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Period: 1980s
Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Summer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Summer Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

Sitka, Peter Alexander
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: Sitka Year: 1988 Edition: 75, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed and n...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

DOMINO Signed Lithograph, Bucks County Landscape, Historic Stone Farmhouse, Cow
Located in Union City, NJ
DOMINO is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by Peter Sculthorpe (b.1948 Ontario, Canada) printed using hand lithography te...
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Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

TAPESTRY OF SPRING Hand Drawn Lithograph Grand Tetons Wyoming Mountain Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
TAPESTRY OF SPRING by the American Western artist Conrad Schwiering, is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. TAPESTRY OF SPRING is a realistic Western landscape scene set in Wyoming featuring a backdrop of Wyoming's majestic Grand Teton snow...
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American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Flowers, Walasse Ting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Walasse Ting (1929-2010) Title: Flowers Year: 1981 Edition: 111/200, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Somerset paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Winter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Winter Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

The Great Mountains
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Original silkscreen, 1983. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croatia. For many years he worked as a carpente...
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Post-Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

TROUBLE AT WALNUT RIDGE Signed Lithograph, Farm Country, Green Hills, Horses
Located in Union City, NJ
The limited edition lithograph TROUBLE AT WALNUT RIDGE is a stylized rural landscape; a visual story depicting an expanse of farm country with rolling green hills, a turquoise blue r...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Farmhouse, Signed Lithograph Modern Monet Style
Located in Union City, NJ
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Farmhouse is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the American artist Nell Revel Smith...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Spring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Spring Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

My Country
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Original silkscreen, 1982. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croatia. For many years he worked as a carpente...
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Post-Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Autumn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Autumn Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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American Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

PHAEDRA'S VIGIL Signed Lithograph Fantasy Landscape, Reflecting Pool Purple Blue
Located in Union City, NJ
PHAEDRA'S VIGIL is an imaginary architectural landscape that combines the real and the surreal. Created in 1989 by the Iowa born artist Jim Buckels(b.1948) known for his dream-like i...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Andrew Moore - Peck Slip, NYC, Photography 1982, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Archival Pigment Print Early morning view of Fish Market All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" x 40” - Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs 40" X 50"- Edit...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Andrew Moore - San Pedro Panorama, Photography 1984, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Archival Pigment Print Alonso Family home in El Vedado, Havana All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 27" X 69"- Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs 36" X 92"-...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Andrew Moore - Native Doric, Photography 1985, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Classic montage from mid-80s. Title from James Joyce All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" x 40” - Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs 40" X 50"- Edition o...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: Hallelujah II Year: 1988 Edition: 50, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

LE VERTE GALANT
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
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Cubist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

San Blas IV, Peter Alexander
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: San Blas IV Year: 1988 Edition: 75, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe & Albert Einstein, Red Grooms
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Red Grooms (1937) Title: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe Year: circa 1987 Medium: Monotype and mixed media on wove paper Size: 47.62 x 31.87 inches Condition: Excellent I...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

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Monotype, Mixed Media

Vintage Hockney poster: Barbican Centre for Arts London 1982 colorful palm trees
Located in New York, NY
Colorful dots, lines and squares in bright blue, pink, green, lilac and yellow in wood grain form a totem against a lavender purple background. This jubilant take on Cubism features David Hockney’s signature palm trees on either side of the composition, and geometric clouds float in the dark sky. Based on Hockney’s 1980 drawing “Cubistic Bar.” This vintage poster was designed by the artist in our studio and comes directly from our Petersburg Press...
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Cubist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

The Lonesome Road (FRAMED + FREE US SHIPPING) (Provence, landscapes)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches F...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

NIGHT GLOW
By William Behnken
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Image size 12 x 16 inches. Sheet size 16 x 20 inches. From the edition of 100. Artwork is in excellent conditi...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

First Snow, Signed Serigraph by Kevin Red Star
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kevin Red Star, American (1942 - ) Title: First Snow Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, AP Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Flower Field (FRAMED + FREE US SHIPPING) (Provence, landscapes, countryside art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches Framed: 16.25x20 inches COA provided *Framing Options Available - Please Inquire **edition number might vary from shown in listing image Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

French Stacks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French Stacks Linocut printed in color Unsigned Stamped verso “Imprimerie Arnera Archives/Non Signe” Printer: Jaime Arnera, Vallarius, France (their stamp verso) Condition: Printed ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Linocut

Ischia
Located in New York, NY
We received 5 tapestries from a dealers collection who retired from business and been stored properly. There in no fading or damage to each and ready to hang condition. There is a s...
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Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Tapestry

Paysage, Impressionist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Paysage". The original painting was completed in 1937. ...
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Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Winter
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Original silkscreen, 1983. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croatia. For many years he worked as a carpente...
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Post-Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

