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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...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Andra Samelson, Stars of Tallapooza, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Green and White Squares, Minimalist Gouache on Paper by Peter Pinchbeck
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Green and White Squares, Year: 1982, Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated in pencil on verso, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm)
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1980s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
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...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Yellow, Blue & Red Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A bold abstract watercolor with yellow and blue, contrasted with red accents by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the estate o...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bridge (Abstract painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Bridge (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed.
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and or...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
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...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
(Abstract Mythological Landscape) Untitled, 2001, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: (Abstract Mythological Landscape) Untitled
Year: 2001
Medium: Ink on archival paper
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Moon 3- intricate white beige 3D abstract geometric circle pulled paper drawing
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Emily Berger, Garden, 2016, paper, ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Synthetic Paper
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...
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1940s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Women in Purple and Shadow - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nun in the Shadows - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A dark abstracted portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is abst...
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1980s Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Loll (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Loll, (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured pain...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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...
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1970s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
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.)
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic
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
Covers 20 Red A
By Joanne Freeman
Located in London, GB
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper - Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape to mask out shapes and employ hard ed...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Slays in Cyclone, Modern Gouache Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Slays in Cyclone, Medium: Gouache on Japon Paper on linen backing, signe in pencil and titled on verso, Image Size: 15 x 10 inches, Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"through the gate aflame" - paleolithic, rock formation, abstract, fire, niche
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of red, orange, yellow and brown. The unframed piece measures 25 by 42 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating wea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"sounds of water and footsteps on stone" - paleolithic, rock formation, abstract
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of green, orange, yellow and brown. The unframed piece measures 24 by 18 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating w...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Rare Leonard Baskin Watercolor Illustration "Five Scrolls" Judaica Hebrew
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Original Illustration for Five Scrolls.
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and ...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sea bottom
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sea Bottom" c.1980 is a watercolor with collage on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size is 15.5 x 23.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Charlotte Huntley might have been a renowned graffiti artist – her earliest work consisted of drawing on walls. But fate intervened and she learned to control these urges with a formal education at Scripps College, Chouinard School of Art, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. These early tendencies reemerged not just in painting, but in other artistic ways as well, to the benefit of community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. She spent years as a professional puppeteer and set designer, and developing her own unique watercolor painting style. Charlotte’s use of pointillism. Charlotte Huntley AWS, June Workshop Instructor “Charlotte Huntley has special insights into color and fresh approaches to cliche subject matter. Her work in watercolor is truly unique. Charlotte adapts the Pointillism of Seurat and other post-Impressionists and makes it her own in watercolor. With Pointillism, distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary colors. The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones. Charlotte truly makes the most of this style of painting. Over her illustrious career, Huntley has been awarded a signature membership in 29 watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, Transparent Watercolor Soc. of America, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Watercolor West. Overall, Charlotte has received 45 Awards in National Exhibitions since 2000 – an impressive achievement
This imaginative Watercolor Artist has had over 575 paintings accepted in National Juried Art Exhibitions in 46 states, also Canada and Puerto Rico, with 113 Awards.
Charlotte has proven to be a popular Juror, knowledgeable Juror, inspiring Workshop Instructor, and an Award-winning Author.The work of Charlotte Huntley is held in collections in the U.S. Canada and Puerto Rico as well as in some European country.
In 2016 Charlotte has been accepted in 14 National Exhibitions with 1 Award: Signature American W/C Society (CA), Rockies West National (CO) , Animals in Art (LA) (Judge’s Award) , Georgia W/C Society , Missouri W/C Society, Society of W/C Artists (TX) , Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN) , Illinois W/C Society, W/C Soc. of Alabama, Rocky Mountain Nat’1 W/C (CO), Alaska W/C Soc., Aqueous USA 2016 (KY), Niagara Frontier W/C Soc . (NY) and Northwest W/C Soc. (WA).
Elite Awards
Sylvan Grouse Guild Award, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
Elite Signature Status , Watercolor Art Society-Houston
Master Signature Member, Western Colorado Watercolor...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sylvia Schwartz, 'Red Plane', 2016, Thread, Masonite, Acrylic Paint, Minimalist
By Sylvia Schwartz
Located in Darien, CT
In Sylvia Schwartz' structures, silicone molds are cast from both natural and hand-made forms, including clay coils, volcanic rock patterns, seaweed, and the artist's own fingerprint...
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2010s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Masonite, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Pigment
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
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
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
Fresh- colorful bright color 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 are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Veiled Series X , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
By Dorothy Gillespie
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
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...
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20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Brigitte Parusel, Geometric Relationships #1, _2022, Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
By Brigitte Parusel
Located in Darien, CT
Brigitte Parusel's works are underlined by an emphasis on experimentation and her interest in working within the limitations of a system.
Her drawings are part of an ongoing exploration of a geometric pattern of interconnected circles. The pattern is the basis for her large-scale installations, spatial sculptures and folded works. The drawings explore the geometric relationship of the patterns components and its potential as a blueprint for constructing form, shape and structure.
Brigitte Parusel's animation 'After Albers...
