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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
Gray with Blue, Green
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—based largely on landscape,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
Gray with Red and Blue
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—based largely on landscape,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
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
Abstraction #13, Mixed Media Abstract Watercolor on Paper by Alexander Kwiat
By Alexander Kwiat
Located in Soquel, CA
"Abstraction #13", beautiful modernist abstract color field watercolor in pastel hues on paper by Alexander Kwiat (American, b. 1955).
Signed lower right hand corner. Gallery label...
Category
1980s Color-Field Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hideout
Located in Columbia, MO
Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
Light Box No. 2605 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
By Sophia Dixon Dillo
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Metal
Full Moon
By Pia Stern
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Full Moon" 1995 is in an original pastel on paper by noted American artist Pia Stern, b. 1953. It is hand signed, dated and titled by th...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Green Square #12" Diana Kurz, Intense Green Abstract Expressionist Composition
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Green Square #12
Gouache on paper
19 x 14 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Early Marks No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
Audrey Stone, #25, 2010, Thread, Paper, Ink, Pencil
By Audrey Stone
Located in Darien, CT
Being nearsighted from a young age, Audrey Stone is drawn to seeing things up close; her work entails detail in the making and her desire for visual intimacy. How craft and art are d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Paper, Ink, Pencil
Bury (Abstract Painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Bury (Abstract Painting)
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between t...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
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
Everything is Connected
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Everything is Connected, 2025
Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic inks on paper
14 x 10 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. Exte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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
Lizard
By Olivia Gibb
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Lizard
Materials : Stamp,xerox transfer,ink
Date : 2015
Dimensions : 8×9
COA provided
Art school took Olivia Gibb away from Oklahoma and up to Kansas City, which she has cal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil
Liz Sweibel, Untitled #2 (MOL Comfort, 6.27.13, 11.46 am) 2015, Post-Minimalist
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
These thread-and-vellum drawings document the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011. They began as a reaction to photographs of the devastated landscape, p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
0118.15
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
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 years, drawing has provided a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Seymour Fogel 'Woodland Eros' Abstract Drawings Texas Modernism 1971
Located in Dallas, TX
Seymour Fogel
Texas Artist
From his New York Transcendental Period
1971
"Woodland Eros Drawing I"
"Woodland Eros Drawing II"
Conte Crayon on Illustration Board.
Professionally c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Verse L (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Verse L (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper — Unframed
Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical trad...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Flow
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Flow, 2025
Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic ink on paper
14 x 10 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visible frame ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Schist 9 (Abstract painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Casein on paper - Unframed
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
For her, everything begins with col...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Casein
Geologies Series 9042
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Geologies Series 9042
Materials: Drawing on 140# Fabriano Artistico
Date: 2018
Dimensions: 22"x30"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tuc...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
Seymour Lipton, Untitled sculptural study, signed charcoal drawing, framed
By Seymour Lipton
Located in New York, NY
SEYMOUR LIPTON
Untitled sculpture drawing, 1979
Charcoal on paper
Original drawing done in charcoal by renowned sculptor Seymour Lipton
Provenance: Michael and Alan Lipton, the artis...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th century
Provenance:
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)
Phillip Duechnes Bookseller, New York, c. 1948
References And Exhibitions:
Otto F. Ege Box Folio 27
Ege describes these folios as: Epistolary (Epistolarium), Italy, Middle 15th century
Latin Text: Rotunda or Round Gothic Script, square rhetorical neumes
Sister folio are in the following rare book libraries:
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Public Library
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland Public Library
Denison University
Kent State University
Kenyon College...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
'Lilac and Tulips', American School Floral Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Malinasky' (American, 1920-2003) and dated, verso, 1980.
Jane Malinasky attended the College of William and Mary.
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
"TWO ROSES", watercolor, flowers, petals, rose, pink, green leaves, beauty, love
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TWO ROSES is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22", and is a striking composition in tones of rose, pink, gold and green. It's a courageous work of art, seemingly a reflection or a symmetry but of course they are two distinct, complex flowers.
From Fleur Thesmar – "Standing on top of each other like mystic roses...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Perspective 2022 (Abstract painting)
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Perspective 2022 (Abstract painting)
Ink on paper mounted on canvas - Unframed.
Diptych, each element: 108 x 75 cm / 42.5 x 29.5 inch
Martín Reyna is ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink
Ice blossoms
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled / 2579 incised paper
By Sophia Dixon Dillo
Located in Burlingame, CA
Clean minimalist incised drawing or carved paper sculpture from experimental artist Sophie Dixon Dillo, whose large-scale installations using light to illuminate sheer walls of threa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Metro to Bleeker Street.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings base...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
0118.2
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
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 years, drawing has provided a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Colorful Abstract Watercolor by Mac Jamison
By Mac Jamison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mac Jamison, American
Title: Untitled
Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r.
