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Medium: Archival Paper
Pensando en ti, Marzo 13, Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
"Some far away speech" Still life, Ink and watercolor
By Brian Spolans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Some far away speech" is an original ink and watercolor work on paper by Brian Spolans. The piece ships framed as pictured and measures 20.5in x 28.5in. Alternative custom framing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Planting Utopia City of Peace - Cyanotype Painting Flowers Prussian Blue, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical painting in watercolor, gouache, and cyanotype on Arches watercolor paper, meticulously detailed medicinal flowers and plants and a sun shape in the ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Nude Figure Breast
Hand Platinum Palladium Print on Wove by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Nude Figure with Breast & Hand, Platinum Palladium Print on Wove by Contemporary British Artist, Malcolm Pasley (Born 1956)
Art measures 14 x 11 inches...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Platinum
$3,897 Sale Price
20% Off
Little Blue (Abstract Geometric Mixed Media Encaustic Work on Wooden Panel)
Located in Hudson, NY
Little Blue, 2020
Encaustic & collage on thin edged board
12" X 12"
This abstract geometric composition on wooden board features a playful geometric motif that is inspired by the artist's interest in architecture and blueprint drawings. The geometric forms are made in a more painterly, gestural manner rather than with a hard edge. Paint is not heavily built up upon the surface but it certainly exhibits a tactile quality which is characteristic of the artist's aesthetic. English's work celebrates the quirky, unexpected qualities of shapes and colors.
About the artist:
Donise English is a Poughkeepsie-based artist who received her MFA from Bard College and is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Artist Statement:
I am interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. I use gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define my pictorial space. For each piece I create a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure.
Resume:
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Bard College 1986
Bachelor of Science in Art History
State University College at New Paltz 1977
Additional Study: New York Studio School (Drawing Marathons)
Columbia University, School of Architecture
Women’s Studio Workshop
TEACHING Professor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie,NY
Coordinator, Interior Design Program, Florence, Italy campus 1992-present
AWARDS
Finalist, “Saatchi Showdown” 2010
Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent,
University of Bridgeport, CT 2000
Purchase Prize, “11th National Juried Exhibition”
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore 1999
First Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts ‘95”
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995
Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX 1994
Honorable Mention, “National Juried Exhibition”
University of Bridgeport, CT 1993
Individual Artists Fellowship in Sculpture
Dutchess Arts Fund 1992/93
Tallix, Morris, Singer Internship in Sculpture
Tallix Foundry, Beacon, NY 1990/91
SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Let’s Stay in Touch”, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
2015
“Off the Grid”, Arts & Culture Program, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
“Gridspace”, KMOCA, Kingston, NY
“Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Assuming Identity”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2013
“Modern Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region”, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Stone Canoe/Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2012
New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Contemporary Painters (Who Just Happen To Be Women)”,
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, Cambridge School, Weston, MA
“Dear Mother Nature”, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY
“Fresher Paint”, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY
Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2011
“Process+Content: Donise English”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Donise English-Paintings”, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
“Gender Matters/Matters of Gender”, Freedman Gallery,
Albright College, Reading, PA
2010
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Encaustics: Wax and Image”, Westchester Community College White Plains, NY
“Dots, Lines and Figures”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Spring Awakening”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Clay City Dreams”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Texture, Pattern, Fragment”, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School Providence, RI
2009
“Collage”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY
“Working in Wax”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
“Encaustic 2009”, College of New Rochelle, NY
“Three Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Convergence: The Human Experience”, Howard County Center for the Arts, MD
2008
“Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and Exquisite Corpse”
Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2007
“Patterns and Light”, Blue Hill Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
“Suckers and Biters”, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
“100 Artists, 100 Watercolors”, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY
“On/Of Paper”, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
“The Love Show”, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2005
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
“Small Tales”, Valdosta State University, Georgia
National Juried Exhibition, Art Institute and Gallery
Salisbury, MD, Juror: Stephen Haller
“Greed, Envy, Jealousy, Fear”, TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY
2004
“Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections”
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Girl Art Now”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
3 Person Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA
“The Feminine Eye”, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
“Women Painting Women”, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
“Thought Patterns”, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
“Surface, Matter and Artifice”, Dutchess Community College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003
“Beefcake/Cheesecake”,Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
Santa Ana, CA,Juror: Jamie Wilson, Curator
Halpert Bienniel, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center
“The Great White Oak”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2002
“Cat Calls”, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn
“Hudson Valley Regional”, SUNY New Paltz
Juror: Sydney Jenkins, Director, Ramapo College Art Galleries
2001
One-Person Exhibition, Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Beyond the Surface”, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago
One-Person Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2000
“Vision 2000...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Encaustic, Board
“Bugs Bunny
Rocky”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original animation drawing featuring Bugs Bunny and Rocky, signed by Virgil Ross lower right. Circa 1990. Condition is very good. Colored pencil and graphite. Provena...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Abstract profile
Located in CANNES, FR
PACO RABANNE ( 1934 -2023 )
French Famous Fashion designer
" Abstract profile "
Unic work on paper
Signed and dated
Felt ting and graphite on paper
...
