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Factory XIV: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
"Glimpse of the Party, " Oil Pastel on Board signed on Back by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Glimpse of the Party" is an original oil pastel drawing on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstract marks on a blue background. Some a...
Category
1990s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
1980s "Olive Green and Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Olive Green and Black"
1980s
19.75"x12.5"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Green Roses - abstract nature inspired minimal collage of clay on paper
Located in New York, NY
The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Clay, Polymer
Sleeping Female Nude
By Nathan Oliveira
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Oliveira's "Female Sleeping Nude" is a captivating artwork that elegantly combines style, technique, and layered interpretation, offering a rich and multifaceted experience to...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
1967 "Abstract 3 Blue and Purple" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
By Michael Knigin
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 3 Blue and Purple
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1980's Cubist "Yellow, Blue, Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Yellow,Blue, Black"
1980s
12.75"x10" period frame 17.75"x16.75
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Connecticut Summer Fragments
By Lee Hall
Located in New York, NY
Lee Hall (1934-), Connecticut Summer Fragments, a portfolio of watercolor, 29 in all, each about 5 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches, on hand made paper attached to a backing, i...
Category
1970s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Signatures II, Minimalist Mixed Media Painting by Robyn Denny
By Robyn Denny
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting on paper by British Modern artist Robyn Denny. It is signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Framed to 44 x 32 inches.
Category
1980s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Chalk
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 12, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Test Pattern 6 (Grey study)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Abstract Cityscape Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract cityscape watercolor with loosely defined landscape elements and geometric shapes by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 19...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
black and white abstract expressionist
By Michael Loew
Located in Greenwich, CT
This sensitively rendered though powerful ink on paper was created in 1946 shortly after Loew returned from active duty where he served at the US Naval airbase on Tinian Island, the ...
Category
1940s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Color pencil, ink pen and Chinese ink on wooden panel
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel, Color Pencil
Untitled
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Paul Jenkins Untitled, 1971 conveys a strong sense of movement through a bold central composition dominated by shades of yellow, purple and black...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Building VI: modernist city architecture collage on monoprint in red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Abstract Expressionist Gestural Oil Pastel Drawing Women Figures Anthony Triano
Located in Surfside, FL
Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms, espe...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
1967 "Abstract 1 Orange and Yellow" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
By Michael Knigin
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 1 Orange and Yellow
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Woodblock Political Poster Mel King
By Katherine Porter
Located in Surfside, FL
This is original watercolor over a limited edition woodcut political poster. hand signed, dated and numbered. it bears similarity to works by Alexander Calder. Employing a star and abstract design.
Katherine Porter is an American artist born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1941. She received her BA from Colorado College in 1963. Katherine Porter received an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She has shown twice in the Whitney Biennial and solo exhibitions at the Knoedler Gallery in London, the Nina Nielsen Gallery in Boston, and the Andre Emmerich and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Tel Aviv Museum and Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem. (Katherine Page Porter, Katherine Pavlis Porter)
Her exhibitions include biennials in 1976 and 1981 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; 1981, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 1985, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and 1987 at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City. Classic Americana. American Abstract Expressionism. Early Pattern and Decoration piece, The movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis
Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch all worked in this same vein.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Knoedler Gallery, London
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Pace Gallery, Addison, ME
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (drawings)
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
From the Collection of Edward Broida, Palm Beach Art Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Abstraction Per Se (through January 1993), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
Painting Self-Evident (Curator), Picolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Art on Paper 1990, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina,
Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal;
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona; Casa Revilla, Valladolid, Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Atelier Project, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY
Landscape Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Rethinking the Avant-Garde, by Jonathan Fineberg, The Katonah Gallery, NY Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
Group Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Modern Expressionist: German, Italian, & American Painters, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY
American Women Artists, Part II: Younger Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY
Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin-Adams Gallery, NY
Hassam Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New York Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Homage to Arthur Dove, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Twenty New York Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Abstract Painting, Women’s Caucus, NY
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Spoleto Choice, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
From Women’s Eyes, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Theodoran, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Three If By Air, Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
Betty Parsons Collection, Finch College, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Achenbach Foundation), San Francisco, CA
Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gemeentsmuseum of the Hague, The Hague, Netherlands (permanent installation)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Untitled (magenta and orange)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Cosmic Lavender Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A softly colored watercolor abstract in lavender, blue and green by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned. From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Califo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing "
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3"x3" silver wood frame 9.75"x10.75"
Unsigned came from artist's ...