Category
2010s Bauhaus Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Domus Series" - Abstract Geometric Futuristic Neon Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A bright neon futuristic geometric landscape, depicting a detailed imaginative deconstructive dome structure in a polychrome world, titled "Domus Series" by Anita Margrill (American,...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor or gouache composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Village in Tuscany', California Modernist woman artist, SFAA
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A semi-abstracted study of a Tuscan townscape with warm terra-cotta roofs and stucco hues of saffron and crimson.
Signed lower right, 'D. Masters' for Dora Masters (American, 1916-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tangle No. 1
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
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
Firenze, Impressionist Ink on Paper by Unknown Artist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Firenze, Year: 1966, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed lower left, titled and dated on verso, Image Size: 17.5 x 12.5 inches, Size: 19.25 x 13.5 in. (48.9 x 34.29 cm), D...
Category
1960s Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
SEASIDE MIDDAY -Landscape Painting of Ocean Bay, Trees, & Sky - Oil on Arches
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
By Moses Bagel Bahelfer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
"fortress of inseparability", Abstract, Monoprints, Ink, Fabric, Botanical motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "fortress of inseparability" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Monotype
Yellow & Pink Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract composition with bold pink and yellow forms by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed lower left. Acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No fr...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1980s "#20" Charcoal Cross Hatch Abstract Drawing Modern Art Jack Scott
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Scott
"#20"
1980
Interwoven, continuous line charcoal drawing on paper
40"x30" site, black wood gallery frame float mount 42.5"x32.75" museum glass
Sig...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Francesca 8: abstract painting w/ natural materials on black artist's paper
By Nancy Agati
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The densely layered compositio...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Slate
"ABSTRACT (Vibration)", watercolor, geometry, milky way, ocean, natural pigments
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
ABSTRACT (Vibration) is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22", and is a striking composition in tones of rose,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 6, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The drawings in this series are from photos of marine accidents, and made of thread, knots, and vellum. All were completed in 2019.
At sea, stacks of containers topple from a load...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
Lost Pets X : 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 wider palette with brighter and bol...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Bourrée Fantasque #1 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on 'Étoile'
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #1", 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
YDY
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
ACRYLIC ON YUPO ON SINTRA with white frame
b. 1978
I explore the temporality of representation through abstraction by constructing new systems and modes in which the material of pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
6A, Modern Abstract Tempera Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
By Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini.
Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - )
Title: 6A
Year: 1984
Medium: Tempera on Paper, sig...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Breathing - textural blue and white abstract painting on paper framed
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
Exterior- earth tone green color 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 are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Loops.2- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Sattva 39 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Sattva 39 (Abstract painting)
Encaustic on Okawara paper - Unframed.
Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotyp...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Encaustic
White Moon EC 17 - round textural abstract nature inspired 3Dsculpted 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 s...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Vintage Purple & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage abstract watercolor with purple lines and yellow forms bleeding together by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the esta...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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
"From Grief I Cannot Measure" - Collage Compostion
Located in Soquel, CA
Intricate and layered two-part composition by notable collage artist Graham Moody (American, b. 19XX). Two vertical panels are composed primarily of handwritten musical scores and notations, mounted on maps. Layered atop the sheet music art sections of technical illustrations, topographic maps, magazine cutouts, and books. Exhibited: “Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
Each piece is signed and dated "Moody 1990" in the lower right.
Titled "From Grief" and "I Cannot Measure" in the lower left of each piece.
Each piece measures: 25.75"H x 11"W
Graham Moody (American, b.1948) studied art history and political science at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1980. While maintaining a career as an artist, Moody also worked as the Art Program Director for Pelican Bay State Prison, bringing art instruction to incarcerated individuals. Moody lives and works in Eureka, California.
Moody’s artwork is held in various collections, including:
Hewlett Packard Corporation - Palo Alto, California
Fresno Museum of Art - Fresno, California
Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
Boston Edison - Boston, Massachusetts
Intertael Books - Amsterdam, Holland
Kintetsu - Nara, Japan
Sun Bank - Jacksonville, Florida
Yokohama Royal Park Hotel - Yokohama, Japan
Four Seasons Hotel - Las Vegas, Nevada
Ontogeny - Potomac, Maryland
Fidelity Investments - Boston, Massachusetts
New Saint Andrews College - Moscow, Idaho
Ken Houldsworth Financial Planner - Arcata, California
Bank of America World Headquarters - San Francisco, California
Kaiser Permanente
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
Hyatt Hotel - New York, New York
La Playa Beach Resort - Naples, Florida
Stanford University Hospital - Palo Alto, California
Selected Exhibitions:
“Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
“Celebration of the Arts” - Robert Allen Fine Art - San Francisco, California
Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon
Art LA - Los Angeles, California
The Allrich Gallery - San Francisco, California
Theatres d'Ermont - Val d'Oise, France
Galerie Kunsthaar - Amsterdam, Nederlands
Galerie Yurn - Paris, France
Galerie Tagliana - Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Humboldt Cultural Center - Eureka, California
Group Shows:
Humboldt Arts Council - Eureka, California
“Collecting Ourselves: Works from the Permanent Collection” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
“Persistence: Collage” - Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon
Exposition 'Alcools' - Galerie L'Autre - Paris, France
Exposition 'Ars Longa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil
