International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Tree at Night
By Werner Drewes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WERNER DREWES (German-American 1899-1985)
TREE AT NIGHT, 1964 (Rose 241)
Color woodcut Signed titled, dated and numbered 40 /210 all in pencil below image. Image 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inc...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled
By Charles William Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned as issued
Signed and dedicated by the artist on the justification page (see photo)
From:
Abstractions By Charles Smith
Forward by Carl O. Schnie...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold ...
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Early 2000s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Culture
By Ben Shahn
Located in New York, NY
Ben Shahn created this 1968 serigraph entitled “CULTURE” in black ink with red calligraphy. This is an UNSIGNED impression. Provenance; Shahn estate, private collector, The Old Print Shop...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Iris ( 1 )
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Baskin, 'Iris ( 1 )', etching, 1988, artist proof before the edition of 10, outside the book edition. Signed and annotated 'proof' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression,...
Category
1980s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Blue and White Embroidery Design
By Felix Fuzier
Located in New York, NY
Original color Jugendstil design lithograph from "Dessins et Broderies Pour Costum et Ameublement." Paris, 1900.
Category
Early 1900s Jugendstil International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
'Foul Rope (Left)' — early American rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the western landscape, admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt’.
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, his primary interest being the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926 he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in a number of popular magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, his work was handled exclusively in New York by Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel. In 1953 Leigh was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, becoming a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody in the early part of the century. These years, between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, were considered pivotal to his artistic development and his devotion to the western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American western art...
Category
1920s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Canada Lynx by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate XVI. Phila...
Category
1850s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
FLOWERS - Monotype from 1997 Smithsonian Exhibition
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945)
(FLOWERS) 1919
Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½”
Monotypes are unique works of art that fall between printmaking a...
Category
1810s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
Nude drawing (Nude on her haunches draws )
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
A nude woman squats on her haunches as she draws an image on a sheet of paper. Joseph Hirsch created this lithograph in 1963 in an edition of 50. It was printed by Lucien Dutruit i...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez. THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN. Etching in colors printed from two plates, 1981. Edition of 100, numbered 64/100, titled, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 18 x 11 3/4 inches (o...
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Last Dynasty: Empress
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs, Hung Liu's subjects over the years have been prostitutes, refugees, street performers, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth) — 1930s Symbolism
By Edouard Goerg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...
Category
1930s Symbolist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Leaving the Mosque
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
Leaving the Mosque. 1892. Etching. 4 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 8 3/4 x10 5/16). Number 78. A rich, tonal impression printed on cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in pencil.l. Housed in a...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Church
Located in New Orleans, LA
An original print of a church signed in pencil by artist
Mr. H. Dewitt Welsh, Artist of Philadelphia, acting secretary of the Division of Pictorial Publicity Committee on Public Inf...
Category
Early 20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CALMNESS
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Portland, ME
Junichiro Sekino (Japanese, 1914-1988). CALMNESS. Color woodblock print, 1954. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil and with the artist's chop. 13 x 17 inches (image), on a large...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
etching & aquatint, 1799
Unsigned (as are all Goya etchings)
From: Los Caprichos, Plate 54
From the First Edition, pri...
Category
1790s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
Ship Rock
By Norma Bassett Hall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 - 1957)
SHIP ROCK, c. 1940
Color woodcut signed and numbered in pencil, edition 40 on stiff fibrous paper.
10 x 14 inches, Sheet size 11 1/8 x 15 inches...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Oyster Bay Sloops.
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor entitled “Oyster Bay Sloops“ is by Reynolds Beal (1867-1951). The watercolor paper size is 5 x 7 11/16" and the card size is 7 11/16 x 9 3/...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Neon
By Carlos Davila 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Neon
Intaglio Etching, c. 1970
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 99 (76/99)
Image size: 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 22 x 17 inches
Condition: Excellent
Carlos Dávil...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
Original Drawing for the NEW MASSES - 19.5" x 15"
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLF DEHN (1895 – 1968)
ORIGINAL ART FOR THE COVER OF THE NEW MASSES, c.1930. Original ink drawing. Signed in ink lower right. Sheet and image 19 1/2 x 15...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
India Ink
'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...
