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Medium: Graphite
"Butterfly no. 85" Drawing with Gold Leaf by Alessandra Maria
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Butterfly no. 78" Drawing with Gold & White Gold Leaf by Alessandra Maria
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Working with a palette of graphite and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alchemist, summoning ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
Borrowed Landscapes Study No.167/ NY, NYC, - Park Skyline
By Nina Tichava
Located in Denver, CO
Nina Tichava's paintings are about relationships; she is interested in the interactions between materials and methods as well as the color and spatial relationships that naturally de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Postcard, Graphite, Tape
"Butterfly no. 79" Drawing with Gold & White Gold Leaf by Alessandra Maria
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Working with a palette of graphite and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alchemist, summoning ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
Drawings from Mt Gretna, III
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Līnea Study), 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Original work by Mary Early. Work is graphite, wax crayon, and sumi ink on Arches paper, 12 1/4 x 16".
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Ritual (Devil)" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 16” x 1" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
Evgeniya Golik (al...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Control C" Colored pencil, pen, graphite on paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original drawing by Lauren Rinaldi float mounted in the pictured simple white frame measuring 17in x 14in. This is an original artwork made with colored pencil, ballpoint pen, graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite, Oil Pastel
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun IV, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Stamford, CT
Mirror to the Sun IV
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Spray Paint
Scoli Acosta Large Contemporary Mixed Media Painting LA Art Red Planet Collage
By Scoli Acosta
Located in Surfside, FL
Shadow of Opportunity on Red Planet
Mixed media
Framed 39.3 X 50 sheet 32.4 X 42.3
Hand signed, dated and titled by artist. (with a location of LA noted)
This came with a group of 4...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite, Photogram
Close Before Striking X. Mixed Media Abstract portraits on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magazines...
Category
2010s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Close Before Striking VII. Mixed Media on %100 Cotton Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magazines...
Category
2010s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Close Before Striking II. Mixed Media Abstract Portraits on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magazines...
Category
2010s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Close Before Striking III. Mixed Media Abstract Portraits on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magaz...
Category
2010s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun V, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Stamford, CT
Mirror to the Sun V
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Layers of Reality: Fox with BeesAcrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer she looks out from a two headed fox figure composed of road maps with the sound of bees humming. Placed...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Graphite, Tissue Paper, Acrylic, Oil, Wax
Rick Lewis, Untitled (Burnt Orange), Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Stamford, CT
Untitled (Burnt Orange)
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primar...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Spray Paint
Rick Lewis, Did You See the Moon Tonight? - Painting 2019
By Rick Lewis
Located in Stamford, CT
Did You See the Moon Tonight?
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Paper, Ink
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Stamford, CT
Mirror to the Sun
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium o...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Chrome - Affordable Original Modern Colorful Mixed Media Street Art by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Graphite, Mixed Media, Pastel, Spray Paint, Paste
Still Life 008
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic, soft pastel, graphite, coffee, india ink, transfer on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Paper, Coffee, Pastel, India Ink
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, graphite and watercolor, stamped "Studio Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unframed. 29.5" H x 39.75" W. Prove...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Snapdragons 3
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Thought
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Mixed Media Collage Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magaz...
Category
2010s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Mixed Media, pencil-signed and with artist bio
Located in Chesterfield, MI
"Untitled" Mixed media piece by the artist KENT KALMAN PACHUTA. Mediums used include color pencil, graphite, pastel and powdered pigment on thick paper. The piece measures approximat...
Category
Late 20th Century Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
$260 Sale Price
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Mixed Media Modernist Painting Collage Nantucket Whirligig Americana Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953).
Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting
"Nantucket Still Life with Whirligig and Hydrangea"
depicting a mixed media still life colla...
Category
1990s American Modern Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
“Void (BDSM)” Contemporary Black Textured Impasto Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Black textured impasto painting by contemporary artist Paul Wiener. The work features a thick layer of intensely pigmented paint in which the viewer can ea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Skyward
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
"Villa Adrienne #17" Georges Noel, Constructivist, Architectural
By Georges Noel
Located in New York, NY
Georges Noel
Villa Adrienne #17, 1976
Graphite, pigment, sand, and vinyl binder on canvas
Signed to verso
76 3/4 x 51 inches
The Pace Gallery label to verso
With restless strokes ...
