Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Abstract Cubist Charcoal Drawing of a Standing Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white portrait of a woman done in a style that combines abstraction and cubism, much like the work of Fernand Leger. Signed and dated in lower left corner.
Artist Biography:
Valery Kleverov was born in Engels, Russian Federation, Soviet Union June 28, 1939 the son of a fighter test pilot in the Soviet Air Force. He exhibited an independent, rebellious, and highly artistic temperament from a young age. Conscription into the Red Army at the standard age of (18) was first and last straw in the young artist’s battle with the State, he lasted only a few months before making an unauthorized parachute jump over a forest to go permanently AWOL. After 3 weeks hiding in the woods, he eventually made his way to Leningrad, dropped his first name and the “ov” from the end of his name and began his life as the underground artist known as “KLEVER”. He fell in with a close-knit group of young anti-authoritarian rebels who eventually became known to the world as the “Non-Conformists”, a small gang of free thinkers mainly from Leningrad and Moscow who rebelled against State control of artistic expression and of free thought. In the Soviet Union, not only religion was outlawed - art, literature, music and dance were all subject to heavy censorship and state oversight. Among paintings historical, religious, abstract, anti-Soviet and erotic subjects were all against the law.
From 1966 to 1977 Klever made a reputation for himself as one of the non-conformists most overtly critical of the Soviet state. Many of his paintings from this period can be described as nothing less than heroic- they are truly remarkable visual essays on the evils of the national security/surveillance state, propaganda and manipulation of cultural symbols, suppression of artistic and religious freedom, revisionist history, and unfilled promises for the future. All of them were painted stored and exhibited not only at great risk to the artist and his associates, but also to anybody who sought to view them. In spite of the secrecy, the KGB discovered the existence of these pieces and began to follow Klever’s every move. There were surprise visits to his studio, harassment wherever he went, friends and family being questioned all a direct result of his determination to express himself artistically against Soviet control. From this time forward Klever had an exhibit which was open for viewing at all times inside the apartment of Bob Kashilohov as part of a network which paralleled the Samizdat network for sharing of forbidden literature.
Klever was arrested for his participation in the most important non- conformist exhibitions which took place during his time there. These were the Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow, 1974, (so named because the KGB bulldozed the exhibition and destroyed much of the work) and the Nevski Dom exhibition in Leningrad, 1975. These exhibitions represented some of the early cracks in the foundations of the Soviet state’s control over the population’s basic aspirations for economic, personal and creative freedom that ended with collapse in 1991. Repercussions of the Bulldozer exhibition were that some of the painters were arrested or even killed. Approximately 70 artists were arrested, including Klever. Media outcry in the west allowed most of the artists to be released within a week. Two weeks later another exhibition was allowed to proceed and became known as “Half Day of Freedom” in the Soviet Union.
The Nevsky exhibition caused a huge sensation and was a watershed moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union. People lined up for 30 blocks long over the course of the two week exhibition to see the forbidden works. Klever showed a large collection of explicit anti-Soviet paintings...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Charcoal
"June" Diana Kurz, Abstract Colorist Composition New York Abstract Expressionism
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
June
Watercolor and pastels on board
17 x 23 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Engl...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Board
Kathleen Beausoleil, Renew, 2018, blue ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Kathleen Beausoleil, Crescendo, 2023, green ink on paper, landscape drawing
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, NJ. Primarily working in oil paint, her works focus on what it means to be a social being. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Green Square #19" Diana Kurz, Abstract Expressionist Gestural Green and Purple
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Green Square #19
Gouache on paper
25 x 19 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Charles Ragland Bunnell Abstract Expressionist Watercolor, Mid-Century Modern
Located in Denver, CO
This original abstract expressionist watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) is a striking example of mid-20th-century American abstraction. The composition features bold b...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Late Fall (Spaetherbst) (Abstract, Drawing, Ink)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Schoenholtz
Late Fall (Spaetherbst)
Ink on Paper
Year: 2017
Monogrammed by hand
Edition: Unique
Size: 8.3×5.9 on 9.1×6.5 inches
Monogramed and dated by hand
Signed, dated and titled by hand verso
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1584
Michael Schoenholtz (April 8, 1937 in Duisburg – September 30, 2019 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.
Michael Schoenholtz was born in Duisburg in April 1937. After graduating from high school, he studied German and art history at the University of Cologne from 1956, and from 1957 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he was a master student of Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber in 1962/63. From 1971 Schoenholtz taught himself as a professor at the Hochschule (since 2001: University) of the Arts, where he succeeded Schrieber in 1975. Schoenholtz has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1996, from 1997 to 2003 as director of the fine arts section. In 2005 he retired.