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Screen

Autumn in New York, Delphic Oracle suite of prints from Tate Gallery 1980
Located in New York, NY
Suite of five prints including Gordon House "A Still Life at Millbank", R. B. Kitaj "Chris", John Piper "Eye and Camera, Red Blue and Yellow", Joe Tilson "Delphic Oracle", Gerd Winner...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Screen

Immagine Feroce by Enzo Cucchi, portfolio of mythological ocean scene drawings
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical, mysterious seascapes, animals, and mythological figures weave throughout this expressive set of black and white Enzo Cucchi lithographs. The complete set of five lithograp...
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Symbolist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Numbers in Color, 1981, Johns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Numbers in Color Year: 1981 Medium: Offset Lithograph exhibition poster on archival paper Edition: 5,000 Size: 39.5 x 27 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by the Al...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"St. Regis River Grasses" Large Cibachrome Direct Positive Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
St. Regis River Grasses, New York, a large Cibachrome Direct Positive Photograph - 8"x10" Deardorff Camera using Positive Slide Film. Powerful Large Cibachrome Photograph of the St Regis River, Adirondacks, New York by Nathan Farb (American, B- 1941). Working with a large 8" x 10" View Camera Nathan began a journey to really photograph his home in the mountains is his own way, rich in vibrant with exceptional detail. Cibachrome prints are a type of dye destruction print that use a photographic process to create a full-color image. The process involves selectively bleaching away color dyes embedded in the paper. The dyes are contained within emulsion layers, which give the print its characteristic color saturation. The base is a polyester triacetate, rather than fiber-based paper, which adds to the print's longevity Image, 29"H x 37"W Sheet, 30"H x 40"W x .05 Unmounted and unframed. Can be shipped rolled. Includes book "The Adirondacks" which contains similar photographs by the artist. In 1981, Farb returned to his childhood home in the Adirondack Mountains to recharge himself, spending a lot of time in the woods. Over the next 20 years, he produced three books published by Rizzoli cataloguing many of his finest 8”x10” negatives. That work has been excerpted by close to 100 magazines including The NY Times Magazine. NY Times Magazine then sent him to document the Exxon oil spill and the Yellowstone Fires, and to the Galapagos Islands twice. Searching for both his past and future, Nathan Farb bought his first camera and started shooting on the streets of NYC’s Lower East Side in 1966. This work was presented as “The Other Summer of Love,” in “Lens”, the NY Times’ photography blog in 2017. In 1971 his political multimedia work “Lockport” was shown at The Public Theater...
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Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Dye Transfer, Color, Photographic Paper

Musee Municipal De Limoges, 1980 Exhibition Offset Lithograph
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Marc Chagall (1897-1985) Title: Musee Municipal De Limoges Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph exhibition poster on premium paper Size: 29.75 x 16 inches Condition: Excellent...
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Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

St. Raphael (FRAMED & FREE US SHIPPING) (Provence, seascapes, countryside)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist) Color lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 10 E.A. Size: 22.8 × 14.8 on 27.5 × 19.6 inches Framed: 35.75x24 inches COA provided *edition number might vary from shown in listing image Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Jardin d'Evasion, François Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist from the edition of 80. This is a great example of the texture and tone that can be achieved with drypoint. In keeping with the best Italia...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

Villard Courtyard, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas Villard Courtyard, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, 1983 Color lithograph 29 1/2 × 41 1/2 inches Edition 23/50 Hand signed, numbered, and dated with publisher's b...
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Realist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Spring in Brittany (Provence, landscapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort Spring in Brittany Color lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + E.A. Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 10.9 × 14.8 inches COA provided *Framing Options Available - Please Inquire ** Edition number may vary Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

GIARDINO SEGRETTO Signed Lithograph Lakeside Villa Mediterranean Landscape, Moon
Located in Union City, NJ
GIARDINO SEGRETTO is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph created in 1988 by the Iowa born artist, Jim Buckels who is known for his dream-like ima...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Women The Sea and Solitude - offset lithograph poster
Located in New York, NY
Rare vintage poster from Will Barnet exhibition entitled "Women, the Sea and Solitude", Benjamin's Gallerie, Buffalo, NY
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Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort St. Raphael (Provence, seascapes, countryside art, Impressionist) Color lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 10 E.A. size:...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Monograph: Being and Circumstance Notes Toward a Conditional Art (Hand signed)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Irwin Being and Circumstance Notes Toward a Conditional Art, 1985 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and dated 2015 by Robert Irwin) Boldly signed and dated May...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Ink, Offset, Lithograph, Mixed Media, Paper

Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Provence, landscapes, countryside art, Impressionist
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches COA provided *Framing Options Available - Please Inquire **edition number might vary from shown in listing image Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Provence, landscapes, countryside art
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Color lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 10 E.A. size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inche...
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Impressionist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

LAND OF THE PHAROAHS Signed Lithograph, Expedition, Egyptian Pyramids, Camels
Located in Union City, NJ
LAND OF THE PHAROAHS by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Coventry Rag paper, 100% acid free. LAND OF THE PHAROAHS is a humorous desert expedition scene near the Egyptian pyramids featuring a row of barefoot explorers in safari hats and suits and their camels, walking side by side posed like figures depicted in the ancient Egyptian reliefs...
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Art Deco 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pink Flowers - Lithograph by Ivan Rabuzin - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Flowers  is a colored lithograph realized by Ivan Rabuzin .   Hand signed  in pencil on the lower right corner. Numbered in pencil on the lower left corner.  Edition of 200 pr...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

THE BIG PARADE Hand Drawn Lithograph, Surrealist Tree, Black Mask
Located in Union City, NJ
THE BIG PARADE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the British artist, Michael Hasted printed using hand lithography on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free. THE BIG PARADE is a surrealist composition depicting an interior scene featuring a full green leafy tree wearing a theatrical black eye mask...
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Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Red Barns
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Red Barns, 1980 Color Lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, dated, and numbered 45/50 by the artist on the front Original vintage wood frame included Classic 1980 Wolf Kahn...
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Color-Field 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Gone With The Wind" vintage movie poster 1980 excellent conditio
Located in Spokane, WA
Original GONE WITH THE WIND, U. S. 1 sheet Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, de Havilland, all-time movie classic! Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Original issue fold marks professionally touched up. Excellent condition. Film Description: Gone With the Wind, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming Civil War romantic melodrama epic ("The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made!"; "In the New Screen splendor… The most magnificent picture ever!"; "David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South"; "Screen play by Sidney Howard") starring Clark Gable (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role; "as Rhett Butler"), Vivien Leigh (in her Best Actress Academy Award winning role; "and presenting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara"), Leslie Howard ("as Ashley Wilkes"), Olivia de Havilland (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; "as Melanie"), Hattie McDaniel ("as Mammy"), Thomas Mitchell ("as Gerald O'Hara"), Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford ("as Carreen O'Hara"), George Reeves, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson ("as Belle Watling"), Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport ("as Dr. Meade"), Carroll Nye ("as Frank Kennedy"), Laura Hope Crews ("as Aunt Pittypat"), Alicia...
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American Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

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Offset

D.G. Smith at Long Beach Museum of Art/Gallery
Located in New York, NY
D.G. Smith at Long Beach Museum of Art/Gallery, 1982 Offset lithograph poster Plate signed on the front 23 1/2 × 33 1/2 inches Unframed This plate signed vintage poster was published...
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Abstract 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

RANDOM SELECTION 2, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Surrealist Landscape, Window View
Located in Union City, NJ
RANDOM SELECTION 2 is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the British artist, Michael Hasted printed using hand lithography on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid fre...
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Surrealist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Thanksgiving
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Yaacov Agam Title: Thanksgiving Medium: Screenprint in colors on Arches Year: 1980 Edition: XXXIV/LXIII (34/63) Sheet Size: 30" x 42" Image Size: 27 1/8" x 33 1/2" Signed: Ha...
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Abstract 1980s Landscape Prints

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Screen

Clara, Clara (Hand Signed by Richard Serra) Rare vintage Centre Pompidou poster
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra Clara, Clara (Hand Signed by Richard Serra), 1983 Offset Lithograph Poster (Hand signed by Richard Serra) Boldly signed with black marker on the front Frame Included: h...
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Minimalist 1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker

L:os Angeles Bicentennial: 200 Years Old (hand signed & numbered by Ed Ruscha)
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha 200 Years Old, 1980 Offset lithograph Hand signed and numbered 132/425 by Ed Ruscha in graphite pencil on the front 30 1/2 × 25 inches Unframed This is a quintessential Los Angeles print...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset, Pencil, Graphite

Historic rare Ed Ruscha Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition offset lithograph poster
Located in New York, NY
Edward Ruscha: New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, 1980 Offset lithograph poster 22.5 x 18 inches Unframed Published by Leo Castelli Gallery Good vintage condition with some handli...
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Pop Art 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Landscapes of Autumn - Screen Print by Rolandi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscapes Of Autumn is a modern artwork realized by the painter Rolandi, in the 1980s. Mixed colored screen print. Hand signed on the lower right margin.Artist's proof (as reported on the lower left margin) Dry stamp on the lower margin. Maurizio Coccia, also known as "Rolandi" painter, engraver, sculptor, artistic decorator. Born in Rome in 1940, he studied painting and turned to the masters of the Via Margutta and was inspired by the works of Cagli and Guttuso. After making his debut in the 70s with two exhibitions in Trieste and Rieti, he also exhibits in the United States and in the major Italian galleries...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