Size: 30 in. x 41.5 in. (76.2 cm x 105.41 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Transition, Series 1, No. 4" - Watercolor Figurative Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtly shaded abstract figurative illustration by Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013). Two adult and three baby figures are rendered with subtle tan shading, against an abstract background with geometric shapes and swirling ribbons. One of the two adult figures is laying down, while the other appears to be jumping or dancing. Notable is the skillful use of negative space to balance the composition.
Signed and dated "Warnick 1982" in the lower right corner.
Signed, titled, and dated with materials information on verso.
Presented in a silver aluminum frame.
Frame size: 23.5"H x 31.25"W
Paper size: 23.25"H x 31"W
Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013) was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. She moved to Portland to attend the Reed College/Museum Art School joint five year program. Warnick went on to create many works of art as well as teach art and illustration. She is mostly known for her watercolor paintings, including the illustration of several children's books. Some of her pieces are held in the Portland Art Museum’s collection.
Selected Exhibitions:
1974: University Center Gallery, Willamette University - Salem, OR
1978: Mayer Gallery...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Greenwich Village Bar. The Pickup
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Deals- colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
By Richard Garrison
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry piece. Based on poem or song. Paris, France
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced water...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Abstract Vertical Sunset
By Irene Pattinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor fragment of a sunset over a field by Irene Pattinson (American, 20th Century). Tag on verso reads "Miller Fine Art / The Estate of Irene Pattinson". Unsigned. Acq...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tissue Paper
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
1970s Semi-Abstract Ink Drawing – Two Figures, American Modern Black Pen Art
Located in Denver, CO
This striking vintage pen-and-ink drawing, Untitled (Two Figures), was created in the 1970s by acclaimed American modernist artist Edgar Britton (1901–1982). Rendered in bold black i...
Category
20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Sara Eichner, 16 Layers, 2016, Ink, Rag Paper, Pen
By Sara Eichner
Located in Darien, CT
Sara Eichner wants to create a space where point of view cannot be fixed. Optical games stand in for her struggle to comprehend the complexities of seeing. Using simple drawing tools...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper, Pen
'Evening Landscape' Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CWS
By Robert George Gilberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and painted circa 1965.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during the 1930s. Following service during WWII, he settled in Nevada City, California where he lived and painted until shortly before his death in San Francisco. Gilberg exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts...
Category
1960s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman Judaica Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Synagogue interior. reading the Torah. Jewish Prayer. Judaica piece.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Aggregate #24 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
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Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
By Marcel Dumont
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
1940s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Times Square, New York. The Carpetbaggers
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Based on a poem or song. Poetry piece
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Bilbouquet sporting painting
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings based ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Autumn Night Blue - 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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Clay, Polymer
View on Cherry Hill, Barbados
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: View on Cherry Hill, Barbados
Year: 1971
Medium: Pencil on heavy archival paper
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Condition: Good
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Black and White Cat
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black and White Cat
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 737)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Dennis Oppenheim Large Abstract Conceptual Sculpture Drawing for Ace Gallery LA
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Oppenheim (1938 - 2011)
Pencil and colored pencil drawing on paper,
'Memory Generator Receiver; Transmitter project for ACE Gallery Los Angeles'
(possibly with watercolor pai...
Category
1970s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
EC 14 - textural abstract circle shape nature inspired white sculpted paper
Located in New York, NY
Anne-Charlotte Saliba's artistic universe is largely inspired by nature, its abyssal dimension as well as its vegetal or mineral forms. Her sculpted artworks are a confrontation of smooth and grainy texture on the same linear paper. A cloud of small perforations, incisions, and punches which play on the elasticity of the paper, to create a topographic relief. A controlled wandering of dotted lines, scales and bumps are drawn following the movement of her hand on the paper. The flow is both free and thoughtfully planned, allowing unexpected movements and completely abandoning set patterns at times.
Saliba sees herself more like an artisan than an artist in the sense that she is working with texture and touch to create unique intricate sculpted artworks.
Playing with light and shadow, each in her own way ennobles a seemingly banal material with a genuine concern for ethics. Like modern-day memento mori, Saliba’s works transport us into dreamlike worlds in which the evanescence of paper echoes the transience of life, subtly reminding us to enjoy the present moment.
Anne-Charlotte Saliba works and lives near Lyon, France. Her work has reviewed in numerous publications and has won the prestigious price for Jeune Creation de Métiers d’Art in 2020. She is now represented by the Muriel Guépin Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival 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
Prize Blade 1, abstract male nude, expressionist brushwork, dark, monochromatic
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype, Archival Ink, Archival 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
Yellow Arc, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Bill Buchman
Located in Yardley, PA
Large bold watercolor on Arches watercolor paper with mat and modern European silver-gold wood frame with non-glare plexiglass and off white mat.. Photo of this piece in frame avail...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
