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
Cut-Up Paper 2001 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
Pedersen works with acrylic paint.
When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, ha...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Stem in Black #12 (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
L.I.C. 2 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.1
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
15 x 20 cm - 24 x 30 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$320 Sale Price
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Untitled 2006
Located in London, GB
Pen on tracing paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. Pastel tones, softened colors, a...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
Monochrome abstract drawing. Funny Silver Mood - 4 -
Located in Zofingen, AG
This monochrome abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and silver pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of insta...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Energetic Gestural Drawing. Funny Silver Mood - 2 -
Located in Zofingen, AG
This spontaneous gestural drawing is made with Chinese ink and silver pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of cheer...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Abstract Calligraphy. Energetic Gestural Drawing. Funny Silver Mood - 1 -
Located in Zofingen, AG
This spontaneous gestural drawing is made with Chinese ink and silver pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of cheer...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Covers 24 Blue D Summer
Located in London, GB
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper - Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape to mask out shapes and employ hard ed...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled 2010
Located in London, GB
Oil on postcard - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. H...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
DD3.15
Located in London, GB
Handmade abaca paper. Unframed.
This subtle piece has been created at Dieu Donné in New York City, a non-profit studio for handmade paper art.
DD3.15 is handmade abaca paper, which...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Cristiano E. Ranghetto (1977) - Oil on canvas - 2016
Located in Varese, IT
“Dubbi! Golosità... e altre faccende!”.
Oil on canvas, 2016.
Unique work in which the cracks on the surface represent the wounds inflicted by man on the earth. The painting is art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
M252
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Digital
$1,741
0118.5
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
$1,810
Quarantaine 20064
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on paper - Unframed.
Reyna works with ink, acrylics and oils on canvas or paper. One of his signature techniques is to dilute his mediums so the colors will dissipate an...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - My Own Leaf
Located in Paris, IDF
Archival pigment in print on canvas Edition of 12
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in Inter...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Archival Paper
$784 Sale Price
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Le Bois
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper - Unframed.
This artwork is a polyptych made of 9 elements. Each element's dimensions are 50 x 65 cm/19.6 x 25.5 inches.
Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract p...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$12,187
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Potential- abstract geometric holographic light drawing on wood panel
Located in New York, NY
James Minden
potential
Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches
2017
To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Untitled (Ref 12102)
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper mounted on canvas - Unframed.
Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight the eye and activate...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink
Lapin
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$8,008
Abstract Composition AA1, 1968 - gouache and mixed media, 58x75 cm, framed
By Armand Avril
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache and paper, mixed media, Signed in the middle center.
Armand Avril, né à Lyon en 1926, est un peintre vivant à Cotignac dans le Var. Il est surtout connu pour les assemblages qu'il a réalisés à partir de 1968. D'origine modeste, cependant très tôt intéressé par l'art et les musées où le poussait son père, il s'essaie d'abord à la peinture. Cependant, Avril ne commence à trouver son véritable style qu'à l'âge de quarante-deux ans.
Enfant, il est un habitué des musées de Lyon qu’il fréquente sur les conseils de son père. Adulte, sa passion pour la collection l’incite à se nourrir des arts premiers et d’artistes comme Gaston Chaissac...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Coffee Espresso #12 Coffee on Paper Drawing by Eliza Southwood, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Espresso #12 by Eliza Southwood [2022]
Coffee Espresso #12 is an original drawing in coffee on paper by artist Eliza Southwood. It features one cyclist painted in coffee, com...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
Untitled (ID 1292)
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
No title
By Jean Chauvin
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal
32.00 cm. x 24.00 cm. 12.6 in. x 9.45 in. (paper)
32.00 cm. x 21.00 cm. 12.6 in. x 8.27 in. (image)
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Ref : LCD3579
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled 2009
Located in London, GB
Oil on postcard - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. H...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
Vertex
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn with pen or pencil and which so...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$2,576
Cut-Up Paper I.15
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
Pedersen works with acrylic paint.
When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, har...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
HK1904YP (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Ink, enamel, 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, "Yappanoise", is inspired by one of the numerous "monster-words" and neologisms invented by James Joyce in his last and famous novel "Finnegans Wake...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Yellow Geometric Watercolor by Susan Michod
By Susan Michod
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Susan Michod, American
Title: Untitled
Year: 1977
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled 19224
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper - Unframed.
Reyna works with ink, acrylics and oils on canvas or paper. One of his signature techniques is to dilute his mediums so the colors will dissipate and interm...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$2,451 Sale Price
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Ann Bridges, The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, Original Landscape Painting
By Ann Bridges
Located in Deddington, GB
Ann Bridges
The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep
Original Still Life Painting
Oil based ink
Image size: 27 x 27 cm
Sheet size: 39 x 39 cm
Framed Size: 43 x 43 cm.