Category
1970s Assemblage Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl, Graphite, Pigment
$23,200 Sale Price
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725 CLE Series: Tank, Hopper w/Yellow Ladder.
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite, and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Ken Aptekar Contemporary Conceptual Judaica Art Drawing Go Study Chasidic Rabbis
By Ken Aptekar
Located in Surfside, FL
Ken Aptekar
American (b. 1950)
Go Know (Study)
1996
Graphite, white pigment, transparency film, and staples on paper
Hand signed lower right
sheet: 18 x 18 inches
frame dimensions: 21 x 21 x 1 3/4 inches, wood frame with acrylic glazing
Ken Aptekar is an artist who combines painting with text. He paints new versions of historical paintings and frames, bolting glass with sandblasted words to his painted panels. Aptekar’s work belongs to the tradition of painting, yet he brings to that tradition a recognition that paintings produce meaning only through their interaction with viewers. He investigates the nature of spectatorship. By “recreating” works of art in a painterly but utilitarian manner, Aptekar promotes viewers’ own narratives prompted by the image-text combinations.
Born in Detroit, Aptekar received his BFA at the University of Michigan, then moved to Brooklyn to complete an MFA at Pratt Institute. Most recently, his work was featured at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria, and in the Biennale Internationale d’Autun, in Autun, France. A major commissioned solo exhibition, NACHBARN (“NEIGHBORS”), 2016, was on view at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck, Germany, including paintings with text, silverpoint drawings, and video all based upon medieval altarpieces in the St. Annen Museum’s collection.
Previously, his work has been seen in solo exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), Centro da Cultura Judaica (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau (Brunoy, France), the New Museum (New York, NY), Douglas Cooley Gallery at Reed College (Portland, OR), Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State (State College, PA), Cummer Museum (Jacksonville, FL), and the Elaine Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). In 2012 Aptekar’s work was the subject of a survey exhibition, “Ken Aptekar: Look Again,” at the Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was in the show Words & Music
with John Giorno, Cheonae Kim...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Film, Graphite, Pigment
"She Knows It"- Colorful Abstract/Figurative Energetic Mixed Media Painting
By Ford Crull
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“It is terrifying to paint. When you start out, you are faced with this great unknown. And you think, am I ever going to paint again? Yet, as you work, it starts to formulate itself...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil, Graphite
"Withdrawn" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Mixed Media Sculptural Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Oil, Graphite, Wood, Found Objects
Ophelia # 5, hand painted, mixed media portrait photography on paper, framed
Located in Dallas, TX
This gorgeous artwork on paper was created initially with a screen print base of the model, then Rosie hand finishes the work with a unique splash and painted composition. Some call them Unique Prints. The base image is only used 12 times and this is the AP
Rosie Emerson, born in 1981, is a contemporary artist working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model, each solitary figure, an allegory of her own fantasy. Interested in surface, the interplay between photography and painting. Emerson’s works are playful constructs; Photography is used, not as a device for capturing reality but for creating romanticised optical illusions.
Inspired by her love of theatre, performance, shrines and rituals, she uses lighting, costume, set and prop making, alongside printmaking and painting to create other worldly one off pieces. Her photography is inspired by both the drama of the baroque, and ethereal qualities of Pre Raphaelite works. Other important influences include late medieval and renaissance paintings, Japanese prints, and magical realist literature.
Emerson’s screen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite, Screen
Mirrors of Apprehension Before the Fallen Sun, Abstract Drawing - Wesley Kimler
Located in Chicago, IL
Combining fractions of abstracted drawings into one, Kimler creates a whole new abstracted form. With expressive pours of black paint and brushwork in charcoal and graphite, Kimler's...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
Completing, Abstract Art, Figure, Oil, Graphite, Wood Panel, Blue, Black, Green
By Rose Umerlik
Located in Riverdale, NY
Completing by Rose Umerlik is an abstract painting, Oil and Graphite on wood panel, 49 x 36. This is part of a new 2022 series. According to Umerlik, " I became a mother this past ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Lakeside
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Mysterium
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Superbloom
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Ongoing
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
"Untitled" mixed media work by artist Jim Stella on gallery-wrapped canvas
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" mixed media artwork, including graphite, oil stick, acrylic paint, oil paint and oil pastels, on gallery-wrapped canvas by artist Jim Stella. Signed Jim Stella and dated 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Tulip: Summer Evening
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Conté, Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
Tulip: Summer Afternoon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Conté, Graphite, Pastel, Archival Paper
Cle Series: Lift w/Ladders.