Category
20th Century Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Cluster - Contemporary Pattern Drawing Navy Blue Pink Peach Orange, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
A contemporary drawing with delicate dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink and dark cobalt details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. Thi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Small Vortex" Abstract drawing, Marker on paper
By Patrick Blake
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This original drawing by Patrick Blake measures 14in x 11.5in and ships float mounted in the pictured simple black custom frame.
"Though I work in many different mediums, drawing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
"This Place is a Dream (Haystack)" - botanical - cyanotype - flowers - grasses
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of yellow and light green. It is framed in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. The unframed work measures 4...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Forest Light (Contemporary Impressionist Landscape in Watercolor )
Located in Hudson, NY
Forest Light, 2016 (Contemporary Impressionist Landscape in Watercolor ) by Susan Hope Fogel
Abstracted landscape watercolor drawi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
I really love shrimp.
Located in Zofingen, AG
I Really Love Shrimp
This work is about desire. Small, funny, seemingly trivial — yet painfully real. It’s about food as a metaphor for something greater: a longing for pleasure, for...
Category
2010s Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Artist Birds Golden Sun
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock , 'Staring at the Sun' 99.7 x 70.2cm, collaged woodblock print and acrylic ink on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper, 2011
In Isabels own words;
'Staring at the Sun'
The man stood on the mountain and stared at the golden sun. The sun stared back at him, its heat blazed and burnt his eyes, the birds sang a maddening tune like they were pecking at his eardrums.
The man pointed his finger and shouted, ' you lied to me' at the sun.
The sun laughed and said 'you wanted to believe me. I told you what you had already decided in your head to be the most convenient thing for you.'
The man raged and hopped in what looked to the birds like a beautiful dance.
'Trickery, skulduggery!' he shouted. 'villain, thief, abomination!'
The sun blinked and smiled calmly. It had seen a lot from humans, there was nothing that could surprise it now.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel’s hair brush that gives incredible fine lines and was purchased on her travels in India.
Born in Hammersmith, London in 1981, Rock knew her destiny was to be an artist. Studying Fine Art Printmaking at The University of Brighton and graduating with First Class Honours in 2004 she went on to do a Masters Degree at The Royal College of Art in London, continuing her studies in printmaking and drawing, graduating in 2008.
Her first solo show at Bearspace Gallery in Deptford, London in April 2009 sold out and was the beginning of a career that continues to rise. Rock participated in the first ever India Art Fair represented by Art 1821...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Tulips Grey
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Tulips Grey" is a vibrant floral painting where emotion takes center stage through swirling colors. Acrylic, oil pastel, and colored pencil dance across the paper, creating a dynam...
Category
2010s Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Young Navajo
, Native American, Arizona, California Woman artist
By Victoria Creech Stewart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Creech PSWC' and created circa 1975
A compelling pastel study showing the subject dressed in brightly-colored ceremonial robes and gazing past the viewer. An eleg...
