Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

American, b. 1978

Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders is best known for her compelling watercolors and oil paintings that are based on found photographs she has collected from family estates over the years. Greenfield-Sanders works with digital media and oils to create paintings and prints that explore American suburban life or families at leisure by way of nostalgia's hazy and often unreliable lens.

Born in New York City, Greenfield-Sanders's upbringing primed her for being an artist. Her mother was a lawyer and her father is Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, a prominent New York City photographer — and her grandparents were all musicians or visual artists. Growing up in the East Village, Greenfield-Sanders experienced a life immersed in the creative culture of the area.

In 2000, Greenfield-Sanders graduated from Brown University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in both visual art and mathematics. In that same year, she had her inaugural solo exhibition at the Memories Galleria in Turin, Italy. Greenfield-Sanders has since shown her work in countless group and solo exhibits around the world — including Stockholm, New York City, London, Munich and San Francisco, to name a few. In 2003, she married artist Sebastian Blanck, and iconic American musician Lou Reed officiated the wedding.

Greenfield-Sanders has made a prominent name for herself over her career. Her work is held in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, among many others. Greenfield-Sanders continues to create imaginative and contemplative pieces in her studio in New York City.

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Artist: Isca Greenfield-Sanders

The View

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
The View, 2017

Sun Bather

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Sun Bather, 2018

Sandy Beach

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Sandy Beach, 2018

Rock Climbers

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Rock Climbers, 2017

Rock Cliff (Pink Sweater)

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Rock Cliff (Pink Sweater), 2017

No Name (Beach Legs)

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
No Name (Beach Legs), 2018

Bathers

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own. Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints...

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Bathers, 2018

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Lee Hurst (3/4 Figure, Hands Together), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2011

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Freya (Seated Backwards), Mixed media on grey board

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Other Medium, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Pen, Felt Pen, Permanent M...

Howard Tangye
Freya (Seated Backwards), Mixed media on grey board, 2017

H 33.08 in W 23.23 in

Poppies & Tulips, Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Poppies & Tulips, Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2019

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Flowers (A Bunch), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Flowers (A Bunch), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2019

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Sweet Peas (Bunched), Mixed media on Pergameneta parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Sweet Peas (Bunched), Mixed media on Pergameneta parchment, 2020

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Oleg (Kimono), Mixed media on ochre parchment paper

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Oleg (Kimono), Mixed media on ochre parchment paper, 2019

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Natasha (Sitting), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Womenswear. There, he tutored many contemporary greats, including John Galliano, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, Wes Gordon, Zac Posen and Hussein Chalayan. Examples of Tangye’s portraits are held in many important collections, both public and private, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Harvard University and London’s National Portrait Gallery. Throughout his teaching career Tangye quietly developed a particularly idiosyncratic art practice. By employing a decisive line with bold applications of richly layered materials, Tangye explores the nuances of the human form in an effort to expose his subjects’ true essence and energy. — Howard Tangye Natasha (Sitting), 2012 Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment 100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.55 in) (signed) (unframed) — This portrait shows Natasha, an ex-student and model. Here she’s posed in Howard’s studio wearing a look from Louise Gray’s S/S 2013 collection. The collection featured headwear by Stephen Jones, the renowned British milliner who created the cut-out plexiglass fascinator Natasha wears here. This work hails from a series commissioned by Dan Thawley, director of “A Magazine Curated By” for the edition guest edition by Jones who dedicated his issue to Anna Piaggi...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gesso, Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayo...

Howard Tangye
Natasha (Sitting), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2012

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Oscar (Sitting, Half Figure), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Oscar (Sitting, Half Figure), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2015-17

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Emma (Seated - Dior Couture, Pink & Yellow), Mixed media on Pergamenata paper

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, includi...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Emma (Seated - Dior Couture, Pink & Yellow), Mixed media on Pergamenata paper , 2004

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Ben Waters (Seated, Hand Holding), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gesso, Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil ...

Howard Tangye
Ben Waters (Seated, Hand Holding), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2016-2017

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Giorgio (Two figures, pink & blue), Mixed media on Pergameneta parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

Category

2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
Giorgio (Two figures, pink & blue), Mixed media on Pergameneta parchment, 2020

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

George (Sitting - Black, White and Grey), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

Category

2010s Contemporary Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...

Howard Tangye
George (Sitting - Black, White and Grey), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment, 2012

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in

Previously Available Items

Party Boat

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

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Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Party Boat, 2013

H 14 in W 14 in

Tree Tunnel

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

Featured painting in Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Inherited Landscape.

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2010s Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Tree Tunnel , 2018

H 14 in W 14 in

Cloud Beach (Blue)

By Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Located in San Francisco, CA

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Isca Greenfield-Sanders Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Cloud Beach (Blue), 2005

H 8 in W 8 in

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