Category
1730s Baroque International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Fat Stock Market
By Clare Leighton
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Clare Leighton, 'Fat Stock Market', 1933, wood engraving, edition 100, Boston Public Library 217. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/100' in pencil. A super...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
N is for Nude, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 19 3/4...
Category
1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Presence) — 1920s modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Presence), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist and printed by Ad. Braun & Co., Paris...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Figure Composition
By Martin Shortis
Located in Storrs, CT
Figures Composition. 1984. Etching and drypoint. 6 1/2 x 5. Three states, two artist's proofs. Each printed on cream wove paper. Each titled, dated, and signed 'Shortis N[ew] Y[ork]'...
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Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
View of Piazzo San Marco in Venice
By Pierre Van der Aa
Located in New York, NY
Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, versoil Canale by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.
Category
1720s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
UNTITLED
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Portland, ME
Arnoldi, Charles (American, born 1946). UNTITLED. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1982. Edition of 5, printed at Teaberry Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamps, lower left and...
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Girl with Hands to Face' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
Category
1730s Baroque International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
Unsigned
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed ed...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Nude with Zinc Vessel (The back view of a nude woman holding a zinc object)
By Eric Kellerman (b. 1944)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eric Kellerman created this sensual nude photograph of a young nude woman with a large zinc vessel under her arm. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 from an edition of 20. The photographer has stamped a red monogram next to his signature.
Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on photography.
Kellerman works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specializing in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts).
Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasizes line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations.
He has been influenced by surrealism...
Category
Early 2000s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Digital
The Sad Robot
By Tony Fitzpatrick
Located in New York, NY
Tony Fitzpatrick is an American artist born in 1958 and based in Chicago.
He graduated from Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois in 1977.[1] In the early 1980s, Fitzp...
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Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Bamboo Print
By Mathurin Meheut
Located in New York, NY
Meheut, Mathurin.
La Plante Exotique.
Pl 1: Bamboo.
Paris, 1931.
Heliochrome print.
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
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19th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil
Ifafa I
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph with varnish, 1968, with LC Varnish on Lowell paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 41.3 x 56.8 cm. (...
Category
1960s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat).
By Henri Matisse
Located in Storrs, CT
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat). 1923. Lithograph. Duthuit 430. 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 (sheet 23 1/8 x 17 7/8). Trial proof, apart fr...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Drunkard in Spring —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Arbre-Homme (Tree-Man) —Mid-Century Surrealism
By Ferdinand Springer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ferdinand Springer, 'Arbre-Homme', engraving, 1945, edition 23. Signed and numbered '23/20' in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, b...
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1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
'Salient in February' — Mid-Century Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Salient in February', color serigraph, 1945, edition 25, Ryan 166. Signed in pencil. Titled, dated, and annotated 'ED. 40' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 5/8 inches, top sheet edge deckle); in excellent condition. Image size 9 x 11 inches; sheet size 12 3/4 x 16 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931, he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938.
Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940.
Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Traditional Japanese Geisha (Kiba II)
By Tatsumi Shimura
Located in Burbank, CA
A beautiful Japanese geisha dressed in a traditional robe shyly claps her hands together. She stands in front of a backdrop of a bamboo screen. This print...
