Skip to main content

Holly Downing Art

American, b. 1948

Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker, who has been making mezzotint engravings since the 1970s. She studied painting and printmaking at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Royal College of Art, London. She lived in the UK for 6 years, where she received a National Endowment grant to research and make mezzotints. Her paintings and mezzotints have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Manila, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Her work is in many museum collections including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale. Images of her work are included in The Mezzotint: History and Technique, by Carol Wax (Abrams; N.Y. 1990); Holly Downing: Twenty-five Years of Mezzotints, (2001; Penumbrae); Holly Downing: Mezzotints and Paintings and Fresno Art Museum in California (2010).

to
1
1
1
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
1
1
1
1
6,935
3,285
2,514
1,213
1
1
Artist: Holly Downing
Drapery Against Black
By Holly Downing
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Mezzotint

Related Items
The Cactus, The Money Tree and The Begonia, Monochrome Art, Floral Art, B+W Art
By Kerry Day
Located in Deddington, GB
Black and white limited edition print of different plants. Kerry Day is available online and in our gallery at Wychwood Art. Originally from London, I trained as a ceramicist at Bath...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Amsterdam V ed 27/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
By Olivier Julia
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam V is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

SCROLLS Signed Lithograph, Jewish History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Red, Gold, Black
By Moshe Castel
Located in Union City, NJ
SCROLLS by the Israeli artist Moshe Castel (1909-1991) is a limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. SCROLLS is a dramatic abstract collage, its vertical arrangement depicting a grouping of yellow and gold beige papyrus scroll fragments against a textured background of rich vibrant red and black. Ancient alphabet symbols written on the parchment are visible resembling Aramaic letters which create a mystical quality evoking the biblical history of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Aramaic was once the main language of the Jews and appears in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is closely related to Hebrew with the script being very similar. In SCROLLS, Moshe Castel creates a very aesthetically appealing and captivating contemporary arrangement of ancient Jewish symbolism. Print size - 29.75 x 21.5 in. unframed, excellent condition, vivid colors, pencil signed by Moshe Castel Edition size - 150, plus proofs Year published - 1981 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Castel attended his father’s school until the age of 13. He went on to study at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem, where he was encouraged by his teacher to study in Paris furthering his art education at the Academie Julian and Ecole de Louvre in Paris. He was greatly influenced by European masters Rembrandt, Velasquez, Delacroix and Courbert after spending his days copying their works hanging in the Louvre. Castel returned to Palestine at the onset of WWII. The subject of Castel’s early paintings were scenes of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land. In 1947, Castel helped to found the "New Horizons" (Ofakim Hadashim) group together with Yosef Zaritsky, Yehezkel Streichman...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Lithograph

Amsterdam I ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
By Olivier Julia
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam I is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Spike, Affordable Contemporary Art, Silkscreen Prints, Colourful Abstract Prints
By Chris Keegan
Located in Deddington, GB
This handmade screen print depicts an imaginary spiked sphere shape in five colours including fluorescent Yellow, metallic Gold and Red. The Gold ink layer gives the abstract print an extra brilliance and shine showing off the multi layered liquid patterns on the surface of the object. Chris Keegan artist online and in Wychwood Art Gallery...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée: one plate - Original Aquatint
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint One plate from Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (D. 687-706; C. books 187) 1974 Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm Ed...
Category

1970s Modern Holly Downing Art

Materials

Drypoint, Aquatint

Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée: one plate
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
One plate from the illustrated book Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 Original prints by Joan Miro (C. books 187) Edition: 220 Individual images are unsigne...
Category

1970s Modern Holly Downing Art

Materials

Drypoint, Aquatint

Opening on cardboard
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 20. trompe l'oeil illusion - the abstract image of cardboard. Born in Memphis, Tennessee to a French mother and Belgian father, Anne Heyvaert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

"Rebirth" Honey Bee and Barbed Wire - Intaglio Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of honey bee drinking water and barbed wire titled "Rebirth" by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new double mat. Unframed. Image size: 8.5"H x 7.5"W Titled "Rebirth" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new double mat mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Drypoint

"Unremembered Dream" Dragon Fly and Barbed Wire - Intaglio Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of dragon fly and barbed wire titled "Rebirth" by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W Titled "Unremembered Dream" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category

1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Drypoint

A Long Romance, still life art, floral art, plant art, contemporary art
By Vicky Oldfield
Located in Deddington, GB
A long romance is a limited edition hand coloured unique collograph print by RBA artist Vicky Oldfield. The artist is renowned for her distinctive pictures; the subjects are the stor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Zinnia
Located in Nashville, TN
Nicole Dikon lives and works between Oahu and Mississippi. Her work spans various media and practices, including woodcut printmaking, writing poetry, making artist books, installing edible and native gardens, and more. Dikon views her practice as a means of grounding her perspective in the principles of ecology. Born on Maui in 1989, Dikon was raised all over the Americas. As she continues to follow a nomadic path, she grounds her art practice in whatever environment she finds herself. The key to her process lies in her attempt to mimic the cycles of a natural ecosystem. Everything in the studio has value; from the scraped-up ink to the paper scraps, they all have a function that is considered and reused in the system several times before they are reused again in the waste pile for rebirth. In doing so, each image, object, and place created serves as a portal to a right relationship with the natural world, one where we acknowledge our connectedness, not through an intelligent knowing, but a visceral and intuitive awareness. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Dikon went on to earn a master's in printmaking from Temple University...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

Materials

Etching

Zinnia
H 6 in W 4 in D 1 in

Holly Downing art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Holly Downing art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Holly Downing in engraving, mezzotint, paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Holly Downing art, so small editions measuring 12 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Joseph Goldyne, David Storey, and Elizabeth Quandt. Holly Downing art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $600 and tops out at $900, while the average work can sell for $700.

Artists Similar to Holly Downing

Recently Viewed

View All