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Riverwash
By Anne Popperwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Riverwash" 1985 is an original watercolor on Arches watermarked paper by noted American artist Anne Popperwell, born 1948. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 22 x 30 inches, framed is 28.25 x 36.25 inches. It is custom framed in a metal bronze color frame. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Anne Popperwell was born in Oakland, California, in 1948 and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1968-1970 with a major in painting and a minor in photography. She has been painting and exhibiting her work in both private and public galleries, primarily in Canada, since 1981. She paints in watercolour on paper and acrylic on canvas, though not exclusively, using nature-based imagery. Shortly after her arrival in Canada in 1976, Anne moved to an island off the West Coast to paint a particular landscape, the eroded sandstone shoreline. In the course of this eight-year series of paintings, she experimented with point of view, scale and colour, developing a method of working that creates the effect of light coming from within the subject itself. Her paintings are included in private, corporate and public collections in Canada and in private collections in the United States, Mexico and Europe.
Solo Exhibitions:
2016 "Shades of Saturna", Artlink Canada, Jaydon Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009 “Beauty” Casa Dahlia Galeria, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
2008 “Tropical Flowers” Casa Dahlia Galeria, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
996- "Why Don't You Just Leave?" paintings and video installation
1998 tour to 11 British Columbia regional galleries,
originating at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia
1993 Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1991 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1990 Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1986 Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
Thomas Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1984 Grace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winchester Galleries, Victoria, British Columbia
1982 Kyle's Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1981 Kyle's Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbi1980 Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2014 Insight Art Gallery, Galiano, B.C
2012 The Field Gallery, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
2002 “European Media Arts Festival”, Osnabruck, Germany
1997 “Open House”, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1994 "Spring Run", Baux-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1994-1996 Government House, Victoria, B.C.
1992 "Hanging Gardens", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1990 "Bumbershoot Festival 1990", Seattle, Washington
1986 "Images B.C." The British Columbia Pavilion, Expo 86
Vancouver, British Columbia
1985 "Hot Water Colour", Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario
"B.C. Women Artists"
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
1983 "National Watercolour Exhibition"
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1981 “Painter’s Day”, Kyle’s Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Public Collections
British Columbia Art Collection, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Maltwood Art Museum, Victoria, British Columbia
City of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia
Esso Resources Canada, Ltd., Calgary, Alberta
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Grants and Awards
1995 British Columbia Cultural Services Branch grant
1973 City of Vancouver Purchase Grant
Exhibition Reviews, Catalogues and Articles
"A Sense of Place", Aqua magazine, Salt Spring Island, B.C. (Summer 2014) illus.
“Why Don’t You Just Leave?”, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (April, 1996) illus.
Cover, Preview Magazine, Vancouver, B.C., (May/June 1990)
Waterman, Jennifer A. “Planetary Visions, Sacred Images of the Earth” Herizons, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Volume 4 #8, December, 1986) p. 44, illus.
“B.C. Women Artists”,Exhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (October, 1985) illus.
Orford, Emily Jane, “Anne Popperwell’s Intimate Earth”, Victoria Times-Colonist, Victoria, B.C. (October 7, 1984) p. 8
Hartog, Diana, “Body Landscapes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Dark N Stormy, " Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a dark blue palette and washy layers of paint. "In this deep blue piece," the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
Jo Yarrington, Raging Women Behind The Veil, 2020, Mixed Media
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Thread, Found Objects
Gold with Quadrants
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors into dime sized triangular cut outs and then affixing them to a wooden panel. Artist Irene Zweig rearranges the media into a new and unique design, where the eye interprets the original message as subliminal; with the components of it still present, and the result is one of contemplative balance and harmony. Fine art, science and mathematics blend in Zweig's intellectually curious and aesthetically sound works that beautifully relate to other eclectic works.
'Gold with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Untitled #2", Abstract Geometric Vertical Pastel with Purple & Green
By Renee Harwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract composition with sweeping purple and green pastel tones in organic flowing forms, by Renee Harwin (Austrian, b. 1924). Tag on verso with name, date, title, and dimensions. Presented in a white plexiglass frame with plexiglass covering. Image size: 31.75"H x 44.5"W
As a young Viennese woman, Renee Harwin found her artistic development interrupted by Hitler's arrival to her city. Soon after, Renee and her family left and moved to the United States. Harwin says that while "one can drawn his or her own conclusions from my work, I believe that the tremendous impact of change from Nazism to free America has left deep impressions on me that are played out on these canvases."
Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and San Francisco Art Institute instructor Jack...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstracted Still Life with Flowers
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted still life by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No frame. Image size: 20"H x 14"W.
L...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Geometric Color Grid - Op Art Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly precise op-art composition by an unknown artist. A grid of colored squares has been created with various colors, divided by occasional diagonal lines that give the feel of ove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Study for TH" Diana Kurz, Mid-Century Push And Pull Abstract Expressionist Work
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Study for TH
Pastel and gouache on paper
21 1/2 x 20 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Karen Schiff, Word Snake, 2014, Watercolor, Rag Paper, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Graphite
Remembering Florida. Unique signed abstract mixed media painting on paper Framed
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Remembering Florida, 1992
Oil Stick, Enamel on Handmade Paper (Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati label verso of frame)
Signed on the back
29 × 43 1/2 × 1 inches
Unframed
This is an abstract, mixed media work by David Humphrey. It has a "Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati" label on the verso.
In a vintage mahogany box...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
(Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape) Untitled
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"nothing more, nothing less 2 of 6" - earth pigment, texture, marble, soft
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Book of Bats
By Jim Holyoak
Located in Santa Monica, CA
India Ink
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Untitled, Watercolor on Paper Painting, 2005
By David Klamen
Located in Orange, CA
Untitled, Watercolor on Paper Painting, 2005
Additional information:
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
About artist: David Klamen (Ame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bourrée Fantasque #9 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on 'Étoile'
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #9", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Colorful Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with bold, dynamic colors by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unsigned and unframed. ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Annual Rings SC
Located in New York, NY
Jean Shin
Annual Rings SC, 2015
Graphite Rubbing on Rice Paper
Signed in graphite on the front
8 × 11 inches
Unframed
This poignant graphite rubbing on rice pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Graphite
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama I - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama I - 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, "XXVII - 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
Uncounscious Desire
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper -
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Signs are for him an intermediary between abstraction and writing. He started painting 32 years ago, at the age of 26, as an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Personne Suite No. 1
By Dorothea Tanning
Located in Columbia, MO
Dorothea Tanning (American, 1910–2012)
Initially associated with the Surrealist movement, Dorothea Tanning developed a personal visual language that blurred the boundaries between r...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Study after Big Bang
By Carroll Dunham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Carroll Dunham (1949 - )
Title: Study after Big Bang
Date: 2016
Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated upper left
Size: 18.25 x 13.87 in. (46.36 x 35.23 cm)
Frame Size: 27...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Lines 4 - abstract geometric bright blue ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white and colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
'Abstract Composition', New York Jewish Museum, ASL, Woman Artist, Smithsonian
By Beth Ames Swartz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' (American, born 1936) and dated 1967.
Primarily working in the idioms of abstraction and semi-abstraction, Beth's paintings and mixed-media works are commonly informed by philosophical and spiritual concepts shared by people of different cultural worldviews, and incorporate both symbols and words in the vocabulary of their visual language.
Her art practice has been guided by aesthetic philosophies including Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and inspired by various religious and philosophical systems including Native American Healing practices, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christianity in order to facilitate communication with viewers on both the conscious and unconscious level. Swartz synthesizes these spiritual traditions in her work with the purpose of revealing the commonality between them.
Beth was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, and by her mid-teens was studying at the Art Students League in New York in the late 1940s. Her education continued at The High School of Music & Art in New York City, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master of Arts degree in 1959 from New York University.
Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York. In addition, she participated in three major traveling museum exhibitions and her work is held in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press.
Swartz explores systems of knowledge by translating philosophical concepts into aesthetic visual experiences.
