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Style: American Impressionist
Period: 1980s
Sky & Surf - Abstracted Watercolor Landscape with Birds
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive watercolor landscape of an abstracted crashing surf swirling into a dreamy sky, punctuated by silhouetted birds in flight by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-...
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1980s American Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored Dry Pastel abstract landscape by Aleah Koury (American, b. 1959). ...
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1980s American Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
Chrysanthemums & Colorful Abstract - Two Sided Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Double-sided watercolor of pink chrysanthemums along a tree branch and a colorful abstract on verso by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les And...
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1980s American Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vertical Purple Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract composition by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No frame.
Les (Leslie Luverne) Anders...
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1980s American Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Abstracted Still Life with Flowers
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted still life by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No frame. Image size: 20"H x 14"W.
L...
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1980s American Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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Llangorse Lake, Brecon Beacons, Wales, circa 1964. Welsh Landscape. Abstract.
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Frame size 24.6 inches x 34.6 inches ( 62.5cm x 88cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by the Welsh artist Roger Cecil and dates from around 1964.
The watercolor and pastel work is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (our stock frame, which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind glass. The original backboard has been reused but the artwork has been isolated from it using conservation barrier materials.
This vintage artwork is in good condition, commensurate with its age. Previous cockling (rippling) of the paper has been eliminated by stretching and the use of a new mounting. Previous foxing and age marks have been mechanically removed and the coarse fiber of the paper has been made good in these areas. The painting is now ready to hang and display.
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Provenance: Previously with the Howard Roberts Gallery, Imperial Buildings, 69/74 St Mary Street, Cardiff.
Roger Cecil was a reclusive painter, draughtsman and teacher who was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire in 1942. He lived and worked in Wales for the last four decades of his life, much of it in the house where he was born and brought up.
Cecil produced abstract work rich in imagery, poetry and color, which were drawn from his environment, the industrial valley towns and mountains. Prolific and obsessive, he was always a solitary artist, with no affiliations to any group or artistic movement.
He worked for more than forty years, with an ever evolving and prolific creative output. His pictures capture the geology and the history of the places he knew so intimately, and the impact of man of that environment.
Cecil studied Fine Art at Newport College of Art from 1959 to 1963, where his teachers included John Wright and Thomas Rathmell; in 1963 he gained the College’s highest award in the national diploma in design and a place at the Royal College London. In 1964 he won the David Murray Landscape Award from the RA. He took up his place at the Royal College of Art, but after just a few weeks he was unsatisfied and instead took up manual work in opencast mines and building sites.
Cecil later spent some time teaching at Ebbw Vale. From 1995 to 1998 he did his MA, which he gained with distinction in communication design at St. Martin’s College of Art.
The BBC made a television documentary on Cecil's work called The Gentle Rebel.
For a long time Cecil did not exhibit, through choice, and it was friends who helped to promote him. He then had a series of exhibitions at Business Art Galleries from 1987, and in 1995 the Hill Court Gallery, Abergavenny, held a retrospective of his work. In 1998 Gordon Hepworth and Y Tabernacl both showed Cecil's pictures.
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“Scale is an important feature of Roger Cecil’s work; he constantly shifts from near and the far off. He also moves his viewpoint from looking at, to looking down on to. This looking down, as though a bird, onto the world of the painting, comes from exploration of his surroundings and from the ordinance survey maps he takes with him when he walks. He has often said how he is inspired by the language of symbols and lines that are used in maps to delineate the landscape. It is easy to see the connection when looking at the networks of invented footpaths, waterways, and other pinpoint features that can be found in his work.” …
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American Impressionist abstract drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Impressionist abstract drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Les Anderson, Edith Isaac-Rose, Joseph Pennell, and Polly Howerton. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Impressionist abstract drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 6.5 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract drawings and watercolors 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 $200 and tops out at $23,000, while the average work sells for $400.
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