985)
Geometric abstract in black and white
Signed and dated ‘E Hubert 55’ (on the reverse)
Gouache on black paper
25.3/8 x 20.3/4 in. (64.3 x 53 cm.)
Abstract painter, born Norman Edgar Hubert in Billingshurst, Sussex, and one of the mysterious curiosities of modern British painting. He was at school at Sherborne, and after studying art at University of Reading, 1924–6, was at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1926–9 (gaining a certificate for drawing, 1926–7). Henry Tonks was among his teachers and he shared rooms with William Townsend, in whose journals he appears. Although he socialized with such painters as Geoffrey Tibble, William Coldstream and Rodrigo Moynihan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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