Category
Early 2000s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Giclée
St. Paul's Church (St. Paul's Chapel, New York City)
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
B.J.O. Nordfeldt, 'St. Paul's Church' (St. Pauls' Chapel), etching, edition not stated, c. 1915. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully controlled plate tone, printed on off-white, antique, laid paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 2 1/4 inches), in very good condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A solo exhibition of Nordfeldt’s etchings and woodcuts was presented by the Smithsonian Institution in 1926. In 1920, Nordfeldt had a one-man show at the Chicago Arts Club. In 1926, he won the bronze medal at the sesquicentennial exposition in Philadelphia and the Logan Medal at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1927, he won the first annual prize from the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and the following year he won first prize from the Chicago Society of Etchers. In 1929, Nordfeldt had a one-man show at the Denver Art Museum. Nordfeldt's work is held in numerous museum collections including Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Ft. Worth; Anschutz Collection, Denver; Art Institute of Chicago; Biblioteque d’Art et d’Archeologie, Paris; British Museum, London; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; National Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
ABOUT ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL
St. Paul's Chapel, nicknamed "The Little Chapel That Stood", is an Episcopal chapel located at 209 Broadway, between Fulton Street and Vesey Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1766, it is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan, and one of the nation's finest examples of Late Georgian church architecture. It is a New York City Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
The Hearts of Oak, a militia unit organized early in the American Revolutionary War, and composed in part of King's College (later, Columbia University) students, would drill in the Chapel's yard before classes nearby. Alexander Hamilton was an officer of this unit. The chapel survived the Great New York City Fire of 1776 when a quarter of New York City (then confined to the lower tip of Manhattan), including Trinity Church, burned following the British capture of the city after the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington, along with members of the United States Congress, worshipped at St. Paul's Chapel on his Inauguration Day, April 30, 1789. Washington also attended services at St. Paul's during the two years New York City was the country's capital. Above Washington's pew is an 18th-century oil painting of the Great Seal of the United States, adopted in 1782.
The rear of St. Paul's Chapel faces Church Street, opposite the east side of the World Trade Center site. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, which led to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, St. Paul's Chapel served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the WTC site. For eight months, hundreds of volunteers worked 12-hour shifts around the clock, serving meals, making beds, counseling and praying with firefighters, construction workers, police, and others. Massage therapists, chiropractors, podiatrists, and musicians also tended to their needs.
The church survived without even a broken window. Church history declares it was spared by a miracle sycamore on the northwest corner of the property that was hit by debris. The tree's root has been preserved in a bronze memorial...
Category
1910s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere
Etching and soft ground, 1970
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper
Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series)
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series), 1969
Color lithograph
48 x 34 inches
Edition of 48
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pear Engraving
By Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Located in New York, NY
Redouté, Pierre Joseph.
Poire Tarquin. Le Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs.
Paris, 1827.
Original engraving hand colored at the time of publication.
Category
Early 1800s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le miroir, no. 87-88-89. Pages 6-7
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
Color lithograph, 1956
From: Derriere le Miroir, Volume 87-8...
Category
1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Search' — Australian Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Balfour Garrett, 'Search', monotype in colors, c. 1910, a unique impression. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression with fresh colors, on off-white, wove ...
Category
1910s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
'Three Masted Ship, 2' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Three Masted Ship, 2 (Dreimastiges Schiff, 2)', woodcut, 1937, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W296. Feininger estate stamp and inventory no. 'W 865' in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. Annotated 'W 296' and 'on block : 3702a' in pencil, bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid, letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 2 11/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
CIRCUS PERFORMERS
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Portland, ME
Simkhovich, Simka. CIRCUS PERFORMERS. Lithograph, C. 1933. Edition size not known. Unsigned. 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 278 x 209 mm. Framed to 16 x 12 inches...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Looking Away (a sensual young woman reflects on her future as she ponders past)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil drawing
Tom Leveritt (1976) was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, got a first at Cambridge, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Ro...
Category
2010s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN 1920 (Schwartz 397)
Drypoint, signed and numbered 47/50. BEAUTIFUL IMPRESSION with RICH DRYPOINT. Plate 9 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Full margins...
Category
1920s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
SELF-PORTRAIT.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (Americn, born 1935). SELF-PORTRAIT. Etching, 1975. Edition of 25, signed, numbered 15/25, and dated, all in pencil. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (plate), 20 x 16 inches (sheet). P...
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Purple Tulips 1, from The Flowers Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print, 2021, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, Lococo Publishing, Missouri, 80 x 119 cm. (31½ x 46¾ in.)
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz
By Muller-Brockmann, Josef.
Located in New York, NY
Muller-Brockmann, Josef. Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz 1953. On linen
Offset. Minor imperfection otherwise in good condition
50 x 35 7/8".
Pioneer of Swiss Graphic...
Category
1950s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Offset
