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Unique SIGNED Abstract Expressionist drawing major WPA artist, Estate issued COA
By William Baziotes
Located in New York, NY
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern ink drawing with Estate COA, ca. 1955
Ink Drawing on Paper
Signed lower right recto. Accompanied by letter of aut...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Josette Urso "Sea Chain" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Of her recent works, Urso states, "I make exploratory paintings, working in response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intu...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Iain Baxter& "Recovering Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with music record or disc 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 and Rodney Graham.
BAXTER& has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Europe including at the Guggenheim New York, The National Gallery of Canada & the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York & the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, BAXTER&’s work was compiled into a major retrospective IAIN BAXTER&: 1958--‐2011, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario & The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the F.R.A.C Art Museum in Bretagne, France, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, & the Tate Modern, London.
He is a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His work was included in the seminal Made of Plastic show that included Abe Ajay...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper I (1987)
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper I (1987)
Example of 1980s vintage Latin American School abstract expressionist art of a minimalist portrait by California-based La...
Category
1980s Post-War Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
Color Circle and Star, Marker on fabric print Hand signed (ed of only 20) Framed
By Polly Apfelbaum
Located in New York, NY
Polly Apfelbaum
Color Circle and Star, 2004
Fabric Marker and Fabric Dye on Velvet Cotton
Signed and dated in ink by the artist on the front with artist's inkstamp.
Frame Included
Si...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Dye, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laura...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Morris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing
By Morris Graves
Located in New York, NY
This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature.
Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laura...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Josette Urso "Nest" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso "Nest" Water Color on Paper
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Funny and Sad Faces, Surrealist Geometric Colorful Drawing, France 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exceptional original project drawing, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, is by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The original painting features a geometri...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Colophon 14, Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Willy Bo Richardson
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Josette Urso "Lake and Sky" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso
Lake and Sky, 2022
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 in.
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wounded Beast
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
By Elsie Driggs
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass..
Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch.
Career
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1]
Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5]
In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7]
After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
Category
1930s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled - Abstract 5, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Untitled - Abstract 5, Year: 1973, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed and dated l.r., Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm), Frame Size...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Monday Series 17
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Prison 14, Unique, signed, Graphite pencil and ink drawing on paper, Framed
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley
Prison 14, 1995
Graphite pencil and ink drawing on paper. Hand signed. Titled. Dated. Framed.
Hand signed on lower right front corner
Unique
Frame included
Unique earli...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Home to the Mailbox (Abstract, Biogram, Warm, Pastel, ~22% OFF - LIMITED TIME)
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kory Twaddle
Home to the Mailbox (Abstract, Biogram, Warm, Pastel)
Watercolor on Deckled Edge Watercolor Paper
Year: 2020
Size: 20 x 26 inches (50.08 x 66.04 cm)
Signed, titled and d...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Iain Baxter& "Containing Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with snow capped mountains 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 and Rodney Graham.
BAXTER& has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Europe including at the Guggenheim New York, The National Gallery of Canada & the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York & the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, BAXTER&’s work was compiled into a major retrospective IAIN BAXTER&: 1958--‐2011, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario & The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the F.R.A.C Art Museum in Bretagne, France, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, & the Tate Modern, London.
He is a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His work was included in the seminal Made of Plastic show that included Abe Ajay...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Histories (B44)
By Olivia Munroe
Located in Fairfield, CT
Beeswax, ink, metallic powder on vintage hand made paper.
Does not include framing.
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Wax, Handmade Paper
Bobine
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bobine" is a gouache and ink on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right "Calder 72".
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
$180,000
Geometric Abstraction (unique, signed graphite drawing gifted to fellow artist)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1990
Graphite and Ink
Signed in graphite pencil by Peter Halley; lower right front
Frame included: floated and framed in wood frame
U...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Lost Pets VII : Abstract artwork on paper
By Iliyan Ivanov
Located in New York, NY
Abstract artwork on paper by a Bulgarian/American artist Iliyan Ivanov.
Ivanov continues to treat color in a multilayered approach, introducing a wid...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"CDMX #5" Contemporary Figurative Painting by Brad Fisher, Watercolor on Paper
By Brad Fisher
Located in New York, NY
Represented by Tuleste Factory
CDMX #5
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 in
Shipping is not included. See our shipping policies. Please contact us for shipping quotes and customization ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Into the Sunset
By Andrei Petrov
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov is an American artist of Russian origins. He is best known for his abstract oil paintings where calibrated stratifications of intense shades of colors are scraped to ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Gamut - Graphite Wave Drawing on Canvas Undulating Line Waves Pattern, 2018
By Margaret Neill
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary artwork in graphite and acrylic on canvas with layered undulations in shades of gray on a white background, Margaret Neill investigates the properties of abstrac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
"THE WIND" Abstract Ink Painting 11" x 14" inch by Khoren Keshishyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"THE WIND" Abstract Ink Painting 11" x 14" inch by Khoren Keshishyan
Medium: Indian Ink on Board
Khoren Keshishyan is a celebrated American-Armenian painter and artist whose unique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
"Your Own Heart" unique signed, colleague of Warhol, Haring, Basquiat & Scharf
By Ronnie Cutrone
Located in New York, NY
Ronnie Cutrone
Your Own Heart, 1987
Watercolor and Silkscreen on Paper
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 7, with each work being unique.
40 × 30 inches
Fantastic vintage...
Category
1980s Street Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Screen
Does not see - line drawing figure with red gloves
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Part of the triptych “Does not see. Does not hear. Does not speak”. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 i...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wigwam rouge et jaune
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Wigwam rouge et jaune" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The unique work is signed in the lower right, “Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7)
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7), pencil, 1918. Signed and dated in pencil, bottom center. A fine, spon...