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Screen

Roman Castels - Vintage Offset Poster after Franco Fontana - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Castels is a beautiful offset realized by Franco Fontana. Good condition. Colored poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the Italian most famous co...
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Contemporary 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Offset

Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
screenprint printed in color ink on wove paper. New York City subway station interior. Anthony Velonis (1911 – 1997) was an American painter and designer born in New York City who helped introduce the public to silkscreen printing in the early 20th century. While employed under the federal Works Progress Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art form, referred to as the "serigraph," into the mainstream. By his own request, he was not publicly credited for coining the term. He experimented and mastered techniques to print on a wide variety of materials, such as glass, plastics, and metal, thereby expanding the field. In the mid to late 20th century, the silkscreen technique became popular among other artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Velonis was born into a relatively poor background of a Greek immigrant family and grew up in the tenements of New York City. Early on, he took creative inspiration from figures in his life such as his grandfather, an immigrant from the mountains in Greece, who was "an ecclesiastical painter, on Byzantine style." Velonis attended James Monroe High School in The Bronx, where he took on minor artistic roles such as the illustration of his high school yearbook. He eventually received a scholarship to the NYU College of Fine Arts, into which he was both surprised and ecstatic to have been admitted. Around this time he took to painting, watercolor, and sculpture, as well as various other art forms, hoping to find a niche that fit. He attended NYU until 1929, when the Great Depression started in the United States after the stock market crash. Around the year 1932, Velonis became interested in silk screen, together with fellow artist Fritz Brosius, and decided to investigate the practice. Working in his brother's sign shop, Velonis was able to master the silkscreen process. He reminisced in an interview three decades later that doing so was "plenty of fun," and that a lot of technology can be discovered through hard work, more so if it is worked on "little by little." Velonis was hired by Mayor LaGuardia in 1934 to promote the work of New York's city government via posters publicizing city projects. One such project required him to go on a commercial fishing trip to locations including New Bedford and Nantucket for a fortnight, where he primarily took photographs and notes, and made sketches. Afterward, for a period of roughly six months, he was occupied with creating paintings from these records. During this trip, Velonis developed true respect and affinity for the fishermen with whom he traveled, "the relatively uneducated person," in his words. Following this, Velonis began work with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), an offshoot of the Civil Works Administration (CWA), where he was assigned to serve the different city departments of New York. After the formation of the federal Works Progress Administration, which hired artists and sponsored projects in the arts, he also worked in theater. Velonis began working for the federal WPA in 1935. He kept this position until 1936 or 1938, at which point he began working in the graphic art division of the Federal Art Project, which he ultimately led. Under various elements of the WPA program, many young artists, writers and actors gained employment that helped them survive during the Depression, as well as contributing works that created an artistic legacy for the country. When interviewed in December 1994 by the Library of Congress about his time in the WPA, Velonis reflected that he had greatly enjoyed that period, saying that he liked the "excitement" and "meeting all the other artists with different points of view." He also said in a later interview that "the contact and the dialogue with all those artists and the work that took place was just invaluable." Among the young artists he hired was Edmond Casarella, who later developed an innovative technique using layered cardboard for woodcuts. Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965 interview: "I suggested that the Poster division would be a lot more productive and useful if they had an auxiliary screen printing project that worked along with them. And apparently this was very favorably received..." As a member of the Federal Art Project, a subdivision of the WPA, Velonis later approached the Public Use of Arts Committee (PUAC) for help in "propagandizing for art in the parks, in the subways, et cetera." Since the Federal Art Project could not be "self-promoting," an outside organization was required to advertise their art more extensively. During his employment with the Federal Art Project, Velonis created nine silkscreen posters for the federal government. Around 1937-1939 Velonis wrote a pamphlet titled "Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process," which was distributed to art centers run by the WPA around the country. It was considered very influential in encouraging artists to try this relatively inexpensive technique and stimulated printmaking across the country. In 1939, Velonis founded the Creative Printmakers Group, along with three others, including Hyman Warsager. They printed both their own works and those of other artists in their facility. This was considered the most important silkscreen shop of the period. The next year, Velonis founded the National Serigraph Society. It started out with relatively small commercial projects, such as "rather fancy" Christmas cards that were sold to many of the upscale Fifth Avenue shops...
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American Modern 1980s Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

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