Category
1970s Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
“View of Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original pastel on heavy card stock (made in Paris) by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A view of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. The artwork is housed in its original scroll decorated frame. Overall framed measurements are 33.25 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate.
George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$2,240 Sale Price
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Elevate, Jumping Horse Drawing, Charcoal on Fabriano paper, white frame
Located in Dallas, TX
"Elevate" is a beautiful and unique charcoal drawing on paper of a dynamic horse jumping in mid-air. The composition is contemporary, playing with the positive and negative space. Th...
Category
2010s Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Olive Grove - Black and White Landscape of Greek Island
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes's Landscape with Olive Tree is a 21.5 x 28.5 inches black and white monotype representing a Greek landscape. Olive trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties he visited Kythira, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Lily in Charcoal
abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash. The charc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the famous American marine artist, Gordon Grant. The artwork depicts two rugged lobstermen bringing their catch ashore...
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1930s American Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
“Untitled #3”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed in pencil lower right margin. Dated in pencil lower left m...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$540 Sale Price
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Psychic Garden (Sea Sprite) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, green, purple, yellow 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 Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
“The Crow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original gouache and watercolor on brown archival paper of a standing crow in profile. Signed and dated lower right. Condition is good to very good. Colors of the bird are strong a...
Category
1920s Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite
$1,760 Sale Price
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Untitled
Located in East Quogue, NY
Ágnes Széphfalvi (b.1965) studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest (1984–1990). In her paintings, she deals with narratives of women's lives. She thematizes painting as a subject...
Category
1990s Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper
$1,440 Sale Price
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"11:17" Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor with raven, clock, tumbler of whiskey
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor painting depicts a profile of a large raven perched on a shelf, with a glass tumbler of whiskey with ice cubes and a small branch as a garnish. A large clock hangs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Self Portrait, of the Gentleman himself
Located in New York, NY
A simply marvelous drawing - a self-portrait of the artist himself. It also reads as a very elegant and expressive line drawing of any gentleman - a hallmark depiction of a bon-vi...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
For Jeannette
s Mother
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Signe Best
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
“Taxco, Mexico”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed black and white watercolor and gouache drawing on archival paper of the Spanish colonial town of Taxco, Mexico. Circa 1960. Condition is excellent. Signed low...
Category
1960s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$460 Sale Price
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“Bugs Bunny
Yosemite Sam”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original animation drawing of Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam by Virgil Ross, a legendary animator from the "Golden Years of Animation" at Warner Bros. Graphite, colored ...
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1990s Other Art Style Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
$960 Sale Price
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"Crystal Study" (2024) By Babs Webb, Original Fantasy Graphite Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Crystal Study" is a powdered graphite illustration, detailed with acrylic created by the talented fantasy artist Babs Webb. Depicted in this piece is a standard crystal formation, f...
Category
2010s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
“Refuge”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and pen artwork titled “Refuge”. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1965. Condition is excellent. Artwork is matted with original thin white metal frame....
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pen
$1,160 Sale Price
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“Seated Woman”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed graphite on archival paper original drawing of a young woman seated by the American artist, William Sanders Fanning. Signe...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
$960 Sale Price
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“Schooners, Fowey Harbour, Cornwall”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor on archival paper by the British artist, Eyres Simmons. Signed lower left. The scene is of Fowey Harbour in Cornwall, England with schooners moored in harbor. ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
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Hesitation Blues (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Hesitation Blues, 1968. Ink on paper, sheet measures 13 x 23 inches; 14 x 18 inches in archival pH-neutral matting. Signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.
Provenance: Sheila Ayers-Whitelaw
Exhibition History: Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams, Woodmere Art Museum, 07/10/2021 - 10/24/2021
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
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1960s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
$3,000 Sale Price
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Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Chicken Love
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Untitled (Modern Black Charcoal
Gray Abstract Still Life Drawing on Paper)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
18 x 14 inch drawing on 20 x 16 inch Aquarelle Arches Paper
24 x 20 x .5 inches framed
Thin profile black metal frame, 8 ply white mat
Ralph Stout's works on paper reveal a drau...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Large Surrealist Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Pink Blue Tiger Palms
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
BLUE JAY WAY
Located in New York, NY
BLUE JAY WAY, 2012
ink and graphite on Arches cold press paper
44.5 x 75 inches / 1130 x 1905 mm
unframed
Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity.
McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Enki
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA from Bradley University (2006) and an MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2009). He is Associate Profes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,640
Khnum
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA from Bradley University (2006) and an MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2009). He is Associate Profes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,640
"Study for Alyssa II" 2018 - Charcoal drawing, portrait of young woman, framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman, perfectly poised and staring directly at the viewer. Her face is executed with exceptional detail, and is the focal point of the composi...
Category
2010s Academic Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Theater Sketch 2
Located in Buffalo, NY
Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator,
printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He
died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to
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1930s Art Deco Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
"SECRET GARDEN 2", watercolor, flowers, foliage, sky, sparkling, patterns, stars
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SECRET GARDEN 2 is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". It is custom framed with anti-UV and anti-glare glas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Animal Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Birds
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
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2010s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
Zodiac
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Zodiac"
This piece serves as a philosophical bridge between rational logic and esoteric insight. It visualizes the precise boundary where physical matter intertwines with metaphysic...
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2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Original 1940s Retrofuturism Gouache Painting
Birth of Mind
in Black
White
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1941 gouache painting on paper, titled Birth of Mind, signed and dated lower right, is a striking example of retrofuturism by Charles Ragland Bunnell, a prominent artist from the Broadmoor Academy...
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1940s Futurist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Dream: framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. Wired with all hanging hardware, ready to install. Nazanin Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligr...
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2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
“Near Mount Shasta, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original pastel on archival paper by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A Northern California scene near Mount Shasta. Signed lower left and dated 1876. Recently professionally matted and framed in new antique silver style gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 36 inches. Under glass. Condition is excellent. Provenance: A Pennsylvania collector.
George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
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1870s Hudson River School Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
“Santa Claus”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original artwork composed of watercolor and gouache on archival paper for use as a Christmas card. Unsigned. Circa 1965. Condition is good. Newly professionally matted. Not fram...
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1960s Other Art Style Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$225 Sale Price
25% Off
Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
“Sitting Female Nude”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original conte crayon drawing of a sitting female nude on tinted archival paper by the American artist, Renate Duncan. Signed lower left. Circa 1980. Condition is excellent. The art...
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1980s Academic Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Archival Paper
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Waves Red Fish Painting, Watercolor on Paper, 29.7x42 cm, New
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Waves” explores the inner movements of the psyche, subconscious patterns, and moments of awareness. Chaos and recurring patterns become a source of self-discovery and acceptance of ...
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2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"In My Shoes" Watercolor on Paper (contemporary surrealist painting, ibis bird)
Located in New York, NY
30"x22" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse. New York artist, Thomas Broadbent, well know for his contemporary naturalist depictions of the intersection of nature and man, presents a humorous depiction of an ibis bird...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Seated Nude
By August Gerasch
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing one of a pair of stunning antique realist drawings by well listed Viennese artist August Gerasch.
This piece was created with superb...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Board, Graphite
Lily in Charcoal
abstract expressionism photography edition 3 of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash. The charc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Infanta XXIII (Abstract Cubist Figure in Vintage Embroidered Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
graphite on paper, drawing measures 5.5 x 4 inches
Vintage frame is 12.5 x 9 x 2 inches with beautiful floral carved detail and fabric inlay.
This graphite work on paper was inspire...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
The Goat
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “The Goat...
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2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,599 Sale Price
48% Off
The Yellow Phone
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Yellow Phone, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 14 inc...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
“New England Homestead”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on archival paper of a New England homestead nestled in a picturesque valley. Early fall with the tress just starting to change colors. The watercolor was done by the American artist Hilton Leech...
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1950s Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Archival Paper drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Archival Paper drawings and watercolor paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Ian Hornak, Renato Garza Cervera, Howard Tangye, and Robbie Cornelissen. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Archival Paper drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $700 and tops out at $1,200, while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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