Tri-State Area - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...

Unidentified/Unknown Artist Signature (Miller) "Untitled: Floral Still Life in Orange, Yellow, Purple and Green", Abstract Impressionist Still...

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...

Chainsaw Ryan Cronin Oil Pastels on Paper 30" x 22.5" When people look at his work Cronin wants them to feel an immediate impact, even if they’re not sure what hit them. The raw, al...

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, gold leafing pen 18 kt and ink in gold and black color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 11 by 15 inches in size, ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape) Year: 1973 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 22 x 30 inches ...

Destination (Abstract drawing) Pastel on paper - Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite,...

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 wor...

Untitled 11 (Abstract painting) Pigment, silica medium and gouache on paper - Unframed. Marcy Rosenblat describes herself as having an affinity for process art, a method of art mak...

Interior design paintings. The triptych is made with alcoholic ink in garnet red, cherry red, gray, white on Yupo paper. It can be in both horizontal and in vertical positions. Each ...

Oil on paper, signature Tom Bennett freedom of rich brushwork, warm colors

"My work falls somewhere between abstraction, formalism and narrative painting. I see the content and story when I look at my work, but shape and color are equally important, along w...

Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed without glass on a double mat board in light blue with s...

Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink in pink, purple, fuchia, grey color on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styre...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in turquoise blue color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. This is the "Many thought...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon ...

Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink in orange, green, brown turquoise color on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a s...

Interior design paintings. Suprematist composition red shoulder and blue stocking - line drawing figure. The diptych were done with ink and waterco...

Shape 9 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only. Abstract geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract muted yellow shape innovated by the artist...

Artist: Robert Kautz, Austrian Title: untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed Size: 25.5 in. x 19.5 in. (59.69 cm x 49.53 cm)

Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in crimson-red color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. This is the "Many thoughts, ...

Interior design paintings. Suprematist composition green shoulder and red stocking - line drawing figure. The diptych were done with ink and watercolor i...

Of her recent works, Urso states, "I make exploratory paintings, working in response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intu...

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, ...

Contemporary School, Surrealist Composition, Ink on Paper, illegibly signed "Ken ....?" lower right, wood frame. Image: 9.5" H x 6.25" W; frame: 16" H x 13" W. Provenance: From a Cen...

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with oil, gold leafing pen 18 kt and ink in gold and turquoise color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 20 by 15 inches in size, ...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in ultramarine blue, rose, pink color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality solid w...

Mark di Suvero Grass Power, 1979-2014 Mixed Media drawing: marker, ink and pencil on paper Hand titled, signed and inscribed to Nadine by Mark di Suvero Frame included: Floated and f...

Rocio Rodriguez December 3, 2011, 2011 pastel, oil pastel and charcoal on paper 18 x 24 in. This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez features abstracted rect...

Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with acrylic, gold leafing pen 18 kt in black and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 15 by 18 inches in size, framed (bl...

"Line is the operative formal element in the work shown here, but there are many other lines in play. Pieces walk a line between drawings that might be tapestries or sculptures or p...

Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003) Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981 Oil on paper 16 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures. This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world. But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive. Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian. The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in yellow, orange, blue, pink, grey, green and brown color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in...

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and acrylic in black and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 11 by 15 inches in size, framed (gold or...

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. ...

Unknown Artist Untitled, c. 1960s Ink on paper Sight size: 10 x 7 in. Framed: 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. Signed illegibly lower right: Jack Bl...?

Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed. Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from th...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in black and red color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. This is the "Many thoughts...

Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who uses synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance as tools for developing a corresponding language between color and sound in her work. Focused in on the core concept in her abstract work, Fagan began creating a small series of works on paper titled “Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue.” This series has evolved into floor to wall installations of blue paintings on paper and on the floor that explore the nature of printmaking processes, texture and surface. Ellen Hackl Fagan is the inventor of The Reverse Color Organ and the ColorSoundGrammar Game, two projects that enable viewers to interact aurally with color. In collaboration with cognitive scientist Michael Cole...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in orange, salmon red, turquoise, ice ocean color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-qua...

Artist: Ben Hancocks Title: 31st of March Year: 1982 Medium: Oil Pastel on Paper, signed and dated Paper Size: 34 x 15 inches [86.36 x 38.1 cm] Image Size: 27.5 x 10 in. [69.85 x 25....

Live Transmission Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...

This unique abstract watercolor on paper is titled "Performers" by artist Geri Taper on the verso. The piece is also signed on the recto. Performers Geri Taper, American (1929–2004)...

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...

Charcoal and Getty Fire Ash on paper

Interior design paintings. The diptych is made with alcoholic ink on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed without glass on a double mat board dark blue or gray wi...

Dovetail 5 (Abstract drawing) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...

Betty Parsons Untitled, 1977 Signed and dated lower right Gouache on paper 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches Renowned as an esteemed and legendary art dealer who for more than three decades was...

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 ...

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...

J.Rennell, "Untitled: Woman in Dress", Figurative Pen and Ink Drawing signed on Paper, 6 x 4 (13.50 x 10.50 Framed), Mid to Late 20th C...

Carl Andre Letter from Dusseldorf to the Artist's sister (Postcard), 1991 Vintage Handwritten and hand signed letter on stamped, postmarked (franke...

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...

Artist: Ben Hancocks Title: 28th March Year: 1982 Medium: Oil Pastel on Paper, signed and dated Paper Size: 34 x 15 inches [86.36 x 38.1 cm] Image Size: 27.5 x 6 in. [69.85 x 15.24 cm]

Sarah Irvin There we Go, 2020 ink on Yupo paper 26 x 40 in. (irv082) Sarah Irvin's work is concerned with explorations of autobiography, family history, genetic heritage, and memory...

Artist: David Roth, American (1942 - ) Title: Untitled VI Year: 1974 Medium: Acrylic Painting on Arches Paper, signed and dated Image Size: 15.5 x 45.5 inches Size: 22.5 in. x 53.5 i...

Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting) Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such a...

I make exploratory paintings, working in direct response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color,...

Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...

John Levee, an American abstract expressionist, served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Following the war, he harnessed the educational opportunit...