Fellowships, Awards, Grants and Honors:
New York, NY - 2003
Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor
Phoenix, AZ - 2001
Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer.
Snowmass Village, CO - 2000
Anderson Ranch, Artist in Residence
Phoenix, AZ - 1994
Founder, Culture Care , an international, non-profit organization sponsoring The Sacred Souls Project, to identify, support and honor individuals who demonstrate positive human societal values
New York, NY - 1994
Awarded Flow Fund grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit
New York, NY - 1994
Panelist, College Art Association, Art, Earth and Medicine: A Healing Approach
New York, NY - 1993
Panelist, The Sacred in the Arts Conference
New York, NY - 1992
Speaker, MedArts Conference, Research Study on A Moving Point of Balance
Stinson Beach, CA - 1991
Speaker, Symposium, Art as a Healing Force
New Harmony, IN - 1990
Keynote Speaker, Art and Healing Conference
Phoenix, AZ - 1988
Co-Founder, International Friends of Transformative Art (IFTA), an international, non-profit organization for positive global change
Payson, AZ - 1988, '87
Project Coordinator, Rim Institute, Transformative Artist's Conference and Workshop
Phoenix, AZ - 1985
Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create
Sun Valley, ID - 1980
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Artist in Residence, The Awesome Space: The Inner and Outer Landscape
Hawaii National Park, HI - 1979
Volcano Art Center, Artist in Residence
Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77
Named Master Teacher by State Department of Public Instruction
Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77
Educational Grant for Inquiry Into Fire, Arizona Commission on Arts and Humanities
Selected Bibliography and Reference:
Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.2468; Arizona/Women '75 (exhibition catalogue). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Art Museum, 1975; Baigell, Matthew. "Art and Spirit: Kabbalah and Jewish-American Artists." Tikkun vol. 14, no.4, (July-August 1999): 59-61 (illus. in b&w of Shen Qi Series: the Cabalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds #5); Beth Ames Swartz, Inquiry Into Fire (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Introduction by Melinda Wortz; Beth Ames Swartz, 1982-1988: A Moving Point of Balance (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Introduction by John Perreault; Biennial 1979 (exhibition catalog). Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, March 9-April 8, 1979, 35-37, 64 (illus. in color Sedona, #23; illus. in b&w, Torah Scroll, #5); Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1994. Introduction by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, and Sara Rehm Roberts; Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion." ARTnews vol. 90, no. 6 (summer 1991): 96-105; The First Western States Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Denver: Western States Art Foundation, 1979. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor (with illus. in color of Torah Scroll #4); Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. Thames and Hudson: New York, 1991, 155-57; Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 245-46; 248; Henderson, Barbara. "Beth Ames Swartz," A Magazine of Fine Arts vol. 2, no. 15 (April 1976): 34-41; Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981: 40 pp. Introduction by Harry Rand...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, India Ink
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper - Unframed
This work (unframed) incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuition-based and planned execution.
Ba...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Pylons - textural pastel color abstract painting on paper street art inspired
By David Fredrik Moussallem
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape. His palette is soft, mainly using white, beige an...
Category
2010s Street Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Little Sister - Mixed Media Abstraction with Yellow and Green
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Little Sister," is a contemporary mixed media abstraction by artist Vivian Liddell. In this piece she works with mixed media and text to create her comp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Spray Paint, Monotype, Textile
Polarity #3 - unique, signed watercolor on paper abstract geometric color field
By Jay Rosenblum
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #3, 1981
Acrylic on paper
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Signed and titled in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on paper by ren...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Yaddo A (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Yaddo A (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Watercolour on 100% rag hot press paper. Unframed.
Melissa Meyer is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her energetic, colorful c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modern Abstract Neutral-Toned Watercolor Landscape of a Spacious House
By Bertha Davis
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract watercolor drawing of a house by Texas artist Bertha Davis. The work features a loosely rendered neutral-toned depiction of a spacio...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstracted Cubist Cat Portrait in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abstracted figure is depicted as having a cat-like eye and sharp teeth, but the exact fea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Cracked
Located in Columbia, MO
JENNIFER VIVIANO
Cracked
2018
Chalk pastel and graphite on paper
8 x 22 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Graphite
Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Spanish Surrealist Drawing 3 Artists
By Xisco Mensua
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: This piece was deaccessioned from the Bass museum in Miami Beach florida.
