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Situation XXVIII
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) took inspiration from the margins of society throughout his career. He coined the term "art brut," and pursued artistic authenticity outside of established ...
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled (Abstract)
By Anthony Caro
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Anthony Caro (1924-2013) was an influential and innovative British sculptor. Caro played a pivotal role in the development of twentieth-century sculpture introducing abstraction thro...
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1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bicep
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed by he...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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Athens
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$16,250
Affinities
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled - Blush
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Angular Rhythm
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled - Marten
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Blue Motion
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$16,250
Breeze (Fire Island)
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Woman in a Tantrum
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed for many years by her ex-husband, the acclaimed sculptor David Smith. Stifled by their tumultuous relationship, Dehner only fully committed to her practice after divorcing him in 1951. This break was highly fruitful for her artistic output and reputation in the following years.
After the divorce, Dehner refined her artistic voice and expanded her practice to include printmaking and sculpture. Her new-found independence and renewed ambition led to a pivotal relationship with the esteemed printmaking studio Atelier 17. Working there she formed a close and enduring friendship with Louise Nevelson.
Today Dehner has been re-embraced and repositioned in the American art canon. Her work is best understood and appreciated in the context of not only David Smith but other artists dedicated to sculpture including Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, and of course Louise Nevelson.
This energetic and hypnotic work on paper is somewhat of a departure from Denher's structured and intricate approach. Bold, frenetic strokes of ink loop chaotically across the surface, revelling in a sense of fluid dynamism that is in contrast with the artist's architectural arrangements.
While it is notably looser and bolder then some of the drawings we expect from this era, we find the artist creating forms that are a harbinger of the muscular sculpture she would create in the following decade. Click here to see an example of a bronze sculpture from 1966 sold at Wright auction house...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Disappointment on Sunday
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic contributions, Dehner'...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pre-eminent figure of postwar American art and one of the most important artists (and instructors) of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigr...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$16,600 Sale Price
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Untitled
By Magdalena Abakanowicz
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) was an acclaimed Polish artist, best known for her powerful sculptures and large-scale installations, often crafted from fiber-based materials such ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Carroll Dunham
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is a contemporary American artist best known for his distinctive fusion of abstraction and figuration. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s in New York C...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Larry Zox "Mosaic" Drawing, 1966
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Paris Suite (Autumn)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters that radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City.
Today, his work appears in museum collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. His auction record was set in 2018 at $12.6 million USD.
In addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as one of the most innovative and prolific printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques, whether at his own printmaking atelier, or collaborating with others, to expand his ideas and express his aesthetic.
Created in 1980, "Paris Suite...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Larry Zox "Rotation"
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century. He played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Larry Zox "Edmonton"
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century. He played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Larry Zox "Meta Center" Drawing, 1965
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Larry Zox "Minus" Drawing
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Larry Zox "Teal Top" Drawing, 1966
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went on to work under the tutelage of modernist Georg Grosz at the Des Moines Art Centre. Zox moved to New York City and established his reputation by the mid 1960's. His studio was located on 20th Street and he was surrounded and inspired by a melting pot of jazz artists, bikers, and boxers.
Zox was one of the most successful practitioners of hard-edge or geometric abstraction and not surprisingly was championed by Frank Stella, amongst others.
By the mid 1960's, Zox arrived at his most recognized style, utilizing hard-edge shapes in bold colors to create geometric patterns, which were often realized on raw canvas.
Zox's hard-edge geometric creations from the late 1960's and early 1970's are arguably the most recognizable works from his oeuvre. Fittingly he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1973, that focused on such work. Today, numerous museums including the Whitney, the MoMA, the Tate and the Metropolitan all have examples of his work from this era in their permanent collections.
While Zox is not directly associated with the Op Art movement, many of his works by nature of their patterns and colors create visual illusions in dimensionality. In "Mosaic" the kelly green band that intersect the composition helps give the overall work an appearance of a slanted stair.
Frequently the artist seems to be inviting the viewer to find pattern within the work. In "Mosaic" we have both areas of synergy and dissonance. Can you find them?
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Teal Top...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Larry Zox "Black Push" Drawing, 1965
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$2,625 Sale Price
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Larry Zox "Untitled (Push)" Drawing
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Okla...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Larry Zox "Diamond Drill Series" Drawing
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklaho...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
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