Bauer and Scarlett look like dull Kandinsky imitators, but a survey of Rebay's work on paper includes abstract watercolors that are remarkable for their richly worked, luminous personality (Johnson).
During this time, he created some of his first well-known drawings, including studies in charcoal and graphite, later followed by abstract watercolors and monochrome oil paintings.
Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several non-flowering potted plants.
One is the splendid "Sea Piece" of 1951, an abstract watercolor whose loopy, calligraphic lines leave restless areas of white space.
Stieglitz, the legendary photographer and central figure in the introduction of modern art to America, first say O'Keeffe's abstract watercolors in 1915 and immediately decided to show them at 291, his pioneering gallery.
"Seruke Star," from the same year, an almost abstract watercolor in which a lone-star flag is seen in what might be a window, is Mondrianesque in its organization of lines and rectangles.
Trained from an early age in the Western-style, she went on to create both naturalistic and abstract watercolors, oils, and woodblock prints.
Rebay was at least competent in all these modes, but the section devoted to small, abstract watercolors is unequivocally fine.
Her hobbies include photography and abstract watercolor.
An abstract watercolor, metaphorically symbolizing the role of physicians in treating the sick.