This piece is a good museum example of Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis), A method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. This example is by Manuel Saez, Xisco Mensua and Guillermo Paneque.
Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. The technique was invented by surrealists. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, and Paul and Nusch Éluard. Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.
Manuel Sáez (born 6 March 1961) is a Spanish, self-taught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia.
The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana describes Manuel Sáez as among the most important painters of the turn of the 21st century owing to his simultaneously sensual and psychological approach to the world of objects, landscapes, figures and portraits.
As a resident fellow of the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1990, Sáez elaborated a series of portraits called Biografia no autorizada In 1991 Sáez held his first important show at the Fundació La Caixa. in Valencia In 1996 he presented his first retrospective, Colección Exclusiva 1984-1995, in the Club Diario Levante of Valencia, as well as the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts, the Salas Verónicas of Murcia, the Castellón Delegation and the Brocense of Cáceres. In 2000 Sáez exhibited in Mexico City's Museo Rufino Tamayo and in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) in Valencia. In 2008 Sáez's work could be seen at the Sala Parpalló in Valencia.
In 2003-04, Dispersions was exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. In 2007, Sáez's work is featured in the Valencian Institute of Modern Art's (IVAM) El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM ("Pop Art in the IVAM Collection") in Valencia.[12]
Xisco Mensua
Initially studied at Escuelas Virtèlia, but followed an atypical school career due to illness. Began to paint in 1978. Took a course in painting at the Escola d’Arts i Oficis (Valencia), where he had lived since the age of eight. Lived in Barcelona from 1982 to 1987, studying art at the Escola Eina for the first two years. Returned to Valencia and began exhibiting in 1990. Produced works in co-operation with Fernando Ros and Mim Juncà, as well as designing stage sets for the theatre. Now forms part of the Jacques Moran collective. Through drawing, Mensua creates a fictional world in an exercise in which he transfigures common references, whether intimate or biographic, political or social.
Guillermo Paneque
Seville, 1963 Spanish painter.
He completed his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, Director and founder, along with Rafael Agredano and José Espaliú, of the magazine Figura in 1984. It is in the mid-eighties when his work is made known within the Andalusian artistic scene, through the production of small format paintings populated with references and symbols from the religious and everyday environment that the author mixes with a playful sense and with erotic characters that reveal a clear rejection of the Andalusian artistic tradition. His work evolves towards a formal synthesis and an iconographic cleansing in the line of conceptual art. He has starred in numerous solo exhibitions and participated in important collectives, among which include: Aperto 86 at the Venice Biennial (1986), Spain 87. Dynamiques and Interrogations (1987) at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Spanish natures...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
1980s "Yellow and Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Yellow 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
"nothing more, nothing less 3 of 6" - earth pigment, texture, marble, soft
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Baldur Helgason drawing 2018 (Baldur Helgason dog)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Baldur Helgason drawing 2018: Baldur Helgason Jorgen the Dog Day:
A robust, lively Helgason hand-drawing defined by the artist’s signature style.
Med...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
0118.5 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.5 (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 ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Doremi_Musicians-J, 2012, Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
By Ellen Hackl Fagan
Located in Darien, CT
ColorSoundGrammar
Ellen Hackl Fagan
There is a long history of sound/color synaesthesia work, from Isaac Newton’s color organ to Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus,” but not much ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1930
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo)
Condition: E...
Category
1920s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Colorful Expressionist Still Life with Watermelon and Pears
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor still life with colorful expressionist pink and purple hues, of a bright table with watermelon, pears, and flowers on heavy paper by Monterey artist Les Anderson (Am...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
8-8-22, Impressionist, abstracted landscape drawing with colored pencil
By Sandy Litchfield
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield brings her magical abstracted landscapes to a new medium in her recent colored pencil drawings. Loose, delicate lines scramble over one another, bringing a diffuse, ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Contemporary Painting "No Boundaries"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 40" x 28" x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of a...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Watercolor by David Novros, California School
Located in New York, NY
David Novros (American, b. 1941)
Untitled (Home Savings Study), 1986
Watercolor on paper
Framed: 35 1/4 x 86 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Each panel: 30 x 42 in.