Category
1990s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
"Portico I" Sonia Gechtoff, Shades of Blue Abstract Composition on Paper
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
Portico I, 1979
Signed, dated, and inscribed
Acrylic and pencil on paper
40 x 40 inches
Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel "Etya" and Leonid Gechtoff. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Untitled
By Charles Houghton Howard
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', C. 1997 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Organic Geometry (Spectrum I) (Abstract Painting)
By Michael Barringer
Located in London, GB
Organic Geometry (Spectrum I) (Abstract Painting)
Mixed media on paper - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
In this series, Michael Barringer wants to make deeply felt, poet...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Poptic 22.03 - Flower Mandala Fuchsia Pink Yellow Lavender Purple Navy Blue 2020
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 22.02 is a predominately vibrant fuchsia pink, yellow an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
The Rainbow Pipe - Fauvist Portrait and Interior in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
The Rainbow Pipe - Fauvist Portrait and Interior in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). A blue-faced figure on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Crescent Rose" Mixed Media Handmade Paper Watercolor Abstract by Bruce Weinberg
By Bruce Weinberg
Located in Soquel, CA
"Crescent Rose" Mixed Media Handmade Paper Watercolor Abstract by Bruce Weinberg
Soft lavenders, magentas and gray tones highlighted with purple thread and sheets of gold leaf mingle to create a soft and lovely abstract on handmade paper by California artist Bruce Weinberg (American, 1942-1994). Image is floated on a silk background.
Pencil signed and dated "Bruce Weinberg 1980" lower right.
Pencil signed title "Crescent Rose" lower left.
Displayed in a giltwood frame with spacer.
Image size: 24"H x 35"L.
Framed size: 31"H x 43"W x 2"D.
Bruce Weinberg was a long time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied Interior Design at the Philadelphia College of Art and Architectural Space Planning at Temple University. During the 1970s he studied printmaking and drawing at San Francisco's Fort Mason...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper
Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
David Kimball Anderson Large Oil Stick Pastel Abstract Flowers Drawing
By David Kimball Anderson
Located in Surfside, FL
Large bright vivid drawing done in oil crayon or oil pastel. Abstract floral drawing.
David Kimball Anderson’s work is bold and graceful, respectful and spiritual. A practicing Bud...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel
Breakfast at Night - Abstract Spray Paint and Fiber on Paper, Black and Purple
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Yarn, Ink, Watercolor
Modern Orange, Brown, Yellow, and Black Geometric Abstract Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern orange, brown, yellow, and black geometric abstract composition by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 35.5 in. x W 33.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"#227 – I WAS AFRAID", ink, pencil, gouache, found book, poetry, coronavirus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#227 – I WAS AFRAID" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto pages of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper. Unframed.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet comple...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Neon II, Line Drawing. Abstract Works on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Clemens Wolf declares himself a champion of sensuality: 'I'm really interested in the process of transforming something trivial into a sensual object. The guided coincidence plays a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Paper
CURIOUS PHENOMENA Signed Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag, Abstract Landscape, Green
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Union City, NJ
CURIOUS PHENOMENA is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Rhythm Hut #20: framed abstract ink painting on art paper in red & black w/ moon
By Antonio Puri
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a framed mixed media ink painting (sumi inks, India inks, and walnut inks) on paper in red, black, and earth tones. It is framed in a contemporary white wood shadowbox frame. Organizing the composition is a moon motif. This series was created by Antonio Puri during an artist's residency in Australia. Can be displayed in any orientation. This piece works especially well when paired with "Rhythm Hut #17", listed separately.
Antonio Puri was born in Chandigarh, Punjab, India and raised in the Himalayas around Buddhist monks before studying at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Coe College, and the University of Iowa. He established his studio in Philadelphia where he practiced for many years before relocating to Bogotá, Colombia. During this time, Puri completed several artist residencies all over the world, including in New York, Hungary, Bulgaria, Colombia, South Africa, Serbia, Mauritius, India, Denmark, Trinidad and Tobago, and Romania. Puri’s range of geographical and cultural experiences are embedded in his work, where he commonly explores the relationships between his eastern and western cultural connections.
Puri has exhibited his work all over the world, including at the Museo de Arte del Tolima in Colombia; Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore; Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, India; Art Depot, Austria; La Cometa Gallery, Bogota; Museo Casa Conde Rul, Mexico; The Guild, NY; Nu Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Sumi Ink, India Ink
T #8- 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 Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 7, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The drawings in this series are from photos of marine accidents, and made of thread, knots, and vellum. All were completed in 2019.
At sea, stacks of containers topple from a load...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
By Joanne Freeman
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Escape, mixed media on wood panel, abstraction, space, 84" x 60"
Located in New York, NY
Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Italy Goes to War
By Arthur Dove
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
An American Place, New York;
World House Galleries, New York, 1953;
Private collection, New York;
Betty Krulik Fine Art, 2007;
Avery Galleries until present
Exhibitions
An American Place, New York, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings...
Category
1940s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Colorful Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A bright, colorful watercolor abstract by by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Califo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
P4.13 (Abstract painting)
By Jean Feinberg
Located in London, GB
Gouache on Japanese paper. Unframed.
This gouache paint on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored papers that are in piles all over ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Rainbow Abstract', San Francisco Bay Area, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hourian Hamid' (Iranian-American, 20th century) and dated 1985.
A large, flowing abstract by the brother of the artist, Mohammed Hourian.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, found text, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 56 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Mid Century "Red at Top" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract Bay Area Female Artist
By Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Red at Top Abstract
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x32" unframed
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from a portfolio of her work ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture, C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Harbor Party, Modern Gouache by John von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Long Island City, NY
Harbor Party by John von Wicht, German (1888–1970)
Date: circa 1965
Gouache and Pastel on Japon, signed in pencil lower right
Size: 15.5 x 23 in. (39.37 x 58.42 cm)
Frame Size: 22 x ...
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Einstein's Ring
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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Biomorphic Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Flowing, organic abstract by Unger (20th Century). Several biomorphic shapes are flowing around each other, rendered in high-contrast shading.
Signed and dated "Unger, 1975" on vers...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Postcard
Flat Top Mountain - Abstract Geometric Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous burst of blue behind a flat top mountain with splashes of orange in this abstract geometric landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed and dated lower right "Erle...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
"Codicis Liber", Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition of stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2009. Titled "Codicis Liber", which is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Iain Baxter& "Alpine Skiing Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with Alpine Skiing and furniture armoire in bright vibrant colors.
Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, he formed the N.E. Thing Company. NETCO output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed still lives to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology.)
He is a painter, photographer, sculptor, mixed media artist, installationist, film & video maker, interventionist & performance artist who has been a forerunner of conceptual art in Canada. BAXTER& has been considered the Marshall McLuhan of Visual Arts in Canada. Continuous themes in his work include information technology, landscape, art as commodity, & environmental & ecological concerns. These prominent themes throughout BAXTER&‘s work are often met with wit, parody, satire & word-play. Through his art, teaching, and mentorship, BAXTER& has widely influenced Canadian art, creating new movements such as the Vancouver School of Photo-conceptualism and blurring the lines between private and public through his N.E. Thing Co. among many other impactful projects. He has also directly influenced major Canadian artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, Ken Lum...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Untitled #5
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #5" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 22 x 17 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Carol Diehl, Alexandrinus, 2011, powder pastel on Masonite, 9x12 in, Abstract
By Carol Diehl
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to present works by Carol Diehl as our Flat File Feature Artist.
Opening each drawer in the cabinet presents one in a series of pastel drawings that the artist beg...
Category
2010s Suprematist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Lotus, Drawing 2015
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