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite, and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
MIRROR - Contemporary - Geometric Abstract w/ Repurposed Construction Material
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Mirror" is a site specific installation that was exhibited in the show "Dialects of Place(s) by Land Report Collective at COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. In this piece, Jobe uses industrial materials such as insulation foam, concrete, window screen, and graphite tracing paper to create a patterned structure that protrudes from the corner and carries the viewer's eye upward. At the bottom of the piece, we see delicately balanced concrete on top of pale blue insulation foam. The patterned concrete and insulation foam carries the viewer's eye upwards towards another pop of blue on top of the aluminum window screen frame. The screen gives the viewer a window in which to look through the piece. On one side, this mesh frames the graphite paper and on the other side the viewer can see the patterned concrete and insulation foam.
Review from "The Rib" about "Mirror"
One of the more surprising works here is Nashville-based Brian Jobe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Concrete
Heartthrob - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has dedicated her life to artistic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Cronus View from the Cave" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus View from the Cave, 1971
Graphite, Ink wash, Paper Collage on Paper on Board
25 x 33 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1970s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
VALDOTAVO
Located in Vancouver, CA
This powerful work on paper is a singular piece from the "Sum of Destructions" series by Bryan Ryley. This entire series of twelve works, along with a monumental painting of the same...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite
$2,320 Sale Price
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Pink Sun
By Peter Max
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media work by Peter Max. Max created studies for his lithographic work in order to figure out the exact composition and colors. This is one such study.
Max h...
Category
1980s Pop Art Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite, Lithograph
$3,500
Spring Petals 2
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Generous, Abstract, Oil, Graphite, Wood Panel, Yellow, Black, White
By Rose Umerlik
Located in Riverdale, NY
Generous by Rose Umerlik is an abstract painting, Oil and Graphite on wood panel, 48 x 36. This is part of a new 2022 series. According to Umerlik, " I became a mother this past ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Untitled (Linear Composition in Black Purple and Orange)
By Joan Snyder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Joan Snyder's early 1970s period is known as the best of her career, now an iconic period of time for feminist abstract painting of the era. This fully finished work on paper reads l...
Category
1970s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite
Costa
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Watercolor Leftovers
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kory Twaddle
"Watercolor Leftovers"
Watercolor on paper
Year: 2015
Size: 10 x 12 inches
COA provided
"I hope to use all the materials in my studio and waste nothing, so emptying out...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Graphite
Interval
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Figurative colorful Painting Mixed Media Wall Art for Sale Damespiel 1 by Skadi
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Figurative colorful Painting Mixed Media Wall Art for Sale - "Damespiel 1" by Skadi Engeln
Experience the charming and inviting world of "Damespiel 1," a lively painting that captiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Ink, Tempera, Graphite
"Untitled" mixed media work by artist Jim Stella on gallery-wrapped canvas
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" mixed media artwork, including graphite, oil stick, acrylic paint, oil paint and oil pastels, on gallery-wrapped canvas by artist Jim Stella. Signed Jim Stella and dated 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
The Long Way 10
Located in Crested Butte, CO
The Long Way 10 is part of the “Path to Eminence” series by Meghan Wilbar. During the pandemic, the uncertainty and isolation led Wilbar on a new series of work depicting the roads ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard, Graphite
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Graphite Mixed Media
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Graphite mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Graphite mixed media available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add mixed media created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, green and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Kory Twaddle, John Anderson, Kelsey Irvin, and Rose Umerlik. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Graphite mixed media, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available Prices for mixed media 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 $385,000, while the average work can sell for $2,229.
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