From Los Angeles and working fro...
Category
1980s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
White and Gold Lace Kimono - Hand Augmented Collotype
By Patricia A. Pearce
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-augmented collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Signed "Patricia A. Pearce" in the lower right corner. This piece has an iridescent quality to the coloration. No ...
Category
1980s Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 5, 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
"MY OUT-OF-REACH GARDEN", abstract watercolor, memory, flowers, stars, textile
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
MY OUT-OF-REACH GARDEN is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30", and is a structured composition in tones of blue, violet, rose, gold and green. Bordering on abstraction and representation, there appear to be sheets of paper, a desk, and yet surrounded by flowers, patterns and textiles it becomes a larger scene, a collection of memories.
From Fleur Thesmar – "When you cannot return to a place you love, your memory invents the place for you. Apparent forms are suddenly unrecognizable, a reconstructed memory of a far-away place. Wrapped in patterns, grids and cloth, lights and stars shine as if from a mirror. Throughout are organic, fantastic shapes of flowers."
Having moved her family from France to America, artist Fleur Thesmar closely observed the changes in her world – from the seemingly obvious such as surrounding landscapes, the light of day and weather, the flowers, trees and shorelines – to the smaller less obvious shifts, such as how one behaves in a new world, in a new home, how one cherishes certain belongings and certain memories.
Her artistic practice is borne out of that close observation and shift in perspective, and has led to a number of successful gallery shows in the U.S. and internationally. Fleur Thesmar has shown at Beacon Gallery in Boston MA, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Old West Museum, Cheyenne WY, Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont MA, and Salon Ile-de-France 2020, Bourg-La-Reine, France. Her work is on permanent display at the Tower Hill Botanic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Cadaques No. 24, Surrealist Figure Painting by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
By Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - )
Title: Cadaques No.24
Year: 1994
Medium: Mixed Media (Watercolor and Color pencil) on paper, signed and dated
Size: 13.75 x 5 in. (34....
Category
1990s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
December 4
By Rocio Rodriguez
Located in New York, NY
Rocio Rodriguez
December 4, 2020
Pastel and charcoal on paper
11 x 14 in.
(rodr054)
Rocio's work represents an exploration of the transient and temporal and a process of creating a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Berlin (Abstract Painting)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Berlin (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from so...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Abstracted Nude Figure Drawing, Signed Shapiro
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Acrylic on paper
20 x 16 1/4 in.
Matte: 24 x 20 in.
Signed center: Shapiro
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Linda Stein, Knights Revisited 1027 - Contemporary Art Bright Colorful Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Knights Revisited 1027 - Contemporary Art Bright Colorful Drawing
Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series after she was forced to evacuate her New York dow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
#1, So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#1 ,So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
Psychic Garden (Pueraria Montana/Halo) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal
By Caroline Bullock
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Ink and acrylic on handmade wasli paper - Unframed
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
"Untitled" Diana Kurz, Intense Yellow Abstract Composition on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Untitled, circa 1961
Pastel on paper
25 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Red Swash (Abstract painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Red Swash (Abstract painting)
Oil on gessoed Arches paper. Unframed.
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Dark Blooms VII, Abstract Painting
By Karin Johannesson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A spring garden scene, done in a loose and spontaneous watercolor style. Bright hues of yellow, pink and purple splash about the green foliage. Part of Karin'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bonitas Canciones Series 8509
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Bonitas Canciones Series 8509
Materials: Drawing on 90# Stonehenge
Date: 2017
Dimensions: 11"x30"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tucs...
Category
2010s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
"Ofort / Instantly", Miniature Abstract Expressionist Russian Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
A miniature abstract expressionist etching by Russian artist R. Silvestrov (Russian, 20th Century). Very finely detailed lines create an abstracted image that has elements resembling a mechanical drawing...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