Schoenholtz was a member of the German Association of Artists, of which he was elected President for two years in 1998. He lived and worked in Berlin and was married to the painter Barbara Keidel...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$455 Sale Price
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The other world- abstraction art, made in white, light and navy blue color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic in white, light and navy blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality solid wood wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nancy Cohen "Disturbance" Paper Pulp and Handmade Paper
By Nancy Cohen
Located in New York, NY
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 pa...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Sea Anemone- made in beige, pale rose, sand color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic in light rose, sand color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality solid wood with a styre...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$504 Sale Price
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Blush (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Blush (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper — Unframed.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and provides lower s...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Still Life" Diana Kurz, Expressionist Still Life With Skull Pastel on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Still Life, 1966
Signed and dated lower right
Pastel on paper
19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's f...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Green Square #14" Diana Kurz, Vibrant Color Abstract Expressionist Work
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Green Square #14
Gouache on paper
11 x 14 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Red spray 1 - spray paint on paper, 54x65 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Spray paint on paper. Stamped and framed. Frame dimensions: 75x94 cm
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Colorfall III-abstraction art, made in garnet red, light blue, aubergine color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in garnet red, light blue, aubergine color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality so...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,050 Sale Price
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Sculptural study, unique signed charcoal drawing, by renowned modernist sculptor
Located in New York, NY
SEYMOUR LIPTON
Seymour Lipton
Untitled sculptural study, 1981
Charcoal on paper
hand signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the front
Framed
Original drawing done in charcoal by reno...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled - Drawing by Fred Bugs - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Geometric drawing
Fred Bugs (Federico Cabras)
Untitled artwork
pen ink on paper
21x30 cm
Year: 2016
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Collection of Jan Cowles
Jan Cowles was married to Gardner Cowles owner of Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) which owned newspapers, magazines and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The company operated Cowles Business Media, Cowles Creative Publishing, and Cowles Enthusiast Media units.
Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998, other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Veiled Series XX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Collage - gouache on paper, 43x60 cm. framed
Located in Nice, FR
Beautiful paper collage on paper by the french artist Albert Chubac. Framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhib...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
untitled, Op Art Abstract Geometric Watercolor Painting by Kurt Kranz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kurt Kranz, German (1910 - 1997) - untitled, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor on Arches Paper, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Frame Size: 28.5 x 37 inches, Description:...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Veiled Series L, Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Veiled Series LX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
In France, On A Bike
- organic abstraction - monotype - rainbow - Agnes Pelton
Located in Atlanta, GA
"In France, On A Bike" is a monotype with gouache on kozo paper featuring hues of yellow, purple, blue and pink. This work is framed in a gold frame measuring 1...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph, Monotype
Framed (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Framed (Abstract painting)
Casein on Arches paper. Unframed.
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
K1959 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
K1959 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink on paper - unframed
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which he is a notorious collector.
Harald Kröner's work is very much about perc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Facing It, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting is exploring thoughts, emotions.... Watermarks and lines, scratches and other watercolor effects are important to my work and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Preliminary drawing for the painting entitled Trapezoids
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on graph paper
The final composition measured 28 x 28 inches
Annotated #615 in the lower right corner of the sheet
Provenance: Francine Seders Galler...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Red Flow II- Abstract contemporary painting on canvas, modern red flowing shape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Red Flow II" is a dramatic and contemporary abstract painting by French artist Emma Godebska. It is created using Acrylic and pigments on lacquered Capoverde canvas.
Discover the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Frost Flowers, 1960s Mid-Century Pastel
Ink Drawing in Grayscale Tones
Located in Denver, CO
Frost Flowers is an original circa 1965 mixed media drawing by celebrated Denver-based artist Edward Marecak. Executed in pastel and ink on paper, thi...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
"Untitled" Diana Kurz, Intense Yellow Abstract Composition on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Untitled, circa 1961
Pastel on paper
25 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Composition EQ1, 1962 - crayon, 66x48 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Fusain on paper, signed lower right
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Sentence 1, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This abstract artwork explores the formation of complex shapes, focusing on movements and contrasts. Unique patterns emerge from the deliberate arrangement of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Tsakli 04-05-2022, abstract water media painting
By Ray Kass
Located in New York, NY
The latest watercolors from Ray Kass strike a balance between audacity and contemplation. Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Tsakli - sets of miniature paintings feat...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Pigment, Mica
Starfall. Item 5
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Digital
Starfall. Item 4
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Digital
Starfall. Item 3
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color
Starfall. Item 2
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Paintin...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color
Starfall. Item 1
Located in Zofingen, AG
The series of drawings is called Starfall. I was inspired by space, the starry sky, clouds and natural phenomena. I also like to play with linear rhythms and spots of color.
Painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color
Dovetail small 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Dovetail small 6 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
"Paper dimensions: 23.7 x 19.7 inch / 60.2 x 50 cm
Image's dimensions: 22.5 x 18.3 inch / 57.2 x 46.5 cm
Neill cre...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
series "Non-standard configurations", 42x30 cm, acrylic on paper
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
series "Non-standard configurations", 42x30 cm, acrylic on paper
The work is sold without a frame and mat
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
Ann Bridges, The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, Original Landscape Painting
By Ann Bridges
Located in Deddington, GB
Ann Bridges
The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep
Original Still Life Painting
Oil based ink
Image size: 27 x 27 cm
Sheet size: 39 x 39 cm
Framed Size: 43 x 43 cm.
Sold Framed (Dark Gr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Sacred" Angel Abstract Figurative Portrait with Snake, Bird, and Fish Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully executed watercolor painting by Joanna Ballard that depicts a nude angel standing over a resting figure. The composition includes many diverse hues that range in opacity....
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Moros, orange and yellow abstract pastel monochrome diptych of a blood orange
Located in New York, NY
Daisy Craddock's Moros is an abstracted still life of a Blood Orange, rendered in oil pastel. Drawn from life, Craddock considers her diptychs to be literal depictions of her fruit a...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Colorful Watercolor Portrait of Seated Female in Pink and Orange Striped Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor portrait of seated female in a pink and orange striped dress by Mexican artist, Nadine Mayes. Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and currently displ...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Assemblage Collage Painting Outsider Art Rabbis Studying, Jerusalem
By Paul Shimon
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in New York, Paul Shimon (1919 - 2011) was both an accomplished artist and composer.
Considered by some to be an Early Outsider artist, Shimon studied at the Art Students Leag...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Chinese Contemporary Art by Liu Ziyu - Forest After Snow
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Liu Ziyu is a Chinese artist born in 1978 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He was graduated in 2020 from from the Stroganov Moscow State A...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Delight - mythical, spiritual, abstract patterns, colorful, watercolor
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media
The energy of this work is only possible painting with both hands, standing and working with music. The underlying structure is created with oil pastel using...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Charles Pulsford ARSA
Abstract Harbour
watercolour Modern British Art Scottish
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
City 13. 1966, paper, monotype, varnish, 47x77 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City 13. 1966, paper, monotype, varnish, 47x77 cm
Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.)
1926. 9 IX Ludza – 1980. 21 II Lester, Great Britain – graphic artist.
...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype, Varnish
$854 Sale Price
20% Off
"Pink Green Study" Diana Kurz, Abstract Grid Expressionist New York Pastel
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Pink Green Study
Pastel on paper
20 x 15 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England ...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, oil on paper - unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which h...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil
Chthonic. Contemporary Ink and Graphite Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Chthonic is derived from Ancient Greek and concerns the underworld and this painting by Wayne Summers shows a contemporary depiction of something decidedly other worldly. This is a p...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Frenzy, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Craig Moran
Located in Yardley, PA
Believe it or not, most of the inspirations for this drawing were ordinary objects such as wood grain and shadows. No preparatory sketches were used for the figures and shapes in the...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Meditative Dots Of Joy: A Drawing Of Paint 1, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on
Located in Yardley, PA
This soothing modern colour pencil drawing presents the tactile forms of paint that seem to lift off the paper in a way that creates a mindful sense of the now having a calming and e...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
K2119 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
K2119 (Abstract work on paper)
Gouache, print, collage on paper - unframed
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which he is a notorious collector.
Harald Kröner's work is ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Christina #2, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Using gestural ink washes, artist Gail Ragains captures a live model's pose with the direct application of ink. She uses expressive application to quickly cap...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Light White" Diana Kurz, 1960s Abstract Expressionist Subtle Color Composition
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Light White
Pastel on Paper
14 x 11 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and t...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Silent All These Years, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Emily Redd
Located in Yardley, PA
Image is 20" x 20" paper size is 22" x 22". Scratches and marks on the paper are intentional :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Covers 13-Black D (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Black D (Abstract Drawing)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tap...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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