Sold Framed (Dark Gr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Edge Space
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn with pen or pencil and which so...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
SL 4 - abstract geometric brown orange dominant color 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
1980s Abstract Watercolor – New Mexico Artist, Vibrant Orange, Blue & Yellow
By William Lumpkins
Located in Denver, CO
This dynamic abstract watercolor by acclaimed New Mexico artist William Lumpkins (1909–2000) exemplifies his signature fusion of vibrant color, spir...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Séparer" by Gilbert Pauli - Watercolor on paper 36x36 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on rice texturized paper with wooden frame and glass, size: 53x53x2 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$624 Sale Price
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Serie Pastel n8 by Gilbert Pauli - Pastel on paper 50x66 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on c-us frame size 73x89 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Pigment
$1,320 Sale Price
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Mr. Rabbit, Pen & Colored Pencils Drawing on Paper by Nikolay Starostenko, 2022
Located in Zofingen, AG
Nikolay Starostenko - Mr. Rabbit (2022)
"Mr. Rabbit", Original drawing done in pen and colored pencils, no frame on heavy paper, 34 x 29 cm. The work will be shipped flat and secure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Archival Paper
Carrier Pigeon, Pen and Colored Pencils Drawing on Paper, 2022
Located in Zofingen, AG
Nikolay Starostenko - Carrier Pigeon (2022)
"Carrier Pigeon" drawing is made with a pen and colored pencils on paper.
You can entrust your most important secrets to the carrier pige...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Mountains 005 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Mountains 005 (2020)
Abstract landscape, painting in black, grey, white colors. Artwork represents Alps in winter, covered with snow and mist above it. Paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
05.03.2020 - Lucerne has First Corona Case. COVID-19 Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 05.03.2020 - Lucerne has first Corona case. From COVID-19. (2020)
A few days ago, the virus appeared in Italy and has already come to Switzerland. All major ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
06.03.2020 - Could We Prevent COVID-19 Spread? COVID-19 Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 06.03.2020 - Could we prevent COVID-19 spread? From COVID-19 (2020)
March 6th: we continue to receive instructions on how to prevent the spread of virus. We no...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
19.03.2020 - Terrifying Statistics. COVID-19 Art Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 19.03.2020 - Terrifying statistics. From COVID-19 Art. (2020)
The 19th of March: Terrifying statistics.
On that day, the death toll from the virus in Italy exc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
22.04.2020 - Talk To Me! COVID-19, Documentary Art Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 22.04.2020 - Talk to me! COVID-19 Documentary art. (2020)
COVID-19 Documentary art
22.04. - Self isolation... We want to safe other people. So we don't visit o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
16.03.2020 -Social Distancing, Respect, Solidarity. COVID-19 Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 16.03.2020 -Social distancing, Respect, Solidarity. COVID-19 (2020)
COVID-19 Documentary art. From 16.03.2020 is Switzerland official in Social Distancing.
Soc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
09.03.2020 - The Disease is Mild. COVID-19 Documentary Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 09.03.2020 - The disease is mild. From COVID-19 Documentary (2020)
The 9th of March: About Corona in Switzerland.
The texts on the painting in English and Germ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
09.03.2020 - Virus is Spreading in Italy. COVID-19 Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 09.03.2020 - Virus is spreading in Italy. From COVID-19. (2020)
The 9th of March: The virus is spreading in Italy and a week later the country lost 366 people....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
17.03.2020 - Birthday in Quarantine. COVID-19 Art Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 17.03.2020 - Birthday in quarantine. From COVID-19 Art. (2020)
From COVID-19 Documentary.
17.03 is my Birthday, but this year I celebrate it in quarantine.
The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
09.03.2020 - It's Dangerous in the Center, COVID-19 Painting, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - 09.03.2020 - It's dangerous in the center, From COVID-19 (2020)
It's a very personal drawing. I'm beginning to realize that it's not safe to go to the tourist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mountains 004 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Mountains 004 (2020)
Abstract landscape, painting in black, grey, white colors. Artwork represents Alps in winter, covered with snow and mist above it. Paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Flock 5, Black and White Abstract Drawing, Starling Art, Nature Art, Monochrome
By Nigel Bird
Located in Deddington, GB
Original work on paper work by Nigel bird. It is part of a collection of work inspired by sound. “During the time I lived in Southern France, I once had the good fortune to be walkin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
untitled- abstract bright color oil pastel drawing on paper
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Lassalle
Untitled, 1993
18.75 x 15.75 inches; framed in natural wood color 21.6 x 19.6 inches
oil pastels on board
signed 'LASSALLE' and dated recto; stamped verso
Bruno Lassa...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Frames (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and watercolor on handmade Wasli paper. Unframed.
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and organic forms, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Veiled Series LX , 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
P5.15
Located in London, GB
Collage and gouache on Japanese papers. Unframed.
This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored papers t...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,671
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed.
This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has an effect on the whole.
On a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
'Lilly in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Lilly in Charcoal' 2023
Abstract expressionism black and white photography of Charcoal abstract drawing and Lilly.
Photograph shot using mid-century large format film camera Linhof...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$423 Sale Price
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'Lily in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash. The charc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$690 Sale Price
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Abstract drawing n°16 by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
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Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Martin Reyna , Mila Akopova, Jaanika Peerna, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $1,408.