Category
1910s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Drain Vortex, Surrealist Mixed Media Drawing by Thom Cooney-Crawford
By Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) - Drain Vortex, Year: 2000, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Gold Leaf on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 30 x 41.25 in. ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Surrealist Drawings Geometric Colorist Project, France circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original project drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, are by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Sculpture Motives
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Henry Moore. "Sculpture Motives" is a semi-abstract, figurative drawing, ink, watercolor, and wax crayon on paper in beige, white, and black platte by British modern art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
$18,000 Sale Price
40% Off
Jamie Nares, Original flower monotype (unique, hand signed) Framed, de-accession
By James Nares
Located in New York, NY
James Nares
Untitled flower monotype, 1988
Monotype on hand made paper
Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front
Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monotype
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Landscape and Calligraphy on rice paper by Michael Pauker (American, 20th c).
Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner in red pencil, "V - 40 (artist's signature) 2007."
Mat Size: 10"H x 20"W
Paper Size: 5.63"H x 14.38"W
“I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957, and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989, he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY
2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper
Snowflakes 155 Awareness, Skull and Planets, Mandala Pencil Drawing
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
A meticulously rendered skull surrounded by intricate patterns and tiny planets is at the center of this mandala. This drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pencil and paper.
Fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Alchemy of Light, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jewel tones and translucent layers form mesmerizing organic shapes. Rippling textures and fluid movement generate a kaleidoscope of color and emotion, evoking a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Untitled', By Haley Prestifilippo, Graphite Drawing on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 7.75" x 7.75" graphite on paper framed drawing is by Haley Prestifilippo. This graphite work presents a striking contrast between detailed and abstract elements. In the upper le...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Abstract Work on Paper by Clay Johnson, Untitled (#725)
By Clay Johnson
Located in White Plains, NY
'Untitled (#725)' 2023 by American artist, Clay Johnson. Acrylic on Arches paper, 20 x 16 in. This colorful abstract painting features bands of colors in orange, red, pink, white, an...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Abstract Work on Paper by Clay Johnson, Untitled (#721)
By Clay Johnson
Located in White Plains, NY
'Untitled (#721)' 2023 by American artist, Clay Johnson. Acrylic on Arches paper, 20 x 16 in. This colorful abstract painting features bands of colors in red, yellow beige, white, an...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Spit Out All My Air", Abstract Painting and Drawing, Colorful, Black
By Jason Andrew Turner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This abstract painting and drawing titled "Spit Out All My Air" is an original artwork by Jason Andrew Turner made of sumi ink, gouache, and copic ink on paper. Incorporating techniq...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Sumi Ink, Gouache
Abstract vs. Figurative Portrait - Watercolor by Cuban Artist Alain Pino
By Alain Pino
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract vs. Figurative Neutral Original Watercolor by Cuban Artist Alain Pino
Pino’s new works continue his exploration on the intersection between identity and industrial design. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"the wind telling stories", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Ink, Botanicals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "the wind telling stories" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piece ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Monotype
Exhibition Poster, Conceptual Poster with Pen Drawing by Genichiro Inokuma
By Genichiro Inokuma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Genichiro Inokuma, Japanese (1902 - 1993) - Exhibition Poster, Year: 1968, Medium: Poster, with pen drawing, signed and dated in the plate, Size: ...
Category
1960s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Offset
Hesitation Blues (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Hesitation Blues, 1968. Ink on paper, sheet measures 13 x 23 inches; 14 x 18 inches in archival pH-neutral matting. Signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.
Provenance: Sheila Ayers-Whitelaw
Exhibition History: Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams, Woodmere Art Museum, 07/10/2021 - 10/24/2021
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
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MARK AND ADAMS RAMP
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"MARK AND ADAMS RAMP" is an original collage on canvas artwork by Jim Houser measuring 6" x 6".
Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currentl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Bauhaus Inspired Black & White Drawing "Composition #36" by Artist Paarshav Shah
Located in Chicago, IL
Bauhaus inspire, black and white, Abstract Geometric, architectural, deconstructionist drawing by Chicago artist and architect Paarshav Shah. Stamped signature P/S, lower right. art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bauhaus Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Chrysler Building No 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chrysler Building No 2 by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite
New York City 6 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
By Bernardo Navarro Tomas
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-306
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pastel
0118.14 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.14 (Abstract painting)
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty y...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Untitled 150901
By Ryan Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Untitled 150901" is an original acrylic on canvas painting by Ryan Beck measuring 26"h x 32"w.
Ryan Beck works in an abstract style that aims to link contemporary art sensibility w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spring (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from the...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Boat Scene
By Fairfield Porter
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper
work is unframed
Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso.
...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Caribbean Cruise Pool, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
By David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carribean Cruise Pool" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. The painting is abstract and brightly colored, featuring deep blues, b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Soul Flowers 61 The Plan, Spiral, Staircase, Black and White Flower Pattern
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
A surreal scene with spirals, floral shapes and meticulously rendered black and white patterns. This drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper.
Framed in a solid black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
Fragment (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from the...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Chamaecyparis Eureka - Original Black and White Abstract Calligraphy Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
New York artist Thomas Hammer is known for his motion filled ink works on paper. The physical process of creating his ink paintings involves a degree of performance. The brushwork re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Lost Pets XV : Abstract artwork on paper
By Iliyan Ivanov
Located in New York, NY
Abstract artwork on paper by a Bulgarian/American artist Iliyan Ivanov.
Ivanov continues to treat color in a multilayered approach, introducing a wid...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
